Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take part in Monday in Kislovodsk forum of the peoples of the south of Russia, the press service of the government reports. The state and prospects for the development of interethnic relations are the main theme of the forum.

The referendum on the attachment of the country to the European Union began on Sunday in Croatia. In order for the referendum to be recognized as being held, it is necessary that the simple majority of the voting participants speak to the "pros". According to preliminary polls, the “pros” of the country's accession to the EU will express 55-60% of the referendum participants, 30 may be “against,” Interfax reports.

A strong wind with gusts of 15 m/s/s and higher is expected in Moscow and the Moscow Region on Sunday, Interfax was told in the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. “In addition, a blizzard is possible in the region in some places. The temperature in the afternoon will be minus 5 - minus 7 degrees,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The winner of the title of “regular” WBA champion in heavyweight, Russian Alexander Povetkin will prepare for the battle with Marco Hook, which was scheduled for February 25, under the leadership of Alexander Zimin, the former coach of the ex -world of the world in the heavyweight of Nikolai Valuev. Recall that the American coach Alexander Teddy Atlas will not come to Russia, since the work of ESPN does not allow him to leave the United States for a long time.

The chief of the Moscow Bureau of the French newspaper Le Figaro, Pierre Avril, was detained on January 19 by a border outfit in the village of Leninsky Jewish Autonomous Region, reports a group of public relations of the Border Administration of the FSB of Russia in the Khabarovsk Territory and EAO. "The violator of the border regime did not have permitting documents giving the right to stay in the border zone," it was reported.

President of Yemena Ali Abdullah Saleh left the country. He announced to his supporters that the time had come to surrender power. This was reported by the Saba news agency. The head of the republic, who is leaving from his post, should go for treatment in the United States. The statement emphasizes that he intends to later return to his homeland as the leader of the ruling party, the Universal People’s Congress reports. On the eve of Salekh received a judicial immunity .

Syrian rebels with a battle captured the suburbs of Damascus. The city of the Duma, located 20 km northeast of the capital of the country, after fierce battles, went under control of the fighters of the armed opposition, which is mainly of the former soldiers. According to the Air Force , the Syrian human rights organization reports that the battle between the rebels and the Syrian security forces lasted until late at night.

In Moscow on Sunday night, a workwear store burned down on Derbenevskaya embankment, 24. As a result of a fire, the area of ​​which reached thousands of square meters, a roof hit the building. There are no victims. About 20 fire and rescue calculations, as well as the fire boat Colonel Chernyshev, operating, stewing the fire from the river worked at the site of the emergency.

The head coach of the Russian male team in handball Vladimir Maksimov summed up the joyless performance of our team at the European Championship, where our team did not leave the group and for the first time in history did not get to the Olympics . “We had a decisive match with Spain. We played perfectly in the attack, went around them in all respects. But we beat one penalty, and the Spaniards - nine! And why so? No one is interested in Russia to go to the next round.

Oleg Khropunov, director of the Out there Russia advertising agency, was found on Saturday night in the southwest of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head, RIA Novosti told the capital's law enforcement agencies on Sunday. According to the investigation, he committed suicide.

During this week, the operation of the Indonesian police to combat drug smuggling, while trying to escape, three citizens of Iran were killed, seven more were arrested, and two foreigners (allegedly Somali citizens) drowned, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the newspaper The Jakarta Globe . As a result of the operation against the Iranian Dutch drugsindical, a cargo of methamphetamine in an amount of $ 5.5 million was also captured to Australia.

The former head of Inteko, Elena Baturina, announced that she had to pay bribes to officials when she was managing the company. “She gave bribes, did not pay kickbacks,” Baturina said on Saturday in an interview with Rentws . She noted that she "seems funny to her, that she (a bribe) was taken, and not that I paid her." "They took, like everyone else.

In Chelyabinsk, guilty of mass poisoning of residents of the city Salmonellia are established. Two eating enterprises who infected products sent 80 people to hospitals, more than 20 are in serious condition. "Based on the results of laboratory tests in the samples of raw materials used to prepare a cream, finished products, as well as two employees of the Kuzenitsa confectionery workshop D.V., Salmonella Enteritidis was discovered.

A minor detained on suspicion of robbery in St. Petersburg died after an interrogation in the police department. Employees of their own security began an audit on the death of a 15-year-old teenager, a criminal case has been instituted. "Fontanka.ru" reports that on January 21, 2012 at 23:55 in the courtyard of house 12 on Shotman Street, an attack on a 45-year-old woman returning home was attacked.

A ship with 22 passengers and crew members on board sank off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf, 17 people died, RIA Novosti reports on Sunday with reference to the Ar. The incident occurred near the port city of Bender-Abbas, located in the south of the country. According to local authorities, the ship was sent to Bender-Abbas from the Ormuz Island in the Ormuz Strait. Rescuers managed to find five survivors who were passengers of the ship.