In Egypt, the administrative and financial director of the representative office of the German company Siemens in Cairo was brutally killed. According to the power structures of the country, the body of 45-year-old Hani Loki was found in deserted areas in the suburbs of the Egyptian capital with traces of violent death, ITAR-TASS reports. Hani Loka disappeared four days ago.

Development projects in the territories connected to Moscow in the south-west of the capital may fall to the revision of the Urban Planning and Earth Commission, created on the initiative of the mayor of the city. This was stated in an interview with RIA "Novosti" Chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BPC) plans to canonize priests, monks and laity people who suffered for faith in the communist period, reports the Sedemitsa.Ru portal with reference to the Bulgarian edition of Monitor. Representatives of the BPC Synod said that most of the 240 priests, monks, nuns and laity who died in concentration camps and executed for faith during the atheistic period will be canonized.

The subject of Saudi Arabia, who headed the groups of Al-Qaeda militants in Mosul, was sentenced to death. This terrorist, whose name was indicated by the initials of B.A., back in 2008, was proclaimed the emir (commander) of Al-Qaeda in this Northern Iraqi city, ITAR-TASS reports. In 2004, he participated in the battles with the Americans in El Falludge to the west of Baghdad, in which he lost his legs.

The United States reacted quite skeptically to reports on the readiness of Bashar al -Assad to announce the terms of a referendum under the new Constitution of Syria. “We saw media reports that Assad made the next proposal to adopt new amendments to the Constitution, on (holding) new elections,” said Victoria Nuland, official representative of the State Department.

The United Aircraft Corporation calculates in 2012 to conclude contracts for the supply of up to 100 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft and several dozen An-148, said the head of the UAC Mikhail Poghosyan. The corporation also expects this year to receive contracts for future deliveries of several dozen An-148, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia supplies 12% less gas to the Ukrainian gas transmission system than it is provided for by a technical agreement, said the head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine Yuri Boyko. "There is a very large gas selection within Russia.

On Wednesday, the Mansky District Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory sentenced the people's chosen one, who beat a senior official for intransigence. The quarrel between the influential civil servants occurred due to the business of the deputy’s wife from United Russia, who achieved the commissioning of the gas station. The court appointed a 50-year-old deputy of the Mansky district council Viktor Ugelnik a punishment in the form of 3.5 years in prison with a probationary period of 3.5 years.

Mikhail Arkadyev echo.msk.ru/blog/arkdv “I accuse Gergiev, Bashmet and the like of the moral corruption of several generations of young musicians, who, largely thanks to them, are convinced that the measure of skill and talent is money, money, again money, and only money. It was they who convinced and taught the youth to the fact that the main thing is to use your immortal craft for glamorous success, with cynical indifference to the so-called “politics”.

In the Moscow region, the police are looking for a gang of robbers who attacked a senior official and his wife. The victims were beaten into handcuffs, and then they carried out values ​​from their house. The victims of the robbery were the 55-year-old head of the administration of Zaraysky district of the Moscow region, as well as his 53-year-old spouse, the official website of the regional investigative department reports.

The Italian tabloids managed to get personal photos of Francesco Skettino, captain Liner Costa Concordia, on January 13, crashed in the Mediterranean Sea. In the pictures that fell at the disposal of the media, the captain is depicted along with the stewardess Domnika Scheortan, who at the time of the crash was on the captain's bridge. Judging by the photograph of Skettino and Scheortan, they really were in close relationships.

The Brazilian government filed a lawsuit against Twitter, demanding to remove microblogs in which Brazilian motorists warn about road sections, where they can be detected by cameras or traffic police, Interfax reports with reference to the Air Force . The Brazilian authorities said that in this way the site of the social network prevents them from fighting drivers exceeding speed or driving into a state of intoxication.

The American Corporation IROBOT has made another step in constructing robots for the US Army. The new universal product of the company is called IROBOT Warrior 710 (Warrior - English "Warrior") and is a combat vehicle on a caterpillar, weighing about 200 kg and equipped with a special universal claw -manipulator, reports "Computer" with reference to Technology Review and Defense Update.

Patriarch Kirill blessed the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at a new post. "He was adopted by the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril. They discussed issues of military-patriotic education of the youth of Russia. He received a blessing to work to raise our entire defense-industrial complex," Dmitry Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page, Interfax reports.

In the Kemerovo region, threat employees and OMON fighters detained members of a criminal group who are suspected of attacking customers of the Shcherbet restaurant in Novokuznetsk. The special operation to detain five bandits was carried out on Wednesday afternoon on Metallurgov Avenue in Novokuznetsk. During the search of foreign cars on which the suspects moved, weapons were seized, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.