Experts began analyzing data obtained from the "black boxes" of the Vnukovo Building Liner Tu-204, the Interstate Aviation Committee on Sunday reported. The recorders were removed from the scene of the accident on Sunday night, almost immediately to the Mac reported that the records were safe. "In the scientific and technical center of the committee, the record was read from the on -board registrars. There is a record, an analysis is carried out," the MAC website said.

In Ufa, during a collision of five cars, three people were killed, six victims were hospitalized, the Interfax agency was told in the Bashkiria traffic police press service.

An outstanding Italian neurobiologist Rita Levi Montalcini died in the 104th year of her life. This was reported by the press service of the Senate of Italy. In addition to other titles, Rita Levy was awarded the position of “lifelong senator of the Italian Republic”, was a member of the National and Papal Academies of Sciences, reminds ITAR-TASS.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Bernie Ecclestone admitted that he would have to resign his authority to Formula 1 if the German prosecutor’s office was an official accusation of corruption. "Probably, the CVC will be forced to get rid of me if the Germans come for me. This is very obvious if they arrest me," the royal racing boss said.

Salavat Yulaev hockey players failed to break into the semifinals of the oldest New Year's Tournament, the Spengler Cup, which traditionally takes place in Switzerland on New Year's Eve. The Ufa men in the quarterfinal match lost to the local Davos with a score of 5: 7 (1: 5, 2: 2, 2: 0). The fate of the meeting decided the starting period in which the opponent of Salavat managed to answer only once.

US President Barack Obama expressed the hope that Congress would approve a new bill to control the use of firearms in 2013, he said in an interview with the NBC channel. "I would like this to be done in the first year (second period). I will make specific offers based on the recommendations that the working group of Joseph Biden is preparing while we are talking," he said. The US President noted that he is not going to postpone the solution of this issue.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Law "On Education in the Russian Federation", the statement posted on the official Internet portal of legal information on Sunday. The law was ambiguously accepted by the public by the State Duma on December 21 and approved by the Federation Council on December 26.

The news that the Constitutional Council of France rejected the tax proposed by President Francois for the rich at 75% caused a hot response among highly paid athletes - primarily football players. “This is a victory,” Frederick Tirusa, president of the French professional football league, commented on the news. According to Tirus, from the very beginning they tried to attract the attention of the authorities to the negative consequences of such a high tax.

On the Tu-204 aircraft, which crashed during the landing at the Vnukovo metropolitan airport, the Russian national football team used to fly, the Championat.com website reports. According to the publication, on the Tu-204 belonging to Red Wings, the Russian team flew at the time when it was led by the Dutch specialist of the HUS Hiddink, in 2009 and 2010.

In New York, a woman accused of killing a metro passenger was arrested. According to investigators, she pushed him from the platform under an approaching train, the Russian BBC service reports. 31-year-old Eric Menendes was charged with a murder not planned in advance. The prosecutor’s office says that she decided on this on the basis of hatred of Hindu and Muslims. The victim of the crime was the 46-year-old native of India named Sunando Saint.

An unusual erotic calendar came out in Spain: mothers of schoolchildren in the Spanish province of Valencia decided to raise money for a canceled school bus, and at the same time attract the public’s broad attention to attempts by local authorities to save. Officials canceled special transport for children living within 3 kilometers from the school. Moms who are forced at 5 a.m.

The head coach of the Russian youth team, Mikhail Varnakov, said that he did not understand why only one Canadian hockey player was given only one disqualification match for a rough game in the World Cup in Ufa. After the first match in Ufa with the Slovak team, disqualification for one game was received by the Russian striker Maxim Shalunov, punished for the game with a highly raised club.

On Sunday, the Orthodox priests of Moscow are going to visit all the victims of the crash of the aircraft in Vnukovo , the press secretary of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for charity and social service Vasily Rilinsky wrote on his Facebook page. “Tomorrow, priests will try to visit all the victims as a result of the crash of the aircraft in Vnukovo ... At the moment it is exactly determined which of the priests will visit the victims,” RIA Novosti quoted him.

Vladimir Alekno, who leaves the post of head coach of the men's volleyball team, explained his solution to health problems. According to the mentor, he is not ready to survive once again the stress that accompanied working with the national team, Interfax reports. “I can’t continue to work in the national team as a state of health. I have already received alarming SMS from my heart,” said the coach, under the leadership of which the Russian team won the “gold” at the Olympics in London.

The militants of the Armed Syrian opposition on Sunday captured the oil -skating station (NPS) in the north of the country in the province of Rakka, the AR agency reports with reference to the Syrian Monitoring Center for Human Rights Based in London (OSDH). Oil with NPS in Racca enters the Central Province of the country of Homs, where one of two Syrian oil refineries is located, RIA Novosti notes.