On the last day of 2012, the CEC of Russia arranged in the format of the New Year's matinee the presentation of his new information center, which was about 100 million rubles. On this occasion, a Christmas tree was dressed in a building in Bolshoi Cherkasy Lane. However, the chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Churov told reporters that this time he "abandoned the costume of Santa Claus, because I need to get rid of the image of the wizard," ITAR-TASS reports.

The Brazilian police liberated nine hostages captured by criminals in case of unsuccessful robbery of the jewelry factory, BBC reports. None of the hostages were injured, they were discovered by police in the forest in the state of Riu-Grandi-Do-Sul about five kilometers from the place where the criminals captured them. The police reported that they also managed to return part of the loot, without specifying whether the members of the gang committed or killed or killed or killed.

“Now everyone has no time for this. Now the Magnitsky laws, children, symmetrical answers, New Year finally. But I also have children. My own children. And a wife who is afraid of dogs. She is a city child and for her stray dogs on the street are always a danger , as indeed for any normal person... but, I’ll start in order. This story didn’t start today.

The cleaners of the London metro on New Year's Eve began a two -day strike, opposing a low payment of their work, the level of which is lower than the subsistence minimum in the British capital, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Guardian . According to the unifying cleaners of the RMT trade union subway, employees in this area receive 8.3 pounds per hour of work, while wages in the amount of the subsistence minimum in London are at least 12.5 pounds per hour.

The passenger train crashed into a herd of elephants in the state of Oriss in the east of India. Six animals and a train conductor were the victim of the collision, reports The Indian Express . The incident occurred in the area of ​​the Rambha forest, located about 180 km south of the capital of Bhubaneshvar. Among the six elephants that fell under the train, there were two cubs. The circumstances in which the railwayman died are being clarified.

The locomotive and two carriages of the cargo train overturned on Monday on the railway in the Zeisky district of the Amur Region, one person died, two were injured, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region said. "In the Zeisky district, on the fourth kilometer of the dead end line of the Ulak -Elga railway, Lokomotiv and two rolling stock cars. According to preliminary data, one person died, two people were injured," RIA Novosti quotes the message.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave several instructions on the development of bills that will become the implementation of the provision of the message to the Federal Assembly. The government has to submit the first draft new documents in March. In particular, the Central Electoral Commission should propose a bill providing for a mixed election system to the State Duma. Thus, the president proposed returning to the elections in majority and proportional foundations.

Nine tourists died and 26 got into hospitals as a result of a car accident on the way from Las Vagas to Vancouver, AP reports. The accident occurred in the city of Pendleton in the American state of Oregon. The tourist bus struck the highway of the highway and, flying into the ravine, landed vertically. “As a result of the accident, there were no debris left, the bus is almost not damaged, but human injuries are terrible,” the state police said.

In one of Istanbul hotels on Monday morning, 23 people were poisoned with gas and were sent to the hospital. All, except two, are foreign tourists, reports the Turkish English -language publication Today's Zaman . The incident occurred in Modern Sultan Hotel, it clarifies. Some victims were unconscious, some had foam from the mouth. The condition of the four is evaluated as critical. The nationality of the poisoned has not yet been specified.

According to the results of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Rubin football club (Kazan), chaired by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, it was decided to extend the contract with the head coach of the team Kurban Berdyev for two and a half years. According to the press service of the team , Berdyev reserved the duties of vice president, deciding to focus on coaching work.

The police of the city of Kargopol, the Arkhangelsk region, is looking for a mother who quit dialing in the frost of the infant, according to the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. A local resident found a girl at the age of one month lying in a bag on the banks of the Onega River on Monday morning. The law enforcement officers who arrived at the place took the baby to the central district hospital, where the girl was provided with the necessary care.

Vladimir Putin turned to the Russians with New Year's congratulations. Perhaps few people are aware of this now, but he did it after a four -year pause - the new year from 2009 to 2012 Russians met with Dmitry Medvedev on TV, and Putin as the president preceded the chimes fight for the last time on December 31, 2007 .

In Astana, the employees of the Department of Internal Affairs managed to find the journalist Tokbergen Abiev, who missed at the end of December, said the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan Nurdilda Oras. "The police established the whereabouts of Tokbergen Abiev. He was hiding in a rented apartment until that time. The motives of his actions are being clarified," Oraz said on his Twitter page, which is quoted by Interfax quoted.

Al-Qaeda militants, based in Yemen, also known as Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, offered a reward for the murder of the US ambassador in the dignity of Gerald Feierstein, Reuters reports with reference to American intelligence. Anyone who kills Feierstein, terrorists promise three kilograms of gold, which is about 160 thousand dollars to monetary equivalent. They also offered 5 million reais (23 thousand dollars) for every killed American soldier in Yemen.

Russian shooting skiers Anton Shipulin and Ekaterina Yurlova won the traditional Christmas biathletes race, held in German Gelsenkirhen. The seconds were finished by the French Martin Fourcade and Marie-Doren Aber, and the third-Norwegians Fanny Well-Stra Khurn and Larshegla Birkeland. “Everything was excellent, there was a high competition until the last circle. I didn’t think that the teams would be so equal that everything would be decided at the last fire line.