Hockey players of the Russian national team, having lost at the semifinal stage peers from Sweden in a series of post -match shootouts, will not be able to claim the "gold" of the home world championship, which ends in Ufa. Recall, exactly a year ago, the Swedes outplayed us in a decisive meeting at a similar tournament.

The video that was buried in Runet in December about how a truck with cows rolled over on the Russian highway, reached the English -language sector of the Internet. Among foreigners, a video about "crazy Russian roads" has gained 3 million views made a splash, although many refused to believe that this is possible. The incident that fell on the DVR, according to the specified date, happened on December 11, 2012.

US President Barack Obama signed a law that allows the country's economy to avoid the so -called "fiscal (financial) cliff." The document, the day before, approved by the House of Representatives of the Congress, and even earlier - literally on New Year's Eve - the Senate , was signed by the head of state on Wednesday late in the evening in Hawaii, where he spends New Year's vacation with his family, reports with reference to the White House Reuters.

On Thursday, January 3, four major auto -acquaintances took place in Russia at once, the victims of which were two dozen people, a few more were injured. Given the serious accident that occurred the day before, the total number of victims of terrible road tragedies with the participation of several cars increased to 26 people. In the afternoon, on the 312th kilometer of the federal highway M-8 Kholmogory in the Yaroslavl region, two cars collided in the forehead.

In the American state of Alabam, three teenagers died when a small aircraft crash. According to the investigation, they hijacked Piper Pa 30 to have fun, reports Sky News . The incident occurred on Tuesday evening, January 1. “I think they just wanted to have fun. So they had fun for the last time,” Metor James Painter, deputy sheriff of the district, commented on the tragic incident, as RIA Novosti reports.

The US Senate resolutely condemned the ban on adopting children from Russia with American families imposed by the Russian authorities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a number of federal laws that change the procedure for staying in the country and regulate the conditions of activity of labor migrants. In particular, one of the documents allows employers to submit documents to the Federal Migration Service to attract foreign workers in electronic form.

Following the film actor Gerard Depardieu, who left France and refused citizenship due to the threat of a 75 percent “tax for millionaires”, another outstanding artist of art-Jean-Michel Farr can leave the country. At least, he is actively interested in business development in the UK.

In Moscow, they continue to look for participants in a mass fight on the Leningrad highway, where in the late evening of January 1, a crowd of Asian appearance attacked a group of guards of the Metropolis shopping center. The investigation is ongoing, but the journalists have already managed to find out what was the reason for the battle, as a result of which five Chop employees were injured.

What exactly the domestic limousine promised by the head of the Russian state will become and at which factory the VIP car will make, it will become clear already in early 2013, they promised in the management of the president. “There is no solution yet. There is a working group led by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

“Germany is currently experiencing a boom in medical tourism. Already in 2010, the turnover in this industry amounted to about 260 billion euros. According to German media reports in 2012, the number of Russian patients and patients from the CIS countries more than tripled. Of course, medical tourism has a long history. Tsars, Russian aristocracy, writers, artists, poets traveled to Germany to improve their health. For a long time, treatment abroad was considered elite."

The loud story of the "slaves from Golyanovo" who worked in the Moscow grocery store and saved by volunteers made it widely discussed the issue of vigorous work in Russia. It is no secret that the country has an underground slave market, but few people guess about the scale of what is happening. Meanwhile, powerless migrants and citizens of the Russian Federation, and Komsomolskaya Pravda , notes, leading the stories of people who suffered from modern slave traders and rescued by volunteers.

Three women died and two men were injured in a village in the south of Switzerland, where an armed local resident opened fire on people. It was possible to seize the criminal only after the policeman wounded him a well -aimed shot, Reuters reports. The incident occurred in the village of Dyon in the canton of Val, 100 km east of Geneva, late in the evening on Wednesday. The criminal was in a state of strong intoxication, reports 20Minutes.ch . The dead are women 32, 54 and 79 years old.

The US national team, composed of players no older than 20 years, became the first finalist of the hockey youth championship in Ufa. In the semi-final North American derby "Star-striped" with a score of 5: 1 defeated peers from Canada. The winners distinguished Jake McCabe and John Godro, another puck on the account of Jim Vishi. The only goal for Canadians was held by Philip Dano. The US team for the fourth time in the history of youth championships of the world reached the final.

In Odessa, the famous Ukrainian human rights activist and journalist Valery Kochetov died, who defended the interests of the chief suspect in the preparation of the attack against Russian President Vladimir Putin - Adam Osmaev. The journalist was treated for a long time from oncological disease and died on Wednesday, January 2, at about 5 in the morning in a dream, reports with reference to his own source from the close circle of Kochetov newspaper today .