In the Irkutsk region, two teenagers who escaped from the orphanage are looking for to visit relatives. The 14-year-old and 10-year-old boys escaped from the family-educational center in the village of Tunguy and, apparently, went to Irkutsk.

Russian President Vladimir Putin postponed the introduction of a new type of punishment - forced labor. The corresponding law appeared on the Kremlin website . It was planned that forced labor will be introduced from January 1, 2013. According to the law signed by Putin, the innovation is postponed for a year. The State Duma approved forced labor as a sanction in November 2011.

Sweden Foreign Minister Karl Bildt criticized Moscow for the "economic blackmail" of Ukraine, Interfax reports. "It is obvious that Russia uses severe economic blackmail to force Ukraine to change the political course," he wrote on Friday on his Twitter page. Earlier, we recall, the director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Gorban, in an interview with Interfax, on January 1, said that Russia would not reduce gas price for Ukraine.

The 15-year-old Blaher Bjarkardottir and her mother Bjork Eidsdottir (Bjork Eidsdottir) through the court demanded from the Icelandic authorities to officially allow the girl to use their name. The mother at birth called the daughter Blaher, which in Icelandic means "summer breeze" or "breeze", but this name is not included in the official register of the names of this country, which listed 1712 male and 1853 female.

In the Krasnogorsk near Moscow, a fire occurred early in the morning, as a result of which four people died, including a small child. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, the fire arose at 5:43 am on Friday on the seventh floor of a nine -story building along the Ilyinsky highway. The fire area was 30 square meters. meters. During the analysis of charred structures, about 6 in the morning the bodies of four people were discovered.

The advanced group of 27 American military personnel who have to serve and manage two Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems arrived in Turkey, ITAR-TASS said with reference to the NATO representative in this country. Two Patriot air defense systems from the United States are deployed near the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.

The famous American director, 68-year-old George Lucas and his lover, 43-year-old Melody Hobson announced their engagement. The creator of the legendary saga "Star Wars" and Melodi, the head of the animated projects of the DreamWorks studio, met in 2006, ITAR-TASS reports. For Lucas, this will be a second marriage, the Hollywood Reporter clarifies, and Hobson will marry for the first time. George Lucas has three adopted children. The wedding date is still kept secret.

The long New Year holidays in Russia were not without problems with the housing and communal services: in Stavropol, nine thousand people were left without electricity due to the accident, in another corner of the country - in Orsk - 26 residential buildings were left without heating.

In Tatarstan, the fact of suicide of a 15-year-old teenager in the village of Levashovo Alekseevsky district of the Republic is investigated, the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Tatarstan Andrei Sheptitsky told Interfax on Friday. The body of the boy hanging in a loop was discovered on the day of December 29 in the barn.

In the coastal waters of East Australia, the appearance of a huge number of jellyfish has recently been registered. Most species of these invertebrate marine animals are harmless. However, several deadly species of jellyfish, including tiny Irukanji, also live off the coast of Australia.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tuva opened a criminal case on the fact of an accident at a thermal power plant in the village of Hova-Aaksa in the Republic of Tuva, which left more than 3 thousand people without heat in 40-degree frosts, the press service of the department said on Friday.

The oldest private Swiss bank Wegelin & Co closes after it turned out that its leadership helped the Americans to evade taxes, reports Reuters. At the trial in New York, Wegelin representatives admitted that they knew about secret accounts that took refuge from tax audits of US citizens. The bank agreed to pay the American authorities $ 58 million. When this procedure is completed, Wegelin will cease to act as a financial institution.

Although the veil of secrets, enveloping the state of health of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, which is treated for cancer in Cuba, rises extremely reluctantly, most of the incoming messages indicate that it should be prepared for the worse, many Western media believe. According to data from different sources, the president at the death of death, in the pharmacological coma, he has a severe pulmonary infection, due to which the chavez is tracheotomy.

The receipt by French actor Gerard Depardieu Russian citizenship did not escape the attention of Western journalists. The British press, having guessed that the artist needs a passport for a speedy refusal of French citizenship, could not resist caustic comments and remembered the actor friendship with authoritarian politicians. The Times , which devoted the article to this event, even redid the name of the Frenchman to the "Russian" Lad - Department.

A resident of the Philippine city Kavit shot passers -by, killing 10 and injuring 11 people. Among the victims, the shooter is a pregnant woman and a girl of seven years old. The policeman killed an armed man on the spot. “He shot accidentally - to anyone who crossed his path,” police officer Armn Lopes told AFP. The personality of the shooter has already been established - his name was Ronaldo Bay, a man of average children who once ran for an official in a local village.