During the final national selection in Ukraine, the international song contest “Eurovision 2014”, which will be held in May 2014 in Denmark, thanks to the mixed vote of spectators and jury members, Maria Yaremchuk was elected the winner, the Ukrainian news agency UNN reports. After the vote, the presenters announced that most Ukrainians and members of the jury gave the victory of Maria Yaremchuk with the song Tick-Tock, which the performer wrote herself.

The metropolitan police checks the message "On a shooting wedding" in the south of Moscow: the motorcade has been stopped, but it has not yet been possible to identify the alleged shooter. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, on Sunday the police received a message that from the side of the wedding motorcade moving along the Kashirsky highway, sounds similar to shots were heard.

The police opened a serious crime in the Iskitim district of the Novosibirsk region, the website of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. The body of a 51-year-old resident of Iskitim was discovered in her apartment on Friday evening. According to experts, the victim was beaten and strangled. During the operational-search measures, police officers found out that that evening the deceased drank alcohol with her son.

At the Stad de Marrakesh stadium in the capital of Morocco Munich Bavaria, the local Raja team of the World Cup Championship of the world won. In the seventh minute, the Germans scored after the angular draw: Jerome Boateng threw the ball at Dante Bonfim, and the Brazilian, taking advantage of the Moroccans mistaken in creating an artificial offside, sent the ball to the target - 1-0.

Three youth activists were sentenced by the Egyptian court to three years in prison on charges of organizing unauthorized rallies of Cairo, which led to riots. Each of them also must pay a fine of about 7.5 thousand dollars. Among the sentences are Ahmed Maher and Muhammad Adele - activists of the "April 6" movement, who played a significant role in the "Revolution on January 25", which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.

A native of the Stavropol Territory shot a passerby from the traumatic pistol, who asked him not to trade in Spice in an underground crossing in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the metropolitan police.

In Ivanovo, the New Year's holiday with the participation of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden spoiled an unprecedented event: a horse that brought a brichka with fabulous guests to the central square, stolen right during the performance. According to the site IVDay.ru , the emergency occurred on Saturday. The fabulous motorcade, as the city administration promised, drove along the central streets of Ivanova and stopped on Pushkin Square, where the main city New Year tree was installed.

The police found two packages with a suspicious substance of plant origin among participants in the so -called "shooting wedding" in the south of the capital. Not everyone managed to detain, some cars disappeared. In the capital, the Interception plan has been announced.

The Chairman of the Board of the Industrial Commercial Bank Batyr Karbabaev was detained in Moscow on suspicion of large fraud, Life News reports. The businessman is suspected of deliberate bankruptcy of the bank and the embezzlement of 2 billion rubles. According to law enforcement officers, all this time Karbabaev was hiding from Russian justice in Riga. But in mid -December, the operatives were information that Karbabaev would fly to Moscow for several days.

Some players in the Russian national team, who performed at the Channel One Cup - the third stage of the European hockey tour, did not justify hopes assigned to them. This was stated by the head coach of the Russian national team Zinetul Bilyaletdinov after the defeat from the Czechs . “There are players who, unfortunately, did not justify hopes,” Bilyaletdinov stated. “Apparently, now the number of candidates for the Olympic composition from the KHL will decrease.

The unknown opened shooting at passengers from "pneumatics" in the train of Moscow-Nakhabino. The police are looking for a man who was in a mask, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District.

In Moscow, a boxing duel was held between the ex-champion of the world in four weight categories 44-year-old American Roem Jones Jones Jr. and 36-year-old Frenchman Zin Eddin Benmamluf. Jones confidently controlled the battle distance in the first two rounds, and in the third sent his opponent to the knockdown. Further, the pace of the battle began to decline, the boxers spent a lot of time at the near distance and inflicted little pure strikes.

Forward Liverpool Luis Suarez, who made a double in a victorious home match with Cardiff City (3: 1), set two records of the championship of England at once. The Uruguayan striker was the first to score at least two goals in four consecutive matches. And also he became the first to score ten goals in one month. Earlier, the achievement of the English Premier League belonged to Mark Viduka, who in April 2003 upset the opponent's goalkeepers eight times.

A petition for resignation was filed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey Muammer Guler. As the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Anatolian agency stated, he expects the decision of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Earlier on Sunday, it was announced that during the personnel cleaning campaign in Turkey, 25 more responsible police officials were removed from their posts.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law on limiting the value of consumer loans, which gave borrowers additional rights. From now on, the full cost of a consumer loan or loan will not be able to exceed the average market value calculated by the Central Bank by more than a third. And the borrower will be able to return the money without notifying the creditor, RIA Novosti reports.