A powerful explosion thundered on Friday morning in the capital of Lebanon. According to preliminary data, the bomb was in the car. Dozens of people died and were injured. According to the satellite television channel Al Jazeera , the goal of the terrorists was the former Minister of Economy Livan Mohamed shutti. He was in an exploded car along with three associates.

The Israeli army and militants from the gas sector end the outgoing year by no means peacefully. The Israeli Air Force last night applied a series of missile attacks on targets in the sector, thus answering recent shelling from the Gaza of the city of Ashkelon, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the official statement of the Israeli Defense Army (IDAL). The report notes that over the past day, two missiles have been released from the Gaza sector in the Israeli territory.

Almost 60 American families who were not able to adopt orphans from Russia before the entry into force of the "orphan law" turned to the children with an open letter that remained in orphanages and already adopted by other people. “On Christmas Day in America, when all families are gathering together to celebrate this sacred holiday, we thought about you. Just as every other day we think about you and about how we would like to be with you.

On Friday, December 27, employees and employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry celebrate the professional holiday of the rescuer and celebrate the 23rd birthday of their department. The history of the Ministry of Emergencies in 1990 began with 17 people, and now it is hundreds of thousands of employees, who only in the past year saved more than 260 thousand human lives and extinguished over 140 thousand fires.

“But that’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is this: the official’s employees claim that the director, being, I quote: “in a good mood,” signed almost any documents. What else do you need from any official? But he doesn’t need anything else. ! No, I, of course, am not going to promote here what is prohibited from propaganda. But is it really cocaine that is the main source of good spirits in Russia, and even more so in Yamal?

In 2013, the slowdown in the Russian economy turned into sharp braking and growth almost stopped. All year, officials discussed the reasons for the growth of growth, arguing about the methods of supporting the economy, but the year ends with a decline in investment and a reduction in industrial production. The 2013th Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Klepach called the “year of lost opportunity”. There is no reason to change the situation in 2014.

The prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region said that the story with the mass fight of civil servants at the reception of the governor of the region Marina Kovtun is exaggerated, and the facts are distorted. The participants in the event themselves ask journalists "not to inflate a sensation out of the blue," RIA Novosti reports. The conflict at the New Year's reception of the Governor of the Murmansk region caused a wide public resonance in the media.

For developers and officials associated with construction, 2013 did not foresee any special shocks. If unkind news was expected, then only from the Olympic fields, but 2013 decided to surprise everyone, Kommersant writes, offering his review of the most striking events in the country's development market during this period. Olympiad: resignation of the year, ultimatum of the year As you know, 2013 opened with a loud Olympic resignation.

“It’s hard to call this an office. Rather, it’s a small closed city that lives by its own laws and rules. Zuckerberg managed to build not only the largest social network, but also real communism in his city. The working conditions of Facebook employees are pleasantly surprising, although for Siliconova valleys is quite normal. No everyday problems should prevent a person from creating. The office looks more like some kind of all-inclusive resort.

Experts deduced the final assessment of the unemployment rate in 2013 - it is located in the range from 5.7% to 6% of the economically active population. Throughout the year, unemployment indicators grew, although not very significantly, and exceeded similar ones in 2012. An increase in unemployment level, even if not indicative (and without social consequences), in 2013 happened for the first time in the last few years - from the peak values ​​of 2009 it was steadily declining every year.

Three people were killed in Egypt during the Friday protests of the supporters of the radical party "Muslim Brothers", which the Egyptian authorities recently officially recognized the terrorist organization. The Egyptian police used force to disperse demonstrations in several cities, during which 265 Islamists were detained. The victims of excitement in Egypt were reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, reports Al-Jazeera .

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, released after 10 years of prison, whom the Vedomosti newspaper called the man of the year among individuals, in a new interview - this time to the observer of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Bykov, spoke about the main threat to Russia and what her future sees. The most real and most terrible, according to the former head of the Yukos oil giant, is the threat of the collapse of the country.

The Moscow Construction Department has announced a competition to select a contractor for the reconstruction of Tverskaya Zastava Square next to the Belorussky Station. This is reported on the government procurement website. According to the documentation of the new reconstruction project, the initial contract amount is 5.5 billion rubles. The reconstruction of the square has been planned since 2002, but has not yet been implemented.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation once again moved the borders of the floating corridor of the bivalyut basket (0.55 dollars and 0.45 euros) by 5 kopecks up to 33.05-40.05 rubles, the Finmarket reports. Starting from July, the Bank of Russia against the background of the weakening of the ruble has repeatedly shifted the boundaries of the floating corridor of the bivalyut basket 5 kopecks up (at the end of June they were at the level of 31.70-38.70 rubles).

The US Department of Justice received an official notification of the refusal of Estonia authorities to extradite its citizen Vladimir Chashchina, who is accused of organizing hacker attacks on the Google search engine. "The Estonian court decided to reject the demand of the Manhattan prosecutor’s office to give the chashchina," ITAR-TASS quoted the words of lawyer Arkady Bush, representing the interests of the accused in New York.