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.

“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.

In the Ivanovo region, a senior guard of order was detained, which is suspected of raping a woman. With the help of an abuse, the police officer tried to find out the whereabouts of his girlfriend, who declared him to the State Directory Control service. Under the investigation was the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of OP N2 in Ivanovo, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

The investigating authorities denied the “amnesty act” in relation to the former Chelyabinsk vice-governor and former top manager of the Rosgeology Holding Andrei Tretyakov, accused of hooliganism on board the aircraft. This was stated at a meeting of the Novosibirsk Regional Court, the investigator of the regional investigation department of the West Siberian Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Nikolai Brodnikov.

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.

The service on the Moscow Portal of State Services , which allows you to apply for the registration of the vehicle online, will be available not only for Muscovites, but also for car owners from other regions, the head of the Moscow Department of Information Technology Artem Ermolaev told the M24.ru portal.

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.

The “saving” loan of $ 15 billion provided to Ukraine by the Russian Federation can be partially issued in the form of quasi -iva SDR - special borrowing rights, with the help of which you can pay with the International Monetary Fund. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, ITAR-TASS reports. "Money (for a loan of Ukraine.

The leading US Associated Press news agency called the best athlete of the outgoing year Lebron James, playing for the team of the North American National Basketball Association (NBA) Miami Hit. The rating was based on a survey of editors and leaders of the main American media. The most significant achievement of James in 2013 was the conquest of the second consecutive championship title, ITAR-TASS reports.

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.

Former defendants in the ARCTIC Sunrise case, whose criminal prosecution in the Russian Federation was stopped on an amnesty on December 25, continue to leave Russia. The first evening from St. Petersburg, a member of the crew of the Sweden and the USA Dmitry Litvinov , a member of the crew of the Sweden and the United States, departed from St.