Today, one of the most revered Christian shrines was delivered to Moscow - gifts that brought the magi from the east to the newborn Jesus Christ. Special score from the Greek city of Salonika recently landed at Vnukovo-3 metropolitan airport. The gifts of the Magi for the first time left the Greek land, where they have been stored since the 15th century in the Athos Monastery of St. Paul.

The detention of the Russian fishing trawler "Oleg Naydenov" in the border waters of Guinea -Bisau and Senegal by the security forces of the latter - there is nothing more than a planned action arranged with the connivance of local authorities. On such an assessment of events, the owners of the vessel and responsible officials from the Russian side continue to insist.

The National Coalition of the Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (Nurses) of Syria re-elected her chairman for the second term Sheikh Ahmed al-Jarbu. These days, the General Assembly of Nurses - a group of foreign opposition, which is supported by the countries of the West, Türkiye and the Arabs, is held in Turkey.

Military personnel from among the monastery novices who serve in a separate radar company of the Western Military District, deployed on the island of Valaam, will take part in the service in honor of the birth of Christ. According to the press service of the district, the uniqueness of this unit is that the novices of the famous Valaam Monastery undergo military service here.

In Israel, the second day, rallies and strikes of African illegal immigrants continue, requiring the country's government to recognize them refugees, issue work permits, stop arrests and free their comrades from the Saaronym prison and refugee camps in Negev, reports Newsru Israel .

Over the past three days, the flow of believers who committing a pilgrimage to the grave of the priest of the Georgian Orthodox Church of the Father Gabriel, buried in the territory of the Convent in the ancient capital of Georgia, Mstsket, does not decrease. Thousands of people rushed here in the hope of fulfilling desires.

In the center of Moscow, the police stopped an attempt to hold a rally in support of those involved in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. In total, about 100 people gathered on Manezhnaya Square, 28 of them have already been detained. “Activists are holding in their hands portraits of the “prisoners of Bolotnaya”. There are a lot of police around,” Sergei Udaltsov says on Twitter , where photos from Manezhnaya Square are also published.

One of the police units in the UK proposed an unusual initiative - to pay veterinary benefits to the police dogs who served the due date and “retired”. However, not everyone liked the idea: taxpayers turned out to be dissatisfied, due to which financing "dog-retirement dogs" will be carried out, reports Russia Today . The police unit of Nottinghamshire believes that the work of four -legged law enforcement officers should be recognized.

Participants in the North Caucasian gang underground adapted to the FSB tactics and actively use “black widows” as suicide bombers, while Russian special services in Moscow cannot rely on colleagues from problem republics, Western media believe. After the explosions in Volgograd, security measures were reinforced, but they are unlikely to be effective against the martyrs, foreign journalists reflect.

“But you can look at the matter from the other side. Rob Ford became mayor at a time when Toronto was already a thriving metropolis. And under his leadership, nothing terrible happened to the city. That is, in this Canada and in this Toronto, such a management system was created , a system of institutions of power and public control over life, such that the appearance of even the most daring dude in the main city post does not lead to collapse.

In Kazan, a mass fight is investigated with the participation of local residents and Caucasians, which occurred on Bauman's pedestrian street on the evening of December 30. The website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan reports that two residents of Kazan, who provoked a fight, became involved in the defendants. However, earlier a different version of the events was published in the media. About 20 people noticed a fight on external surveillance cameras ( video ).

Russian Ayrat Mardeev from the KamAZ-Master team became the winner of the first stage of the Dakar-2014 rally-marathon in the classification of trucks. The second time was shown by Czech Alesh Loprais, the third - Dutchman Marseille Van Van Van (MAN), ITAR -TASS reports. Two more Russians, Eduard Nikolaev and Anton Shibalov, also representing the Kamaz-Master, finished among the first ten, becoming the fifth and seventh, respectively. The best results of the first stage: Trucks: 1.

The family from England reunited 60 years after the mother’s novel during the Second World War separated the illegitimate brother and sister. It turned out that Fred and Karol for years lived almost side by side and continued to look for each other, without even realizing their relationship. The 76-year-old Fred Hodgzhkin spent his whole life in search of his own family, although all this time he and his sister lived in the neighborhood, writes The Mirror .

In China, the president of the Chinese railway company committed suicide, one of the largest railway construction companies. According to China’s business press, Bai Zhongen jumped out of the window. Presumably, he could do this because of the large debts of the company, reports South China Morning Post . The press service of the Chinese Railway Company said that the president of the enterprise died as a result of an accident.

One of the victims of the terrorist attack in Volgograd was delivered to St. Petersburg by the special score of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA of Russia). There the man will undergo treatment. “He has a severe neurotrauma. He will continue treatment at the Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg,” Tatyana Ermilova, an employee of the Volgograd Region Government, said to ITAR-TASS.