President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, after the riots on Sunday on Sunday on Grushevsky Street, at the government quarter, where there were more than six hours clashes between police officers and demonstrators, announced his readiness to start negotiations with the opposition .

The Russian skaters Tatyana Volosozhara and Maxim Trankov for the third time in a row became European Figure Skating champions, scoring 220.38 points following a short and arbitrary programs. The second place was taken by Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov (207.98), and Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov (201,61) closed the three winners.

In the United States, two women were arrested on charges of killing two young children. The Montgomery County police, Maryland charged the murder of two young children of the 21-year-old Monifa Deniz Senford and 28-year-old Zakai Latris Everi, who believed that they had a ceremony of demon exile, AP reports. According to the police, the dead two -year -old girl and the one -year -old boy were the children of Everi.

In Novouralsk, the Sverdlovsk region, a 12 -year -old girl committed suicide - she jumped out of the ninth floor of the house along Avtozavodskaya Street, where she lived. The investigative department in the city has been instituted a criminal case under the article "Bringing to suicide." The press service of the regional SU SK says that the emergency occurred on January 18 at about 12:00 at the house on Avtozavodskaya Street.

Russia was not upset by the abolition of dinner with Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Es Summit in Brussels: one day is enough to discuss the most important issues, said Russian Permanential Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov. The authorities of the European Union abolished the traditional dinner with President Putin in order to demonstrate that in a relationship not everything is safe after the fight against Moscow for Ukraine, Reuters reported.

One person died, two more were injured as a result of an accident involving three "cars" and a bus on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow, Interfax was told in the press service of the metropolitan traffic police. The collision occurred at 19:30 on the ninth km of Kutuzovsky Prospekt towards the region. Honda, Chevrolet and Hyundai, as well as the Mercedes bus, got into the accident. The picture of the collision is not specified.

Somali pirates captured the ship in the Red Sea. According to Reuters, the capture of the vessel under the flag of that MV Marzooqah is the first major attack of Somali pirates since the end of 2012. As Reuters reports, the ship's captain on Saturday evening gave a disaster signal. The ship was taken on boarding by armed people, the team was ordered to turn south and let the Somali beasts.

Russian Karolina striker Alexander Semin, whom the head coach of the Russian national hockey team Zinetul Bilyaletdinov did not include the Olympic team , was recognized as the best player in the NHL match. In the home game with between Florida in the third period with a 1: 1 score, Alexander first brought his club forward, and then, when playing in the minority, strengthened the advantage of Carolina - 3: 1.

The woman occupied and paid 1.5 million rubles for her husband allegedly stolen in Moscow, and then found him drunk in the Tula hotel, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to him, on Tuesday afternoon, the man asked for an hour from work, but never returned.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on Sunday, after the liturgy on the occasion of the festival of baptism and consecration of water, publicly answered those who critically responded about the worship of the Gifts of the Magi, Interfax reports. "The Lord sends His grace to everything - to all space, to living and not living. But in a special way he directs his grace to those objects that are associated with the religious experience of people," the patriarch said after the worship.

Bashar Assad does not intend to voluntarily compose the powers of the President of Syria - only the Syrian people should solve this issue during the elections. He again voiced his position at a meeting with Russian parliamentarians in Damascus. “If we wanted to give up, we would have surrendered from the very beginning. We are on guard of our homeland. This issue is outside the field of discussion. Only the Syrian people can decide who should take part in the elections,” Assada Interfax quotes.

The ex-Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov can be re-qualified in the case of the improvement of the Life Rest Center, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to an anonymous source. Now he is charged under the article "negligence" and allows us to claim an amnesty. According to the agency, the charges can be reformulated on the article "abuse of power", which provides for up to 7 years in prison.

The Syrian opposition will take part in the Geneva-2 peace conference, which will open on January 22 in Switzerland. The largest association is the National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (Nors) - discussing the issue of participation for several months, made a positive decision. At the same time, noting that the opposition to President Assad do not believe, and in the future of Syria it should not be.

Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovich went to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open Championship, defeating the first racket of the world to American Seren Williams with a score of 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3. Before that, Ivaniovich never won a formidable rival. “Serena is a great athlete. When I went to the court, I hoped to show my best game,” Ivanovich quotes the official website of the competition. “I acted all the time by circumstances, tried not to think about whom I play.

The bill on a return to winter time will be submitted to the State Duma on Monday, more than 100 deputies have already been supported. This was announced by the head of the Duma Health Committee, Sergei Kalashnikov, who emphasized that it was better to talk not about winter, but about astronomical time. Earlier, he told Interfax that the deputies are ready to adopt a law on a return to winter time, even if the government did not support this decision.