In St. Petersburg, thousands of townspeople in a 10-degree frost took to the streets to look at the military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade, which took place today at the Piskarevsky cemetery. The parade was opened by the passage of the historical column.

The National Academy of Arts and Technology of the US gramus on Sunday announced the winners of the prestigious Grammy music award for 2013. The names of the winners became known before the beginning of the 56th ceremony, which takes place in Los Angeles in the Staples Center Hall and is broadcast live. The ceremony leads for the third time in a row rapper El Kul Jay.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, speaking on Monday at the opening of the XXII International Christmas Educational Readings in the Moscow State Kremlin Palace, called for the memory of the dead in the Great Patriotic War. “Today I would like to recall another important commemorative date - the date that testifies to all of us about the great courage and stamina, which was revealed by our fathers and grandfathers in Russian history.

The metropolitan police are looking for participants in the attack on the senior lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who received injuries and stab wounds in a street quarrel. At the hands of the attackers, an employee of the Moscow special quick response detachment (SOBR) suffered, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

"In 1506 a comet appeared in the sky and was visible for several nights, and it turned its tail towards Spain. There was a bountiful harvest that year, but it was all destroyed by caterpillars and rats. Then came earthquakes in the eighth and ninth years in Spain and in Italy. And they were so strong that even in Constantinople many houses were destroyed and many people died.

The Patriarch of Antioch John X and the Patriarch of Moscow Cyril, speaking at the opening of international Christmas readings in Moscow, said that despite the persecution that Christians in Syria are subjected to, they intend to continue to fight for peace and observe human rights in their country, seeing an example for themselves in the lives of ancient Christian martyrs.

The famous Orthodox missionary and blogger Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev, in an interview with the Internet Gazeta , said that one of the options for solving problems in Ukraine may be the separation of this country. “If people demonstrate their inability to live together over and over again, we must allow them to disperse,” the interfax -religion portal quoted the clergyman as saying.

On Friday, prison left the oldest French prisoner Philip El Shennavi. He spent almost four decades in imprisonment, but now "pardoned" by the decision of the head of state. The 60-year-old native of Egypt, Philip El Shennavi, accused of robberies and other crimes, received freedom under parole at 7:45 Friday, writes Le Monde . True, for two years he is obliged to wear an electronic bracelet that monitors his movement.

Unknown attached to the hood of the car of the leading microblog Kermlinrussia Arsenia Bobrovsky wooden figure of the phallus about a meter long. The message about this on January 27 appeared on Twitter Kermlinrussia, which is also called the "Pest Roissa". “In my opinion, someone does not like what I am writing,” Bobrovsky remarked in the signature to the posted photo of the wooden childbirth he discovered.

Egyptian President Adley Mansur awarded the Minister of Defense of the country to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the title of Field Marshal. The head of state signed the corresponding order on January 27. Thus, the Commander -in -Chief of the Egyptian Army, which played a decisive role in the overthrow of former president Muhammad Mursi , became the only owner of the title of Field Marshal in the country.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Dagestan Magomedgusen Shoquidinov, arrested in the fraud case for 130 million rubles, was an official charges. The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on Dagestan opened a criminal case under the article "Fraud on an especially large scale," Interfax reports.

The police of the Rostov region are looking for killers who attempted to murder a criminal authority and the owner of the restaurant business Fedor Sagamonov, nicknamed Fedya Sagamon. Fire on a 51-year-old entrepreneur was opened from automatic weapons when he left his house on Vyazemtsev Street in the Proletarsky district of Rostov-on-Don.

Russian citizen Vladislav Miftakhov, last Friday taken into the United States into custody on charges of storing explosives, said that he had a fireworks. On Monday, at a briefing, the Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, informed reporters, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Georgia, on January 27, Ninoobus is celebrated - St. Nina's Day. The solemn services, dedicated to this holiday, were committed in all temples of Georgia. In the Zion Cathedral of Tbilisi, the festive liturgy was headed by the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II . The parishioners had the opportunity to touch one of the main sacred relics of Georgia - a cross from a vine, sealed with hair of a saint.

In the administration of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, the next meeting of the head of state and participants in the working group to resolve the political crisis with the leaders of the opposition.