The cost of Brent varieties on January 5 has twice updated the minimum of the spring of 2009, RBC reports. At the auction on the ICE exchange in London in the first half of the day, the cost of Brent oil futures with the supply in February 2015 fell into 2.86% to 54.85 dollars. In the afternoon, the fall continued. According to the data at 17:35 Moscow time, the barrel of oil of this brand was trading at $ 53.91. This is a new record minimum of May 2009.

Blue tuna weighing 180 kilograms was sold at the first auction in the famous wholesale fish market in Tokyo in Tokyo for 4.51 million yen (37.480 thousand dollars), Yahoo News reports with reference to AFP. The customer of the tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Aomori Prefecture, as last year, was the owner of a large Tokyo network of Kiyomura restaurants Kiyoshi Kimur.

Trucks arrived in the Rostov region, which will deliver to the east of Ukraine, where the military confrontation between security forces and separatists continues , humanitarian aid. So far, trucks are empty, but cars will be loaded, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies in the Rostov Region. "The trucks arrived in the village of Kovalevka, to the local rescue center" Donskoy ". While they are empty, tomorrow will be loaded," said the representative of the department.

The inhabitants of Karelia and the Arctic became eyewitnesses of an unusual natural phenomenon - a polar radiance, which was so bright that it was even able to capture on the video. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , the radiance was “unusually beauty”: he was observed on Lake Concerar, in Kandalaxha and Alakurtti, in the Murmansk region and in the Karelian city of Segezha (photographs from Karelia can be seen in the group Asterion on the social network VKontakte).

Residents of the Sochi region are outraged by the rise in the cost of travel on the Swallow high -speed train three times. “Now, in order to go from Adler in Tuapse, you need to pay 550 rubles. Instead of the usual 180 rubles. <...> in such a way, in order to go from Adler in Tuapse and back together, you need to give 2200 rubles. As a result, a good amount is obtained. <...> It’s very expensive to go to relatives.

Journalists of The New York Times Andrew Higgins and Andrew E. Kramer published the results of their own investigation of the events preceding Viktor Yanukovych from Kiev. They argue that the change of power did not occur as a result of a power coup, behind which the West stood, but the weakness of the encirclement of the Ukrainian president and the betrayal of the security forces.

In Sochi, ski resorts in Krasnaya Polyana can be closed due to snowfall. Information about this appeared on the website of the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Krasnodar Territory. "Dear residents and guests of the city of Sochi! Today, January 5, abundant precipitation in the form of snow is expected at the ski resorts in Krasnaya Polyana. Due to adverse weather conditions, the work of cable roads and ski tracks and ski tracks can stop," the press service of the department said.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine issued in absentia against 22 supporters of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. This was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaly Yarem, explaining that this will allow the funds that "were stolen from the budget." He also indicated that the suspects were put on the wanted list.

Hockey players of the Russian youth team beat the Swedes in the semifinals of the World Championship among players not older than 20 years and will play the gold medals of the championship with its owners - Canadians. In the semifinals, the Russians in Toronto won peers from the Swedish national team with a score of 4: 1. As part of the winners of the team, Alexander Sharov distinguished himself twice, another puck was thrown by Ziyat Paigin and Maxim Mamin.

The British farmer, who owns the only herd of "Nazi" cows in the country, is forced to give more than half of them to the cattle -beam after they tried to kill his employees, reports Express.co.uk . An attempt to recreate the breed of cattle, whose ancestors, giant European bulls, died out in the middle of the 17th century, were undertaken by biologists of Nazi Germany by the Hinz Brothers and Luke Hek back in the 1930s.

Beijing protested Washington in connection with the raising of the Taiwan flag, TASS reports. “We are categorically against the so -called flag raising ceremony, carried out by the Taiwan Island representation in the United States. We made the American side,” the agency quoted the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Hua Chunin.

In Missouri, a member of the large jury of the jury, which considered the case of the death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of a white policeman, sued the prosecutor investigating the case. The jury, whose name is not reported, is seeking to publicly tell about the circumstances of the court hearings, but the laws of the state prohibit this, the BBC Russian service reports.

Residents of Yakutia (the Republic of Sakha), one of the coldest constituent entities of the Russian Federation, where frosty weather was established on these New Year holidays, came up with a new entertainment, which is possible only in the winter season, and even then not everywhere. Resourceful Yakuts arrange a “salute” on the street from boiling water and a couple, which is called “Sahasalyut”.

Dozens of residents of Chelyabinsk were left without heat supply in thirty -degree frost. According to the local information site Chelyabinsk.ru , residents of private houses on Poltava Street in the Metallurgical District lost heat due to a communal accident, and have been living in cold dwellings for several days. "The heat in the houses on Poltavskaya Street was turned off on the night of January 2 to 3, when the thermometer column in some places dropped to -32," the site says.

Former head of the Taiwan administration Chen Shuyyan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, and then achieved the mitigation of the punishment up to 20 years in prison, was ahead of schedule in connection with the state of health. After undergoing treatment, he should return to prison. BBC reports that Shuybyan received permission for parole in connection with various diseases, including brain degeneration.