The Moody's International rating agency reduced the sovereign rating of Venezuela into two steps, from the CAA1 to the pre -end level of "CAA3". “The reason for the reduction in the rating was the increased risk of default against the background of a fall in oil prices,” Moody's notes. The current drop in oil prices increased the pressure on the payment balance of Venezuela and the country's reserves.

Savings are made about a third of Russians - 32%, over the past few years this share has not changed. The weakening of the ruble only changed the priorities - the importance of accumulations for the purchase of real estate has sharply increased. The number of those who accumulate on vacation has grown. This is evidenced by the study of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. More than others, wealthy people are deposited - 56% - and highly educated - 44%.

Russian retailers began to abandon Ukrainian salt, and this happened after receiving the letters of Rospotrebnadzor. According to retailers, there were no recommendations in the letters to withdraw Ukrainian salt from the sale: it was about checking the quality of foreign products. According to the retailer Metro Cash & Carry, he stopped the purchase and implementation of Salt of the Ukrainian company Artemsol in the Russian Federation.

Elite villages in the Donbass, where the cost of summer cottages reached a million dollars to the armed conflict, now cost dilapidated and looted, with frozen pools and bombed marble stairs, the Ukrainian online newspaper Vesti writes. Fighters of volunteer battalions settled in some houses of millionaires, the publication reports.

General Motors demonstrated her new Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car at Detroit in Detroit, TASS reports. According to the head of Mary Barra, the car can drive without recharging more than 320 km. Drivers will be able to choose various traffic modes: for active everyday trips and for calm driving on weekends, 110km.ru notes. Depending on the mode, the appropriate suspension settings, the responsiveness of the accelerator pedal, and road clearance are set.

The Olympic champion of Sochi in the team competitions of skaters Julia Lipnitskaya denied information about the departure from the group of her mentor Eteri Tutberidze. According to the skater, after an unsuccessful performance at the Russian championship , she generally thought about the completion of a sports career, but she changed her mind and was going to prepare under the leadership of Tutberidze for the new season, missing the rest of the current one.

The main Muslim associations of France urge believers to remain calm and avoid emotional reactions to the release of the new number of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, planned for the nearest environment.

Almost three dozen visitors to the Disneyland attractions park picked up measles at the end of December 2014. The virus struck children and young people aged eight months to 21 years old. The US Ministry of Health fears that the outbreak of the disease could spread much wider, and recommends visitors to the park to contact doctors in the event of the first symptoms of infection.

The night before, the Pope Francis on the A-330 Airbus Special Fund by Alitalia Airport went from the Roman airport named after Leonardo da Vinci (Fumichino) with an apostolic visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines. The seventh foreign trip of the Pope Francis (the second - to the Asian continent) began under the motto "Mercy and coexistence of religions." This is the longest pilgrimage of Pope Bergolo during his pontificate, it will last a week: from January 12 to 19.

Ukraine temporarily ceased electricity exports to Belarus and Moldova. This decision was made due to a lack of capacities within the country, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, which is quoted by UNN , said.

In Tver, a resident of the house on Kalinin Avenue broke and threw a memorial plaque installed in memory of Anatolia Speransky, the oldest sculptor of the Kalinin Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. The act of vandalism shot a neighbor on the video - it shows how a man is dealt with from a 22 -kilogram board from white granite, and a traffic police officer stands nearby and does not react to what is happening.

Experts and law enforcement agencies agree that Russia will not give Ukraine its former President Yanukovych and other ex-officials, despite their announcement on the international wanted list. The fact that Ukraine has achieved the search through Interpol Yanukovych, who lives in Russia after the coup in his country, and his associates became known the day before.

From January 15, AvtoVAZ OJSC will raise prices for LADA cars by an average of 9%, Interfax reports with reference to the company's press service. According to the President of AvtoVAZ, Bu Andersson, the company "one of the last automakers is forced to report an increase in vacation prices." “We hoped that the situation in the Russian economy would be restored quickly enough, but, unfortunately, this did not happen,” he said.

The head of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly believes that the city is on the verge of a technogenic disaster. If nothing changes, then in the near future, according to Chalian, Sevastopol is waiting for a complete blackout. The problem can be solved, but for this you need a "quite a lot of money", the politician is sure. The speaker of the Sevastopol Parliament on January 13 told reporters that the wear of the "network enterprises is prohibitive".

The head of the OSCE mission in Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan urged all aspects of the Ukrainian conflict to show a maximum of restraint. This is stated in his statement published on the organization’s website . The release states that over the past 24 hours the situation in eastern Ukraine has significantly deteriorated, observers recorded violations of the silence regime, especially next to the Donetsk airport.