In the Caribbean, a sailboat rolled over, on the board of which there were several dozen migrants from Haiti, reports Associated Press . The incident occurred on December 25 off the coast of the islands of Terks and Kaikos, the British overseas territory in the Caribbean.

The analyst of the Renaissance Capital investment group Vladimir Sklyar commented on the results of 2013 for the nuclear industry. In my opinion, the main merit of Rosatom for 2013 is the completion of previously begun foreign projects, in particular, in Iran and India. We completed the construction and signed the act of transferring the Busher NPP with the Iranian side and the name of the Kudankulam NPP began.

Among the many changes affecting the life of a modern person, the phenomenon of multiple loyalties seems to be underestimated. Man has always played many roles simultaneously. He was a subject, a member of a professional guild, a parishioner, and a father. Sometimes the obligations arising from these roles conflicted with each other and role conflict arose. It could be filmed in different ways.

The governor of the Novosibirsk region Vasily Yurchenko fired his assistant to Putin’s novel, the cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Taiga.info reports. Putin oversaw the development of OJSC “15th Central Automobile Repair Plant”, located in the Soviet district of Novosibirsk. Yurchenko noted that on the basis of the plant it was planned not only to repair cars, but also to assemble some cars, primarily cargo, but the project could not be implemented.

Google filed a lawsuit against the Rockstar consortium, which includes Apple and Microsoft. It is reported by Gigaom . The company intends to sue due to Nortel patents . Consortium bought patents on the bankrupt company Nortel Networks telecommunications equipment in 2011 for $ 4.5 billion. As a result, more than 4 thousand patents and patent applications have become available to companies. Rockstar planned to get rid of some of them.

Investigative authorities in Moscow stopped criminal prosecution against the last person involved in the case of a fight between nationalists and migrants in a hostel in the capital's Kapotnya district in September 2013. reports this Kommersant . Thus, on Tuesday, December 24, citizen of Uzbekistan Hayet Sharifov was released from the pre-trial detention center.

The activist of the “Left Front” movement Dmitry Rukavishnikov, who was accused of the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square, was released under amnesty. This was reported on Twitter of the leader of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov. On December 24, the FSIN distributed a press release on the release of Rukavishnikov, however, after some time, representatives of the department denied this information, saying that the document was published by mistake.

Sergey Pavlov , Director of the State Scientific Center-the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SCC NIIAR, enterprise of the Rosatom Group of Companies), commented on the results of 2013 for the enterprise. In December 2012, we launched the second stage for the production of the molybdeno-99 radio-free radio-domestic verse in experimental and industrial operation. This year they began to carry out regular, twice a week, the supply of this drug to Argentina and other countries.

The Boeing-737 aircraft, Yutair, flying from Moscow to Tomsk, made an emergency landing at the destination, Interfax reports with reference to the Glavk of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Tomsk Region. According to the agency, emergency landing is due to the fact that the plane of the hydraulic system of the left chassis worked at the aircraft. The landing occurred at 06:03 (03:03 Moscow time). At the time of landing, there were 99 people and 7 crew members.

The prosecutor's office of Yekaterinburg considered the call of the head of the city Evgeny Roizman, who announced the collection of money for the city without drugs, Interfax reports. As explained in the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region on Wednesday, in accordance with the law, the highest official of the city is not entitled to call citizens to raise money in the interests of any commercial or non-profit organization. Roizman made an idea of ​​eliminating violations.

Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko said that he was ready to resign in the event of the failure of the Russian Olympic team at the Sochi Olympics, Echo Moscow reports. At the same time, Mutko stipulated that resignation is possible if he seeks his guilt in the unsuccessful performance of the national team, and recalled that he was responsible for the formation of teams, coaching, equipment and equipment for the training of athletes.

For the first time in 15 years, Evgeny Plushenko was unable to win the Russian figure skating championship in the competition of single men in Sochi. The first place was taken by Maxim Kovtun, who scored 267.13 points. According to RIA Novosti , after the competition, Plushenko said that he did not intend to play at the European Championship, which will be held in January 2014 in Budapest. He emphasized that this is due to the desire to better prepare for the Olympics in Sochi.

We publish an article by the head of the scientific direction “Political Savings and Regional Development” of the Institute of Economic Policy named after Yegor Gaidar Ph.D. Irina Strdubrovskaya about the problems of local self -government and his reform. Rumors about the preparatory transformations in the field of local self -government have long been long. However, recently, new reform proposals began to acquire a clearer outline.

Moscow weather forecasters set a new temperature record. This was reported by Interfax with reference to meteorologists. So, the base Moscow weather station at the popular exhibition center recorded a temperature of +3.5 ° C. This value is 0.4 degrees higher than the last record set on December 25, 1910.

President of Uruguay Jose Mukhika signed a law on the legalization of marijuana in the country, Reuters reports citing local media. Immediately after signing, the document comes into force. At the same time, over the next four months, the government must create legislative acts that must regulate the implementation of the law. Earlier, the Uruguay parliament approved a law that allows citizens of this country to grow, buy and use marijuana.