In St. Petersburg, a mass fight occurred during the New Year's corporate party, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region reports. According to the agency, the event was held in one of the entertainment complexes in the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg on the night of December 27. The corporate party was attended by about 500 people. At approximately 01:30 in the morning, a message was received in the duty unit.

As a result of the accident in the suburbs, the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Yegoryevsky district died, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region. According to the agency, in the city of Kurovskoye there was a collision of the Subaru car, which belonged to the deceased, with a truck. The cause of the accident was the exit of the truck into the oncoming lane.

The director of OJSC Institute of Reactor Materials (enterprise of Rosatom Group of Companies) Dmitry Markov commented on the results of 2013. The past year was difficult for the institute, brought many changes. We have increased production volumes, the range of isotopic products has expanded, new sales markets have appeared. In addition, in 2013, the Scientific and Technical Council approved the Institute's Innovative Development Program until 2020.

Piranhas attacked people bathing in one of the beaches in the city of Rosario in the northeast of Argentina, AP reports. As a result of the attack of predatory fish, 69 people were injured. According to local authorities, the piranha attacked people who bathed in the Parana River, which is a place of abode of predators. Locals went to such a risky act because of a strong heat in this region. In addition, they did not expect fish to be so close to the shore.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov put forward a demand for the European Union to compensate for possible damage from the conclusion of an agreement on the Association with the EU at the first stage. He spoke about this on the air of the First National TV channel of Ukraine. According to Azarov, compensation for damage from the free trade zone should become a prerequisite for the completion of negotiations with the European Union.

The largest American Corporation General Motors recalled almost one and a half million cars from the Chinese market due to technical marriage. This was reported by BBC with reference to the Chinese agency for product quality control. So, in 1.2 million Buick and 250 thousand Chevrolet, implemented in the Celestial Empire, malfunctions were identified in the fuel supply system.

The Police of St. Petersburg did not find traces of explosives in the residential building of St. Petersburg, where the explosion thundered the day before, Interfax reports. According to a law enforcement officer, the preliminary version of the incident is the technogenic nature of the explosion. Earlier it was reported that due to the explosion in the house 1/4 on Olga Forsh Street in St. Petersburg, 40 people were evacuated.

One person died on Thursday as a result of a collision between students from among the supporters of the Muslim Brothers and residents of the Cairo region, where the protest of students took place, Reuters reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Egypt. The department reported that the police had to use tear gas against students of the world's largest Islamic University of Al-Azhar and furious local residents.

The authorities of the Irkutsk region announced tomorrow, December 28, during the day of mourning for the dead in the An-12 disaster, which occurred the day before, the official website of the region reports . The corresponding decree was signed by the governor of the region Sergey Eroshchenko. On the day of mourning in the region, the flags of the Irkutsk region will be launched. All cultural institutions are recommended to refrain from conducting entertainment events.

The militants of the Palestinian movement of Hamas are responsible for all the blows of Israel from the territory of the Gaza sector, reports Arutz -Shev with reference to the Israeli Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu. He emphasized that Israel would continue to strike at those who attack him. Israeli aviation inflicted a missile blow to the gas sector in response to the murder of a civil officer of the IDF on the border.

In Russia, the number of people with income below the subsistence minimum in January-September 2013 increased by 0.5 million people, or by 3.5%, compared with the same period last year, and amounted to 17.8 million people, Rosstat reports . As of the end of September 2013, the number of poor was 12.6% of the total population. The number of poor in the 3rd quarter increased by 0.7 million and amounted to 17.1 million people. The cost of living for the 3rd quarter of 2013 amounted to 7429 rubles.

All Greenpeace Foreign Activists from the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker will leave Russia until the New Year. This was announced by the lawyer of one of the participants in the action, Alexander Melnikov, reports RAPSI . According to the defender, this Friday six British have already left Russia, one will leave during the day. In addition, Dmitry Litvinov, who has US citizenship and Sweden, will leave the country. Before the New Year, all the detainees will go home.

In Sergiev Posad near Moscow, an unknown person shot the Deputy General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the Research Institute of Applied Chemistry, which is part of the Rostekhnology group, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, the murder was committed on Thursday at about 23:00.

MTS is trying to get an exclusive right to use red in the field of telecommunication services, Izvestia write. The company has already applied to Rospatent with an application for registration of red in the form of a trademark. MTS explained that color registration will provide the brand and interests of subscribers with “additional protection”. Representatives of the company refer to the All -Russian survey, which showed that people associate the red color with MTS.

Uruguay President Jose Mukhika came to the ceremony of taking office of the new Minister of Economics in sandals, thereby violating the official protocol, RIA Novosti reports. Judging by the photographs published in the media, all those who came to the ceremony are dressed in suits and ties, and Muhika fell apart in a chair in rolled trousers and sandals on the bare foot. The media suggested that the president chose such a style of clothing because of severe heat.