Aeroexpress company has raised ticket prices from January 1, 2014. This was reported on the company's website. In particular, the changes will affect the “Standard” tariff, the cost of which is now 340 rubles. Earlier, the fare was 320 rubles and has not changed the last two years. According to the Decree of the Government of Moscow, the cost of the metro from January 1, 2014 is 40 rubles.

The head of the Moscow police Anatoly Yakunin ordered to create a special operational group to investigate the incident with the burning of the Qur'an fans of CSKA, RIA Novosti reports. Investigators were instructed to find the organizers of the action as soon as possible, the video of which was posted on YouTube on January 5.

The Federal Court of New Jersey sentenced the Ukrainian to 30 years in prison for the distribution of children's pornography, the Voice of America reports. A native of Kharkov Maxim Shinkarenko was extracted to the United States from Thailand in 2012. In court, Shinkarenko pleaded guilty to the spread of children's pornography.

Summer terrorists, who at the end of December, undermining the bombs in the passenger trolleybus and at the Volgograd railway station, arrived in the region from the North Caucasus, Interfax reports with reference to a source in power structures. According to preliminary information, the preparation of terrorists took place in one of the North Caucasian regions, where the gang participants are now being eliminated.

The Chechen prosecutor’s office recognized the criminal case against the local resident Shahid Temirbulatov as legitimate. Information about this is posted on the website of the department. The case was opened by the local department of the FSB under Part 2 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Participation in the armed formation in the territory of a foreign state, not provided for by the legislation of this state”).

The law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria joined the investigation of the murders of men whose bodies with gunshot wounds were discovered the day before in the Stavropol Territory, Interfax reports. The relevant order was given by the acting head of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria Yuri Kokov. According to the press service of the acting head and government of the KBR, involvement in the committed crimes of bandits from Kabardino-Balkaria is not excluded.

The turn of the pilgrims to the Gifts of the Magi in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior amounted to about 20 thousand people, the Interfax reports. As explained in the press service of the organizing committee of the relic, at 11:00 the end of the line is behind the Novoandreyevsky bridge, so those who want to approach the shrine must drive to the Frunzenskaya metro station to go to the Moscow River embankment and take a place in the queue.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed a number of ministries to strengthen Russia's information policy abroad. The instruction was given on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reports.

As a result of a powerful explosion at the Mitsubishi Group factory in the Japanese city of Yokkai, at least five people died, Reuters reports. According to some reports, 17 people were injured, five of them are in critical upsets. The exact number of dead and victims is still not known. The causes of the explosion have not yet been established. After the explosion, a fire arose at the factory, which has already been liquidated. The police and rescuers work at the scene.

The Federal Migration Service began to receive messages from residents of Moscow with complaints of illegal migration more often. This was on the air of the Moscow 24 television channel by the head of the capital's department of the department, Olga Kirillova. According to her, Muscovites, in particular, began to report more often about where illegal labor activity is carried out with the involvement of the labor of migrants.

Ufa International Airport on Thursday was closed due to a false message about an explosive device, Interfax reports. As a result, the Ufa-Stambul flight lingered for almost 2.5 hours. In the morning, the man called on the phone “02” and said that an explosive device with a child with a child would be carried into the air terminal building. At 9:40, the Ufa-Stambul plane was supposed to fly out, but because of the message it was detained.

During a conversation with the temporary attorney of Senegal in Moscow, Mamad Dianem in the Russian Foreign Ministry, the authorities of this country again put forward the requirements of the immediate liberation of the trailer Oleg Naydenov and his crew. This was announced on the air of Russia-24 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich.

Mikhail Degtyarev, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science, proposed to make the emblem of Russia an obligatory attribute of the Russian school uniform, Izvestia reports. According to Degtyarev, the education of patriotism begins with parents, coat of arms, flag and anthem. In this regard, the parliamentarian insists on applying an image of a Russian coat of arms to the school uniform for those who buy a school uniform .

In the hospital of the North American city, Norfolk died the second member of the crew of a military helicopter crashing off the coast of Virginia, reports Associated Press . Earlier it was reported that the participants in the search and rescue operation discovered four out of five people on board the helicopter. The fate of the fifth crew member is still unknown.

The Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika proposed toughening the punishment for corruption, since the liberal method of “punishing the ruble” is not a result, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Yuri Chaika spoke about this on Thursday in an interview with the newspaper on the eve of the 292nd anniversary of the bodies of the Russian prosecutor's office.