Storms and heavy rains, which came to California in December, provided American paleontologists with a number of interesting finds. Swer rains and winds expose the layers hidden with sand and destroy the cliffs of sandstone. Thanks to this, a lot of fossils come out. Due to the rains, the water level in rivers and streams also rose, it erodes the shores and carries fossil remains of various animals to the coast.

In Russia, there are 2.7 million people with alcoholism and about 700 thousand registered patients with drug addiction. This was announced by the chief narcologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Evgeny Brun, reports Interfax . “Patients with alcoholism with mental disorders that we are registered with are 2.7 million people per country. The real figure approximately corresponds to official data - about 3 million should be in the country of patients with alcoholism, ”Brun said.

On November 12, 2014, the well -known human rights activist, a teacher of mathematics, the former Soviet political prisoner Valery Senderov (March 19, 1945 - November 12, 2014), who played a key role in the struggle against anti -Semitism in the Soviet mathematical environment, did not become. In the last years of his life, he was seriously ill.

The domestic policy department of the Presidential Administration will undergo significant personnel changes. This was written on Tuesday, Izvestia with reference to a senior source in the presidential administration. Viktor Seliverstov, who supervised the regional block with Tatyana Voronova, goes to work in the All -Russian Popular Front (ONF).

A man on a small cargo van drove into a crowd of visitors to the Christmas Fair in the city of Nantes in the west of France, injuring ten people, five of which are hard. It is reported by BBC . According to eyewitnesses, a white van at high speed entered the line with a mulled wine. After the car stopped, his driver took out a knife and inflicted several injuries to himself. The Christmas market was evacuated after the incident. The platform on which he passed examined the sappers.

Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev signed an agreement on joining the Eurasian Economic Union. According to Interfax , by May 2015, Kyrgyzstan can become a full -fledged participant in the association. “The conversation was not easy, and the parties determined the clear and fair parameters of the republic’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union,” Atambayev emphasized.

The Russian military-industrial complex will lose several billion dollars from the break with Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the deputy chairman of the collegium of the military-industrial commission of Russia Yuri Mikhailov. “I would evaluate this in the additional costs that Russia should spend on these purposes (implementation of the import substitution program - Polit.ru).

The head of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, announced his readiness to go for the fifth presidential term, despite the opposition of the "whole world", Interfax reports. “Calm down, gentlemen, Lukashenko is not the person who can be“ rebuilt ”... only the Belarusian people can“ rebuild ”me. Even if the whole world is opposed today against Lukashenko, he will still become president if he wants it, ”he said on Tuesday following a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.

Numerous minefields that remained since the Iran-Iraq war have now become a kind of reserve for the Asian subspecies of Leopard. According to experts, during the war of 1980 - 1988, Iranian and Iraqi military installed up to 30 million anti -personnel mines along the border of the two countries. Many minefields are not cleared to this day.

The real rate of GDP GDP has accelerated in the third quarter of 2014 by 5% in annual terms. This was reported in the updated report of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the State Department. The data obtained is the result of a third, clarified assessment of the statistical indicator, and indicate the maximum growth rate of the US economy from July-September 2003.

The Investigative Committee was interested in the publication of the Komsomolskaya Pravda about the alleged secret witness in the case of the Boeing's shot down. This was stated by the head of the press service of the TFR Vladimir Markin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the legislation that increase fines several times for violation of the border access control on the state border. The document was published on Tuesday at the official Internet portal of legal information. In accordance with the amendments to the law, violation of the rules of entry and temporary stay of people or vehicles in the border zone will be punishable by a warning or fine of 500 to 1000 rubles (previously from 100 to 500 rubles).

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria found guilty of all 57 defendants in the case of an attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, five of them were sentenced to a lifelong term of imprisonment, Interfax reports. Anzor Mashukov, Murat Bapinaev, Aslan Kuchmenov, Rasul Kudaev and Eduard Mironov received a life sentence. The court found five suspects guilty under Articles 317 of the Criminal Code (“Acting for the Life of Law enforcement officers”) and 105 of the Criminal Code (“Murder”).

The organization of oil exporting countries will not reduce production even with a decrease in oil prices to $ 20 per barrel. This was announced in an interview with CNN by the Minister of Oil Saudi Arabia Ali al-Nami. “We will produce the volume that we produce now and we will welcome the increase in production if the consumer is asked for this,” Al-Nami explained.

At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 in the performance of their professional duties, the Associated Press reports with reference to the report of the American Public Organization Committee for the Protection of Journalists (KZH). At the same time, the organization is investigating the death of another 18 people in order to establish whether their death was associated with official actions.