In one of the apartments of a multi -storey building on Cosmonauts Street in the Soviet district of Voronezh, household gas exploded, five tenants were injured of varying severity. A source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax about the absence of victims. According to him, the explosion of domestic gas, most likely, occurred due to careless handling of residents with the appropriate equipment.

For the first time since the spring of 2004, Brent oil costs less than $ 32 per barrel, a similar situation with WTI oil (for the last time she showed such a negative record in December 2003). According to the data at 19:10 Moscow time, the cost of February Brent oil futures on the ICE Futures London Exchange decreased to $ 31.93 per barrel.

Problems in China’s economy cannot be called unexpected, but they scare other countries because it seems that the Chinese authorities do not know what to do with these problems. This was stated by "Polit.ru" by the chief economist of the Rus Rating agency, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics Anton Tabakh. “What is happening in China - well, from what is still visible - this is a reflection of long -walking processes, well, those when many things converge at one point.

The unemployment rate in Russia at the end of December increased by 1.9% and amounted to almost a million people, according to materials on the website of the Ministry of Labor of Russia. “From December 23 to 29, 2015, the number of officially registered unemployed citizens amounted to 993,04 people,” the agency said. A decrease in the number of unemployed is noted in 12 regions: Kabardino-Balkarian, Chuvash, Chechen republics, Tula, Magadan, Omsk, Voronezh regions.

The appointment of the head of the Russian delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, will lead to the fact that Russia's voice on important world issues will be heard by a much smaller number of forum participants than he could. This opinion was expressed by Polit.ru professor of the faculty of world economics and world politics to the Higher School of Economics, the leading researcher of IMEMO RAS Alexei Portan.

The average price for the Urals brand barrels last year amounted to $ 51.23, TASS reports with reference to the leading expert of the Department of Tax and Customs Tariff Policy of the Ministry of Finance Alexander Sakovich. The interlocutor drew attention to the fact that this indicator was higher than the 2015 budget of $ 50. In December 2015, the average Urals price amounted to 36.42 dollars per barrel, and in November - $ 42.11, so in December it decreased by 13.5%.

A group of scientists from the University of Newkal for research on visual perception in insects put on miniature 3D-oks on the female of the African Mother of God ( Sphodromantis Linela ). During the experiment, they projected through this device the image of potential targets for the praying mantis and monitored his reaction. Previously, stereoscopic vision studies were carried out exclusively on vertebrates.

The abducted wife of the football player of the Perm club "Amkar" Fegor Ogude was released, the family friend of the family and the head of the press service of the youth team of Nigeria Timi Ebikabboro said on the social network Twitter. According to Ebikagboro, the woman is with her relatives.

The man, whose body was found in the north of the Sverdlovsk region in the area of ​​the Dyatlov Pass, could die as a result of heavy weather conditions, the Zvezda TV channel reports with reference to the head of the Dyatlov Memory of Yuri Kuntsevich. The interlocutor believes that the deceased was a tourist enthusiast, who alone was studying the circumstances of the mysterious death in the winter of 1959 nine tourists under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev will become the head of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Writes Vedomosti . The press secretary of the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev Natalya Timakova noted that the choice by the representative of Trutnev is not a decrease in the status of a delegation. According to her, the Deputy Prime Minister will take part in the discussion of Asia-Pacific issues and bilateral contacts.

Iran withdrew the lawsuit against Russia, which was filed with the International Arbitration Court due to the breakdown of the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, reports with reference to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin RIA Novosti . “We get Tehran’s guarantees about the review of the lawsuit in connection with the non -resistance,” Rogozin said.

Unknown people plundered the grave of actor Jean Mare, who played the phantom in the same comedy film trilogy, reports the French edition of Le Croix. According to the publication, a bronze figure was removed from the grave plate in the Walloris cemetery, depicting the head of the beast from the film “Beauty and the Beast”. The missing sculptures were discovered on January 7, it weighs 35 kilograms, and its height is about 60 centimeters. The cost is estimated at more than four thousand euros.

On January 7, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a document introducing amendments to the media law, which provoked mass discontent of Polish journalists. In their opinion, the changes made overly enhance control over Polish media. Amendments to the law on the media involve the expiration of the term of powers of current members of the board and supervisory councils of the state television company TVP and Polish radio.

Anton Bykov Interview with Vladimir Putin to the German publication Bild photo: kremlin.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a large interview to the German tabloid Bild. The whole conversation was built around the topic of the relationship between Russia and the West.

The country with the worst indicators of economics growth in 2016 will become Venezuela, Brazil and Greece will follow it, and Russia and Ecuador will share the fourth and fifth positions in the anti -rating of 93 economies of the world, the Bloomberg material says. Agency economists predicts that in the listed countries there will be a sharp drop in GDP. Low growth indicators in 2016 will also be demonstrated by Japan, Finland, Croatia and Switzerland, analysts surveyed by the agency believe.