A helicopter crash in central London has left at least 13 people injured and two killed, the BBC reports. A helicopter crashed into a construction crane in central London on Wednesday and crashed to the ground . Seven victims were treated on the spot, and six more were hospitalized. The crash killed two people - the helicopter pilot and a pedestrian on the ground.

Deputies of the A Just Russia faction have introduced a bill to the State Duma repealing the rule banning the adoption of Russian children by US citizens. The initiative was submitted on the basis of 100 thousand Internet votes collected by Novaya Gazeta. The bill was submitted on behalf of deputies Dmitry Gudkov, Ilya Ponomarev and Valery Zubov. Ponomarev explained that the deputies took on the role of “purely mechanical” intermediaries for citizens who signed up against the “orphan” law.

Russian Mufti: Islamic radicalism and teaching Muslim children in Russian. “If you teach Muslim children entirely in Russian, then they will probably move away from the Islamic traditions of their people and, most likely, will come to the traditions of radicals,” Mukhetdinov wrote on his Internet page, Interfax reports. The Mufti stated an objective fact in his speech.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Last night in Makhachkala, the judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan Magomed Magomedov was shot. The investigation considers professional activity the main version of the murder - the deceased conducted particularly difficult matters. Magomedov was killed near his own house, a source in the Dagestan Investigative Committee told Publicpost: “The judge ran out into the street-someone crashed into his car. The judge’s wife got out of the house.

I think I’ll not say it in a novelty, but I got these inscriptions, which I see everywhere, on all walls of houses, fences - phone numbers, aisicu, salt, drugs, legal drugs, powders, etc. The other day, I began to notice that these inscriptions began to cross out, paint over (neatly and inaccurately), to correct, in general, to do so that they did not work. Low bow to these people! I can’t say who this can do, but I will assume that the graffitors.

Festival of Lights in Berlin? No, it’s just that Berlin activists, artists and poets decided to creatively support Maria Alekhina before the new court hearing on January 16, and also to express their protest to the whole world regarding the Pussy Riot case. On the night of January 15-16, Berlin artist Julia Strauss and photographer Jörg Pache held a performance called Free Maria Alyokhina.

In central London, a helicopter crashed into a construction crane and crashed to the ground, the British newspaper Evening Standard reported on Wednesday. The helicopter crashed in a busy part of the city, in the Vauxhall area, near the underground and railway station on the approach to Waterloo station. According to eyewitnesses, the helicopter hit a crane with its propeller and fell onto cars. A fire broke out at the crash site and plumes of smoke rose from the ground.

Getting rid of a bad student population is the dream of any school principal, any teacher. Rotten apple injures its neighbors. The same is true in the field of education. Year after year, day after day - classmates, teachers, the administration amicably tolerate the successors of the work of Figure and Mishka Kvakin, dreaming only of one thing, that they would move somewhere, move to another school, and ultimately fail.

One -shit in a distant galaxy The forces of good on the planet Saratov We agreed in a mortal battle with housing and communal services This is their story. Three weeks have passed ... The mayor of our city, Oleg Grishchenko, actively traveles through various city objects, where they successfully put asphalt or do something else. But in areas where huge problems are somehow clogged and not taken into account.

A criminal investigation has been completed against a dance teacher from Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory), accused of committing indecent acts against 15 boys, the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory reported on Wednesday. “According to investigators, from 2008 to 2011, a 39-year-old dance teacher systematically committed indecent acts with his students after lessons.

Despite the recent statement by the Russian Ambassador to Latvia, Alexander Veshnyakov, who assessed current relations between the two countries as mediocre, statistics show positive dynamics in mutual trade turnover, direct investment and transit. It should be recognized that many achievements of economic cooperation were a continuation of the initiatives of previous years.

Today is World (with a capital “W”) Beatles Day. It was a big one, because it was decided so by UNESCO - this kind of ministry of culture of humanity, and precisely on January 16, because on this day the Liverpool club opened, in which they performed for the first time. Although what day is it, it would be much more correct to talk about the Beatles era, about the Beatles century, or at least half a century, and certainly about the Beatles generation.

Today (01/16/2013) the media published the data of the environmental rating of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, compiled by the All-Russian organization "Green Patrol". The Tambov region, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Altai Republic, Belgorod and Kursk regions are named the cleanest. The most polluted regions are Tula, Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions. None of the regions of the North Caucasian Federal District made it into the top ten cleanest.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow made a mistake with the amount of legalization of funds received from oil theft in the verdict against the former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev, as stated in the resolution of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court in this criminal case, Kommersant reports.

Priest Dmitry Sverdlov, who was banned from serving for 5 years, believes that he was fired for his social activity. He told PublicPost about this. The Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Interaction of the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate Vsevolod Chaplin believes that Sverdlov was sent for the state because he had done an unthinkable thing.