Former President of the RFU Vitaliy Mutko (left) and head coach of the Russian national football team Gus Hiddink The prospects of the new sports year are evaluated by the famous football observer and television commentator Vladimir Pereturin. However, its conclusions go far beyond the limits of purely sporting results and trends. - Vladimir Ivanovich, Happy New Year! - Thank you - Happy New Year and good luck to all listeners Radio Liberty and site readers!

In Antarctica, the remains of an airplane brought to the continent by the expedition of Douglas Mouson in 1911 were discovered. After a three -year search, a group of Australian researchers reported the find of the apparatus - the first airplane delivered to Antarctica. The plane was damaged before the 1911-1912 expedition began, nevertheless, the Australian geologist and polar explorer Mouson took it with him, dismantling his wings and hoping to use it as motorized sledges.

The Somalian, who tried to kill the author of carications on the Prophet Muhammad, was suspected of preparing an attack on Hillary Clinton. Associated with the Islamist group "ASh-Shabaab", a native of Somalia, who attacked the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergorda, had previously been delayed on suspicion of terrorist activity.

The head of the UN Mission in Afghanistan, Kai Ade, called the Afghan Parliament to affirm most ministers of the new government with serious political defeat in difficult times. Eide emphasized that while Afghanistan needs a functioning government for urgent reforms, President Hamid Karzai will be forced to spend energy on the selection of new candidates for ministers. On the eve of the deputies of the Afghan parliament rejected 17 of the 24 Carzai candidates.

In Ingushetia, an explosion occurred at a gas station. According to preliminary data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the cause of the explosion was the shelling of the station located at the village of Gazi-Yurt of the Nazran district from a grenade launcher. There are no victims and victims. Fire calculations work at the scene of the explosion. The shooting of the shooters is underway.

The Transkavkazsky motorway, closed due to bad weather, resumed the work. The highland road connecting Russia with the republics of Transcaucasia was closed due to the danger of avalanches. On the eve of the mountains, more than 30 centimeters of snow fell and the snow with the rain did not stop all night. The authorities decided to block the movement before the special order of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

One person died, two were seriously injured as a result of an accident at the first stage of the Dakar automobile rally, which takes place in Argentina. It is reported that the car, behind which the German racer was located, lost control and crashed into a group of spectators, who, supposedly, were in the wrong place. A 28-year-old woman died. The racer, who participated in the incident, announced that he was dropping out of the competition.

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The keyword of these days is the "vertep". Now, in the eve of Christmas, in many cities and weights of Russia, and other Slavic countries, they show puppet performances with that name. Small figures on the wires are placed inside the Forest Box decorated by the Bethlehem star, which symbolizes the cave (in the old “vertep”), where Jesus Christ was born.

People's Artist of Russia, artistic director of the Moscow State Estrus Theater Gennady Khazanov.

A special program from the cycle "Peace to zero: preliminary results": "Personing" is dedicated to one of the most high -profile last year's scandals in the Russian Internet - an article by Alexander Podrabinek "as an anti -Soviet anti -Soviet." The program is attended by Alexander Podrabinek, Valeria Novodvorskaya, Daria Mitina.

In the Moscow Airport, Vnukovo, two aircraft collided during the steering wheel on take -off. According to RIA Novosti, the liner of the company "Vladavia", which flew to Vladivostok, hooked the tail of another aircraft. As a result of the incident, no one was injured. The departure was canceled, the passengers of the flight are located in the hotel.

In Transbaikalia, more than a hundred people are evacuated from a military town without heat, mostly women and children. In the region, the weather is abnormally cold, the air temperature reaches minus 50 degrees. On the eve of the New Year holidays, the boiler room failed - as a result, batteries burst in the houses, no water. Repair work is underway. Bourgules and heat guns were delivered to the town of military aircraft.

Marina Timasheva: in the studio - Alexander Samarina, head of the independent newspaper policy department, and Miguel Bas Fernandez, head of the Moscow Bureau of the Spanish Agency EFE . And today we are visiting - Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov. According to the rules of our transmission, I should read the biography of our hero, but I will not do this, because it seems to me this madness.