As a result of a catastrophic earthquake, tens of thousands of people could die as a result of a catastrophic earthquake. However, there is no exact information yet. According to Prime Minister Haiti, more than one hundred thousand people died in the country. Jean-Max Belriv said this in an interview with the American television channel CNN. According to President Haiti Rene Pereval, among the dead are the head of the UN mission in this country, but the UN is not yet able to confirm this.

The Chinese government is responsible for the formation of public opinion by the media on the Internet, - such a statement was made by the representative of the State Council of China Van Jong. He warned that in the Chinese Internet sector, materials that contribute to the spread of pornography, fraud and containing "unverified information" are not allowed.

In the north-west of Pakistan, ten militants were killed as a result of a missile strike from an unmanned American aircraft. Local television reported that among the dead there may be the leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimulla Mehsud. However, the representative of the Taliban movement stated that the Mehsud was not injured and left the base immediately before a missile blow.

In Dagestan, gas supply to consumers was completely restored, RIA Novosti was told in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. On Tuesday, an explosive device worked on the Mozdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. Without gas, there were residents of four districts and two cities in the south of the republic. On Thursday morning, the repair of the site was completed. According to representatives of the company Gazpromtransgaz-Makhachkala, more than 20 meters of pipe were replaced.

In 16 countries of the euro zones, the volume of industrial production during November increased by 1% - after a decline in October by 0.3%, the Department of Statistics of the European Union said. However, by the level of November 2008, it decreased by 6.4%. The volume of industrial production in 27 countries of the European Union as a whole increased in November by 0.9% after a decline in October by 0.7%.

The Russian government in the next three years intends to reduce the level of consumption of alcoholic beverages in the country by 15 %. This is stated in the new anti -alcohol concept published on the government website. It is assumed that by 2020 the illegal alcohol market should be eliminated in Russia, and the level of alcohol consumption per capita will be reduced more than doubled. In addition, the share of strong drinks should decrease in the structure of alcoholic consumption.

It so happened that this year on the most lazy day - on Sunday - in the evenings a new program "Class hour of freedom" will be released, about education. From this word, education, in most people, reduces the cheekbones from boredom, some have their hands sweat or the paint flies their face.

The capital of Haiti Port-O-Prens is almost completely destroyed. Up to half a million who died; Such numbers are operated on by the authors of publications about the largest humanitarian catastrophe of the decade - an earthquake in Haiti. The exact number of victims is still unknown, however, the already known disaster scale forced the majority of the world community countries to react as quickly as possible.

Russia will in every possible way contribute to the speedy normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who on Thursday held negotiations in Yerevan with the head of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan. Lavrov noted that he considers it incorrect to link the process of normalizing Armenian-Turkish ties with settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Biathlon. World Cup. 5th stage. Rupolding (Germany) Men. Sprint 10 km 1. Emil Hegle Svenden (Norway) 2. Ole Ainar Bjorndalen (Norway) 3. Michael Graice (Germany) The best of the Russians, Ivan Cherezov, showed the 7th result. In the overall standings ahead of Evgeny Ustyugov (Russia)

Marina Timasheva: Chekhov forever made his way to the anniversaries. But, those times - 150 years from the date of his own birth. The Berlin Theater teacher and director Yuri Alshits, who once studied at the famous directorial course of Vasiliev, where “6 characters” played, timed to the Jubilee of Chekhov an unusual international campaign, about which he told Yuri Veksler. Yuri Alshits: 150 years since Chekhov's birth.

The aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies with specialists and airplane state -owned on board flew out in Haiti to assist the victims of the catastrophic earthquake. The number of victims of a spontaneous disaster, which almost completely destroyed the capital of the country of Port-O-Prens, is estimated at tens of thousands. A number of officials indicate more than one hundred thousand dead.

Latvia put the city of Scrunda-1, the former secret air defense facility of the Russian army, the Radio Liberty correspondent Mikhail Bombin reports. According to the author of the Bayba Brede project, the starting price of the town of Skrund -1, the code name "plant", - 300 thousand dollars.

Hunger victims in Ukraine, 1933 The Kyiv Court of Appeal made a decision in the case of mass hunger in Ukraine in 1932-33, finding the seven leaders of the Bolshevik totalitarian regime guilty of the genocide of the Ukrainian people. For almost eight months, the Ukrainian Security Service has investigated a criminal case on the fact of the Holodomor in Ukraine in the early thirties of the past century .

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko sent a letter to his Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev with the presentation of the position of the Belarusian side on the issue of oil supply. At the end of last year, consultations on the conditions of oil supply began between Minsk and Moscow, but the three rounds of negotiations were unsuccessful.