A request will be sent to the UN Security Council to send about two thousand peacekeepers to the cat-d'Ivoir. The head of the UN peacekeeping department, Alain Le Rua, who reported this on Wednesday, expressed the hope that the additional contingent will be deployed in the cat-d'Ivoire in the next few weeks-to protect the opposition leader Alassan Wattara and his supporters.

In St. Petersburg, as elsewhere in Russia, in the coming year, prices for everything are increasing: for beer and cigarettes, buckwheat and bread, other food products, rents, the cost of travel in public transport, and, as the omniscient economists report, until the middle of the coming year, at least, the prices for products and services of the population will increase. An ordinary, average Russian, had not yet managed to realize to what extent all these raises would hit his wallet.

Chess. Tournament in Revio Emilia, Italy Final position: Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan), Francisco Valiero (Spain) - 6 points each Sergey Movsesyan (Slovakia), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), David Navara (Czech Republic) - 5 each Vugar Hashimov won the tournament on additional indicators

WTA tournament. Auckland. Quarterfinals Greta Arn (Hungary) - Maria Sharapova (Russia) - 6: 2, 7: 5 ATR. Doha. The second circle Nikolai Davydenko (Russia) - Yarkko Nyeminen (Finland) - 6: 4, 7: 5 Victor Troitski (Serbia) - Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) - 6: 3, 6: 1

Yulia Tymoshenko in court, where a decision is made by Yuri Lutsenko In Ukraine, the court rejected the complaint of the accused in the waste of the state property of the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Lutsenko. At least until March he will be in custody. At large, the defendant of two criminal cases remains ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Is it possible to arrest the main Ukrainian opposition ?

The former governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Peter Sumin on Thursday night, died in the hospital after a long illness. It is reported that he was 64 years old. Peter Sumin led the region since December 1996. In April 2010, the third term of his powers ended, after which he decided not to apply for a new governor's term.

Stories continues with the opposition arrested on December 19-20 in Minsk, on December 31 - in Moscow; Stories continue with new oppositionists - former government officials who are detained and called for interrogations in Kyiv. The coincidence of various political processes and circumstances, but you can see in different and general, East Slavic.

Two premieres - Donald Tusk and Vladimir Putin In 2011, the next replaceable chairmen of the European Union-Hungary and Poland. On the first New Year's Day, Hungary occupied the presidential chair, and the leadership of this country is faced with sharp criticism from the EU partners in connection with a violation of democratic freedoms due to the adoption of a new law on the press .

The next initiative of the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko, who proposed to discuss the issue of canceling the right of parents to refuse vaccinations for their children, has become one of the main topics of discussion on the Russian Internet. Onishchenko said that he discussed with the Ombudsman on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov the issue of legislative initiative. The argument of the chief sanitary doctor is this: "What is a child? A citizen of Russia.

In the city of Omakh (Nepobraska), the son of a police investigator opened firing at school, mortally wounding the deputy director and plunging students into panic. The shooting, as reported, studied at this school over the past two months. Leaving the crime scene, he shot at the school principal and wounded him, then ran to his car, where he shot himself. The killer was 17-year-old Robert Batler.

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Poland asks the United States to provide financial assistance to Belarusian dissidents - in conditions when Minsk exerts pressure on opposition activists. The Ambassador of Poland to the United States Robert merchants in an interview with Associated Press compared the struggle of the Belarusian democratic activists with the struggle of the Polish Movement "Solidarity", which opposed the communist regime.

In Moscow, single pickets continue in support of the administrative arrest of opposition politicians. According to Radio Liberty, the coordinator of the Left Front movement Sergei Udaltsov, about 40 people entered the square in front of the Moscow City Hall, who, replacing each other, stand in a picket with a demand to release the arrested. According to Udaltsov, today the police do not allow provocateurs from the pro -Kremlin youth movements to join single pickets.

Boris Nemtsov, detained on December 31, 2010, is still in conclusion Mikhail Sokolov: Today, in our Moscow studio, the co -chair of the Party of People's Freedom Vladimir Ryzhkov, a member of the Bureau of Movement "Solidarity" Ilya Yashin and a member of the "Committee of five Requirements", one of the activists of the Federation of Russian car owners Alexei Nekrasov.