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In five districts of Kosovo today, repeated elections to the parliament are held. The results of the first after the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Elections carried out in December, in these areas were fully or partially canceled - due to numerous violations. The new vote is closely monitored by international observers. The European Union warned that new attempts of falsifications could harm the international reputation of Kosovo.

At least 50 out of 105 passengers and crew members, who were on board the aircraft broken in the north-west, survived. This was reported by the Iranian news agency FARS with reference to the representative of the Iranian Emergency Department. The plane, which followed from Tehran, crashed near the city of Urmia on Sunday evening. According to the local ISNA news agency, the crash of Boeing 727 belonged to the Iran Air state airline. The disaster occurred in a thick fog.

A rally in Moscow on the triumphal, where Cyril Manulin could not get. December 31, 2010 The activist of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Kirill Manulin, detained on December 31, was released after 8 days of arrest. He was arrested with the party leader Eduard Limonov, when he was heading for a rally in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution on Triumphal Square. Limonov himself was sentenced to 15 days of arrest.

US Minister of Defense Robert Gates US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is starting a three -day visit to China today. At meetings with Chinese leaders, including the chairman of the PRC Hu Jintao, the issues of strategic cooperation between countries, including in the military sector, will be discussed. The United States is interested in the resumption of joint military exercises, which the Chinese side refused last year - in protest against Washington’s sale Taiwanu weapons.

Political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky The tragedy with probable political subtext occurred on January 8 in the American state of Arizona . The young man opened shooting at the participants in the mass meeting with the participation of a representative of this state from the Democratic Party in the lower house of Congress Gabriel Giffords . As a result of shooting, six people died. 12 - wounded, including Giffords itself. The situation is analyzed by political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky .

In Genoa, a mentally unbalanced 70 -year -old resident shot two neighbors on Sunday, killed his wife, after which he committed suicide, - the Radio Liberty correspondent Vsevolod Gnetius. The 70-year-old pensioner Carlo Trabon, a native of the Sicilian city of Kaltanissett, came to the bar in the morning, where Sicilian countrymen usually gathered on Sundays.

In the Tatar Strait and on the southwestern coast of Sakhalin, the searches of the Partner schooner and fishermen from it continue for the third day. Today, the rescue service helicopter continues the area of the district, from where the distress signal was given. Several ships participate in the sea in the search operation. The regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that no traces of shipwreck have yet been found.

2 people were killed and four were hospitalized as a result of a fire in one of the hostels of Novosibirsk. 46 people were evacuated. According to the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the fire began on Sunday night in the Zaeltsovsky district of Novosibirsk. Open -open fire was eliminated. The cause of the fire is established.

The keyword of this week, and the previous one too, is "light." This is the message sounded on the waves of Radio Freedom on January 6: - In the suburbs, more than two thousand people are left without light . Work on the restoration of energy supply is carried out in forty -eight settlements. Similar reports come from one of the main benefits of civilization of territories daily. And here is the question to the professor of Moscow State University linguist Igor Miloslavsky .

ATR. Chennai. Final Stanislav Vavrinka (Switzerland) - Xavier Maliss (Belgium) - 7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 1

-In the Tatar Strait today, the search for the schooner "Partner" will continue, which gave a distress signal two days ago. According to ITAR-TASS, during rescue and search work on Saturday no traces of the vessel were found. At the same time, there is no evidence of shipwreck. According to Rosrybolovst, the ship is not equipped with a positioning system, which complicates search work. The schooner walks under the flag of Cambodia. The composition of its crew includes 14 citizens of Russia.

Gabrielle Giffords A number of famous politicians condemned the attack on a member of the US Congress Gabrielle Giffords and its supporters in the American state of Arizona. German Foreign Minister Gido Westerwell said that he was “shocked”. In Cuba, Fidel Castro said that even despite his disagreements with the US President Barack Obama, he could not come to terms with the “absurd and unfair” death of people.

In the West, Guatemalas killed 14 people as a result of the accident, and at least 50 were injured. This was reported by the authorities of the country. The accident occurred on Saturday near the city of San Markos, when the bus, having lost control, fell into a 50-meter abyss. The bus was driving the former Guatemal military who took part in the forest restoration project.

As a result of a large car accident, 2 people died on the Moscow ring road and three more were injured. Reportedly, on Sunday night on the outside of the Moscow Ring Road near the congress on the Ryazan highway, 5 cars collided. Rescue work is underway at the scene of the accident. The movement of vehicles is limited. The reason for the incident is established.