For more than two months, about 50 Georgian families who were on the street because they could not pay for housing live in an abandoned building that once served as a railway hospital. Trying to draw attention to their fate, they arranged demonstrations, announced hunger strikes and sewn their mouths. Ultimately, the Tbilisi authorities allowed them to stay in the building for a while. But this problem did not receive a final solution.

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Another, for the third year of the debt crisis in Europe, has ended for the eurozone without losses in its own rows, although repeatedly predicted. It still unites 17 countries. Among many events of 2012, in the European Union, one can distinguish those that, in our opinion, especially contributed to this.

Children celebrate the arrival of the New Year in Zelenogorsk The American press makes assumptions how events will develop in the world in 2013. In 2013, the regime of Bashar al-Assad will fall, and the Syrian leader himself will be killed-such a prediction for the New Year makes the magazine The Atlantic, which writes that already in May or June, Assad can kill militants from the Jabat-al-Nusra group.

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03 January 2013 fresh from above 19:32 3.1.2013 Thursday, January 3, was held in some kind of emotional fork. On the one hand, Depardieu suddenly became a Russian citizen (and here I recall, of course, Bender: “... Listen, Shura, if you have finally switched to French, then call me not a mosier, but a situation, which means a citizen ...”).

Members of the House of Representatives leave the building after voting under a law that prevents a "fiscal cliff". “Long -term tax benefits for the middle class, inheritance tax benefits and dividends, a five -year restriction on tax discounts for low -income families. More than 60 percent of the Republicans voted against these measures in the House of Representatives.

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