The St. Petersburg mayor does not encourage playing snowballs 07 January 2013 fresh from above 21:05 7.1.2013 We will summarize . In St. Petersburg, the police dispersed the flash mob. The Moscow "Gide Park" law entered into force. Bishkek quarrels with Tashkent. In China - protests against censorship. In India, there is a trial of rapists. Hugo Chavez, obviously, will not fall on his own inauguration on January 10. And the Orthodox celebrate Christmas. Happy holiday to those who are important!

Alexander Genis: New Year begins with the tragedy, which has completed the old one. The shooting of children in the Connecticut school finally shifted the US public opinion from a dead point. Nothing, except perhaps the problem of abortion, does not share the country as the attitude to its private arsenal. Half of the Americans holds weapons in the house and is not going to part with it.

The main ideological accent of Christmas holidays in Russia was the call of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril to the citizens of the country to more actively adopt orphans. Obviously, this was done in the context of the law adopted by Russia in December to ban the adoption of Russian orphans by US citizens.

Milt Jackson (left) From the “City of Motors” to MJQ He was born on the first of January. The maternity hospital was in the capital of the automobile industry - Detroit. This town was also the birthplace of many jazzmen, because at the factories of the “city of motors”, as it was also called, the African Americans worked, and it was jazz that was their music.

Celebration of the Nativity of Christ Christmas and Russian Orthodox Tsekv. Barack Obama and permutation in the American government. The end of the Lokout in the NHL and the prospects of European hockey. Andrey Shary I.O. Regional Director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for Russian -Sound Content Andrey Shary on Facebook Sharya@rferl.org

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Christmas and Russian Orthodox Tsekv. Barack Obama and permutation in the American government. The end of the Lokout in the NHL and the prospects of European hockey.