Explosion in Beirut, December 29, 2013 At least five people were killed in the capital of Lebanon Beirut today, including the former Minister of Finance, Mohammed Shutti. According to the Lebanese Red Cross, at least 15 people were injured. The bomb exploded on the path of the court of shuttach, who was heading for a meeting with representatives of the Syrian opposition.

Tatarstan. Zuhra Valiullina is the mother of Ravil Mingazov, a prisoner of Guantanamo. Naberezhnye Chelny. October 22, 2013 The Russian delegation will go to the American base of Guantanamo on January 17 to meet with prisoner Ravil Mingazov, a Russian citizen. This was stated "Interfax" by the Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Human Rights Konstantin Dolgov. According to him, Ravil Mingazov has been contained there without trial and investigation for 10 years.

Beatered journalist Tatyana Chornovil in the hospital The third suspect in the attack on the journalist of Ukrainian Pravda Tatyana Chornovil was detained in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Sergey Kotenko was put on the wanted list on December 25. The names of the other two detainees are not reported. Earlier, the department stated that one of the suspects owned a company, which was controlled by TVI television company.

The press conference of Nadezhda Toloconnikova and Maria Alekhina promises to become the main information event of Friday, although, as it seems, by and large all their important statements by Pussy Riot participants have already made. The "Freedom Zone" will become a new sphere of application of the forces of a punk-musical man who has been exposed to the law enforcement officers. We’ll talk about this in the program.

At the scene of the An-12 under Irkutsk At the crash site of the An-12 cargo aircraft near Irkutsk, the bodies of all nine dead and on-board recorders were found. They are inside the aircraft, the Ministry of Emergencies reported. Immediately after the disaster, the bodies of the five victims were discovered. Families of the dead will be paid compensation for one million rubles, said the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Eroshchenko.

We summarize the results of 2013 with political scientists Mark Urnov, Andrei Piontkovsky, Valery Khomyakov and philosopher Igor Chubais.

The son of Prime Minister Erdogan Bilal and his bride chatting with the Prime Minister of Italy Berlusconi after the wedding, 2003 The Turkish court blocked on Friday the government’s attempt to force the police to disclose the investigation against his senior leadership, thus chopping attempts by Prime Minister Erdogan to control the consequences of a loud corruption scandal. It is reported by Reuters.

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Recep Erdogan The Turkish government is paralyzed by a corruption scandal. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan considers him a conspiracy of all his enemies combined In Turkey, on the eve of the New Year, a large-scale political crisis erupted, caused by the largest corruption scandal in the country's recent history, due to which ten key ministers were resigned.

In the capital of Lebanon Beirut on Friday, a strong explosion occurred. There are dead and wounded, but their exact number is not reported. According to information agencies, among the dead, the former Minister of Finance of the country Mohammed Shatt. It is reported that the explosion was heard in all parts of the city. A black cloud was formed above the business area near the Phoenica Hotel. Emergency vehicles arriving at the scene of the incident take the wounded.

The Chinese icebreaker is approaching the place where the Russian ship "Academician Shokalsky" was stuck in the ice of Antarctica. According to the Australian seaside service, it is expected that the Chinese ship Snow Dragon will reach the Academician of Shokalsky on Friday evening or Saturday. The Russian cruise vessel, on board of which there are 74 people, stuck in the ice on December 25, about 180 kilometers from the Antarctic coast.

Human rights activists claim that the bill prepared by the Federal Drug Control Service is more aimed at combating NGOs than with drug dealers. The leader of the “For Human Rights” movement Lev Ponomarev believes that the FSKN, who herself is engaged in the dark cases for which human rights activists criticize her, decided to simply come up with another obstacle for NGOs.

Greenpeace activist Dmitry Litvinov and his wife leave Petersburg Foreign activists and members of the crew of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sanraise are leaving Russia. According to the director of the Greenpeace of Russia programs Ivan Blokov, 5-7 people have already left, but the organization does not specifically advertise their departure so as not to create a stir.