Market indices on Wall Street reached new record marks on the last day of 2013. This year has become the best for investors in almost two decades. The Dow Jones index, reflecting the cost of shares of the 30 largest US companies in different industries, ended 2013 at a historically high mark - 16,576.66. Over the past 12 months, the Dow Jones increase amounted to 27 percent. This is the highest rate of growth of the shares included in it since 1995.

The court in Minsk found two citizens of Belarus guilty of espionage in favor of Lithuania and sentenced one of them - only his surname Kachura is known - by eight years and the second, by the name of Fenzelu, to ten years in prison. This was announced on Tuesday by the State Security Committee of Belarus. Both convicts were arrested in March 2012. Other details are not reported. Official comments on the part of Vilnius have not yet been received.

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Picket participant in support of Ilya Farber - poet Lev Rubinstein The court in Tver will today consider the application for the parole of the rural teacher Ilya Farber. He was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of receiving a bribe and abuse of powers. The process in the teacher’s case caused a wide public outcry. Farber himself claims that the case against him is fabricated.

Ilya Farber The court in Tver granted the petition for the parole of the rural teacher Ilya Farber, sentenced to three years in a colony on charges of bribe. This was reported in Twitter by journalists in the courtroom. Earlier, the prosecutor and the administration of the pre -trial detention center supported the petition. Farber told reporters that after liberation he wanted to engage in human rights activities.

Protodiacon Andrey Kuraev Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev was expelled from the teaching staff and excluded from among the professors of the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy (MDA) in connection with his public speaking, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the academy website.

City trolleybus in which an explosion occurred on December 30 From the hospitals of Volgograd, seven people were discharged on Tuesday, injured as a result of explosions in the building of the railway station and in a trolleybus. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Olga Golodets, now 62 victims remain in the hospitals of Volgograd and Moscow.

Anastasia Rybachenko The lawyer of the accused in the "Swamp case" Anastasia Rybachenko filed a motion to terminate her criminal prosecution in connection with amnesty. Rybachenko wrote about this today on her Facebook page. Anastasia Rybachenko’s activist of the Solidarity movement was charged with participating in the riots on May 6, 2012 on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. She was put on the international wanted list.

Fourteen minutes forty -eight seconds, Pavel Pechenkin’s response to the call of his parents to return from the militants home lasts. He sits in a hat, dressed in a good sweater of khaki, with nylon shoulders - these are worn by the American military. He speaks with a rooster, fussily, like a three -year -old, falling to a piece of paper with quotes, against the background of a panel with inscriptions from the Qur'an.

In 2013, the final release of the Freedom Time program was aired 259 times - every day -time day. Together with my colleagues - correspondents, editors, producers of Radio Liberty, thousands of experts and guests of the program from dozens of different cities and countries - I tried to keep you in the know of current events and present different views and points of view on these events. Summing up the results of 2013, we will change professional optics: let's talk about trends.

The number of victims of two terrorist attacks in Volgograd increased to 33, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports. Last night, one of the victims died in the hospital as a result of the explosion on Sunday at the railway station. Also, according to the updated lists, to 15 the number of those killed with a terrorist attack in a trolley on December 30 increased. Local authorities reported that all the dead were identified. 65 wounded are in hospitals, including three children.

As expected, Ilya Farber will be released on January 10 The court in Tver granted the request for the parole of the rural teacher Ilya Farber Ilya Farber will be released no earlier than 10 days - this is the deadline for a possible appeal of the sentence. However, the appeal is unlikely to take place, since representatives of the prosecutor's office and the Federal Penitentiary Service supported the U -UFSIN.

Inflation in 2013, according to the preliminary estimates of Rosstat, amounted to six and a half percent, and the December increase in prices - half a percent. These data were obtained as a result of analysis of prices for basic goods and services in almost three hundred cities of Russia. It is expected that official final inflation data in 2013 will be published on January 9, 2014. The Ministry of Economic Development earlier warned that inflation will be higher than the previous calculations.

The prosecutor and the administration of the pre-trial detention center supported the request for the parole of the rural teacher Ilya Farber, sentenced to three years in the colony on charges of bribe. This was reported on Twitter by the correspondent of the Rain television channel Margarita Zhuravlev. The judge retired to make a decision. The process in the teacher’s case caused a wide public outcry. Farber himself claims that the case against him is fabricated.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, the detention of participants in opposition shares in defense of the freedom of meetings was carried out. In the Russian capital, on the Triumphal Square, about 30 activists were detained, including the leader of the unregistered party "Other Russia", writer Eduard Limonov. Civil activist Ildar Dadin wrote on Facebook, which was beaten in a car carrier. According to the Grani.ru, activists of Nadir Fatov and Yuri Chaldaev were also beaten.