Russia will provide Belarus with a loan of $ 450 million. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the draft relevant agreement with the Belarusian government and ordered to start negotiations with Minsk on its signing. The loan will be provided in 2014 at 4 percent per annum - provided that Belarus will fulfill all the obligations to maintain its main debt of Russia, as well as the duty of the EurAsEC .

In the city of Lobnya near Moscow, on Thursday, a woman-police officer shot himself from an official pistol. The district police officer arrived for duty and, having received a service weapon - Makarov’s gun, went into her office, where she shot himself. It is reported by "Interfax." The incident occurred in the morning, at the beginning of the working day. The captain of the police, whose name is not called, was 25 years old.

Poster in support of Sergei Mokhnatkina Opposition activist was arrested until March 1 after the rally December 31 Civil activist Sergei Mokhnatkin opened a criminal case of beating a policeman. He was detained in Moscow on December 31 during the dispersal of the Strategy-31 campaign a few hours before the New Year. That evening, 28 people fell into the pre -trial detention center, including the leader of the unregistered party "Another Russia" Eduard Limonov.

The Chinese icebreaker "Xuelun", heading to the aid of the Russian ship "Academician Shokalsky", closed in the ice The evacuation of passengers from the Russian vessel "Academician Shokalsky", clamped in the ice off the coast of Antarctica, began, Interfax reports. As the head of the expedition Chris Terni wrote on Twitter, a Chinese helicopter arrived at the place.

Ariel Sharon In recent days, the health status of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma, has sharply worsened. According to Israeli radio, doctors and relatives of the 85-year-old ex-Prime Minister discuss how to continue his treatment. According to Israeli media, Sharon suffers from renal failure. Ariel Sharon in January 2006 suffered a stroke, after which he fell into a coma and was connected to an artificial respiration apparatus.

President Putin visits the wounded during explosions in the hospital in Volgograd The state of five out of 62 victims as a result of terrorist attacks in Volgograd remains extremely serious, reports Interfax. In the hospitals of Volgograd and Volzhsk there are 44 people. Another 18 victims are treated in Moscow clinics, including two girls - three months and nine years old. Doctors evaluate their condition as stably serious. In the Volgograd region today is the fourth day of mourning.

Residents of the city of Bor leave him, fleeing the battles. In South Sudan, on Thursday, the battles continued, despite the previously announced desire of the warring parties to begin peace negotiations. Representatives of the army command said that government forces were moving to the city of Bor. Last Tuesday, the army receded from this city - under the onslaught of anti -government armed detachments.

Cossacks participate in the roads and transport in the Volgograd Region. January 2, 2014 In Volgograd, an investigation of the circumstances of two terrorist attacks continues, the victims of which were 34 people and more than 60 were injured on December 29 and 30. The next message of the investigating authorities suggests that suicide bombers who made explosions at the station and in a trolley arrived in the city from the North Caucasus.

At the site of the explosion in Beirut at the headquarters of Hzbollah, January 2, 2014 In the explosion in the capital of Lebanon Beirut, five people died, at least 20 were injured. The mined car exploded in the south of the city in a crowded trade quarter, not far from the headquarters of the Shiite radical group "Hezbollah".

Given the events of the last month and the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi, it is especially difficult to predict what will happen in Russia in 2014. If we talk in particular about science, then here the situation is as vague as possible: the law on the reform of the Academy of Sciences has been adopted, but no one understands how it will be embodied.

In the city of Blad-Ruz in the Iraqi province of Dyala, at least 12 people were killed in a mined car, another 25 were injured. The Blad-Ruz is located 50 kilometers southeast of the city of Baakub, the administrative center of the province. On Thursday, Iraq received reports on the capture of several regions in the cities of Falluj and Ramadi in the west of the country with armed formations. Fights in the province of Anbar broke out on Monday after the police dispersed the protesters camp.

Firefighters examine the residence of the Palestinian ambassador, who died in the explosion of a safe In the residence of the Palestinian ambassador in Prague, Jamal al-Jamal, who died on Wednesday with an explosion of a safe, found a large number of weapons. This was reported by Reuters by the Czech Police Representative Andrea Zoulov. According to the Czech weekly Respekt, the rifles found would be enough for weapons of a detachment of 10 people. All weapons are illegally imported.

Senkaku Islands Employees of the Japanese coastal security saved the Chinese aeronaut who tried to land on one of the controversial islands in the East China Sea. It is reported that on Wednesday the Japanese ship picked up a 35-year-old citizen of China that fell into the sea 20 kilometers from these islands. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the victim is an amateur of air sports and that he was handed over to the Chinese side. It is noted that the state of health of a man is normal.

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In the west of India, at least 27 people were killed during the bus accident and 17 were injured. It is reported that the bus fell in a gorge with a depth of 80 meters. According to police, the driver lost control after he collided with another bus. The disaster occurred near the popular tourist space in the city of Than in the state of Maharastra. According to the Indian authorities, in 2012, as a result of an accident in India, about 140 thousand people were killed.