Ilya Farber at a court hearing to consider the application for parole The rural teacher Ilya Farber was released on parole from the investigative insulator, having spent two years and four months in prison on charges of a bribe, a representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service told reporters. On December 31, the court in Tver granted the request for the parole. Today, the ten -day period of appeal of this decision has expired.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Berlin The trip of Mikhail Khodorkovsky to Israel is private and will not last long, the press secretary of the former head of Yukos Olga Pispanen told Interfax. Earlier about Khodorkovsky’s arrival in Israel, the local press wrote. According to her, Khodorkovsky may meet with former Yukos partners living in Israel Leonid Nevznlin and Vladimir Dubov.

US President Barack Obama on Friday announced a state of emergency in the state of West Virginia, where the chemicals were leaked on the eve, due to which 300 thousand people lost access to drinking water. This was reported by the Washington correspondent of Radio Liberty. The leak occurred at one of the factories in the area in the capital of Charleston. As a result, a significant amount of 4-methylcyxane methanol-substances used in the coal industry got into the river.

Ilya Farber in court The rural teacher Ilya Farber, sentenced to three years in prison for a bribe, will be released by parole today. The day before, his son Peter wrote on Twitter: “Tomorrow, January 10, 2014, the pope will be released from the pre-trial detention center-1 of Tver, presumably in the first half of the day. See you in Tver! " On December 31, the court in Tver granted the request for the parole . Today, the ten -day period of appeal of this decision expires.

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Record frosts in North America led to the fact that the Niagara waterfall partially froze. From afar, it seems that the most powerful waterfall of North America - its height about 53 meters - completely stuck. Some streams turned into giant icicles. But upon closer examination, jets of water are visible. This is an extremely rare natural phenomenon: the waterfall was transferred to the ice block only twice - in 1848 and 1912. Due to the cold, the Niagara River partially froze.

The US citizen returned home after he spent nine months in prison in the United Arab Emirates for participating in the creation of a satirical video. Since June last year, 29-year-old Chezzan Kassim has been kept in a maximum security prison in Abu Dhabi. He was accused of damaging the image of the UAE abroad. In a parody video widespread on the Internet in October 2012, the lifestyle of youth in the UAE is ridiculed. The verdict in this case was issued in December last year.

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The decision of the district court of Tver on the parole of Ilya Farber entered into legal force on Friday, January 10, the teacher and former director of the rural club Ilya Farber was released after the decision of the Moscow District Court of Tver on his conventional release, issued on December 31, 2013, has entered into legal force. In total, in the conclusion in the resonant case, Farber spent exactly two years and four months.

Iraqi problems are still in the spotlight of the American authorities Against the backdrop of a deterioration in the situation in Iraq in the United States, disputes on the scale of assistance to the government of this country continue The deterioration of the situation in Iraq has become the subject of political disputes in Washington.