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From January 1, 2015, Russia stops the design of three -day tourist visas for visiting the Kaliningrad region. The Interfax agency reporting this cites the words of the director of the Kaliningrad Tourist Agency "The Seasons Plus" Irina Litvinovich. She believes that such a decision will not affect the entrance tourist flow, since foreigners who came with short -term visas were, according to her, “very few”.

New Year's Eve in Grozny, January 1, 2015 In Chechnya, two participants in the illegal armed formation were killed, involved in the seizure of the Press House in Grozny in early December last year. This was announced by the National Anti -Terrorism Committee.

Kim Jong -un - leader of North Korea The leader of North Korea Kim Jong -un expressed readiness for the highest level negotiations with South Korea for the sake of weakening tension between two neighboring states. Kim Jong -un announced this in the New Year's appeal to the people. The last meeting of the leaders of the Korean People's Democratic Republic and South Korea took place in Pyongyang in 2007.

Syria recall the victims of the Civil War on New Year's Eve (Aleppo, December 31, 2014) Last year, more than 76 thousand people became victims of the Civil War in Syria, almost half of them are civilians, including more than three and a half thousand children. Such data are given by a group of Syrian human rights activists based in the UK and monitoring the situation in their homeland.

“Your letters” is one of the oldest programs of Radio “Freedom”. As usual, by the New Year, Anatoly Shotan, its author and presenter, collected excerpts from the programs that sounded during the year. This is the most striking and characteristic of what our mail brought. There is something to remember, there is something to think about once again, there is something to smile on.

Says German Chancellor Angela Merkel

French drone (drone) on the show of these aircraft in Bordeaux, September 2014 Controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) allowed people to look at the world in a new way Not so long ago, these aircraft were almost exclusively in the leadership of the military. But recently, everything has changed, and unmanned planes, or drones , have become widespread-the simplest and cheapest costs less than $ 50 and you can purchase it in online stores, like any other product.

Foreign Minister Serbia Ivitsa Dachich Serbia - in the order of rotation - from January 1, headed the organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In an interview with the Balkan Service Radio, Foreign Minister Serbia Ivitsa Dachich said that during the period of his chairmen in the OSCE, the main priority will be a de -escalation of the conflict in the east of Ukraine.

Many decades ago, when the sky was higher, and the world was still in a new product, I celebrated the change of the year with the then friends in the cheerful Moscow company, and at the clock by two night those who were still on their feet found that cigarettes were dried up.