Tel Aviv According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, the closing of the embassy is a response step on the similar decision of Israel Belarus covers its embassy in Israel-in response to the same actions of Tel Aviv, the commentary of the official representative of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Mironchik said on Thursday.

Murmansk, January 2016 The regional authorities claim that there is nothing unusual in the interruptions in gas supply In Murmanoblagaz, they cannot name the exact number of houses of the regional center, which were left without gas supply. Interruptions in gas supply began on Christmas Eve, January 6 in the morning, in several areas of the city. In recent days, the air temperature fell to minus 38, and even the non -freezing Kola Bay was covered with a small crust of ice.

At the end of last year, Kyiv and representatives of the self -proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR" concluded the so -called "Christmas truce" The Ukrainian military said that over the past day the pro -Russian separatists set the “post -day record” in violation of the silence regime, firing their positions more than 50 times. According to the press center of the operation of the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, the separatists fired from small arms, grenade launchers and mortars.

For the first time since December 2014, the rate fell below 75 rubles per dollar. “The market devalizes it twice as fast as it should have been with such a fall in oil prices” World oil prices have again fallen to 12-year minimums. The last time the Brent barrel cost $ 32, like on Thursday, January 7, only in April 2004.

After the next bombing of the capital of Yemen Sana (December 30, 2015) These accusations were made against the background of the escalation of tension in relations between the countries of the Middle East after the execution of the Shiite clergyman in Saudi Arabia Iran intends to submit a protest to the UN Security Council in connection with the inflammation of the Iranian embassy in Yemen by Saudi aircraft.

The new concept of patriotic education uses the educational ideology of the time of the Chancellor Bismarck Subjected by the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on New Year's days, the state concept of patriotic education for 2016–2020 caused a variety of assessments and living disputes . This document, designed in the harsh traditionalist and preserving vocabulary, follows the practice of the government work of past years, which comes to the stationery term "Gospatriot Program" .

The military patrols the territory around the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God - as part of security measures after the attacks on November 13 The attacker shot, a knife was found on his body Exactly a year after the terrorist attack in the editorial office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, an attack on the police station was made. The attacker was shot by the police .

Against this background, the ruble also fell: at the auction on Wednesday, the dollar exceeded 75 rubles Oil prices at auction on January 7 collapsed below 34 dollars per barrel, reaching the minimum values since April 2004. Brent oil was traded on the exchange around the mark of $ 33.4 per barrel. During the trading session, its cost fell to $ 33.2 per barrel. Per day, Brent fell by about 8 percent against the background of a collapse in the Chinese stock market.

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Head of Crimea annexed by Russia Sergey Aksenov At the end of November, an emergency regime annexed by Russia was introduced-due to the cessation of electricity supplies from Ukraine The emergency regime in Crimea annexed by Russia will be valid until May 1, 2016, the head of the republic Sergey Aksenov said on Thursday.

Swissotel Hotel in Kazan Since December 30, the hotel does not book and does not sell rooms. Economic sanctions against Turkey entered into force on January 1 The Moscow Hotel Swissotel Red Hills, which belongs to the Turkish construction company ENKA, suspended work due to sanctions imposed by Russia in relation to Turkey.

Alexander Bastrykin For Alexander Grigoriev from the village of Miasskoye, the preventive measure was replaced with a written undertaking not to leave the place - as a father of two children In the Chelyabinsk region, hunter Alexander Grigoriev, who shot four fellow villagers on New Year's Eve, was released from arrest; his preventive measure was changed to a written undertaking not to leave the place.