Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill expressed condolences to Patriarch of the Coptic Church Shenouda III in connection with the terrorist attack carried out on January 1 in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his message, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church stated that “the true intentions of the villains have nothing to do with religion.” According to Patriarch Kirill, the terrorist attacks are aimed at achieving political goals.

In the Moscow region, all transformer substations (TS) in 23 districts in the north and south of the region are connected. This is stated in a statement from the Moscow United Electric Grid Company.

In the United States, a law on the payment of compensation to victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks came into force. In total, about $4 billion will be paid to those wounded as a result of the terrorist attack, as well as to the liquidators of its consequences who received injuries. The BBC reports this. The corresponding law was signed today by United States President Barack Obama.

In the Republic of Ingushetia, a criminal has been put on the wanted list for firing a grenade launcher at a church in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) for the republic, there is an assumption that he fled in a VAZ-21140 car.

The European Union is obliged to respond unambiguously to the results of the Belarusian elections and the events that followed them, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in an interview with German media. According to him, Germany will not tolerate violations and manipulations in the recent presidential elections in Belarus. G. Westerwelle noted that he intends to get a clear response from the European Union to what is happening in this country, Deutsche Welle reports.

The key party in the Pakistani government, the Muttahida Quami Movement, is leaving the coalition, depriving the cabinet of ministers of the support of a parliamentary majority. Of the required 172 seats, only 147 were retained by pro-government forces. The party leaders are dissatisfied with the work of the government and therefore decided to leave it and join the opposition, the BBC reports.

The Lithuanian company Klaipedos nafta has announced an international competition to select a consultant for the construction of a liquefied gas terminal. As Lithuanian Energy Minister Arvydas Syakmokas emphasized in an interview with Lithuanian Radio, Vilnius was pushed to such a decision, among other things, by Gazprom’s refusal to reduce the price of gas. “We’ll see what happens to prices, but this is a real step to get gas not only from Gazprom,” he said. According to A.

In eastern Australia, 46 people were trapped in a cinema after a ceiling collapsed. All of them were rescued, Xinhua news agency reports. The incident occurred today in Bathurst, 100 km from Sydney. According to rescue services that arrived at the scene, the ceiling collapsed under the pressure of heavy rain. Rescuers determined the exact location of the victims using thermal cameras. Two helicopters were involved in the rescue operation.

The American online blog Business Insider has compiled a list of the 10 most anticipated gadgets and technological innovations, which should be released in 2011. Most of the expectations are related to Google. Recently, the company's vice president of mobile platforms, Andy Rubin, introduced a new tablet computer from Motorola running on the Google Android operating system. OS version - 2.3 (Gingerbread).

The Department of Social Development of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra has begun paying financial assistance to victims of the plane crash in Surgut. This was announced by the head of the operational headquarters for eliminating the consequences of the Tu-154 plane crash, Deputy Governor Vyacheslav Novitsky, the press service of the governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra reports.

A series of single pickets in support of the leaders of the Solidarity movement Ilya Yashin and Boris Nemtsov, who received 5 and 15 days of arrest respectively, are taking place today in Moscow. As stated in the Solidarity message, first the movement participants picketed the city hall building on Tverskaya, and then the special detention center where B. Nemtsov will serve his sentence. On January 2, the court found B. Nemtsov and I.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev canceled his official visit to Israel scheduled for January 17, 2011. According to representatives of the authorities of the Jewish state, the cancellation of the trip is due to a strike by employees of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Because of this action of diplomats, it was impossible to organize a program of meetings between the Russian leader and the authorities of the Middle Eastern state, reports Associated Press .

Moscow police detained about 20 supporters of the leader of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, who went out with single pickets to a pre-trial detention center on Simferopol Boulevard in the capital. This is where the politician is now, accused of resisting law enforcement officers during arrest. Earlier it was reported that B. Nemtsov was arrested for 15 days, and another opposition leader, Ilya Yashin, was sentenced to 5 days of arrest.

Former presidential candidate of Belarus Vitaly Rymashevsky was today released from the KGB pre-trial detention center on his own recognizance. According to the press service of the political organization "Belarusian Christian Democracy", V. Rymashevsky wrote an explanatory note addressed to the country's President Alexander Lukashenko.

The topic of summer fires became the main world event of 2010. for Russians (6%). Such data were obtained during a survey by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). Natural disasters and abnormal heat were also among the most significant moments of the outgoing year (5% and 4%, respectively).