Low pressure on Europe Last weekend, Hurricane Erwin swept across Northern Europe - from Ireland to Russia. It originated over the Atlantic and at first looked like an ordinary winter cyclone. Such areas of low atmospheric pressure, moving from west to east, bring rain, snow and strong winds to Europe. But this time, instead of the usual bad weather, a powerful storm came to the Old World, tearing roofs off buildings and flooding dozens of settlements.

"Prevention" of the Bashkir police interested the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and human rights activists A loud scandal that erupted a month ago in the small Bashkir city of Blagoveshchensk has received a new development. In early December, local police, after an attack by hooligans on a patrol squad, carried out a “preventive operation” there, immediately detaining, according to official data, about 500 people.

Russian intelligence services have identified the alleged organizer of last year's terrorist attacks. The same sabotage group was behind most of the terrorist attacks carried out in Russian cities last year. This conclusion, as Vremya Novostei learned, was reached by intelligence officers.