Main News of January 14 Posted byRussian_Village January 14, 2013 Leave a comment on Main News of January 14 WORLD * US President Barack Obama said Congress must increase the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt limit quickly, warning that if it does not, the consequences would be “disastrous” * More than 4,200 convicts have been released from custody due to an amnesty declared on Independence Day last year, the Belarusian Interior Ministry said RUSSIA * Lawmakers rejected a petition urging them to lift Russia’s controversial ban on adoptions by American citizens, which was signed into law late last year * Opponents of a Kremlin-approved ban on US nationals adopting Russian children expressed anger at a state TV program that suggested they were betraying their homeland * Russia’s Justice Ministry denied registration to the country’s Pirate Party over gripes with its allegedly misleading title, the party said * A defender of a Moscow Region forest was beaten and hospitalized in the capital – an attack that his supporters said coincided with a crackdown on their efforts to save the local woodland from getting axed * A district court in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Region has ordered the seizure of real estate from a former official found guilty of fraud involving fighter jets for Syria, according to the court’s website