On Wednesday evening, traffic on Moscow roads was paralyzed. The Yandex.Traffic service assessed traffic congestion as a maximum of 10 points. “And here are 10 points in Moscow! Without any snow,” a message appeared on the service’s microblog on Twitter. According to Yandex.Traffic" as of 19.00, the Garden Ring was almost completely jammed, and large traffic jams and difficulties arose on the Third Transport Ring.

The Moscow City Duma approved in the first reading a bill on voluntary testing of high school students and students in Moscow for drug use, Interfax reports .

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that money from the National Welfare Fund should be invested in Russian securities. This can be done from 2013, when, according to economists, the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund together will amount to 9% of GDP. First, we can talk about investments worth up to 100 billion rubles. Putin instructed the Ministry of Finance to work on this system. Putin stated that we are talking about securities related to infrastructure projects.

On December 12, 1927, one of the founders of Intel, Robert Noyce, was born. After receiving a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, he worked at Shocley Semiconductor Laboratory, which worked on silicon semiconductors. However, in 1957, he decided to quit and founded his own business - Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1968, Noyce founded Intel with colleague Gordon Moore. The first commercial batch of microcircuits was released two years later.

The prosecutor asked to assign 12 years in a maximum security colony to the former head of the 4th department of the Operational Search Directorate of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who is accused of murdering Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

photo by RIA Novosti The first Russian smartphone hopes to gain worldwide popularity thanks to a display based on e-ink technology, which will save energy and establish a continuous data transfer process The Russian company Yota Devices, which spun off from Scartel last year, is preparing to enter the global battle for leadership in the smartphone market, writes The Wall Street Journal . The manufacturer relies on an innovative product, a breakthrough for the world of technology.

On December 13, 1939, the first production Lincoln Continental was released. The convertible was developed by Lincoln Motors (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) for Henry Ford's son Edsel. It was equipped with a V12 engine with a volume of 5 liters and a power of 125 hp. with, as well as a three-speed automatic transmission. Despite the popularity of the car, in 1948 it was decided to suspend its production. However, after 8 years production resumed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Federal Assembly that “power should not be an isolated caste.” Only in this case will a “strong moral foundation for creation, for the establishment of morality and justice” be created in the country, to preserve the sovereignty of Russia. Putin added that patriotism is not only a love of one’s own history.

Billionaire Gennady Timchenko (No. 12 on the Forbes list of “Russia’s Richest Businessmen - 2012”, net worth $9.1 billion) bought out the share of investment partners and received 12.5% ​​in the SOGAZ insurance company. about this on Wednesday . told Interfax Anton Kurevin, a representative of the Volga Resources investment group, which unites the entrepreneur’s assets, According to him, Volga Resources currently owns a 12.5% ​​stake in OAO SOGAZ.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday partially upheld the defense's cassation appeal and softened the conditions of house arrest for the former head of the Defense Ministry's property department, Evgenia Vasilyeva. Nevertheless, the court recognized Vasilyeva’s house arrest as legal. “If previously she was forbidden to communicate by phone and the Internet, now she can do this, but not talk about the criminal case,” Interfax quotes Vasilyeva’s lawyer Alexander Gofshtein as saying.

North Korea launched the Unha-3 rocket carrying the Gwangmyeonsung-3 satellite from the Sohae Satellite Launch Center. The launch took place on Wednesday, December 12, at 09.49 local time (04.49 Moscow time). The satellite was successfully launched into orbit, the Korean Central News Agency announced. South Korean media report that the first stage of the rocket fell into the Yellow Sea, the second and third, according to Japan, in the Philippines.

The Moscow government and Alexei Navalny's RosZhKH Foundation will cooperate. The corresponding agreement will be signed in the near future. This was announced on Wednesday by the Russian Minister for Open Government, Mikhail Abyzov.

Inter RAO UES acquired a 90% stake in the gas power plant Trakya Elektrik from the international energy company AEI Services Limited for $67.5 million, Inter RAO reports. “The asset is a modern combined cycle power plant with an installed capacity of 478 MW with long-term contracts for the purchase of gas and supply of energy. The transaction has received the necessary approvals from antimonopoly authorities and the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey,” the company reports.

Cameraman Pavel Kostomarov was again summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. Filming of the project “Term” has been suspended. “Pavel Kostomarov was again summoned to the investigative committee. At 14.00 on Thursday,” Kostomarov’s colleague, NTV journalist Alexey Pivovarov, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, December 12. Filming of the project “Term” has been suspended.

photo by RIA Novosti The President did not want to surprise or frighten his supporters; he relied on hardware stability What's going on at Vladimir Putin's farm? The media results of the year are clearly unsuccessful. He was unable to find a winning solution for himself regarding the protests, Pussy Riot, the Magnitsky case, and if in the recent past Putin was considered in world public opinion as the leader of a slowly “evolving” system, now he has turned into an “autocrat”, a “dictator”.