02 December 2011, 04:17 Sports Mutko: Russia estimates the budget of the 2018 World Cup organizing committee at €800 million, FIFA at €600 million Russia estimates the budget of the organizing committee of the 2018 FIFA World Cup at €800 million, said the Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko on Thursday at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich , who held a meeting with Federation President Joseph Blatter and its Secretary General Jerome Valcke and

02 December 2011, 10:52 Society Pedophilanthropist An American received 15 years in prison for seducing a boy dancer from Russia. Alena Maryanova close 100% A lawyer from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 15 years for seducing a child from Russia. The court found that Kenneth Schneider forced the young dancer Roman Zavarov to have sex for six years, since he was 12 years old. The lawyer and philanthropist did not admit his guilt and called all the accusations false.

Two days before the elections in Moscow, several activists of the “Other Russia” movement were detained, searches were carried out in the apartments of some oppositionists, said Alkesandr Averin, a representative of the movement.

02 December 2011, 02:45 Sports Tverdovsky: I’ll choose the club that really needs me Former Salavat Yulaev defender Oleg Tverdovsky commented on options for continuing his career. “I’ll choose the club that really needs me,” Tverdovsky told Soviet Sport . “And the city factor doesn’t play any role here.” It doesn’t matter where my apartment is, in Moscow or somewhere else. The important thing is what role the new club sees me in, what problems it plans to solve.

In Moscow, near the building of the Borodino Hotel on Krasnoselskaya Street, Russian fans attacked Austrian tourists and fans of the Sturm club who came to support their team in the Europa League group stage match with the capital's Lokomotiv (1:3). According to a law enforcement source, about 50 Russian football fans attacked the Austrians, of whom there were about ten people.

02 December 2011, 13:25 Business Reuters will be saved by Mr. Smith Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer resigns Ekaterina Bryzgalova close 100% Tom Glocer resigns Reuters Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer resigns. The company's main shareholder, the Thomson family, is dissatisfied with its financial results: massive layoffs in the banking and financial sectors, the main audience of Reuters subscribers, are to blame for the agency's failures.

02 December 2011, 20:42 Sports The administration of Nancy refused to host matches of the Euro 2016 championship The French city of Nancy, which was on the list of nine cities that will host Euro 2016 matches, waived this right for financial reasons. According to Le Monde , the city administration was unable to agree on the terms of reconstruction of the stadium with the companies Vinci and Bouygues.

The Simple company stopped supplying French Cristal champagne because it was desperate to prove that its brand, known since tsarist times, is not similar to the Kristal vodka brand, and therefore it should not pay royalties to the Russian state-owned company Soyuzplodoimport, writes Kommersant . The Cristal Louis Roederer brand was created in 1876 by order of the Russian Emperor Alexander II. The annual production volume is about 500 thousand bottles.

Doctors at the regional clinical hospital, where Sverdlovsk Governor Alexander Misharin, who was injured in an accident, was taken, in a few hours will convene a consultation with the participation of Moscow specialists, but for now they assess his condition as serious. “The governor’s condition is serious but stable. He is in intensive care, conscious, on artificial ventilation,” said the region’s chief resuscitator-anesthesiologist Alexander Levit .

Goa will have a polling station where people can vote on December 4th. Local consulate employees will lure tourists and downshifters to the polling stations with the help of pies, as the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov advised to do in the last elections. “For the first time, we are organizing on-site voting for Russian tourists in Goa.

December 02, 2011, 11:47 Sports Construction of the road to the Olympic venues in the mountains was completed in Sochi In Sochi, the construction of the “Road of Seven Bridges” was completed, which includes access roads to the Olympic sites of the mountain cluster and the highest mountain bridge in Russia. “In order to minimize the impact on the natural landscape, part of the road is constructed as a tunnel and bridge.

02 December 2011, 01:57 Sports Sporting beat Zurich and reached the Europa League playoffs The next group stage matches of the Europa League take place on Thursday. In Group D, the Portuguese Sporting hosted the Swiss Zurich and won with a score of 2:0. Goals: van Wolfswinkel 15; Bozhinov, 58. Details of this and other matches, as well as the position of the teams in the standings, can be viewed on the Europa League page.

“Putin’s daughters don’t go to the polls because their parents aren’t elected.” In my opinion, this is the best joke so far about the current state of the Russian election process. Meanwhile, the demand for truly free and fair elections is actually aimed at protecting, and not against, the current regime. For the simple reason that real elections as a way to change power are better than any revolution or coup d'etat.

December 02, 2011, 07:19 News Governor Misharin, who was involved in an accident, was operated on and regained consciousness The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, who was injured in an accident, was taken to the regional clinical hospital in Yekaterinburg, conscious, told the Interfax deputy head of the regional administration Ilya Ananyev agency . As the head of the governor’s administration, Vyacheslav Lashmankin, told the agency, the governor’s condition is moderate.