The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov , does not trust the results of “closed” sociological surveys, since they “have nothing to do with reality.” Churov stated this at a meeting with the heads of Russian sociological services who had gathered at the Central Election Commission for the ceremony of awarding prizes for the accuracy of forecasting the results of the elections to the Sixth State Duma . “As part of my position, I received data from closed surveys.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded that all state-owned companies be checked for corruption schemes and connections of employees with offshore companies within two months, RIA Novosti reports.

December 19, 2011, 22:36 Sports Russians beat Ukrainians at the World Team Chess Championship The Russian women's chess team won its second victory at the world team championship taking place in the Turkish city of Mardin, winning with a score of 3:1 against the representatives of Ukraine. The games of Valentina Gunina against Tatyana Vasilevich and Tatyana Kosintseva against Maria Muzychuk ended with victories .

December 19, 2011, 14:01 Sports Sergei Bulatov became Pobegalov’s assistant at Ural became an assistant to Alexander Pobegalov , who took over the post of head coach of Ural Sergei Bulatov , who once played for the Yekaterinburg team, . After finishing his career, Bulatov was the head coach of Dynamo Bryansk and Volgar-Gazprom. “I have always had a good relationship with the president of Ural, Grigory Ivanov ,” Bulatov told Soviet Sport .

December 19, 2011, 11:40 Sports Semin: Milevsky clearly passed Dynamo head coach Yuri Semin summed up the results of the outgoing year for his team. “It turned out to be very difficult, there were both certain failures and successes,” the press service of the Kiev residents reports Semin’s words. “Once again, after accepting the team, a situation arose where we had to start all over again. Which game in the reporting year can I call a reference? There are no standard games.

It was a gloomy, lazy winter Sunday morning. Sergei's entire family was still sleeping when the doorbell rang. Insistently and boorishly, as any call on a day like this at eight in the morning should sound like. “What the hell,” the owner thought sleepily and went to see who suddenly needed him. “Perhaps we have the wrong door?” — the sleepy brain intuitively searches at such moments for the simplest and most harmless explanations for situations that break the usual course of things.

December 19, 2011, 12:57 Sports The second fives of the 2011 KHL All-Star Game have been determined On Monday, the voting of journalists ended to determine the second fives and goalkeepers of the teams of Ozolins and Fedorov, who will take part in the fourth KHL All-Star Game on January 21 next year in Riga, the league’s press service reports .

A closed boat was discovered on Monday afternoon local time in the area of ​​the Kola drilling rig accident in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, a representative of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . “Visually from the icebreaker “Magadan” a closed boat was detected. It is located about two miles from the icebreaker. It is unknown whether there are people on the boat,” the source said.

December 19, 2011, 15:29 Culture Britpop cheat sheet The revived group Suede performed for the first time in Moscow Alexander Belyaev close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos The revived Suede, one of the main Britpop groups who came to Russia for the first time, performed at the Milk club in Moscow. The group became the headliner of the Blastfest festival.

December 19, 2011, 12:19 Opinions Unpreparedness #1 More than 10% of domestic entrepreneurs do not see any benefits from Russia’s accession to the WTO Vyacheslav Evseev close 100% The metallurgy and pipe industries are most familiar with WTO rules Reuters For 18 years, Russian business has not had time to prepare to work under WTO rules and is afraid that foreign competitors will squeeze it out in the domestic market.

— 19.12.2011 02:44 — At Shetpe station in Mangistau region, one of the epicenters of unrest in western Kazakhstan, police beat popular blogger Murat Tungishbaev, who posted videos on YouTube of clashes between police and protesters, Radio Liberty reported . The police knocked the blogger to the ground, put a gun to his head, beat him and took away his identity card. The journalists who were nearby stood up for him, Tungishbaev was released, but the documents have not yet been returned.

December 19, 2011, 21:06 Cars The prosecutor's office got to the bottom of the roads Prosecutors demand criminal charges be filed against road builders Evgeniy Shipilov , Mikhail Lobachev , Roman Kondratyev close 100% The Prosecutor General's Office found violations during the construction of federal highways in Central Russia. The department demands that criminal cases be initiated against officials of road companies.

December 19, 2011, 18:05 From the editor Offshores before our eyes The task of forcibly returning offshore money to Russia is senseless and impossible "Gazeta.Ru" close 100% Putin’s declared war on offshore companies and state-owned companies that are moving money out of the country could be a good start to a real fight against corruption. Unless it turns into the usual pre-election anti-corruption campaign.

Police found ten unique icons from the 16th and 17th centuries with a total value of more than 50 million rubles in one of the private museums in Moscow 27 years after their disappearance from the Veliky Ustyug Museum, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Monday .

leader Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov believes that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is obliged to take part in debates during the presidential campaign. “We officially invited Putin to the debate. I don’t know how he will evade this time,” Zyuganov told Interfax on Monday after submitting documents for registration as a candidate for the presidency of Russia at the Central Election Commission .