The killer, who shot at the head of the Moscow Regional Notary Chamber in Balashikha near Moscow, slipped on the ice during the shooting, and while running away, dropped a spare magazine for a pistol with fingerprints, a law enforcement source told Interfax .

December 20, 2011, 10:44 Culture Exchanged geniuses The Tretyakov Gallery opened the exhibition “In Christ. Giotto in Moscow" Velimir Moist close 100% The Tretyakov Gallery opened the exhibition “In Christ. Giotto in Moscow”, consisting of only two exhibits - the icon “Madonna and Child” and the altar polyptych by the great Italian artist.

December 21, 2011, 10:56 Business We didn't agree Putin and Azarov could not agree on gas supplies to Ukraine Alexey Topalov close 100% Negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Azarov on gas supplies ended without result ITAR-TASS Night negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Nikolai Azarov on gas supplies to Ukraine ended without result. Ukraine left a group of experts led by Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko in Moscow to continue negotiations.

A new conflict has brewed in the Taganka Theater, from which the director who founded this theater, Yuri Lyubimov, left in July after serious disagreements with the troupe , and now Valery Zolotukhin, who replaced him, is at the center of the scandal, said the head of the capital’s department of culture, Sergei Kapkov . Lyubimov combined the positions of director and artistic director of the theater.

December 20, 2011, 10:05 AM Opinions Missed the opportunity to leave Regardless of whether Putin returns to the presidency, his time is up Yury Korgunyuk close 100% If Vladimir Putin left now, he would remain in modern Russian history as a controversial figure who has done a lot of bad things, but also a lot of useful things. I admit, I belong to the minority who were confident that Medvedev had agreed with Putin from the very beginning that he would go for a second term.

If Russia valued the life and health of its citizens, the ECHR decision forcing the government to pay compensation to the victims of the terrorist attack on Dubrovka might not have happened. As well as the process itself: the authorities themselves should have taken care of the victims long ago.

Russia's permanent representative to the UN , Vitaly Churkin , said on Monday that he would demand a comprehensive investigation into the deaths of civilians in Libya as a result of NATO airstrikes and criticized the UN secretary general, calling on him to be “more careful.” “Unfortunately, NATO has taken a purely propaganda position, claiming the complete absence of civilian casualties in Libya , which, firstly, is absolutely incredible, and secondly, it is not true,” said Russia’s permanent

The United States is seriously concerned about the recent unrest in the Kazakh city of Zhanaozen, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement . “We expressed our condolences for the loss of life and called on all parties to exercise restraint as the Kazakh authorities work to restore order,” the US Foreign Office said in a statement.

James Cameron has been sued for the second time in the last month over the authorship of the plot of the film Avatar. This time the plaintiff was science fiction writer Bryant Moore. He hopes to sue the director, production company Lightstorm Entertainment and film studio 20th Century Fox for $2.5 billion, accusing Cameron of using the scripts for the films Aquatica and The Descendants: Pollination.

Before our eyes, ideas about the ideal type of leadership in Russia are crumbling. Moreover, the country is de facto left without a leader. Let's try to explain. According to a recent survey by the Public Opinion Foundation ( FOM ), dedicated to the beginning of the presidential campaign, The type of ideal head of state for Russians is Peter the Great (preferred by 16% of respondents) and Stalin (12%).

The organizers of the Bon Jovi concert, which was supposed to take place in Moscow at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex on April 14, 2012, stated that the group’s performance was canceled due to inconsistency between the date and the artists’ schedule. “We are forced to inform you that the concert on April 14, 2012 at the Olimpiysky will not take place.

The State Commission on Radio Frequencies approved the creation of pilot zones in which the compatibility of communications of the traditional GSM standard and high-speed LTE (4G) in the range of 1710-1880 MHz will be tested. Tuesday's decision expands frequency spectrum, which officials say can be used to develop fourth-generation communications networks. Regional telecom operators insisted on this.

Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov , who was sentenced by a Moscow court to 15 days in prison, after which he went on a dry hunger strike, was transferred from intensive care on Tuesday morning, his wife Anastasia Udaltsova said . “Udaltsov has been transferred from intensive care.

Business Official rates: ruble/€ –41.7059; ruble/$ –32.0519 The official euro/ruble exchange rate, set by the Central Bank for Wednesday, increased by 1.91 kopecks, to 41.7059 rubles. The dollar exchange rate also increased - by 1.96 kopecks, to 32.0519 rubles, according to data from the Bank of Russia.

December 20, 2011, 21:37 Society The prosecutor's office unmoored from the platform The sunken Kola drilling platform was illegally developing a well, prosecutors say Anastasia Berseneva close 100% Currently, Gazprom has officially stated that the sunken platform has nothing to do with them ITAR-TASS The Kamchatka Environmental Prosecutor's Office withdrew from the court the claim against the Gazflot company, on whose order the Kola drilling platform operated on the Kamchatka shelf.