Kremlin. Photos of faces By decree of President Dmitry Medvedev, Nikolai Konstantinov was appointed to the post of head of the Kremlin’s office. According to Vedomosti, until 2008, these powers part -time were performed by the deputy head of the administration Igor Sechin. The source of the publication emphasizes that Sechin did not appoint anyone to the post of head of the office and even wrote the presidential instructions himself.

Anatoly Chubais studies the inventions of Victor Petrik. Photo from the official website of Petrika The State Corporation Rusnano approved one of the projects of the inventor Viktor Petrik. He himself stated this in an interview with Radio "Freedom". "An initiative group was created at the Russian Academy of Sciences to study the significance of my inventions, only fourteen pieces.

Egor Gaidar. Photo from the site www.lebedev.com In Moscow, in the 54th year of life, Yegor Gaidar died. According to RIA Novosti, a source in medical circles, the cause of death was a broken thrombus. Death occurred at about 8.00 on Wednesday. The date of farewell and the funeral has not yet been determined. According to Interfax , the relatives and friends of Gaidars will ask the city hall permission to burial in the Novodevichy cemetery.

Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2009. Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the European Parliament Hadi Houtal met with National Bolsheviks Alexei Nikiforov in pre -trial detention center No. 1, with his relatives and the family of convicted human rights activist Alexei Sokolov. The author of the video is Anna Lebedeva ("Defense").

The builder is a mound in Moscow. Photos of faces In Moscow, a boiler wall collapsed on the construction site, as a result, one worker died, RIA Novosti reports. Two more workers were injured. The pit was falling asleep due to the collapse of the undergrounds of the concrete wall. The emergency occurred on Wednesday morning on Polikarpov Street on the territory of the Sukhoi Design Bureau. Construction work was carried out by CJSC Promelectromontazh - STN.

Car of collectors. Photo from the site www.psdp.ru One person was killed and one was wounded as a result of an armed attack on collectors in the southeast of Moscow, ITAR-TASS reports. The attack was committed near the Moscow shopping center, located on Tikhoretsky Boulevard. "According to preliminary data, the armed criminals attacked the collectors who took money from the shopping center.

Flashes in the sun. Photo NASA from the site www.sciam.com On the sun tonight (about 04.00 Moscow time), the most powerful flash this year has been registered, writes Infox.ru . The maximum radiation of the outbreak of level C5.3 reached at 04.24 Moscow time. The previous record, registered on December 10, exceeded more than half, reports the Laboratory of X -ray astronomy of the Sun Fian named after P.N. Lebedeva. Six days ago, a level of level C3.4 occurred.

Internet cafe in China. Photo from the site www.soft.compulenta.ru Chinese officials forbade individuals to register domain names and began to check millions of existing personal websites, writes CNews . Now, to register a domain in China, a citizen of this country will need a company and a business license. This is stated in the statement of the Chinese information center of the Internet networks.

Car number. Photo audi.carclub.ru On the old Basmannoye, unknown people on Black Audi rammed a police car, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in Moscow law enforcement agencies. Now the accident area is blocked, attackers are looking for. The incident occurred when the police tried to stop the car in which the alleged thieves-brothelles were located. The driver of a foreign car ignored the requirements of the inspectors, and the pursuit began behind the car.

Detention. Photo from the site www.ivgnk.ru Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Central Federal District, together with representatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Vladimir Region, detained a major criminal authority engaged in extortion in Moscow, Interfax reports. The detention occurred in the southeast of Moscow in an apartment on Volgogradsky Prospekt.

Zhiguli is a "penny". Photo from the site www.ladaonline.ru The Ministry of Industry and Trade wants to equate Russian car factories with strategic assets. According to Vedomosti, the Ministry offers foreigners more than 50 percent of the shares of these plants. This provision is contained in the proposals of the working group under the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development, which develops the development program for the Russian automobile industry until 2020.

Arrow of Vasilievsky Island. Photo from Photo.things-that-matter.ru The Federation Council adopted a resolution, which provides for the expansion of the borders of St. Petersburg due to the inclusion of more than 370 hectares of the Gulf of Finland in its territory, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, senators approved the proposal of the Russian government and the initiative of the city governor Valentina Matvienko.

Natalia Estemirova. Photos of Radio '' Freedom '' The human rights center "Memorial" has completely resumed its activities in Chechnya. According to Gazeta.ru, this was announced by the head of the center Oleg Orlov at the end of the awards of the Andrei Sakharov award at the end of the ceremony of the Award of Andrei Sakharov at the end of the awarding ceremony.

Vladimir Turchinsky. Photo from the site http://kinobank.org The famous showman, athlete and TV presenter Vladimir Turchinsky died. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced on the air of the Silver Rain radio station Vladimir Solovyov. Turchinsky died in his country house on December 16. The causes of death are unknown. He was 46 years old. Turchinsky’s mother informed Life News that a few hours before his death he had done a blood purification procedure - plasmapheresis.

Board rocket proton. Photo from the site www.technologiya.ru Roscosmos promises to carry out three space launches next year, as a result of which nine GLONASS devices will enter orbit and thus the task set by the president will be fulfilled: the creation of a space group of 24 devices. This, according to RIA Novosti, said the head of the space department Anatoly Perminov.