On Saturday, the Ralph Lauren Home interior gallery hosted a pre-Christmas evening for regular clients of the Christmas Weekend Event. The family format of the event, declared by the organizers, attracted famous architects and representatives of the business elite with their wives and children.

New cases are being opened against Viktor Baturin The criminal prosecution of businessman Viktor Baturin, brother-in-law of the former mayor of the capital, is becoming increasingly widespread every day.

Based on the results of the parliamentary elections in the Russian Federation that took place the day before, United Russia can claim 238 of 450 deputy mandates in the State Duma of the sixth convocation, against 315 in the previous Duma. To date, about 96% of the protocols have been processed, the head of the Russian Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, said at a press conference today.

Vladimir Putin voted in the elections of State Duma deputies Yesterday, United Russia Chairman Vladimir Putin voted at his polling station 2079 in the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Kommersant special correspondent ANDREY KOLESNIKOV, meanwhile, found out that the Communists usually win at this polling station and that yesterday an incomparable number of voters using absentee ballots was recorded here.

The republic's mineral resources are divided without Russia's participation Indian business has made a strategic push into Afghanistan. A consortium of seven companies has won a tender to develop the Hadjigak iron ore deposit, one of the largest in the world. Experts estimate the value of minerals lying in the depths of Afghanistan at $1-3 trillion.

The Main Directorate of Health of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration states that 71 cases of measles among children and adolescents were recorded in the region, the department’s press service said in a statement. Cases of the disease were registered in 3 districts of the region: Rozhnyatovsky (29 patients, including 18 hospitalized), Dolinsky (38 patients, including 17 hospitalized) and Rogatinsky (4 hospitalized residents of one village).

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Businessman and member of the All-Russian Popular Front Alexander Lebedev, in an interview with Stanislav Kucher, Konstantin Eggert and presenter Alexei Korneev, spoke about his attitude to the past elections, power and how he sees the future of the country. S.K.: What is your assessment of what happened? A.L.: I don’t see anything unexpected here.

Archeology 1K 1 min. ... Olga Brileva, Candidate of Historical Sciences An expedition led by Barbara Helving from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Tevekkul Aliyev from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan using magnetometry revealed at Kamil Tepe 4 - the oldest Neolithic settlement in Azerbaijan - a system of ditches and ring structures that is 2 thousand years old. . years older than the known European one.

The United States is unfreezing financial assistance to Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a conference in Bonn, Germany. According to her, we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Kommersant FM special correspondent in Germany Alexander Prokopenko told Anna Kazakova the details. — Do you know how much money the United States is ready to unfreeze for Afghanistan? - Yes, it is known. We are talking about frozen funds worth approximately $650-700 million.

The results of the State Duma elections turned out to be a disappointment for many Russian citizens. There is no point in expecting any changes, or even the fulfillment of election promises. Nobody doubted it. Another thing is surprising: there is simply no party in power called “United Russia”, it is a purely virtual construct. MAXIM KVASHA, EVGENY SIGAL Hangover syndrome The reader of this text has a slight advantage over the authors.

European Film Prize Winners Announced Cinema Award The European cinema prizes awarded annually by the EuroAcademy were presented in Berlin: the two main ones went to Denmark. The intrigue of the competition was the confrontation between two films from this country. Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" was recognized as the European film of the year, and his compatriot Susanne Bier, director of the film "Revenge", was recognized as the European director of the year. ANDREY PLAKHOV comments.

Former Brazilian national football team captain Socrates (Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Sousa Vieira de Oliveira) died in hospital on Sunday. Earlier it became known that 57-year-old Socrates, who played 60 matches for the national team during his career and scored 22 goals in them, was taken to a clinic in Sao Paulo in serious condition caused by an intestinal infection. This year Socrates was sent to the hospital twice - in August and September.

The Prosecutor General's Office appealed the verdict of the Desnyansky District Court of Kyiv, by which the former head of the State Inspectorate for Price Control, Tatyana Rud, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for attempted bribery with release from serving the sentence on probation for 3 years. According to the head of the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Yuriy Boychenko, the complaint was filed with the Kyiv Court of Appeal. Mr.

The Italian government, led by Prime Minister Mario Monti, has approved a package of austerity measures aimed at restoring the country's economy and saving the eurozone from the spread of the debt crisis, the Associated Press reports. Monti reported the positive outcome of the three-hour cabinet meeting.