Roscosmos is preparing to replace a number of industry leaders with younger ones due to the increasing number of spacecraft accidents. “The industry is in crisis. We need to look for a way out of this situation; we need to trust young people more. Probably, the time has come when a number of leaders need to be replaced,” Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told reporters. According to Mr. Popovkin, the industry employs people who are over 60, and those who are under 30, RIA Novosti reports.

Today interviews were held with candidates for the position of head of the Kirov region. This was reported by the press service of the Perm administration. The commission conducted individual interviews with the candidates and heard answers to questions received from the commission members. According to the results of the second stage of the competition, the former head of the Trest 1 group of companies Oleg Glyzin and acting. head of the district Vladimir Ponomarev.

Anniversary of Boris Iofan in MUAR Exhibition architecture The Moscow Museum of Architecture opened the exhibition "Architect of Power: on the 120th anniversary of the birth of Boris Iofan." In the cozy atmosphere of the anniversary exhibition, grandiose projects of the 30s and 40s are shown to us as stages of creativity before and after the Palace of the Soviets project. Evidence of the collapse of Stalin's architectural utopia was studied by MARIA SEMENDYAEVA.

“A Game of Shadows” has become the most popular film in the world: in ten days of worldwide release, the film has collected approximately $65 million. In Russia, the release starts on December 29. The entire film is built around the figure of a classic villain - Professor Moriarty, says the director. Guy Ritchie's sequel about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes topped the world box office charts. In ten days of worldwide release, the film grossed about $65 million.

Tatyana Markina about the main names and deals The most influential person in the art world in 2011 is Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (according to ArtReview magazine). Reliving the past and present of communist China again and again in his exhibition projects, the artist was arrested in the spring and spent 3 months in prison; his workshop in Shanghai was demolished by order of local authorities. Political dissidence did not greatly affect the price of the artist’s works.

Viktor Kosykh died Obituary Yesterday in Moscow, at the age of 62, actor Viktor Kosykh died, despite a solid filmography, who remained in cinema history with his first roles - Kostya Inochkin in Elem Klimov’s film “Welcome, or No Trespassing” (1964) and Danki in Edmond’s trilogy Keosayan about the “elusive avengers” (1966, 1968, 1971).

541 1 min. ... The thaw in relations between the leadership of Ukraine and Russia has led to only minor progress in relations between the countries. Ukraine did not respond to persistent invitations from the Russian Federation to join the Customs Union and cooperate more closely with CIS structures. The Russian side remained adamant on the issue of revising gas agreements.

The government of Bashkortostan did not approve the Yabloko party to hold a rally on December 24, the chairman of the regional branch of the party, Sergei Naumkin, told Kommersant yesterday.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Council for the Development of the Investment Climate propose to create a foreign investment agency in Russia. Experts believe that all means are good to solve the problem of capital inflow. A foreign investment agency can operate in Russia. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Council for the Development of the Investment Climate sent a corresponding proposal to the government.

Subsoil use The Supervisory Board of AK ALROSA approved the consolidated budget for 2012, the company said in a statement. In the coming year, the ALROSA group plans to produce 34.6 million carats of diamonds. Sales of rough and polished diamonds for the ALROSA group are expected to be about $5.074 billion, for AK ALROSA - $3.8 billion.

Dmitry Medvedev initiated a new broadcasting model Yesterday, Dmitry Medvedev proposed creating an institute of public television in the country. According to the president, “the base of one of the existing federal television channels” can be used for this. With details - ARINA BORODINA. Conversations about the creation of public television were held many times and never ended in anything significant.

The property of the operating enterprise was sold for 106 million rubles Sberbank-Capital managed to sell the assets of the Arzil steel plant at an auction. The company bought Georgievsky Armature Plant LLC, registered in Moscow, for 106 million rubles. SBK does not comment on the results of the auction. The government of the Stavropol region does not know the reason for selling a working enterprise for next to nothing.

The search operation at the site of the flooding of the Kola drilling platform was stopped On Friday, the operation in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk was curtailed, where the Kola drilling platform, towed by two ships, sank on December 18. According to official data, this was done due to a sharp deterioration in the weather. Unofficially, the participants in the operation say that there is no one to save: 53 people who were on the platform died. The bodies of most of them may not be found at all.

December 24 Restaurant Olimpiyskiy Sport & Beer. A new sports restaurant will open on the territory of the NSC Olimpiysky. Guests can enjoy a tour of the stadium, meet chef Yigal Kovriga, a birthday cake and fireworks, as well as a performance by the Bangladesh Orchestra and Gouache. Museum Le Club. The Miss Luxury beauty contest will take place.

A rally against election fraud will be held at Millennium Square The leaders of Kazan residents who disagreed with the elections managed to reach a compromise. Instead of two previously announced protest rallies, it was decided to hold one - on Millennium Square. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is confident that this time the opposition will be able to enter into a dialogue with the authorities.