In the center of Moscow, the internal wall of a 16th-century building under reconstruction, located at Petrovka Street, 26, building 3, collapsed, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in Moscow law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred on the morning of November 30. According to an agency source, one worker died as a result of the collapse. Traffic along Petrovka is difficult due to the emergency services, fire service and police vehicles arriving at the scene.

The explosion on the route of the Tyumen-Baku train did not cause serious damage to either the train or the railway track, Interfax reports . According to a source in the Makhachkala branch of the North Caucasus Railway, as a result of the explosion, the railway embankment was partially damaged, but the track itself was not damaged. The locomotive of the Tyumen-Baku train received minor damage. At the moment, passenger train number 374 has already continued moving to its destination.

Music Choice conducted a study to find out which event or phenomenon has become the most noticeable and significant in the world of music over the past 30 years. As Undercover reported on Monday, November 30, the results of a sociological survey conducted by experts indicate that respondents value the emergence of digital formats for storing and distributing music most highly. 19 percent of music lovers across Europe believe that digital music is the most important innovation.

Black Friday on November 27 brought in $595 million in revenue for online store owners, up 11 percent from last year, comScore analysts report . In total, from November 1 to November 27, Americans spent more than $10 billion in online stores, which also exceeded the profit for the same period in 2008 by 3 percent. Of the 500 online stores, Amazon.com became the leader in traffic. It accounted for 13.5 percent of total traffic on November 27, writes RWW .

In Tolyatti, 36 members of a criminal group that controlled almost the entire city drug market were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. agency reported this on November 30 The Interfax . The judge of the Samara Regional Court spent several days announcing the verdict. In total, drug traffickers were sentenced to 400 years in prison. One of the two leaders of the group, Pavel Starostin, received 18.5 years in prison. Ordinary gang members were sentenced to 10-17 years.

An Inter Milan fan fell from the stands at the San Siro stadium while celebrating his team's goal in the Italian Championship's home match with Fiorentina. A 36-year-old fan fell from the second tier. He was taken to a Milan hospital in serious condition and is currently in a coma, reports the Associated Press . An Inter fan celebrated the goal of his team's striker Diego Milito, scored in the 85th minute of the match.

Russian businessman, president of the Onexim Group investment fund Mikhail Prokhorov received an apology for the incident that occurred in January 2007 in the French resort of Courchevel. He reported this on his blog on the LiveJournal service. “I was apologized for the well-known events of January 2007. So this matter is over,” the businessman wrote. At the same time, Mikhail Prokhorov did not specify who exactly apologized to him.

A new deputy has been registered in the Kyrgyz parliament - lawyer Galina Skripkina, Fergana.Ru news agency reports . She took the seat vacated after the death of deputy Ruslan Shabatoev. Galina Skripkina began representing the interests of the family of the country's former president Askar Akaev after his flight from Kyrgyzstan (Akaev left the country during the “Tulip Revolution” of 2005).

A miniature 18th-century Chinese vase in the style of the Ming Dynasty, valued at £375, was sold at auction for £228,000 - 608 times more expensive than the estimate, the British The Daily Mail writes on November 30 . The seller of the vase, a resident of the British city of Chester, said that she needed money and brought the vase to a local art dealer, who valued it at 375 pounds sterling. The dealer, however, seemed too interested, the woman doubted and decided to consult another specialist.

Employees of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa suggested that a painting from the museum’s collection - “Portrait of the Venetian Doge Girolamo Priuli” - may belong to the brush of Titian, reports Most-Odessa . On what basis this conclusion was made, the director of the museum, Vladimir Ostrovsky, did not say exactly, saying that it will be possible to speak definitively about Titian’s authorship only after an X-ray of the painting is taken.

A Toledo, Ohio man has been arrested for robbing a Salvation Army volunteer. According to the local newspaper The Blade, in Maumee, one of the suburbs of Toledo, a man pushed a fundraiser and took away her metal pot with money, explaining that he hated Christmas. The suspect is 44-year-old Shawn P. Krieger.

New Zealand launched a rocket into space for the first time. The launch was carried out by a private company, Rocket Lab, which develops means for launching satellites into orbit. Details of preparations for the launch and the launch itself are available on the company’s website. According to engineers, the rocket rose to a height of about 100 kilometers, accelerating to 5 thousand kilometers per hour.

30.11.2009, 19:31:43 version Print | PDA/PDA Still from a Beeline commercial Make friends or lose The Russian cellular market is entering a period of mergers In 2009, some shareholders of Russian cellular operators realized that it was pointless to quarrel and began to actively cooperate, while others, on the contrary, began to argue which business strategy was the most profitable.

Serbian writer and poet Milorad Pavic died on November 30 in Belgrade, radio station B92 reports, citing relatives of the deceased. The cause of death was given as myocardial infarction; Pavic was 80 years old. The writer is considered one of the most prominent representatives of postmodernism and magical realism of the 20th century. Pavich published his most famous novel, The Khazar Dictionary, in 1984.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko instructed to provide round-the-clock security to candidates participating in the presidential elections. reports this UNIAN . The order is addressed to the State Security Administration (SPO), as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and other law enforcement agencies. Local authorities, in turn, must provide the security forces with the necessary support.