Russian Olga Zaitseva won a silver medal in the pursuit race, which took place on December 10 in Hochfilzen, Austria, as part of the second stage of the Biathlon World Cup. The race can be broadcast on the website SportBox.ru. Zaitseva started third, behind the German Magdalena Neuner, who had won the sprint the day before, 22.7 seconds. During the race, the athlete made one mistake at the last shooting range.

An issue of Playboy magazine with photographs of Lindsay Lohan will go on sale earlier than planned due to a leak of the cover of the publication featuring the infamous actress. This Reuters was announced by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner on his microblog on Friday, December 9, reports. The magazine with Lohan's photo will go on sale "at the end of next week," Hefner said, without giving a specific date.

Law enforcement agencies did not record any serious incidents during the rallies against election fraud that took place on December 10 throughout Russia. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the most massive rally, which gathered in Moscow, according to the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at least 25 thousand people, there were no arrests.

A Roman cat named Tommasino inherited 10 million euros, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported on December 9. The cat was a stray until he was adopted by an Italian woman born in 1917, Maria Assunta. She had no relatives, and in October 2009, the Italian bequeathed her entire fortune - including apartments in Rome and Milan, land in Calabria and bank accounts - to the cat Tommasino and other stray animals. Maria Assunta died at the end of November 2011.

In St. Petersburg, a rally for fair elections took place on Pionerskaya Square. According to the organizers, the action attracted 10 thousand people; police estimated the number of participants at 7 thousand people. Music critic Artemy Troitsky, satirist Viktor Shenderovich and other public figures spoke at the rally.

A rally against election fraud began on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, a Lenta.ru correspondent reports. The event was opened by Vladimir Ryzhkov, saying that the rally would begin with a song, after which the composition of the Rabfak group “Our madhouse is voting for Putin ” began playing. Initially, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow estimated the number of people gathered at the rally at seven thousand people, but then increased the estimate to 15 thousand.

10.12.2011, 18:04:31 version Print | PDA/PDA Footage of the attack taken by a surveillance camera: suspect Alexey Arbuzov (left). Frame from NTV channel Acute knife psychosis In the north of Moscow, a patient of a mental hospital attacked pensioners Two people were killed and about ten were injured in the north of Moscow on the afternoon of December 9.

The number of participants in the rally for fair elections in St. Petersburg reached five thousand people, Interfax reports . Protesters continue to arrive at Pionerskaya Square. The column, which moves towards the square from the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station, stretches to Vladimirsky Prospekt. According to Baltinfo, representatives of a wide variety of political forces are present at the rally, from communists and anarchists to nationalists and separatists.

Ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva , speaking to protesters on Saturday, December 10, accused the former president of the republic, Eduard Kokoity , of failing to implement a compromise agreement to resolve the situation in the republic. reports this Interfax . As Dzhioeva stated, Kokoity did not fulfill all the points of the agreement.

About 2 thousand people took part in the rally of those who disagreed with the results of the State Duma elections in Arkhangelsk, reports Rosbalt. At the same time, the regional police department stated that at different times the number of participants in the rally ranged from 300 to 600 people.

Police have identified the person who carried out the shooting on the territory of the Virginia Tech on December 8, reports the Associated Press . The shooter, local police officials announced Friday, December 9, has been identified as 22-year-old Ross Truett Ashley, a part-time student at Radford University, located near Virginia Tech. The reasons why he first shot a police officer serving on campus and then committed suicide have not yet been established.

Yemen's Interim Government of National Accord has taken office, reports Agence France-Presse . The oath-taking ceremony took place in the Yemeni capital Sana'a in the presence of the country's Vice President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi. The country's new government was formed after months of demonstrations, as a result of which President Ali Abdul Saleh agreed to the transfer of power. One of the opposition leaders, Mohammed Basindwa, was appointed head of the cabinet of 34 ministers.

10.12.2011, 21:17:37 version Print | PDA/PDA Participants in a rally against election fraud in Novosibirsk. Photo by RIA Novosti, Alexander Kryazhev To the very outskirts Protest rallies on December 10 were held in 99 cities of Russia On December 10, the first mass protests of citizens in the last decade took place in Russian cities. A total of at least 50 thousand people gathered on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow and Pionerskaya Square in St. Petersburg.

Police warned of the threat of a bridge collapse near Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, where an opposition rally of thousands is taking place. This was reported on the website of the Moscow State Department of Internal Affairs. About a thousand people are standing on the bridge, which is one of the few options for access to the rally, and the police are preparing to clear it of people.

Joshua Komissarzhevsky, the adopted grandson of the famous Russian director, was sentenced to death for the murder of three people, reports the Associated Press . The verdict in the Komissarzhevsky case was handed down on Friday, December 9, by a court in New Haven, Connecticut. Joshua Komissarzhevsky, along with Steven Hayes, attacked the family of doctor William Petit in 2007 in Connecticut.