Former commander of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense Forces, Igor Azarenok, was sentenced by the military board of the Supreme Court to 9 years in prison in a high-security colony with confiscation of property. Belapan reports this. “The verdict comes into force from the moment it is announced; it is not subject to appeal or protest under the constitutional order,” Judge Vladimir Davydov summed up the announcement of the verdict.

12.12.2011, 20:19:49 version Print | PDA/PDA Rally on Manezhnaya Square on December 12.

Russian winter Foreign media spotted signs of a new Tahrir on Bolotnaya Russia is changing, and now the Kremlin will have to adapt to new conditions. Western media came to this conclusion by analyzing the events of the past week, which culminated in thousands of rallies against election fraud in dozens of Russian cities. Failure to make concessions to the opposition threatens the emergence of a protest movement similar to the Arab Spring.

, arrested after the rally at Chistye Prudy on December 5, Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. this on his blog.

On December 10, the results of Animal Spot, the only festival in the world dedicated to advertising with and about animals, were summed up. The festival is being held for the eighth time. This year, the festival's Grand Prix went to a social advertisement against AIDS with the animated cat Smutley, and the first place for technology went to Cats With Thumbs about cats with thumbs. Lenta.ru presents the winning videos at the festival.

12.12.2011, 19:19:26 version Print | PDA/PDA Still from the movie "Yolki 2" Hello tree The film "Yolki 2" is released The New Year's comedy "Yolki", released last December, is one of the few domestic films that turned out to be successful from a financial point of view. According to available data, the box office receipts of this film exceeded 22 million US dollars (The Film Distributor's Bulletin indicates the amount in rubles - 701 million).

Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv" played the first official match after the plane crash in which all members of the hockey team died in September 2011. The meeting with Almetyevsk Neftyanik, which took place on December 12, ended with the victory of the club from Yaroslavl with a score of 5:1, Interfax reports . Lokomotiv and Neftyanik met at the Yaroslavl Arena 2000, all nine thousand seats of which were filled.

The German parliament decided to check whether the EU reform promoted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy contradicts the German constitution, Agence France-Presse reports, citing Spiegel magazine . According to the Chairman of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, the prospect of intervention by the European Commission or the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Issues in the country's national budget raises doubts.

Virginia Williams from Stanford University proposed an algorithm for multiplying square matrices with the best asymptotic complexity to date ( pdf ). The previous record holder, the Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm, was proposed in 1987, and its complexity estimate was nicknamed the barrier of the same name. Traditionally, asymptotic estimates are used for complexity analysis.

Iran intends to study the technology of the CIA drone that fell in eastern Iran in early December and use it to create its own UAVs. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi, as reported by the Iranian Press TV channel. According to him, Iranian scientists are able to reverse engineer the captured sample.

Russia's first year-round ice mini-hotel will appear in Yakutsk. was informed about this Interfax at the Kingdom of Permafrost tourist complex, which will include a hotel. The hotel, which will take about two years to complete, will have just a few rooms with ice furniture and reindeer skins. The room will be maintained at sub-zero temperatures. Tourists will be able to spend several hours or spend the night in the rooms.

American tennis players Bob and Mike Bryan broke the record of their compatriot John McEnroe for the longest stay in first place in the world rankings in doubles. The Brian brothers have surpassed McEnroe's achievement on December 12: they have been at the top of the rankings for 271 weeks, according to the official website of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). McEnroe was ranked No. 1 in the ATP doubles rankings for a total of 270 weeks.

The men's magazine Men's Health has compiled a ranking of the sexiest women of all time. The list, consisting of one hundred positions, was headed by 42-year-old Jennifer Aniston, whom the magazine noted for her amazing ability to be funny, natural and sexy at the same time. In second place on the top list was the American film actress, sex symbol of the 1970s, Raquel Welch (she played in such films as “One Million Years BC,” “Blinded by Desire,” “One Hundred Rifles” and others).

The leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation will be party chairman Vladimir Zhirinovsky , and the Liberal Democrats will nominate his son Igor Lebedev for the post of vice speaker. Lebedev reported this to ITAR-TASS on December 12 . According to Lebedev, inter-factional negotiations are still ongoing and only the candidacies of the heads of parliamentary associations and deputy chairmen of the chamber are clear.

The President of Transnistria, Igor Smirnov, filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission of the unrecognized republic demanding that the results of the elections held on December 11 be invalidated. reports this Interfax with reference to Central Election Commission member Vladimir Chukhnenko. The CEC will announce the results of the consideration of the 15-page complaint on Wednesday, December 14, at 14:00 local time (16:00 Moscow time).