Press secretary of the Tverskoy District Court of the capital, Ekaterina Ilyina, accused journalists of inappropriate behavior during the hearing of the case of the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov . reports this Interfax .

A group of armed people attacked one of the factories in Astrakhan and stole a batch of platinum ingots from its territory. reported on the evening of Sunday, December 25, As Interfax citing a source in law enforcement agencies, this happened the night before. According to the agency's interlocutor, 10-12 masked criminals entered the plant.

Seven bodies were found in an apartment in the city of Grapevine, located near Dallas in Texas, on Sunday, December 25. According to the Associated Press , citing local police, all the victims were shot. The bodies lay in the living room connected to the kitchen. Among the dead were three men and four women. Police believe one of the men shot the others and then committed suicide.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) opened a case against the Federal Air Transport Agency "for limiting competition in the skies over Italy." This is reported on the service's website. The message recalls that on November 2, 2011 (according to other sources - October 24), the Federal Air Transport Agency granted a number of airlines permission to fly charter flights to Italy.

26.12.2011, 20:16:01 version Print | PDA/PDA Evgeny Shevchuk. Photo by ITAR-TASS, Natalya Lvova Second in twenty years President changed in unrecognized Transnistria On December 25, the second round of presidential elections took place in the unrecognized republic of Transnistria. It was attended by former and current speakers of parliament: Yevgeny Shevchuk and Anatoly Kaminsky.

26.12.2011, 17:17:47 version Print | PDA/PDA Dmitry Rybolovlev. Photo by ITAR-TASS The prince asked Russian businessman will invest one hundred million euros in the Monaco football club “Of course, when money is invested in entertainment abroad, it is unpleasant. It would be better to invest money in the development of our sport.” Vladimir Putin On New Year's Eve, another Russian businessman bought a foreign football club.

The Office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region has charged the Deputy Mayor of Kashira for Culture, Youth Policy and Sports, Alexander Andrievsky, suspected of attempting to receive a bribe. This was reported on Monday, December 26, on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

The Chevrolet concern has launched an unusual advertising campaign for the Chevy Sonic 2012 (the name of the Aveo model for the American market). According to AdAge, a 3D game was projected onto the façade of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel, in which participants could win a variety of prizes, including a Chevy Sonic. The game is an imitation of a crane-machine machine, where by manipulating a mini-crane you can “catch” a soft toy.

The operator VimpelCom (Beeline brand) does not rule out the possibility of closing the Wi-Fi network in Moscow, Vedomosti reported, citing sources within the cellular company in its December 26 issue. The reason for the closure is the fee for the use of radio frequencies introduced by Roskomnadzor on January 1, 2012. Until this date, Wi-Fi network operators did not have to pay for frequencies.

In Berlin, 12 people were injured in a fire in the Bethania artists' house, dpa reports. The fire broke out on December 25. Two men jumped out of the second floor windows in panic. They were taken to the hospital with fractures. Ten more people were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning. 120 firefighters from several brigades responded to the call. In total, they rescued 26 people from the burning building.

26.12.2011, 16:16:57 version Print | PDA/PDA Vadim Boyko. Photo by ITAR-TASS, Rostislav Koshelev Conditional warrant officer Vadim Boyko was punished for undermining the authority of the authorities One of the St. Petersburg district courts sentenced a former policeman for beating a participant in an opposition rally.

The US Strategic Command predicted that the Russian interplanetary station Phobos-Grunt, stuck in low-Earth orbit, will enter the atmosphere on January 14 and fall in southwestern Afghanistan, in Helmand province. reports this RIA Novosti . It is clarified that the data is preliminary and may be subject to revision. At the time of writing the news, no forecasts about the possible location of the Phobos-Grunt crash appeared on the official website of the US Strategic Command.

The Swype virtual keyboard for Android OS now has a voice input function, the program developers said in a statement. To switch to “voice” mode, the user needs to press a special button on the keyboard. For now, Swype only recognizes speech in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, but more languages ​​will be added to this list in 2012. Swype uses the Dragon Dictation speech recognition system developed by Nuance Communications.

Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, intends to enter into an agreement in February 2012 on a new joint venture with the American Exxon Mobil. This was announced by the head of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov , RIA Novosti reports .

In the Murmansk region, the theft of a mine drilling rig from the territory of the Kirov mine of Apatit OJSC was revealed. On suspicion of committing this crime, a deputy of the Kirovsk city council was detained and arrested, reports the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to investigators, in August-September 2011, the deputy swapped the signs on the new drilling rig and the one written off the balance sheet of the enterprise.