Two-time Olympic medalist and 1993 world hockey champion Alexey Yashin took over as general manager of the Russian women's team. President of the Russian Hockey Federation (RFH) Vladislav Tretyak called Yashin’s appointment a gift to Russian hockey players for the New Year. The official website of the FHR reports this.

Apple will spend $100 million to move a small portion of its production from China to the United States. newspaper writes about this The Financial Times with reference to Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to him, production of Mac computers will be launched in the United States in 2013. For the past decade, Apple's entire production has been concentrated in China, although its products have been designed in the United States.

The Parliament of Moldova supported a bill introducing criminal liability for organizing match-fixing. On December 6, as Komsomolskaya Pravda in Moldova writes, the document was adopted in the first reading. The bill represents amendments to the Criminal Code. As previously reported, it was developed by the Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCECC). At the end of October it was approved by the government.

Three Moscow region police officers were detained on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of a person. agency reported this on December 7 The Interfax . On the night of October 21, three employees of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Anti-Corruption of the Shchelkovskoye Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with their friend, were driving around the city of Shchelkovo in a KIA Sorento SUV.

Former editor-in-chief of the website about Internet technologies "Webplanet" Alexey ("Lekha") Andreev presented the news portal Webscience . Andreev spoke about it on December 7 in his blog .

Guatemala has refused to provide asylum to McAfee founder John McAfee, whom Belizean law enforcement authorities suspect of murdering his neighbor, BBC News reports. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said on December 6 that he was acting in accordance with the law and authorities "are not going to allow people who are trying to escape investigation to come here to Guatemala." McAfee is expected to be deported to Belize, but his lawyers are trying to delay the process.

One of the directors of the documentary project "Term" Pavel Kostomarov was searched. this on his Twitter announced Project participant, journalist Alexey Pivovarov . Director Vitaly Mansky wrote on his Facebook page that the main materials of the film are stored in Kostomarov’s apartment. It is not yet known in what case the search is being carried out. It was not officially reported. As part of the documentary project "Term", cameramen film episodes from the life of oppositionists.

Lenta.ru, together with the company 2M, which monitors legal sales of music in Russia, continues to publish Russian music charts of album sales and singles streaming. Ratings are published every two weeks on Fridays. The current chart covers weeks 47 and 48 of 2012. No, the Russian charts did not say goodbye to you. But yes, the pause with their release dragged on somewhat, and all this began to resemble what was in the headline.

Ordinary shares of AvtoVAZ rose in price by 14.8 percent in morning trading on December 7. At the same time, trading volumes in securities increased several times. Preferred shares of AvtoVAZ at the same time increased by 12.06 percent. The movement on AvtoVAZ shares is very different from the movement of other securities: the MICEX index in the first hour and a half of trading on the Moscow Exchange fell by 0.51 percent, the RTS index by 0.65 percent.

Florida resident George Zimmerman, accused of killing black teenager Trayvon Martin, sued NBC Universal. According to CNN, Zimmerman wants to receive compensation from television crews for the fact that he was baselessly portrayed on air as a racist. Zimmerman, who served as a community patrolman, shot and killed Martin on February 26, 2012. According to his version, he considered the unarmed teenager suspicious, and a conflict arose between them, and he had to shoot in self-defense.

The Russian football club "Anzhi" lost to the Swiss "Young Boys" in the match of the sixth round of the group round of the Europa League. The match, which took place in Bern on Thursday, December 6, ended with a score of 1:3 in favor of the home team. The goals were scored by Young Boys players Gonzalo Zarate, Moreno Costanzo and Alexander Gonzalez. The only goal against the Berne club was scored by Anji midfielder Odil Akhmedov. Anji took second place in Group A.

Thousands of oppositionists marched on the palace of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on the evening of Friday, December 7, Al Jazeera TV channel reported . The same information in microblogs is confirmed by numerous eyewitnesses of what is happening. Multi-kilometer columns of protesters against the expanded powers of the head of state formed at mosques after the traditional Friday prayer.

Director Jonathan Demme has refused to continue working on the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel "11/22/63", reports The Playlist. The book "11/22/63" was first published in November 2011. The main character of the novel is a man who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy (the 35th President of the United States was shot on November 22, 1963 - this date became the title of the book).

Brazil intends to spend $26 billion over four years on the reconstruction and modernization of local ports. This, as reported by Reuters , was stated by the country's President Dilma Rousseff, presenting a program of investment in ports. The goal of the program is to increase port capacity, speed up cargo delivery and improve their energy efficiency.

Ghent University in Belgium has developed a curved LCD screen that can be combined with a contact lens, according to a press release . The introduction of an LCD display on an ultra-thin substrate into the lens will make it possible to “cover” the entire surface of the lens with pixels and display complex images on the screen. In the prototype that the developers constructed, a dollar sign is displayed on the lens .