The head coach of the Spanish football club Barcelona, ​​Tito Vilanova, will temporarily leave his post due to surgery for a recurrence of a tumor of the parotid salivary gland. The British edition of The Daily Mail writes about this. Vilanova underwent surgery to remove the tumor in November 2011, and now the coach again requires surgical intervention. Vilanova's disease has not been officially reported.

Serial production of fifth-generation nuclear submarines in Russia will begin after 2030. reported this on Wednesday, December 19, RIA Novosti with reference to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Viktor Chirkov. The Navy currently operates third-generation submarines. They will soon be replaced by fourth-generation nuclear submarines of projects 955 "Borey" and 885 "Yasen".

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili accused the country's government (represented by his political opponents from the Georgian Dream) of following the path of “Talibanization.” His statement is quoted by Georgia Online. “The Georgian government has announced a large-scale program of destruction,” the president said.

Among the deputies from United Russia who voted for a ban on the adoption of Russian children by Americans was Vyacheslav Osipov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies. This follows from a document posted on Twitter by A Just Russia deputy Dmitry Gudkov. Shortly after the vote on the law as a whole, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin announced the death of Osipov, Interfax reports , and announced a minute of silence.

Hundreds of Russian tourists were forced to extend their vacation in the Indian state of Goa due to the cessation of the activities of the Kuban airline, Interfax reported on Wednesday, December 19 . According to local media, at least 300 Russians were forced to extend their vacation in India. They ended up spending about a month in the country. Half of the tourists flew home on December 17 and 19, and the other half will leave for their homeland in the near future.

Universal Pictures has invited Angelina Jolie to direct the film adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's book "Unbroken" (the full English title is "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"), according to the Deadline website. Negotiations between the parties are close to completion. If an agreement is reached, Unbroken will be Jolie's second directorial project.

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, reproached US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for incompetence, Interfax reports .

German prosecutors have accused former Porsche executives Wendelin Wiedeking and Holger Härter of market manipulation. reports this Agence France-Presse . The claims against the managers date back to 2008-2009, when they made a number of official statements that Porsche does not plan to take over Volkswagen. At the same time, investigators found that Wiedeking and Herter were trying to gain control over 75 percent of the concern's shares.

Currently, construction companies are forced to spend about 30-40 percent of investments in a housing construction project on unnecessary expenses. RIA Novosti . The head of the Moscow company NDV-Real Estate, Alexander Khrustalev, told According to him, the so-called extra costs are associated with numerous approval procedures and deductions to natural monopolies. “Developers are forced to compensate for expenses that they can actually do without. This is money that goes ‘nowhere,’” he noted.

Nikon in a patent application described a system that allows you to turn a 35mm film SLR camera into a digital one, reports the Nikon Rumors blog. The system is a back with a matrix and an image processor, which is installed in place of the standard back cover of the camera. The working length of the camera can be changed by rotating the screw. Nikon filed an application with Japanese patent authorities in May 2011. The application was published on December 10, 2012.

For the Motherland, for Baburin Students of RGTEU, with the permission of the university authorities, went on strike: Lenta.ru report On the night of December 19, students of RGTEU protested against the inclusion of the university in the list of “ineffective”. Some media outlets wrote that they “barricaded themselves,” but the students themselves denied this - they remained within the walls of the university with the permission of rector Sergei Baburin.

A professional hockey team is being created in Tashkent. This is reported by CA-NEWS with reference to the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan. According to media reports, local authorities decided to revive the Binokor club, the southernmost hockey team of the Soviet Union, which was created in the 70s of the last century and for a long time played in the first union league.

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation will recheck the results of the monitoring of the Russian State Trade and Economic University, according to the results of which the university was recognized as ineffective, said Alexander Stradze, director of the department of additional education of children, upbringing and youth policy of the department. reports this RIA Novosti .

The Russian Railways subsidiary TransContainer earned half a billion rubles in 2012 from the transit of NATO cargo. The newspaper "RBC daily" writes about this with reference to the company's reporting under IFRS. We are talking about transit to Afghanistan. "Transcontainer" transshipped cargo from Riga through Tallinn to the Hairatan station, which is located on the border of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

reported on Wednesday, December 19 Paintings with naked people were removed from the state gallery of fine arts in the Turkish city of Eskisehir, Agence France-Presse . The works were part of an exhibition by contemporary artist Emin Guloren. Visitors to the exhibition found some of the paintings removed and placed face down on the floor on Monday, December 18th. It turned out that they all depicted nudity. Later the exhibition was closed altogether.