Shot: Jeff Maxey / YouTube Residents of the whole quarter of the city of Yukeip, California, synchronized their Christmas lights so that it became possible to "play" them to the music. Jeff Maxey uploaded two videos in which he shot a quarter from a drone-on rollers the illumination changes to the beat of the songs of All I Want for Christmas Is You Carey Carey and Wizars in Winter Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Jeff Maxey All I Want for Christmas Jeff Maxey Wizards of Winter

The game "Heroes of Might and Magic III" will be re-released for tablets, according to the publisher's website. It will work on iPad and Android tablets. In addition, you can play the updated heroes on Windows, not only over the local network, but also over the Internet. The game will release on January 29, 2015. The creators promise that "Heroes" will receive a higher resolution than in the original version. The creators redrawn more than 25 thousand elements of the game.

On the website of the Russian Public Initiative, a proposal to introduce punishment for illegal enrichment gathered 100,000 votes. Now this initiative will be considered by the Open Government, after which the relevant law may be submitted to the State Duma. In accordance with the bill, it is proposed to imprison for up to 7 years for illegal enrichment.

The US Senate Committee on Intelligence presented a report on the torture suffered by terrorists in secret prisons around the world. Based on the results of studying 6 million internal documents of the CIA, the committee came to the conclusion that intelligence regularly deceived the Senate - many more people were tortured than officially stated by the CIA. According to the report, the prisoners were kept awake for a week, drowned, and used "rectal feeding" and "rectal hydration" techniques.

Shot: The White House / YouTube US President Barack Obama took part in the “Hour of Code” shares (in Russia - “Code hour”), which is held for schoolchildren. He listened to the instructions for working in the visual environment Code Studio , in which “programming” is carried out by dragging the corresponding blocks (the environment teaches the JavaScript language).

Peter Bologov - about why the CIS mission is completed Photo: Alexey Nikolsky / AFP / Scanpix The Verkhovna Rada on December 8 at the level of faction leaders discussed Ukraine's exit from the CIS. The corresponding law was registered in parliament at the end of November - it is expected that it will be considered in the near future.

The famous Brazilian football player Pele was discharged from the hospital in Sao Paulo on December 9. Pele, 74, was admitted to the hospital on November 13 for elective surgery to remove kidney stones. The surgery was successful, and two days later the doctors allowed Pele to leave the hospital. However, on November 24, the famous football player was urgently hospitalized due to an infection that arose after the operation.

Bloomberg editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler has resigned. His place was taken by John Mickelthwaite, who previously served as editor-in-chief of The Economist. Winkler is the co-founder of the Bloomberg agency, which he co-created with Michael Bloomberg. Matthew Winkler has led the agency since its inception in 1990. Prior to that, he worked for The Wall Street Journal. Winkler is the co-author of a book about Michael Bloomberg, as well as a guide for journalists called Bloomberg Way.

The Federal Property Management Agency gained control over the shares of Bashneft, which previously belonged to AFK Sistema. This information was officially confirmed by the department. According to an Interfax source, earlier the arrest was removed from the papers. The transfer of shares to the account of the Federal Property Management Agency took place on Tuesday, December 9, the agency's sources said.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin believes that before making a decision on the installation of the Moscow Surona Oekiye Video-Installations in the Moscow-Sik international business center, one should consult with residents of the city.

The Smolensk Regional Court released Andrei Yershov, deputy of the City Council, from criminal punishment, previously sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles for insulting former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The verdict was recognized as legal, but the deputy was released from paying the fine due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. At the same time, Ershov will pay compensation in the total amount of 1.1 million rubles in a civil suit.

Films starring Russian actor and director Ivna Okhlobystin have been banned in Ukraine. This was announced on his Facebook page by the head of the National Council of Ukraine on TV and radio broadcasting, Yuriy Artemenko. The fact that the Ukrainian authorities intend to ban the screening of all films with the participation of Okhlobystin was previously announced by Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Culture Vyacheslav Kirilenko.

Sports.ru - about the results of the first part of the Russian Football Championship Photo: Alexey Gyngazov / Global Look / Corbis / All Over Press Russian football went on a winter break-on December 8 the last matches of the Premier League in 2014 were played. The tournament will resume only in March, so it's time to summarize. Sports.ru editors Ivan Kalashnikov, Denis Romantsov, Yuri Dud, Alexey Belov, Roman Moon and Vladislav Voronin say - this championship is not like the previous ones.

Prices for imported alcohol in retail sales in early 2015 will increase by at least 20%. Market experts came to this conclusion. Some wine trading companies have already raised prices and plan to further increase the price of their range after the New Year holidays. “Those who raised prices by 10-15% are now raising prices again. The total increase, I think, by the end of the year will be somewhere between 25-30%,” said Maxim Kashirin, CEO of the large wine trading company Simple.

The prosecutor asked to sentence the opposition leader Sergei Mokhnatkin, accused of attacking police officers, to 4.5 years in a strict regime colony. At a meeting in the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, Mokhnatkin refused to testify. When the judge began to read out his testimony from the case file, the defendant began to insult the prosecutor, shout about the judge's lack of professionalism and try to drive the lawyer away.