The exhibition "John Lennon. Imagine" in Moscow, which was supposed to open on December 5 in the arena, is canceled. According to the press release of the organizing company, "the New York side put forward additional requirements that are not fulfilled legally and contradicting Russian legislation," reports Radio Culture . "John Lennon.

In Israel, the search for a serial rapist continues, which escaped last week on Thursday. Beni of the village was found guilty in 13 rape cases. He was taken to the court building to proceed with the appeal of prisoners to law enforcement agencies related to the improvement of the conditions of their maintenance. Getting out of the car, the serial rapist escaped from the police. The maniac did not even interfere with the fact that his hands were chained into handcuffs.

In Russia, archival documents of Soviet intelligence are declassified, related to events around the Baltic states in the early years of World War II. From them it follows that the United States and Great Britain "with understanding" reacted to the invasion of the Soviet troops to the Baltic countries, fearing that otherwise they would become a bridge of Hitler.

Orthodox Christians from today begins the Christmas post. It will last 40 days - until the very holiday of the Nativity of Christ , celebrated on January 7 by the Grgorian , or December 25 by the Julian calendar , which is held by the Russian Orthodox Church . The coming post is otherwise called Filippov , since his eve falls on the day of memory of the Apostle Philip (November 27). The last post this year is considered one of the strict among four Orthodox posts.

The Russian intelligence services "are absolutely not involved in the murder of Litvinenko," the chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, who participates in the International Parliamentary Conference on the Combat of Terrorism in the Belgian capital, said in an interview with the ITAR-TASS correspondent.

The monument to Dmitry Likhachev was opened on Tuesday, on the day of the 100th anniversary of the birth of an academician, in his homeland in St. Petersburg. The bronze bust of the first honorary citizen of the Northern capital and Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State University was made by the People's Artist of Russia by the sculptor Grigory Zhestrebenetsky, ITAR-TASS reports.

The famous German journalist and publicist, former editor-in-chief of Stern magazine Peter Sholle Latur, has just published a book named Russia in a vise. Many still remember the 45-minute documentary of the German publicist, in which he predicted Russia's ambulance due to Muslim and Far Eastern separatism. The author of the film and books also belongs to the modern international position of Russia and blames this in the United States and Europe.

According to American special services, Iran will create its first nuclear bomb in 2010. This was stated by the US representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Gregory Schultte. "According to our intelligence, this is the earliest term to which Iran will have everything necessary to create nuclear weapons," he told the agency AR.

In Baghdad, on Tuesday, the process of Saddam Hussein and six members of his closest encirclement in the al-Anthal case (about the genocide of Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s) resumed. It is expected that the testimony of several witnesses of the prosecution will be heard at the trial, ITAR-TASS reports. The previous meeting was held on November 8. Judge Muhammad al-Uribi gave the lawyers of the defendants on Tuesday the last chance to represent the list of witnesses on their part.

In Moscow, three children drowned on the pond, an Interfax told on Tuesday evening a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. According to preliminary data, experts did not find traces of violent death on the bodies of the dead. According to unofficial information, at 11:25 in the morning the rescue service received a message that at the intersection of Bolshaya Academic and Mikhalkovskaya streets in the Timiryazevsky pond, a corpse of a person was discovered.

In connection with the death of the ex-employee of the FSB, Alexander Litvinenko, the head of the Civil Freedom Fund Alexander Goldfarb told Kommersant how the police conduct an investigation into this case. According to Goldfarb, he knows what way the investigation is now. "The whole London is covered with video surveillance cameras, according to which the police are trying to reconstruct the movements of Alexander Litvinenko on November 1.

The London police on Tuesday night sealed the London office of Boris Berezovsky, where traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found, which were poisoned by the ex-employee of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko. The head of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs John Reed officially announced the identification of poison on Monday evening. Berezovsky refused any comments on the detection of Polonium-210 traces in his office.

In Buenos Aires, a Russian film crew is robbed, ITAR-TASS reports. The Lennachfilm film studio from St. Petersburg held a documentary film on the history of Argentine tango in Buenos Aires. The director of the picture, Natalya Kamenetskaya, said that in the Argentine capital, unknown people attacked the film crew during the day. The criminals, threatening the driver of a minibus, forced him to give him bags with equipment and immediately disappeared.

Russia has not supplied radioactive polonium-210 to the UK for 5 years, deliveries are carried out only by American companies for scientific purposes, said the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko on Tuesday at a briefing in Moscow. In total, Russia, according to him, supplies Polonium-210 in the amount of 8 grams per month.

The increase in prices for the capital's new buildings stopped, but this is temporary, most analysts say. The excitement ended, and with it the price race, which ousted consumers from the market with medium and below average, influenced even the behavior of buyers of elite housing who are not ready to pay the required money for the proposed quality.