The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday upheld the verdict of the Moscow City Court against Alexander Koptsev, sentenced to 16 years in prison with a sentence in a maximum regime colony for an attack on the parishioners of the Moscow synagogue on January 11 of this year, as a result of which 9 people were injured. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of Koptsev’s lawyers who insisted on softening the sentence.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine turned to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych with a request to dismiss the Minister of the Interior Yuri Lutsenko , UNIAN reports. The parliament also registered decisions on the possible withdrawal from the posts of defense ministers - Anatoly Gritsenko and Foreign Affairs - Boris Tarasyuk. For such a decision, 232 deputies out of 424, registered in the hall, voted. To make this decision, 226 votes of parliamentarians were needed.

The world's first residential skyscraper rotating on its axis will be built in Dubai. As British engineer Nick Cobber, who developed the project for the turning mechanism of the Times Residence tower, said today, the building will rotate at a speed of 5 millimeters per second. In one day, the house will slowly make a 52-degree turn, and in a week - a full turn, ITAR-TASS reports. Interestingly, the tower will not be powered by electricity, but by solar energy.

Close and associates of Yegor Gaidar, who currently continues treatment in Moscow after possible poisoning in London , refuse to say in which hospital he is.

In Estonia, the guilty of the use of Soviet symbols in the public place can be sentenced to prison until three years. Such amendments to the Code of Punishment approved the government of the country at the meeting on November 30. After that, the decision was aimed at the final adoption in parliament. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the Estonian government, the amendments law was prepared by the Ministry of Justice.

In accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Transport of Russia on the strengthening of aviation security measures, protection, pre-flight inspection of aircraft, passengers, crews, baggage and goods were strengthened at the Domodedovo International Airport , the press service of the airport reports. An important airport safety element is radiation control.

At the Russian Christie's Trades in London, which took place the day before, the next records were set: the canvas of Konstantin Somov "Russian Pastoral" was purchased for £ 2.4 million, which together with the commission of the auction house will amount to $ 5 million. Now the glory of the most expensive Russian painter passed to Konstantin Somov.

In the forest in Kamchatka, in the area of ​​the roads between the villages of Central and Northern Koryaks on Friday, an unauthorized burial of 50 barrels of toxic chemicals was discovered, even 40 milligrams of which are deadly for humans. There is a danger of infection of local rivers, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka region.

In the UK, one of the most unpopular literary awards was awarded - Bad Sex in Fiction ("The worst description of the sexual scene in a literary work"). She received Jane Hollingshead for the novel "Twenty and Small." Willfish, David Mitchell, Mark Haddon, got into the short list of the award. At the award ceremony, Courtney Love was present.

On Thursday, in Moscow, the official ceremony of the drawing of the final match of the Davis Cup between tennis players in Russia and Argentina, which from December 1 to December 3 to the capital's sports complex Olympic, took place. And on Friday at 12:00 Moscow time, Nikolai Davydenko and Juan Ignasio Chela will be the first to go to the court, then Marat Safin and David Nalbandan will enter the fight.

The parliament of North Ossetia asks Moscow to recognize the independence of South Ossetia. The corresponding appeal to the Russian leadership was adopted on November 30. All deputies voted for the draft draft, reported in the information and analytical center of the North Ossetia parliament. In the near future, the appeal will be sent to the country's leadership.

An attacker who tried to rob the bank was detained in Voronezh, armed with a toy pistol. As Interfax was told on Thursday in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Voronezh region, on the eve of the day, a 25-year-old man burst into the department of Sberbank in the central district of the city. The raider, threatening a gun, demanded that the cashiers give him money.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe admits that Russia has the right to demand from Georgia to respect itself, with such a message on Friday was made by the speaker of the Assembly to monitor Russia's obligations before the European Council of Luke Van Der Brande, RIA Novosti reports. "Representatives of PACE visited Georgia and Russia in order to find out how PACE could contribute to the settlement of the crisis in relations between Moscow and Tbilisi.

The world famous designer Roberto Kavalli visited Moscow. He intends to personally submit a new collection of the spring-summer 2007 season at the show in Moscow. The new collection of a fashion designer, which is a Florentine in several generations, is inspired by the images of his hometown. "I recommend that everyone devote to Florence for several days of their life. The true art there simply hovers in the air.

The operation on the night of November 30 on the rise in the height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was not completely performed. The station could not be raised to the planned height. The next correction of the ISS orbit is scheduled for December 2.