All property of the Moskvich automobile plant, put up for a bidding, was bought on Monday December 4 at the auction by the Metropol management company, Interfax reports with reference to a source close to the bankruptcy trustee of Moskvich. 126 hectares of Moscow land and 750 thousand square meters of real estate went to companies suspected in connection with the organizers of the competition. Two serious applicants - the city hall of Moscow and Mirax Group were not allowed to the auction.

On Monday, the elections of the President of the Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) were to be held, but they were postponed to December 26. In an interview with RIA Novosti, the Presh attache of the Premier League, Georgy Cherdantsev, said that such a decision was made by the leaders of clubs included in the Premier League at the general meeting.

Two Ossetian peacekeepers detained on Monday by the Georgian police in South Ossetia are liberated, the assistant to the commander of the mixed forces to maintain the world (SSPM) in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict Vladimir Ivanov said on the phone from Tskhinvili.

After the victory of the television and radio company "Petersburg" ("Fifth Canal") in the competition for the right to broadcast in Moscow and 28 more regions, the Federal Financial Market Service (FSFR) registered the next additional impact of the television company. The consequence of these changes within joint -stock capital will be the redistribution of shares among the owners of the Petersburg shopping center.

Former presidential candidate of Belarus, one of the opposition leaders, Alexander Milinkevich, was temporarily detained by the police on suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking, his press secretary Pavel Mozheiko said on Monday of Interfax. Milinkevich was delivered to the Belozersk RUVD (Brest region), his car was inspected, personal belongings were also inspected. "Milinkevich was held for an hour and released, as no drugs were found," he said.

A new trend in developers are various consumer bonuses. Given the high cost of real estate attached to the apartment, gifts do not play the role of incentive to purchase, as is the case in the case of consumer goods, but perform an incentive function. Nevertheless, the budget spent on such events is calculated by impressive amounts, and for a long time the companies did not consider such expenses justified.

Russian religious figures took a tragedy in the village of Pryamukhino, Tver region , where the Orthodox priest Andrei Nikolaev, his wife and three young children were alive on the eve.

The Massachusetts Institute (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) announced the creation of a unique polymer. Experiments showed that polymer successfully limits the reproduction of pathogens and viruses. Based on this polymer, it is possible to create antibacterial paints, plastic, fabric and other materials that will destroy dangerous viruses and bacteria, reports Washington Porfile .

In the presidential election in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is the leader. According to the preliminary data of the Venezuela National Electoral Council, after the counting of 78.31% of the ballots, Chavez has 61.35% of the vote, and 38.39% have a single opposition candidate Manuel Rosalez. Although the official results will be announced after the counting of more than 80% of the vote, Chavez is already actually re -elected in the second six -year period, which will begin on February 2, 2007.

The film of the People's Artist of Russia Natalia Bondarchuk "Pushkin. The Last Duel" was released. This is a new look at the circumstances that led to the fight on the Black River and the death of the poet. “It's time to find out the truth” - such is the slogan of the film, ”writes “ Independent Gazeta ” . Natalya Bondarchuk, who devoted more than 10 years of her life to the study of the Pushkin theme, says about her film: "I prepared this film all my conscious life.

The British tabloid The Daily Express claims that the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko could be associated with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The publication indicates that in the Scotland Yard, they consider the possible connection of Litvinenko and terrorists, who may have tried to get a "dirty" nuclear bomb. The newspaper also writes that Litvinenko accepted Islam shortly before his death, and this was a surprise even for his close friends.

The prestigious international prize "For Mir and Human Rights" named after the famous Russian writer and human rights activist Leo Kopelev (1912-1997) was handed the day before to the 78-year-old Catholic theologian from Switzerland, Hans Kunghu.

State Duma deputy Suleiman Kerimov faced problems when creating a united hotel company together with the Moscow government. As Kommersant found out, one of the most expensive Moscow hotels may not be included in the company - National, which market participants estimate at 150 million. Joseph Ordzhonikidze announced the creation of a united hotel company, announced on November 21.

A year ago, many media wrote about cases of mass poisoning of Chechen children with an unknown substance that have occurred since the fall of 2005 mainly in the schools of the Silkovsky district of Chechnya. Then the children were made an official diagnosis of "pseudo -theastmatic syndrome of psychogenic nature." A year later, the condition of more than a hundred cases did not improve.

Analysts of the Swiss investment bank UBS predict a difficult year for the US economy, which will lead to an increase in instability around the world. Any of any significant political and economic events of the world level will cause significant fluctuations in world financial markets. Optimism about economic development in 2007 is preserved only in relation to Asian countries.