The shocking details of the last years of the life of the deceased author of the legendary hit Alla Pugacheva "Arlekino", the poet Boris Barkas, became known. As it turned out, the longboat died in terrible poverty. The Primadonna learned too late about his tragic fate, just ten days ago she gave the poet a two -room apartment in which he died. Prior to this, Boris Barkas lived for several years in the center of social adaptation for people without a certain place of residence of Lyublino.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Thursday in the Kremlin with the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov. In fact, there was a meeting of two rivals - the leader of the United Russia list met with the leader of the Communist Party of the Communist Party. "I want to congratulate you and the party that you are heading that you have significantly increased your representative office in parliament from 47 to 57 seats.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov considers the increase in cement prices a serious obstacle to the implementation of the “affordable housing” national project and advises the Federal Antimonopoly Service to deal with this issue, RIA Novosti reports. "If cement prices are rising like this, then it is possible to talk about affordable housing only as the desired, and not as an achievable one, because cement is the construction of construction ...

Roscosmos offers everyone from their site by e -mail to send the ISS crew congratulations on Happy New Year. "Dear visitors to the site, Roscosmos addresses you on a proposal to congratulate the crew of the International Space Station on the upcoming New Year holidays," the report said. The press service of Roscosmos assures that the astronauts will definitely receive and read New Year's congratulations at the station, RIA Novosti reports.

The famous chess player, one of the leaders of the opposition coalition "The other Russia" Harry Kasparov admitted that he could not fight for the post of president of Russia. “I cannot do this according to existing laws,” Kasparov said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station. The fact is that Thursday, December 13 is the last day, when it is necessary to notify the CEC about the place of the meeting of the initiative group. But Kasparov failed to find a room for such a meeting.

The main investigative department of the Northern Caucasus of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation on the eve decided to combine criminal cases initiated in connection with the terrorist attacks on buses in North Ossetia and the Stavropol Territory . This happened after the experts recognized the identity of the bombs, and the investigators came to the conclusion that the crimes were committed by the same group, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

The "Fund for the Children's Park of Miracles", founded by the Zurab Tsereteli, abandoned the right of unlimited use of land in the lower imaginates. By order of Yuri Luzhkov, the Department of Land resources should contact the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the registration of permanent use of these land plots during the week.

Japanese scientists designed the world's first robot-sabotage. He can determine the brand of wine, and also name the grape varieties from which this drink was made. Not having time to be born, the robot hit the Guinness Book of Records in 2008, Tokyo newspapers report today. An electronic expert found his stunning tasting abilities thanks to the scanning system with infrared radiation. However, she allows him to masterfully "try" not only wine, but also cheese, as well as apples.

The Ford Auto Concert produces a special version of Mustang with a panoramic glass roof to the American market. The company's statistics agency JD Power and Associates, according to which many motorists with sports cars, would like to have a glass roof in their car, have been based on the creation of such an unusual model. According to the wheel portal, the tinted glass roof of new Mustang sports models has a vinyl layer, which significantly reduces the level of noise and vibrations.

The international criminal network, which sent the largest amount of fake money in the history of this country in the United States, is neutralized in Mexico. More than 1.14 million fake dollars seized on Wednesday the Mexican police in the city of Guadalahara (Halisco) with the support of the North American intelligence services. This was reported in the General Prosecutor's Office of the Latin American Republic.

On Wednesday, the Austrian Baisjamper Felix Baumgartner made a jump from the highest building in the world - Taipei 101 towers in Taibae, the height of which is 509 meters. This was reported by the fact of the fact with reference to News.com.au. The extreme athlete named "Fearless Felix" spent most of the flight in a free flight, and then opened the parachute, landed safely on a busy city street and left for a taxi. “It was my most extreme dream,” Prygun admitted.

The Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences believe that the version of the termination of persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church from the Soviet state was specially fabricated to create an image of "Orthodox" Stalin before the Great Patriotic War.

Director David Kronenberg, the author of the film "Exporting", telling about the crimes of the Russian mafia in London, believes that his picture may appeal to the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Parliament of Ukraine on Thursday will not consider the election of the new prime minister of the country. According to the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the beginning of the Rada meeting, according to the results of active consultations with the leaders of the factions, it was decided that the issue of Yulia Tymoshenko’s candidacy for the post of prime minister, which was repeatedly proposed by President Viktor Yushchenko, will not be considered today.

Inflation accelerated again: vegetables, milk, butter, cottage cheese and eggs were valued, Vedomosti told. In the first two weeks of November, prices rose 0.4%. And from November 26 to December 10 - already 0.7%. A review of newspaper publications devoted to current inflation - on the website "Headings.ru" . In the first two days of December, according to Rosstat, inflation was 0.1%, from December 3 to 10 - 0.3%. Thus, for the first December decade, prices rose 0.4%.