The crisis will lead to a revision of the concept of many commercial real estate facilities put up for sale. There will be a quality transition to the number in the segments of office and shopping centers, writes the website of the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to the opinions of market participants.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon decided to appoint the famous American musician Stevie Wander, the messenger of the UN world.

The level of citizens' confidence in the country's leaders has slightly decreased by the end of November, Interfax reports. If, on November 1, 59% of citizens trusted Dmitry Medvedev President Dmitry Medvedev, then by the end of the month there were 54%. In early November, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was trusted in early November, by the end of November - 65%. The latest data is given by the Public Opinion Foundation ( the results of the .pdf survey ).

In the literary circles of the Czech Republic, a real scandal broke out. The largest national book prize was received by the Vietnamese student Lan Fam Tie, but under her name, as it turned out later, the Czech writer was hiding, Radio Liberty reports. The Czech writer Yan Tsembirek managed to create a very skillful hoax.

In the Silkovsky district of Chechnya, in the forest, they found a burial. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Ruslan Alkhanov, the remains belong to the so-called "emir" of the village of TsA-Weden district Turpal Ali Dzhamalkhanov, born in 1990. According to Alkhanov, Jamalkhanov since March 2006 (that is, at 16) was put on the federal wanted list.

In the Moscow region, the son of the famous actor Vasily Livanov, who played in the cinema, was sentenced to the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Boris Livanov was found guilty of the brutal murder of a neighbor, perfect during the celebration of the New Year. The Khimkinsky court sentenced 35-year-old Boris Livanov to 9 years in a maximum security colony, Life News reports. The man was guilty of the death of Igor Khromov, with whom he met in the company of friends in 2009.

The closing of the casino and in general the ban on gambling gave rise to new types of fraud. The owners of the gambling business, who left underground, found loopholes in the legislation and invented more sophisticated ways to "withdraw money" from the population. Experts believe that it is time to talk about mass fraud, and the police calls for the gaps in the law as soon as possible, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . As usual, the crooks tested their know-how in Moscow.

Over the third quarter, Russia lost 6 non -state pension funds (NPFs) - their number in the country decreased to 163 with 169 quarter earlier. Accordingly, the clientele was reduced: for compulsory insurance (OPS) - by 0.52% to 5.57 million people, and non -state support participants (NGOs) - by 0.9% to 6.35 million, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.

Abkhazia officially turned to Ecuador with a request to study the issue of recognizing her independence. This was announced in an exclusive interview with ITAR-TASS by telephone by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, Maxim Gwinjia, who is on a working visit to Ecuador.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines will be able to normalize air fuel reserves , bringing them to three -day, by the end of the week, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of Aeroflot Oleg Mikhailov. Aeroflot carries out work to restore the undeveloped stock to the norms established by the Federal Air Transport Agency. It is planned to restore the entire supply at the end of this week, ”he said.

Atheists from the American Humanistic Association (Yeah) are held on Christmas Eve in the five largest cities in the United States an advertising campaign entitled "Basswood holidays." The purpose of the event is to celebrate the winter holidays with the whole country, not mentioning any religion. The slogans of the campaign say: No God - there is no problem!

Mikhail Khodorkovsky asked the court to get acquainted with the statements of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the Yukos case, voiced on Thursday during a direct televisionist with Russians. He made such an appeal during the next meeting of the Khamovniki court, where the second criminal case is being considered against the ex-owner of the oil company, Echo of Moscow reports.

The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of the most terrible video games in the history of the gaming industry. 10. Doom III Fear FPS FPS shooter John Karmak, even with all his advantages, including terrible monsters and an prohibitive level of violence, had one unpleasant flaw that nullified many advantages. It was as follows: if the player was trapped in a weakly lit corridor of the space station, then one could use either weapons or torch - and never at the same time.

Washington will impose sanctions against Iran if by the end of the year there is no progress in negotiations. According to General James Jones, US Presidential Advisor, the White House administration will introduce new tough sanctions against Iran if the end of 2009 has not been reached in negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. Meanwhile, Moscow may support the tightening of sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Domestic experts call the behavior of the Iranian leadership the defiant.

In November 2009, the distribution of malicious programs under the guise of programs that were allegedly able to track the location of the owners of cell phones was activated. Information about this is given in the November report on viruses and malicious software of Doctor Web . Earlier, attackers who operated the "mobile" topic for the implementation of their schemes did not use harmful programs.