The inscription Arbeit Macht Frei from the gates of the former Nazi concentration camp "Aushvitz-Birkenau" (Auschwitz) was stolen to finance the attacks in Sweden. About this on Friday writes The Times , which is referred by Inopressa.ru . The publication still adheres to the version according to which neo-Nazis committed theft, although Polish police officers had previously refuted it.

Marine services in East Africa report that Ariana with a Ukrainian crew freed from eight -month pirate captivity around the Greek vessel with a Ukrainian crew. The balker was left without fuel and drifts in the Indian Ocean, creating a serious danger to other vessels.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation completed the third and last stage of the exchange of commercial debt of the former USSR for Russian Eurobligation, the ministry said . The amount of debt requirements made to exchange amounted to 405.8 million dollars, their holders were residents of 24 countries.

The first swallow of the crisis in Russia was problems with liquidity in the financial sector. And who used to score the alarm, he used to receive help from the authorities. At the end of 2008, the government allocated over 1 trillion rubles from the budget to maintain liquidity in the banking system.

The number of victims of the fire in the Perm night club "Lame Horse", which occurred on the night of December 5, increased to 152, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Perm Territory reports on Friday. "The number of those who died in a fire in the Lame Horse cafe increased to 152 people.

In the Cuzco region in the southeast of the pen, the bus collapsed into the abyss. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the local police, at least 40 people were killed, 22 were injured. Note that this is far from the first such incident in the Latin American Republic. As the director of the National Police Police Department Enrique Medri said, the incident occurred on a section of the road connecting the city of Espinar and Santo-Thomas, in the province of Velilier.

The Thai police sent to the addresses of criminals listed on the wanted list, the so -called "letters of happiness" with reports of winnings in non -existent New Year lotteries. As a result, the law enforcement officers managed to carry out mass arrests of gullible and floating at New Year's surprises of criminals.

The cost of one of the most popular iPhone 3G phones in the new year will increase from about 20 thousand to 28 thousand rubles, and the price of the new 3GS model in retail will be at least 30 thousand rubles, reports Daily RBC . The rise in price is associated with the growth of the Euro exchange rate - the old batch of the phone were purchased at a lower euro course in relation to the ruble.

An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of Aeroflot - Russian Airlines OJSC on December 25 approved a transaction between airline and VEB -Leasing OJSC to acquire Aeroflot on the terms of financial lease (leasing) of ten new reactive aircraft of the regional class Sukhoi Superjet 100. Earlier, Aeroflot and VEB-Leasing signed an agreement on financing leasing the first 10 Sukhoi Superjet aircraft for a period of 12 years.

The Government of the Russian Federation awarded the prize for 2009 in the field of culture. In accordance with the order, which was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, more than 40 cultural and art figures were included in the laureates, the website of the Government of the Russian Federation reports.

Despite a sharp drop in real estate prices, 40% of Russian citizens, as before the crisis, consider investments in this segment in the most reliable way of savings. At the same time, the share of those who prefer to store money in state banks and cash have almost doubled, and the number of people who want to invest in the stock market has significantly reduced, Kommersant writes with reference to a study conducted by the National Agency for Financial Research (NAFA).

The transfer from January 1, 2012 to the federal level of financing of law enforcement agencies will be carried out by reducing subsidies to the regions, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin told reporters. "We assume that due to the fact that the subjects will be released from the funds (in connection with the transfer of obligations on the maintenance of law enforcement agencies to the federal level - approx.

Mstislav Zapashny was removed from the post of General Director of the State Civil Code of the Russian State Circus, RIA Novosti told the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. "The order was signed on the early termination of the employment contract with the Zapashny under article 278, clause 2 of the Labor Code, by decision of the founder," said the head of the Ministry of Culture Natalya Uvarova.

The appeal of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to eliminate Ukraine and Georgia, perhaps a fiction of Ukrainian origin. Reuters, which published a scandalous interview with the Chechen leader, indicates that Kadyrov’s words were torn out of context with unscrupulous interpreters, writes Gzt.ru.

Olympic champion Turin Yevgeny Plushenko established an absolutely better result in the world in the short program of the Russian figure skating championship, which takes place in St. Petersburg. On Thursday, he received 100.09 points for his rental, which by almost 3 points exceeds its result at the stage of the Russian Cup in Perm (97.35). At the Olympics in Turin, the rental of the short program Eugene was estimated at 90.66 points.