The popular director Tim Burton was carried away by the Romeks of the old Disney cartoons and, according to the Ain't It Cool New (Aicn), after "Alice in Wonderland" decided to take up the "Sleeping Beauty". According to rumors, the director plans a phenomenon, and the story familiar from childhood will be told from the point of view of the evil Malefisent, which has begun with Princess Aurora.

The special administrative district of China Hong Kong (Xiangan) remains the territory with the "most free economy" in the world. This is evidenced by the published results of the annual study of the Index of Economic Freedom, conducted by the conservative American foundation of Heritage Foundation together with The Wall Street Journal .

The famous Russian entrepreneur, the head of the Interros holding Vladimir Potanin acquired Carpeneto Villa near the picturesque place of Porto Maurizio on Ligurian Riviera for 4.5 million euros, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Italian news agency Ansa. The purchase was made at a special auction, which was put up by a historical villa, which still belonged to the city authorities of the city of the Empire, to which Porto Maurizio also belongs to the Porto Maurizio.

Exactly 2 months ago, the clergyman Daniil Sysoev did not become. He was shot in the temple on the night of November 19 to 20. About what a person was a murdered priest, who predicted his ambulance, which the deceased in recent years thought, in an interview with MK, the widow of the deceased Julia Sysoeva. As noted in the publication, with Julia the correspondent of the newspaper happened to meet in the very temple where her husband was killed.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate for the next day, increased by 17.57 kopecks and amounted to 29.6941 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

In the framework of a criminal case of a fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse", as a result of which 155 people were killed, two local state supervision inspectors will be charged with negligence. "The investigation in the near future intends to charge under Part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence) to inspectors of the 9th department of the State Duma in the Leninsky district of Perm (where the burned club was located - approx.

Alexander Berdnikov, on Wednesday, took office as head - chairman of the Government of the Altai Republic for the second four years. At the solemn session of the State Assembly - El Kurultai Republic of Berdnikov in Russian and Altai, he took the oath. He was congratulated by El Bashch (public leader) of the Altai people Boris Alushkin, Speaker El Kurultay Ivan Beleekov, the main federal inspector for the Republic of RAS, senators from the Republic Ralif Safin and Viktor Lopatnikov.

The former governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Yuri Goryachev, died on Wednesday at 72 years of life. This was reported in the press service of the Governor and the Government of the Ulyanovsk Region RIA "Novosti" . The representative of the ex-governor did not specify the cause of the death of the ex-governor. The regional government created a commission for organizing the funeral of the ex-governor.

A powerful earthquake of Haiti, having claimed the lives of at least 75 thousand people , was the “result of the tests conducted by the US Navy”, a kind of “educational earthquake”, said the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. He accused the United States of equalizing Haiti with the Earth by "his trials, the ultimate goal of which is the destruction of Iran using a series of earthquakes designed to overthrow the Islamic regime," the Spanish newspaper ABC reports.

Moscow law enforcement officers are looking for four unknown people who abandoned the Lexus car with a whole arsenal of weapons. The attackers themselves safely disappeared in the yards, despite the police firing. In the Lexus car, which was persecuted by police in the center of Moscow, in addition to the machine gun there was another weapon and masks, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement.

A new, budget, but modern car, which the head of the ONEXIM group, Mikhail Prokhorov, intends to produce, can cost 8800 euros, and the path of the future model from the plan to the conveyor will cost about a billion dollars. The press secretary of the Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov announced the project to launch production on a fundamentally new basis of the low-budget city car "using advanced technologies. The most interesting quotes on this topic are given by the site "Headings.ru" .

The leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod pre -trial detention center no 1 insisted on the dismissal of an employee of the institution Yevgeny Romanenko, since it was "afraid" to work with a Buddhist. The captain who became unemployed told about this to the portal Kasparov.ru . According to Romanenko, on January 1, he went to work from vacation.

The main Russian idol of the twentieth century for Russians is Yuri Gagarin. Over the past decade (since 1999), its rating has grown from 30% to 35%, studies of sociologists show. In second place after the world's first cosmonaut in the ranking is the famous Soviet poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky. He is still considered an idol of 31% of Russians, the results of a survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) testify to the results of a survey.

The Lithuanian Sejm voted for the resolution proposed by the deputy Ritis Kupchinskas, which calls for the government to officially contact Russia with a request to pay compensation to persons who suffered during the riots who took place in Vilnius on January 11-13, 1991, RBC reports. The deputy wants compensation to be received before the 20th anniversary of those events, that is, until January 2011.

In Transbaikalia, 55 residents of the boarding house for the elderly and disabled people in the village of Khapcherang Kyrinsky district of the Territory were saved from fire today. They are transferred to neighboring buildings of a social institution, no one was injured. Fire was extinguished by employees of the state fire service and fire squad.