The European division of the VISA payment system introduces a new transaction safety system based on determining the location of cell phones, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Fast Company . This method of preventing cases of fraud with bank cards is based on the assumption that a mobile phone is usually inseparable with its owner.

EU President Herman Van Rompei positively took the statement of the Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili that Georgia would not use force against Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “Taking this opportunity, I would like to welcome Georgia’s commitment to the non -use of power,” Van Rompei said, speaking at the plenary meeting of the OSCE summit in Astana on Wednesday.

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth the second attended the world premiere of the new film from the Chronicle of Narniy - Water Dawn, which took place in the British capital on Tuesday evening, RIA Novosti reports. Every year, the queen and her husband become guests of one of the British film award, who is assigned the title of “Royal Film Susean”, and all the collections from her go to the charity foundation of cinema and television.

A decision was made to sell 7% of Sberbank shares in 2011, the head of the bank German Gref said during a television conference with employees. According to him, as the Finmarket reports, it is planned to "sell 7% with a tail." At the same time, Gref believes that part of these shares could be sold in the open market, part of a strategic investor. “The deadlines are probably the next year,” he said.

If it were not for the rank of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', the head of the Russian Orthodox Church would love to fly into space. This was announced by RIA Novosti the head of Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov, who accompanied Patriarch Kirill after the ceremony of the consecration of the new temple in the star town near Moscow. During the meeting with employees of the star town, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was in detail interested in the device and management of the Soyuz ship.

In the Rostov region, a criminal case has been instituted against a hunter suspected of murder by the negligence of his comrade. The hunter tried to jump out of the car to shoot at the hare, but instead mortally wounded the driver. According to investigators, the suspect in November 2010 during the hunt in the Neklinovsky district asked the driver to stop the car.

On December 1, Audi, as promised earlier, officially introduced a new generation of A6 business class sedans. The car received a spectacular squat body, similar to the flagship A8 model, as well as a line of new economical engines, the most powerful of which is capable of dispersing the “six” to “hundreds” in just 6.1 seconds, reports WorldCafans .

The Moscow police detained the guard of one of the kindergartens in Northern Tushin, who is suspected of sexual violence against children. It has already been established that his victim was a 3-year-old girl. Stepan Prokhorov born in 1951, who worked in this preschool as a security guard, is suspected of rising pupils of kindergarten No. 1903 , RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) Vladimir Markin.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday issued an acquittal of nine defendants in the case of the abduction of the Euroset forwarder Andrei Vlasin, the Russian Agency of Legal and Judicial Information ( RAPSI ) reports. Thus, he approved the decision, which was made on November 17. The process in this criminal case began on August 30. Boris Levin, Andrei Ermilov, Sergey Kutorgin, Vitaly Tsverkunov, Alexey Olesik, Vladimir Ilyin, Roman Chichkov, Yuri Rogov, Alexander Kurt, were on the dock.

The investigating authorities canceled the decree on the announcement of the federal wanted list of businessman Viktor Baturin. As his lawyer Andrei Smirnov told the Russian agency of legal and judicial information (RAPSI), the investigator of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate really issued, after Baturin once could not appear for investigative actions in the fraud case.

The UEFA control and disciplinary authority made a number of decisions regarding the match of the group stage of the Ajax Champions League - Real Madrid, which took place in Amsterdam on November 23. The subject of proceedings was the inappropriate behavior of the coach of the Madrid “Real” Jose Mourinho, as well as the players of Khabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, Iker Kasilyas and the hedgehog of Dudek.

Police officers detained a resident of the village of Gorokhovo in Irkutsk, who on Wednesday in the morning fired from a hunting cut on the building of the Government of the Irkutsk Region. The emergency occurred at about 10 hours local time. An unknown man fired at the building of the government of the Irkutsk region. The signs of the administration of the Irkutsk region and the legislative assembly were damaged, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. “During this incident, no one was injured.

The first two matches of the 1/4 finals of the Cup of the English League took place on the foggy Albion. The London Arsenal quite predictably won the Wigan (2: 0), but the other favorite of the Premier League "Manchester United" unexpectedly defeated from the modest "West Ham" with a score of 0: 4. “Mu” went to the match with a club, which occupies one of the last lines in the championship of England, not in the strongest composition.

In the fall of 2010, the threshold of purchasing in the market of elite real estate compared to 2008 decreased to 15%. The reduction in the price of elite objects began precisely in the fall of 2008. In the initially inexpensive apartments, the price drop occurred at 5%, and if the object was more expensive, then the reduction in cost reached 15%. According to Interfax , citing a study of analysts, it was very problematic to buy elite housing for $ 1 million before the crisis.

The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to resume in 2012 the holding of joint exercises with the US Armed Forces, the press service and the head of the department of the press service and information department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the Ground Forces, Lt. Col. Vlasov, said on Wednesday. In the summer of 2010, Russia, the USA and Canada for the first time conducted joint exercises of the Air Force.