President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law "On the Budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2011 and for the planning period of 2012 and 2013", the Finmarket agency with reference to the Kremlin press service reports. The law provides for the approval of the main characteristics of the budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2011 and for the planning period of 2012 and 2013, sources of internal financing of the fund's budget deficit.

In the city of Novokuznetsk, the Kemerovo region in the gasoline workshop of the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant, a benzene cotton occurred, one person was injured, the press service of the regional administration on Friday said.

The Foreign Ministry of Georgia through the embassy of Switzerland handed over to the Russian side a note of protest, Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Minister of Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze, said on Monday at a briefing at a briefing.

The Elladsky Orthodox Church turned to Russian circles with a request to help repay the debt for the maintenance of the International Orthodox camp near the Greek city of Livadia. "Today, our debt is 200 thousand euros.

A widget for importing friends from VKontakte has appeared on the “Search for Friends” page on Facebook, reports CNews.ru . To use it, you must enter your VKontakte ID and password. This function first appeared on December 2, but the next day it disappeared from the site for several days. Now, when I try to import friends, I get the error “The VKontakte service is not available now.

Statistics collected using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) cloud service indicates that Russia is the most dangerous for users. In the third quarter of this year, 52.77% of the computers of the Russian segment of KSN were subjected to attacking programs, Kaspersky Lab reported.

In Moscow, a congress of the new political party from the United opposition - the Party of People’s Freedom "for Russia without arbitrariness and corruption." The members of the coalition consider their main task a change in power in the country democratically. During the congress, the charter and the party program should be developed and its leadership was chosen. In addition, the party members agreed to elect a single candidate for the President of Russia in 2012, Interfax reports.

The grandson of Joseph Stalin Yevgeny Dzhugashvili filed a lawsuit in the court in the amount of 100 million rubles to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a demand to protect the good name of his grandfather. The reason for the lawsuit was the adoption on November 26, 2010 by the State Duma by the State Duma "On the Katyn tragedy and its victims", which imposes responsibility for this crime in Stalin and his associates.

A senior employee of the prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory is suspected of a brutal beating of a young child. Currently, the mother of the victim is trying to get a criminal case. The reason for the reprisal was that several teenagers decided to play on the territory of an unfinished mansion of a prosecutor. Now the Solikamsk city prosecutor's office is challenging the decision of the Solikamsk court on illegal refusal to institute criminal proceedings.

In March of the next year, at the Motor Show in Geneva (Switzerland), the premiere of the new station wagon of the South Korean Hyundai, built on the basis of the last generation of the Sonata sedan, will be held. In Europe, the family machine will be represented under the name i40W, and the sedan will receive the designation i40. Today, the first sketches of the future model have appeared on the Web.

The fourth participant in the fight in Moscow was arrested, in which the fan of the Spartak football club Egor Sviridov was shot from a traumatic pistol. By the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court of the capital, 20 -year -old Arthur Arsibiev was detained for two months on Monday - until February 6, 2011, Interfax reports. Arsibiev is suspected of articles 116 (beatings) and 213 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate 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 the process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day occurs, increased by 4.02 kopecks and amounted to 30.9006 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations of "Today" decreased by 13.39 kopecks - to 40.8057 rubles.

The South Korean fishing vessel with 42 crew members on board sank this morning off the coast of Antarctica, 2.5 thousand kilometers south of New Zealand and a thousand kilometers north of the McMurdo base in the Antarctica. As a result of this tragedy, 5 people were killed and 17 were missing, ITAR-TASS reports. The disaster occurred at 6:30 local time (20:30 December 12 to Moscow).

Several hundred people gathered last Sunday in the Moscow district of Strogino for prayer standing in support of the idea of ​​building the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ on Isakovsky Street. The dean (head) of the Assumption District of the capital, Archpriest Stefan, began a prayer service at the site of future construction.

Interbrand evaluated the intangible assets of Russian business. The company compiled a rating of the 40 most expensive domestic brands, reports the magazine "Money" . The study of Interbrand is based on the indicators of companies for the previous financial year. Experts, in particular, calculate the share, profit that the brand itself generates, its strength and risks. Compared to 2008, when the last chart was compiled, Russian TOP-40 brands fell 8% to $ 24 billion.