The main version of the collapse of the An-22 military transport aircraft in the Chernsky district of the Tula region, according to the source of the Ministry of Defense, is the "refusal of engine and control systems." Before the fall, the plane did not plan, but fell right away. Experts note that the old anti -icing system "Antea" could not cope with modern weather, writes Moscow Komsomolets on Thursday.

The harsh verdict, issued on Thursday , Russian entrepreneurs Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev will complicate the process of Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization. Such a commentary on the Unsulated Majuted Representative of the US Presidential Administration was distributed by Reuters. According to the official, the Rules of the WTO are based on the rule of law.

In relation to the former head of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Novosibirsk Region Alexander Solodkin, father of the Vice-mayor of Novosibirsk, arrested with his son on suspicion of involvement in the organized criminal community, another criminal case was opened, on Thursday in the RF IC reported.

In the Moscow region, a man was detained who attacked with a knife on a high -ranking policeman right in the police department. A violent citizen was detained on Wednesday in the city of Domodedovo, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the regional investigative department. In the afternoon, the attacker himself came to the Aviation Department of Internal Affairs. It is assumed that the man was in a state of alcohol or narcotic intoxication.

North Korea accused the United States of exacerbation of the situation on the Korean peninsula. According to Pyongyang, this position was led to Washington’s failure to fulfill the obligations of the DPRK in the construction of nuclear reactors on light water, the article published on Thursday in the leading North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun .

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been on interrogation at the Prosecutor General’s Office for the tenth hour, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to press secretary Tymoshenko Marina Soroku. Tymoshenko came for interrogation in the Main Investigative Department of the GPU at 12:00 local time. “She did not have breakfast, did not dine and did not have dinner,” Magpie said.

Director of the Domodedovo airport complex Vyacheslav Nekrasov was dismissed from his position. This was reported by Prime-Tass with reference to a source in the industry. According to the source, Nekrasov was relieved of his post, as he could not cope with the crisis in the past days. The Domodedovo itself confirms that Nekrasov is shifted from the post, but they refute that this happened in connection with the crisis.

On the eve of the New Year, the famous singer Yuri Antonov conducted stenting in the center of cardiovascular surgery named after Bakuleva. According to Life News tabloid, Antonov arrived at the clinic on the eve of December 29, at about six in the evening, and after two hours he was in the operating room. According to the artist’s friends, the operation was planned. Yuri Mikhailovich feels normally. The doctors watching him hope that their patient will be able to celebrate the New Year at home.

For several years, the efforts of the top leadership, Russia lured to itself more or less significant sports and political events. The question of whether the scarce budget can bear all the expenses for these projects remains unanswered, writes “Independent Gazeta” . In the coming years, Russia has already “signed up” the APEC-2012 forum in Vladivostok, the Universiade 2013 in Kazan, the 2014 Olympiad in Sochi, not to mention the construction of Formula 1 and other related projects.

The cost of building the first Mistral -like ship at French shipyards will exceed 700 million euros, a source close to the negotiation process told RIA Novosti agency. "The cost of the first ship will be 720 million euros, the second - 650 million euros," the agency’s interlocutor said. He said that the reduction in the cost of the second building is, in particular, with an increase in the share of Russian participation in construction.

The famous American jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor died in the United States at the age of 89, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. As the musician’s wife told the international agency, he died of a heart attack on Tuesday in his house on Manhattan. “He enjoyed music. The music was his love,” his wife said. The "great statesman and the ambassador of jazz around the world" called his center of performing art forms. J. F.

In the Rostov region, seven people were injured as a result of an accident with the participation of the Neoplan passenger bus and a cargo truck. According to Interfax in the law enforcement agencies of the region, three children from Moscow, who was traveling from Moscow to Vladikavkaz, among the affected passengers. According to the police, the Neoplan bus in the passing direction tangented the cargo truck in the passing direction and knocked over to the side of the road.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad has decided to put his 1977 Peugeot 504 up for auction. The auction will be held at a classic car show in February, with proceeds from the sale going to charity, Iranian media reported on Thursday. According to Interfax , a total of 70 cars will be put up for auction. The proceeds from the sale of the presidential Peugeot will be used to fund a housing construction program for low-income Iranian families.

The Presidential Council for Human Rights plans to create a working group to study the new sentence to the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ex-head of Menatep Plato Lebedev. About this, as Interfax reports, said the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov. "The Council has always followed the progress of this resonance case. And, as in the case of the death of Sergei Magnitsky, the Council, apparently, will create a working group to study the judicial sentence," Fedotov said.

The passenger aircraft of the American airline Delta, on board of which there were 225 people, made an emergency landing in the state of Colorado due to a malfunction in the work of one of the engines, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the AR. During the evacuation process, two passengers received minor injuries, which were immediately hospitalized.