For the first time in Moscow, the owners of historical buildings ask the city authorities to recognize their buildings by monuments of history and culture, said Alexander Kibovsky, head of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the capital.

Some central banks in Europe began to prepare for some countries to leave the euro or the currency union will completely break up. Credit organizations are thinking about how to reanimate the currency in the form of banknotes that existed until the euro entered into circulation in 2002, writes The Wall Street Journal .

On December 12, the Golevsky Auction House Hôtel des Ventes puts on auction more than 300 exclusive photographs, many of which are signed by members of the Russian Imperial Family. A total of 55 thousand dollars estimated at a total of 55 thousand, this collection belonged to Ferdinand Tormeyer, the Swiss teacher, mentor and adviser to children Alexander III and Empress Maria Fedorovna, brothers and sisters of Nicholas II, Grand Dukes and Princess: George, Mikhail, Ksenia and Olga.

The LuxGen automobile company, which is the only automaker in Taiwan, who has its own center of automobile design and development, expanded its model range with the first four -door Luxgen5 sedan in history, which will join the LuxGen7 MPV minivan and Luxgen7 SUV crossover, reports Avtomuntro.ru . The demonstrated Luxgen5 is nothing more than a serial version of the conceptual development of Neora EV, which was shown earlier this year at the Shanghai Auto Show.

In space, there are about a thousand asteroids with a diameter of one kilometer or more, the trajectory of which can pass in dangerous proximity to the ground. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said the astronomer Amy Minzer from the laboratory of reactive traffic in Pasaden (California), where the NASA surveillance center is based on near-Earth objects.

The summit of the heads of state and governments of the European Union, which opens on Thursday in Brussels, can become fateful. It should, as expected, determine the ways of strengthening budget discipline and strengthening anti -crisis mechanisms in the EU. But high expectations associated with the summit create the risk that investors may be again disappointed with the results, as it already took place after the previous fateful meetings of European leaders, the Finmarket reports.

Pavel Durov, the creator of the VKontakte social network, spoke about the demand from the Federal Security Service to close opposition groups calling for rallies. In addition, Durov went to meet the group in support of the blogger of Alexei Navalny, arrested 15 days after the rally in pure ponds, and changed the engine algorithm, taking off the restriction on the number of comments per day.

The investigating authorities carry out an additional verification of the circumstances of the unlawful distribution of land in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, to which, according to the investigation, employees of the Moscow Region and Police were involved, the deputy head of the second department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region Irina Spasskaya told

The International Monetary Fund believes that Russia's GDP will grow at a smaller pace than previously expected in 2012. The fund reduced the forecast from 4.1% to 3.5%. In 2011, an increase is expected at 4.1% (the previous forecast was 4.3%), the head of the Mission of the International Monetary Fund in the Russian Federation of Yukh Kakhonen said on Thursday.

The Office of the President of Russia registered in Rospatent for the FSUE "Trading House" Kremlin "Six trademarks in the class of alcoholic and non -alcoholic beverages containing the word" Kremlin ". The Kremlin plan to organize a business, giving a license to use trademarks to manufacturers in exchange of royalists. Experts are sure that now to rely on" Kremlian drinks " Only those who do not know about protest against elections to the State Duma may noted, notes RBC Daily .

Since yesterday, the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow Elena Baturina officially ceased to be the owner of Inteko, which she created in 1989. The new shareholder, the co -owner of Binbank, Mikail Shishkhanov, intends to change the name of the company, and in the future hold an IPO developer, Kommersant reports.

According to the Japanese manufacturer, the campaign will affect 118,000 Juke cars around the world, reports Reuters. The reason for the recall is faulty door locks and a defect in a turbocharger. Juke review is not the first mass campaign announced by Nissan this year. In April, the car concerns already recalled 196 thousand SUVs Pathfinder and Infiniti QX4 due to faults in steering.

Supplies in the elections in favor of United Russia, whose video protests were not impressed by neither President Dmitry Medvedev, or even more so the head of the Central Election Commission and, as Medvedev put it, the "almost wizard" of Vladimir Churov, caused an unexpected response among the former head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin. More precisely, only one video caused - about the theft of ballots and the “drawn” voices in the Arbat polling station No.

On the website of the electronic petitions of the British government, the collection of signatures under the petition has begun with the demand for the posthumous rehabilitation of the outstanding British scientist Alan Turing, which is considered one of the programming fathers and the founder of modern principles of storage of digital information.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on the eve rejected the claim of the management company (UK) Kopernik Property Management (KPM) to the mother of the Olympic Figure Champion Tatyana Navka -Raise to recover over 700 thousand rubles of debt for non -payment of utilities, the RAPSI agency said.