The leadership of the concern intends to expand the audience of Volkswagen by developing the most compact crossover. According to the company, the demand for such products is constantly growing, and the VW task is to satisfy these appetites, they report Auto . Voy.ru. During the first half of 2011, the demand for small crossovers in Europe increased by 81%, largely thanks to the Dacia Duster model.

The theme of the CIA secret prisons in Europe was the reason for the next scandal, this time in Romania. Journalists of the American news agency and the German newspaper SueDdeutsche Zeitung conducted an investigation and found out the location of one of these penitentiary institutions, which, as it turned out, was right in the Romanian capital - Bucharest.

Shooting at the territory of the Polytechnic University in the American state of Virginia could be arranged by a man who, after some time, found a university shot on a park and was first considered a victim of the incident. This was reported by Reuters with reference to local television. As previously reported, on Thursday, December 8, on the territory of the university town in Virginia, two people were killed as a result of a shootout, including a police officer.

The CEC of the Russian Federation completely dissociated from knowingly incorrect data that broadcast federal television channels on the night after parliamentary elections. The explanation needed to wait almost a whole week. Recall that the bloggers have saved the television key with data in the Rostov region.

For more than a decade, investors in relation to Russia were sure of at least one, in its political stability, writes The Financial Times . But the consequences of an unexpected decrease in the support of the ruling party "United Russia" in the parliamentary elections are already felt in financial markets, quoted by the newspaper Inopressa.ru .

United Russia is ready, together with other participants in the electoral process, to understand all the facts of violations in the elections, the party said, noting, however, that the number of violations was insignificant and could not affect the outcome of the vote.

The former general director of the Japanese NPP Fukushima-1, which became known throughout the world after the accident caused by the earthquake and the blow of the tsunami, found stomach cancer. It was because of this deadly disease that Masao Yosida was previously forced to leave his post, reports The Washington Post with reference to Masato Yamaguti, a representative of Tepco, which runs the Fukushima.

As it became known, a corresponding agreement will be signed between the Taganrog Automobile Plant and VTB, which will provide, among other things, the reduction in interest rates on loans issued, RIA Novosti reports. According to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, banks and creditors must once again assess the situation and decide on the restructuring of Tagaz debts.

The Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko knows the reason for the financial crisis in the Eurozone and the USA. She, in his opinion, lies in the habit of living beyond their means.

The operation took place within two days in a turn in the Omsk and Tyumen regions, in Tatarstan, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, reports "Autonews.ru" , citing the press service of the National Bureau of Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In St. Petersburg and the region, 84 cars were detained with signs of changes in units and 19 with signs of falsification of registration documents.

The National Bank of Ukraine plans to make a Russian ruble backup currency in 2012. This statement was made by the head of the National Bank Sergey Arbuzov on Friday. “When we transfer rubles to the first category, then rubles will become our reserve currency, I think it will be next year,” RIA Novosti quotes Arbuzova.

The metropolitan authorities increased the costs of further replacement of urban asphalt with paving slabs. According to the Department of Finance of the city, the waste on the tile will be included in the city program "Development of the Transport System" and amount to 3 billion rubles in 2012. Meanwhile, experts fear that the tiles laid out this year will have to be shifted in many places. This is written by Izvestia , noting that the sidewalks are again "digging up" in the spring of 2012.

Twitter presented a new interface by publishing an overview of updates in the official service blog. The new appearance of the popular microblogging service will be unified for desktop and mobile versions, RIA Novosti reports. This means that the main page content on Twitter.com now fully repeats the application interface for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices, the number of users of which grows noticeably more active than that of the desktop version.

The candidate for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the United Russia party, Alexander Silaev, denied the information that appeared in the media that in the territory of the 18th single-mandate district in the Kolpino district in his favor, the students were voted by students. As the New Gazeta wrote, as a result, young people did not receive the reward they promised.

The EU summit agreed on the creation of a budget pact, which will include 17 countries of the euro and another 6 countries of the European Union, after the night of negotiations in Brussels the chairman of the European Council, Herman van Rompei. Three more countries reported that so far they have no appropriate mandate. So far, only Great Britain rejected the opportunity to approve the document and include it in the fundamental Lisbon Treaty of the EU, ITAR-TASS reports.