Ten days before the new rally “For Honest Elections”, which the Moscow authorities allowed to hold Academician Sakharov on the Avenue , the Russian press, the review of which was prepared by the “headlines” website, asks the question: will it be possible to collect as many people again as on December 10 in Bolotnaya Square ? According to various estimates, from 25 to 85 thousand people with the highest possible number of 30 thousand visited various estimates.

The signing of the protocol on the accession of Russia to the World Trade Organization will become the main point of the agenda of the eighth ministerial conference of WTO members. It opens on Thursday in Geneva, reports Radio "Mayak" . All obligatory documents are planned to be signed on Friday in the presence of the Minister of Economic Development of Russia Elvira Nabiullina.

“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”, a 3D experiment of Werner Herzog, dedicated to rock murals of 32 thousand years ago, goes to Russian rental on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company “Nevafilm Emotion”, which is responsible for the Russian distribution of the picture. The film was shot in the south of France, in the cave of Show, where in 1994 they accidentally discovered primitive painting.

The leadership of the National Basketball Association Club "Orlando Magic" refused to exchange for Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov the New Jersey Nets club of one of the best players in the Dwight Hoadard League. According to ITAR-TASS, citing sources in the league, the Orlando leadership completed negotiations on a multi-way exchange and plans to start the season with Howard in the composition.

The daughter of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was overwhelmed and killed under the mysterious circumstances, demanded an explanation from the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the Libyan authorities. Through his lawyer Nick Kaufman, who received asylum in Algeria Aisha Gaddafi asks to explain whether an investigation has begun about the murder of her father and brother Mutassim.

Russian psychologists master "innovative" methods of searching for pedophiles, which are based on a thorough analysis of children's drawings of alleged victims. During the training and for greater visibility, they analyzed the drawings of the famous Russian writer and poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Fortunately, the traces of the pedophile in the work of the classic were not found, but the classic himself was a sexually preoccupied child, one of the experts claims.

The Moscow City Court decided to dismiss 2 million rubles of the Director of the Puppet Theater Andrei Luchin, who was accused of embezzlement of budget funds and called the head of the Ministry of Culture "Victim of the Law on Tenders." "The court considered the petition to change Luchin a preventive measure from the detention on the cash secure and satisfied it," RIA Novosti reports.

Vladimir Putin sees nothing wrong with the investments of the Russian oligarchs abroad if they do not go to the "junk". The prime minister of purchases by Russian billionaires of foreign sports clubs and the construction of hotels in Dubai during the "direct line" was interested in the opinion of the prime minister. "As for the oligarchs, I would definitely not say. When the funds go to the" junk " - it would be unpleasant, it would be better to in our sport," ITAR -TASS quoted Putin.

On Tuesday, December 13, at the age of 86, from acute heart failure, the American science fiction writer Russell Hoban, the author of the novels “Lev Voaz-iahinov and Iakhin-Vo-Azov” and “Kleintsait” and numerous children's books, OpenSpace reports with reference to The New York Times . Russell Hoban was born in 1925 in Pennsylvania. Throwing his studies at the university, at the age of 18 he volunteered for the army, where he was awarded for valor shown in hostilities.

The US administration may abandon the idea to increase taxes for millionaires in exchange for the consent of the Congress to extend the tax on the wage fund. If the Congress reject the extension of tax benefits for wages, the amount of this tax will be 6.2% instead of the current 4.2%.

The US producers Guild decided to award Angelina Jolie’s military film in the edge of blood and honey " with a special prize for displaying social issues, Reuters reports. The director's debut of the actress, in which she also acted as the author of the script and the co -producer, will receive a Stanley Kramer award for 2012, the guild said.

The social network Facebook announced the psychological assistance program to people who decided to take their own life, RBC reports with reference to the Associated Press. The new service will be available only to residents of the USA and Canada. If the user notices suicidal notes on the page of his friend, he can inform the site administration about this by clicking on the link next to the comments.

Former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, whom Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Thursday in the course of communicating with the Russians his "close friend" and praised professionalism, is in no hurry to meet the head of government reciprocity. The ex-head of the Ministry of Finance said that he was expecting from the prime minister, who claims to be the presidency, new proposals for reform in Russia.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a criminal case has been instituted against a senior guard of order, who arranged a stabbing in the office of his colleague. The reason for the bloody reprisal was the unwillingness of the officer to drink alcohol for the received police diploma.

Lada Granta cars will start in all regions of Russia on December 22, the AvtoVAZ press release said. Earlier it was reported that the budget sedan began to appear in the car dealerships on December 1, 2011. To date, AvtoVAZ has already begun shipment of commodity cars to dealers. As previously reported, almost all the cars manufactured in 2011 will be sent to those who left a preliminary application for the promotional site "Grants".