The prosecutor’s office defended the rights of residents of the village of Pervushino, Sudislavsky district of the Kostroma region for free water supply, protesting the decision of the public utilities to charge a fee for the use of wells, the regional prosecutor's office said on Friday.

In connection with the US plans to develop a missile defense system (pro) in Europe, in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Russian Federation, and the unwillingness of the American side to provide any guarantees, the Russian armed forces will continue to take the steps necessary to preserve parity in this area.

Protocol number two to the intergovernmental agreement of 2000, which provides for the supply of an additional 42 sets for the licensed assembly of Su-30MKI aircraft in India, was signed on Friday in the Kremlin according to the results of the Russian-Indian meeting at the highest level, Interfax reports.

It became known that the American unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-170 landed on the territory of Iran on December 4 as a result of the long-known vulnerability of the GPS navigation system, which makes possible replacement of coordinates, reports Securitylab . According to official figures, the plane was lost due to a malfunction in equipment. Iranian specialists managed to replace GPS data, as a result of which he landed in the place where they needed.

The Russian media, analyzing the on the eve of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the direct line of the proposal to reform the political system, wonders whether some concessions that the authorities are ready to go to, can be considered a turn to liberalization. Experts suggest that Putin is poorly adapted to a new reality with the strengthening of Russians protest moods, however, the awareness of the need for change pushes him to a partial destruction of the created vertical of power.

The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights next week will present his report to the head of state in the so-called "second case of Yukos", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the chairman of the Council of Mikhail Fedotov, who is on a business trip in Washington. As Fyodotov specified, the report will be sent to the coming President Dmitry Medvedev on the near Wednesday and at the same time presented to the public at a meeting of the Council.

Students of the University of the Filippines in Manila arranged a massive race with naked through their territory of their "Alma-Mater". Several dozen male students participated in the action. With their actions, they want to draw attention to environmental problems. There were only masks on the clothing nudists, reports Reuters. In their hands they held posters with environmental slogans.

The prosecutor's office of the Tomsk region canceled the decision on the suspension of the criminal case on theft of the funds of the Tom football club and sent it to a further investigation due to the incompleteness of measures taken, the press service of the department reports.

A resident of Bangladesh brutally crippled his wife. The motive for the reprisal of the ignorant family tyrant was the desire of the victim to get an education. The victim herself told about a terrible crime, who returned to her parents and does not intend to return back to her husband, BBC television and radio company reports. The bold girl also did not refuse her traction to knowledge. Now the 21-year-old hava actor Jui learns to write with his left hand and is going to enter the college.

Vice President of Syria Faruk Sharaa is waiting in Moscow "for a serious conversation." As ITAR-TASS reports, a source in the Kremlin told reporters about this. "Those who say that we will praise or stroke the head of the vice president of Syria are mistaken," the source said.

The Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin handed Boris Gryzlov, who stopped his work in the State Duma, Peter Stolypin's medal. "Boris Vyacheslavovich, the Duma that you headed for two terms, completed my activities. I want to thank you for the joint work and give you a government award - Stolypin's medal," said Putin, quoted by ITAR -TASS Gryzlov, thanking the prime minister for a high award, noting that the State Duma interacted very closely with the government.

On the night of Thursday to Friday in Russia, official sales of the iPhone 4s smartphone started. A fashion gadget can be bought from MTS operators and Vimpelcom (Beeline), as well as in the retail networks "The White Wind", "Euroset", "Ion", "M. Video", "Svyaznoy", "Eldorado". The smartphone will be sold in three modifications - with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB of memory, all of them are represented in black and white.

Google has published a traditional ZEITGEIST report, dedicated to the most popular search queries of residents of different countries from January to the end of November 2011. The Russians did not go unnoticed - a hot dozen requests received from the territory of the Russian Federation was compiled. As you can see, our compatriots have completely different interests than the rest of the planet.

Russia sank another step in the global rating of the population, being in eighth place with an indicator of 142 million 857 thousand people. According to the results of the previous census (2002), the country took seventh place in the ranking of population. However, in 2002-2010, the number of its inhabitants decreased by 2.3 million people (1.6%).

More than 15 thousand inhabitants of the Czech Republic profess the faith of the Jedaee knights from the Star Wars. This is evidenced by the results of the official census. “Many people adhere to the moral values ​​of the Jedican knights from the Star Wars saga,” the Czech statistical administration says, which at the same time notes that this faith has also acquired its followers in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain.