Icons worth more than 50 million rubles, stolen about 30 years ago from the museum in the Vologda Oblast, were found in the Moscow Private Museum, Interfax reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation (GUUR) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. "During the inspection of the premises of the museum belonging to a private collector, the indicated icons were discovered and identified by an employee of the Veliko Ustyuzh Museum as stolen.

The actress of the Lenkom Theater Alla Yuganova filed a lawsuit against the newspaper “Life” about the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation and recovery of non -pecuniary damage in the amount of one million rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the plaintiff’s lawyer Igor Simonov.

On Monday, the South Korean stock market collapsed by more than 4% after the report of the death of the DPRK leader Kim Jong Ira, Reuters reports. The Kospi index decreased by 4.1% and amounted to 1764.42 points. Asian markets also fell noticeably. Japanese Nikkei 225 fell 0.84% ​​to 8331 points. The Australian S&P/ASX lost 2.32%, amounting to 4062.90 points. Hong Kong Hang Seng decreased by 1.94%, reaching 17930.17 points. In Shanghai, the SSE Composite index lost 2.57%.

The Ministry of Transport intends to deprive the Federal Air Transport Agency to provide access to international flights, according to the Ministry of Transport . The agency proposes to transfer the function of issuing the admission to international flights of the Interdepartmental Commission, which may include representatives of the FAS, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Sportsurism, Rostransnadzor and the Federal Air Transport Agency.

The Russian leadership did not react to the death of the former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Gavel, the Kasparov.Ru website reports, while Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday expressed his condolences to the new DPRK leader Kim Jong Yunu in connection with the care of his father Kim Jong Ira. Ex-president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Gavel, died on December 18 at the age of 75 due to complications after a long illness.

A young resident of Moscow suffered during the conflict with law enforcement officers. According to the woman, the police brutally beat her when she and her husband accidentally hit the patrol car in the process of playing. A Sunday walk during the long-awaited snowfall led the 22-year-old Muscovite Elena Astafyev to the hospital bed. Having met the police on her way, the woman was hospitalized with the threat of miscarriage, Life News reports.

The state of emergency in the city of Zhanaozen in Kazakhstan, where mass riots broke out last week, will last 20 days from the date of administration, that is, from December 17 to January 5. They will not spread it to other regions of the country.

The volume of the global car market will grow in 2011 to a record size, despite a number of negative factors, starting with an earthquake in Japan and ending with a long -term crisis in the eurozone, Interfax reports With reference to "Financial Times" .

In Moscow, the police detained a lawyer who fired right in the office of his client. Threatening the businessman weapons, the lawyer demanded money from him. On Saturday, patrol police detained a lawyer at the crime scene, in the northeast of the capital, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. A registered hunting carbine "Saiga-MK" was seized from the suspect, outwardly indistinguishable from the Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on December 19 went on a working trip to Khakassia, where a meeting of the Government Commission for the Development of Electric power industry is being held in Sayanogorsk. Putin also took part in the launching ceremony into operation of the first hydraulic unit of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station and went to the village of Cheremushki, where mainly the station employees live.

The economic situation for the countries that leave the Eurozone will become more complicated even more, while the laws of the European Union will be destroyed for the remaining members, and it cannot be assumed how this may end, the head of the European Central Bank of Mario Drag, commenting on the eurozone prospects in an interview with the Financial Times .

On the fields of the Russia-ES summit last week in Brussels, a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the Secretary General of NATO Anders Foga Rasmussen, at which they planned to discuss the ways out of the EUROPROEL negotiation. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the discussion of the problem did not take place due to the fact that the parties could not decide on the meeting place.

AvtoVAZ completed the translation of the model range to the EU EU EURO-4, ITAR-TASS reports, citing the press center of the car factory. To fulfill the Euro-4 standards, all LADA cars underwent modernization, except for Lada Granta, which was originally developed under the Euro-4 standard. For certification according to new requirements, each model has passed a set of tests for toxicity, noise and electromagnetic compatibility - a total of more than 200 tests.

The Emergency Situations Agency of the Philippines began the construction of mass graves on the southern islands of the archipelago for the burial of the unidentified remains of the victims of the hurricane "yours" , which carried away the lives of hundreds of people. How many victims have to rest in these general burials are not reported, but according to the Red Cross, the death of 652 people is now officially confirmed, and more than 800 are still listed as missing.

In the north of Moscow, a patient died in a clinic of plastic surgery. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies, on December 18 at about 04:12 in the clinic located on the 2nd Baltic Lane, the body of a woman was found in the office of the head doctor, which was treated after surgery to tighten the face and neck. The preliminary cause of death is acute heart failure. A pre -investigation check is carried out on the fact of the incident.