The former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov was repeatedly interrogated as a witness in the case of the theft at the Bank of Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. "On Tuesday, the ex -Gradica visited the interrogation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of theft in the" Bank of Moscow ". After the interrogation, his status as a witness did not change," the source noted.

Police officers detained a gang of natives of the Caucasus in the south of Moscow who made serial robberies. One of the guardians of the law risked his life, as the criminals trying to hide dragged him along the road, hooking him with a car door. To detain two natives of Abkhazia on the Kashirskoye Shosse in Moscow, the police had to use weapons and shoot at the wheels, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

The average cost per square meter in the 100 most expensive apartments put up for sale in the primary and secondary markets of Moscow reached 39.5 thousand dollars by the end of 2011, the metropolitan realtors calculated. This is 1% more than at the end of September 2011, and 7% more than in December 2010.

The Islamic Radical Organization of the Ministry ofBeaters Al-Taihid Val-Jihad published Father Sheikh Abu Khumam al-Atari, a member of the Sharia Council, in which he unequivocally allows to abduct and rape women belonging to another faith.

In defense of the Russian Krishnas and their sacred book "Bhagavad-Gita" as it was ", on December 20, on Tuesday, in the lower house of the Indian parliament, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India Somanahalli Mallai Krishna.

One of the first Duma of the new convocation will be considered a draft law on irrevocable deposits. However, the law is so resonant that its adoption can be postponed for the period after the presidential election, Vedomosti write. Waves of tension in the financial markets of Europe led to a large outflow of capital from Russia. With an increase of 15% since the beginning of the year in August and October, there was a decrease in the volume of deposit deposits in banks.

From the Museum of Aviation Technology in the city of Arnem in the east of the Netherlands, the F104 Starfighter reactive fighter disappeared - more precisely, it is reduced in a scale of 1: 2 copy. However, history still looks mysterious. According to the Air Force , the museum administration discovered the loss on Sunday morning, when the institution opened to receive visitors.

The official website of the Russian Football Union ( RFU ) published a ticket program of the European Football Championship, which will be held in June 2012 in Ukraine and Poland. According to the results of the drawing of the final stage of the Euro 2012, the Russian team fell into group A together with the national teams of the Czech Republic, Poland and Greece. All matches of group A will be held in Poland.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Moscow City Hall released the concept of development of the Losynaya Island National Park, the largest specially protected natural area in the metropolitan region. According to Kommersant , it is expected that Moscow will invest about 2 billion rubles in the organization of parking lots, sports grounds, picnic zones, bicycle paths and horse bases for five years.

IBM has published an annual list of the five most anticipated innovations of the next five years, Next Five in Five, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company’s website. The first forecast is related to green energy . In the next five years, it will be possible to obtain electricity to power gadgets, a home, or an entire city from human activity, IBM experts say. As a result, human body movements, water used in the home and other renewable sources can become an energy resource.

Currently, there are 2.18 billion Christians in the world - almost a third of the population of the planet. Such data are contained in Monday reported on the Forum of the Pew Research Center on religion and public life. As noted in the study, Christians are so “scattered geographically”, living on the territory of more than 200 states that no continent or region can undoubtedly be considered the “center of global Christianity,” ITAR-TASS reports.

On the official website of the State Duma, at some point, the strange could be observed: in the section of the "faction" suddenly increased significantly the representation of every parliamentary party in the lower house. According to RIA Novosti , the United Russia received 540 mandates instead of 238 in the sixth convocation, and the Communists - 149 instead of 92, Socialist -Revolutionaries - 102 instead of 64, LDPR - 95 instead of 56. Total - 886 instead of official 450.

The administration of Barack Obama, despite the “tough measures” promised by Dmitry Medvedev, decided not to share with Russia secret information on the missile defense without the permission of the congress. Such a promise in the White House was given to senators Mark Kirk and James Rich, who blocked the approval of the new US ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFola instead of John Bayerli, the Foreign Policy magazine, which was up to the end of last week.

On Tuesday morning, a signal was lost from the Yamal-201 telecommunications satellite, owned by Gazprom Space Systems OJSC. In this regard, the broadcasting of a large number of satellite television channels was interrupted in part of the territory of Russia and in a number of neighboring countries. The signal disappeared at 09:30 Moscow time, the South Region agency reports. According to experts, problems with the transmitter could arise on the spacecraft.

The Moscow House, where the main characters of the cult film "The Irony of Fate lived, or with a light steam" will soon go under demolition. This was reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda , who visited the 3rd Street Stroitelov, house 25. As is known to many generations of viewers, Zhenya Lukashin was registered in the apartment12 at this address in Moscow, and his random love Nadia Sheveleva in Leningrad. True, now in the south-west of Moscow, the 3rd Street is not found.