The first public gay regorge in the US Armed Forces occurred at the Virginia Navy, where the OAK Hill landing ship arrived after an 80-day campaign, the Hampstonoads.com website reports. Among those who met on the shore was a 22-year-old foreman Sitlalik Snell, she waited for the 23-year-old foreman of the 2nd grade Marissu Gaet. When the latter left the side of the ship, two sailors merged in a kiss under the approving exclamations of others.

Fans of the Lord of the Rings received this week the first trailer prequel “Hobbit: an unexpected journey”, which may be the expectation of the first part of the film, which goes to the screens only a year later - in December 2012, Reuters reports. The Hobbit will become the fourth film of the Oscar -winning director, shot according to the works of the cult writer John Ronald Ruela Tolkien after the epic trilogy of the Lord of the Rings.

Moscow anarchists set fire to the United Russia office, located at the Enthusiasts highway, d. 98 A. As the Echo of St. Petersburg transfers, a video clip with an anarchist blog was posted. He is also published by the radio station on his website. According to the Echo, the action was made by representatives of the so -called "anarchist Gerilla", already known by similar attacks on the buildings of military commissariats and arson of cars.

The young singer Sergei Savin, who was noted by Alla Pugacheva, was seriously injured in a road accident in Moscow. The winner of the television show "Factor A", who was forgiven for candidates for a trip to Eurovision, is in a state of coma in one of the Moscow hospitals. The accident occurred on Wednesday night, December 21, in the northeast of the capital, Life News reports.

The tragedy with the Kola drill platform , which, when towing in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, got into the storm and sank , can become the largest in the number of disasters who died in the history of disasters in this area. Recall that on board at the time of the crash of December 18 there were 67 people, only 14 of them were saved. The remaining 53 people, apparently, died: according to the latest data, 17 bodies were pulled out of the water, 36 people are still considered missing.

The Moscow Metro will refuse to introduce quick Internet access using Wi-Fi technology, RIA Novosti reports. The head of the Moscow metro, Ivan Besedin, told reporters on Thursday that there will be difficulties with the Wi-Fi installation and that the capital's subway needs another method of wireless Internet access. The technological connection on the metro lines is now working in the same range as Wi-Fi, so the imposition of these systems is impossible.

On the eve of Tbilisi, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church was held. It passed under the chairmanship of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II . The Synod of the Georgian Church gathers 2 times a year, and all bishops participate in it.

The army of the Russian Federation does not refuse the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle, the defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov explained in connection with the termination of the AK-74 procurement actively discussed in the press. "For some reason, everyone decided that if the Ministry of Defense did not conclude large -scale contracts to purchase a Kalashnikov assault rifle, then they almost remove him from weapons.

The Warsaw Hotel Bristol, in which the Russian team will settle during the Euro 2012, was the second largest in Poland among the places in which other teams - participants in the tournament will live. Accommodation in it will cost the Russian delegation of 30,400 euros per day, reports the Polish Internet publication Sport.pl . The most expensive hotel was chosen by the Portuguese team - for each day, held at the resort at the Remes Sportspa hotel in the vagor, it will pay 33,174 euros.

The founder and many years of Apple, Steve Jobs, was posthumously awarded the Awards of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Sound Recording of the United States, awarding the most prestigious Grammy awards in the world, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the CBS News television channel. Jobs died on October 5 of this year from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

The prosecutor's office of the Tomsk region initiated the initiation of a new criminal case on the fact of abuse of authority by a person performing managerial functions in Tomi, the press service of the department said. The prosecutor’s office of the region conducted the legality of the legality of the property of the non -profit partnership “Football Club Tom” from its righteousness.

The Association of Television and Film Producers sent a letter to the administration of the VKontakte social network demanding to delete more than 500 films from the pages of the resource. "Placing (reproduction) on your site and bringing your site to the general information of the audience of audiovisual works of members of the Association is largely illegal.

The New York court extended for 4.5 years the deadline for the son of the famous Hollywood actor Michael Douglas for the use of drugs in prison. The corresponding verdict against 33-year-old Cameron Douglas announced on Wednesday the federal judge Richard Berman, ITAR-TASS reports. In April last year, Douglas Jr. was sentenced to five years in prison for the storage and distribution of drugs.

The Forensic Medical Commission confirmed the diagnosis of psychiatrists who recognized the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik mentally insane , Interfax reports with reference to the Norwegian NTB news agency. “We have no serious objections to the diagnosis,” said the head of the commission Karl Hinrik Mellle.

Boris Akunin’s novel “The whole world of theater”, which at the end of October was already checked for extremism at the request of the convicted person of the leader of neo-Nazi-killer Alexei Voevodin, nicknamed the SVR, was again requested by representatives of the publisher for verification for a similar violation. “You won’t believe it, but the Zakharov publishing house has come again. You won’t believe it - with the same.