The Moscow authorities consider the possibility of reprofiling the old cinema buildings for other cultural needs if there are more modern cinemas nearby, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the interview of the head of the Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov to the Izvestia newspaper. "Now a fundamental approach to the reorganization of cinemas has been developed.

The monument to the Russian writer, philosopher and occultist Elena Blavatsky plan to establish near the city of Chennai, located in the Southern Indian state of Tamilnad, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Genconsul of the Russian Federation in the Chennai Nikolai Listopadov, which is now in the Indian capital.

In the Stavropol Territory, unknown criminals attacked the former head of the administration of the city of Lermontov Oleg Melnikov and cut it with a knife. According to ITAR-TASS in local law enforcement agencies, the crime was committed the day before late in the evening near the house where the victim lives. As a result of the attack, Melnikov received about 15 stab wounds, it was taken to intensive care.

In the last year in 2011, the Government Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the audience that the consequences of the economic crisis in Russia were overcome. “We have done a lot for this year to strengthen the fundamental foundations of the Russian economy,” Putin believes.

On the eve of Catholic Christmas, residents of Western Europe watched a rare phenomenon in the evening sky. Among the stars, not far from Venus, a bright object slowly flew, behind which a luminous tail stretched - outwardly it was very similar to a comet. Residents of Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany, who were lucky enough to witness an unusual heavenly phenomenon, launched a violent discussion on the network, discussing whether Santa Claus flies over the EU with its deer.

In Russia, at the end of the year, according to tradition, laureates of the Golden Yershik -2011 prize were announced, awarded for the most unreasonable budget expenses. This year, the first place went to the general director of St. Petersburg "International Center for Festivals and Holidays" (MCFP) Marina Fokina. Among the laureates are also President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the head of the Rosmolodezh Vasily Yakemenko, writes New Gazeta .

A powerful earthquake occurred on Tuesday in Siberia, tremors were felt in different regions located hundreds of kilometers from each other: Kyzyl, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo. So, residents of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and neighboring Khakassia on Tuesday, late in the evening, felt underground shocks, RIA Novosti reports. The earthquake occurred at about 23: 20-23: 30 local time (19: 20-19: 30 in Moscow). Chandeliers swayed in the apartments, furniture moved.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court issued a sentence on Monday to a minor young man who killed a native of Central Asia on the basis of Xenophobia. A 17-year-old university student will spend 8.5 years behind bars, and his 19-year-old accomplice, lyceum student Ivan Demin, is 11 years old.

The Tver court of Moscow postponed the consideration of an appeal against administrative arrest for a period of 10 days of the leader of the Left Front movement Sergei Udaltsov, ITAR-TASS reports. Now the next meeting will take place only on January 7th. The opposition itself is currently being treated in the hospital. Making a decision to transfer the complaint, judge Alexei Krivoruchko referred to a document received from the 64th Moscow Hospital, where Udaltsov is now located.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko also suddenly spoke that the country's authorities should listen to protest moods in society. In her opinion, "when so many people go to rallies, the authorities must react." Matvienko also became obvious that the changes in the political system were rushing.

Jahan Polyeva will be headed by the State Duma apparatus, the leader of the Just Russia Parliamentary faction Sergei Mironov said at a briefing on Tuesday. “I hope something will change. Unfortunately, the experience of managing (in the State Duma apparatus) is well known to the generals,” Interfax quotes him. The briefing was held at the premises of the Fair Russia faction, where all its participants literally "melted" from high temperature and stuffiness.

The Housing and Public Utilities Reform Promoting Fund allocated 327 million rubles for the overhaul of apartment buildings in the Moscow region in 2012, another 361.42 million rubles will be sent to the region, the FSR Housing and Public Utilities Corporation said .

The BBC 6 Music radio is prepared to lose music only from vinyl records within one day. On January 1, 2012, the leaders of this radio station intend to “uncover” their players, and some of the DJs will come to the studio with their own collection of vinyl “giants” and seven -inch singles, BBC reports. In British radio, the music on compact disks completely replaced vinyl back in the 1990s.

Record rallies in Moscow against the "falsified" elections to the State Duma and the "political system imposed on top" forced observers to think about who constituted the backbone of the dissatisfied.

The creator of the film "Belorussky Station" Andrei Smirnov asked not to include his new picture "Once upon a time, there was one woman" in the list of nominees for the Golden Eagle Award. This was announced today at a press conference in the Moscow House of Cinema, the chairman of the Expert Council of the award Kirill Razlogov. “Smirnov wrote a letter to us with a request that his tape should not be considered in any way,” said Razlogov.