A serious car accident with a large number of victims occurred on Thursday near St. Petersburg. According to the latest data, eight people died in an accident. Another 10 victims are hospitalized. As ITAR -TASS reported in the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Leningrad region, at 15:12 Moscow time in the Kingisepp district on the Tallinn highway in the area of ​​Alekseevka, three cars were collided - cargo, passenger and minibus - a route taxi.

The Russians, whose right to paid leave was confirmed at the international level in 2011, will also receive guaranteed right to priority payments in the event of an employer’s bankruptcy, Russian Newspaper reports.

According to the report of the Russian Accounts Chamber, the line of unaccounted officers in the Ministry of Defense has declined only 8.6 thousand people since 2008 and amounted to 113.8 thousand people at the end of November 2011, Izvestia write. Of these, 56.4 thousand need permanent housing due to officers upon dismissal from the army, and another 57.4 thousand in the service one, for living during service.

About five hundred people, according to the correspondent of "Echo of Moscow" , arrived on Thursday to Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow for a promotion in support of Sergey Udaltsov once again arrested for 10 days . No incidents have not yet been noted. The State Duma deputy from Fair Russia Ilya Ponomarev near the monument to Pushkin with Megafon told passers-by about the fate of Udaltsov, whose life in recent months has turned into a “rally-out-sized-iza-old-and-old-handed manner” cycle.

In Kyrgyzstan, an investigation continues on the eve of the hard landing of the Tu-134 airline Kyrgyzstan at the International Airport of the city of Osh. As reported, in conditions of strong fog and poor visibility, the liner hit the ground very much when landing, after which he went to the runway of the runway by about 40 meters. The plane turned over, he had a right wing and chassis.

The outgoing 2011 in Moscow will take the fourth position in the list of the warmest years in the history of meteorological observations in the city, Interfax reports with reference to the Hydrometeorological University of Moscow and the Moscow Region. They also told what the weather will be in the metropolitan region at the New Year holidays.

The group of information security experts found in a number of web technologies used in creating Internet sites, a serious vulnerability that allows hackers to organize attacks of the type “Refusal for maintenance”, without using significant resources, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Naked Security website. Experts told about their discoveries at the "hacker" conference of Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

South Korea asked the Finnish authorities to return the 69 Patriot missiles sent from Germany in the port of Kotka, Interfax reports.

Gazprom gas exports to the far abroad will be below the plan, the chairman of the board of the company Alexei Miller, the FinMARKET reports, officially recognized. In 2010, export amounted to 138.6 billion cubic meters. Miller said that according to the results of this year, the company exports to Europe a little more than 150 billion cubic meters. The preliminary assessment of export to the far abroad, according to the TEC CD, is 150.3 billion cubic meters.

The Hollywood comedian Jim Kerry began a romantic relationship with the Russian student Anastasia Vitkina, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The New York Post . According to the publication, the attractive blonde, which until recently, was called in the American press the "mysterious stranger", Kerry repelled from his friend David Shunmaker. The newspaper also refers to sources according to which the “Russian beauty” is a student living in New York, but her age is not specified.

The head of the Friends Society of Friends of the Vatopedic Monastery, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Rudov expressed his version of the reasons for the court pursuit of the abbot, Vatopeda Archimandrite Efrem. “The reasons, it seems to us, is the main one. The first is the old line of the European Union that Greece understands Afon and open the boundaries, removes individual visa regimes and the reign of the KinoT of the Holy Mount Athos.

A 56-year-old resident of Rostov-on-Don Natalya Lionova before the New Year became richer by 13,384,050 rubles-it was this amount that she won the lottery, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda . Fortune smiles at the woman not the first time - a little over a year ago she almost died in an accident. For safety reasons, the newspaper changed the name and surname of the newly -minted millionaire.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin appointed his former deputy Vladimir Resin by an adviser on a voluntary basis, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's administration. On December 12, Resin was dismissed from his post in connection with the transfer to work to the State Duma of the sixth convocation. Together with him, another deputy Sobyanin, who worked under the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, - Lyudmila Shvetsova. At the city hall, she oversaw social issues.

Three residents of Buryatia complained to the prosecutor’s office at the military commissariat in the Khorinsky district, which did not call them for military service in the Russian army, RIA Novosti reports. Only after the intervention of the supervisory instance were they sent to the troops. The military registration and enlistment office refused young people to call for military service due to the fact that they had a criminal record.

The statistics of the 2011 American rental shows that a crisis of ideas erupted in the film industry. Most of the most popular films of the outgoing year are either continuing franchises, or remakes, or comic book adaptations, OpenSpace reports with reference to The New York Times . In 2011, sequels, restarts of old franchises and comics were released more than in previous years. This shows that directors and studios are not ready to take risks and bet on new scenarios and new faces.