Another grandiose scandal is flared up in the United States related to the behavior of the military personnel of this country in Afghanistan. A video was published on the Web, on which the marines are demonstratively urinated on the corpses of the dead Taliban, while releasing malicious jokes. The US Marine Corps and the Pentagon began to check on this fact, reports The Telegraph .

The letter of the composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, where he complains about the difficulties with money, not allowing to end the solemn mass (Missa Solemnis), was found at the Brahms Institute in Lubecks, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph . “My low salary and meager health make me strive for a better position,” Bethkhoven wrote to his colleague -composer Franus Shtokhausen in July 1823, four years before his death.

In Kazan, during the detention of January 12, a native of Uzbekistan was destroyed by Rustam Yusupov, who previously announced on Thursday and his wife for committing particularly serious crimes, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan reports on his website . According to the agency, Yusupov was discovered in one of the apartments on Chemists Street on the outskirts of the capital of the republic.

The Moscow CSKA beat Spartak in the fundamental derby as part of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League with a score of 3: 1. The army team immediately went forward with large forces. In the 13th minute, this had fruit - Nikolai Prokhorkin abandoned the first puck in the season, taking advantage of the fact that the defenders did not insure Ivan Kasutin after the throw by Alexei Yashin.

The agreement between the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater and the world famous director Yuri Lyubimov about the production of the Opera Igor’s opera on the stage of the main music theater of the country, RIA Novosti reported, citing the head of the theater’s prospective planning, Mikhail Fichtengolts. “Yuri Petrovich has already met with the musical director of the Bolshoi Theater, Vasily Sinai about the upcoming work,” said Fichtengolts.

The new Internet portal "Rossiyabzdurakov.rf", created under the auspices of "Big government. RF" and the Public Committee of supporters of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, will work in the second half of January. This was reported by Izvestia . “Now the beta version is being tested, the site will be in full after January 15,” said one of the creators of the portal, the famous media manager Raf Shakirov.

The former head of the Yukos Tax Code, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sentenced to 13 years for theft of oil and serving a sentence in the colony of the Karelian city of Segezhi, gave an interview to one of the leading Finnish publications Helsingin Sanomat . The translation of the conversation of the former oligarch with journalists is quoted by the website of the defenders of Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.

In the Tomsk region, among the inhabitants of the village of Petukhovo, the police and investigators discovered a whole criminal group of rapists , the victims of which were two boys and a girl. All seven suspects are in psychological and mental development. At the moment, the number of defendants in the criminal case has grown to seven, five of which are under arrest, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the regional investigative department Pavel Styshko.

The net outflow of capital from Russia in 2011 amounted to, according to the Central Bank, 84.2 billion dollars, more than twice the previous year, Reuters reports. The outflow of capital from the Russian Federation accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 37.8 billion dollars from $ 19 billion in the third quarter. The Bank of Russia previously admitted that clean outflow could reach about $ 80 billion by the end of the year.

The Federal Property Management Agency proposed the candidacy of the former Vice President of Rosneft Peter O'Brien for the election to the Board of Directors of Aeroflot and Svyazinvest and the Supervisory Board of Alros, the newspaper Kommersant writes with reference to sources close to the government. This proposal must be agreed by the Ministry of Economy, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, as well as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin until the end of January.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is going to become the President of Russia in March, continues to give election promises. At a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation on Thursday, he called on the leaders of the regions not to allow jumps in tariffs in the housing sector - and threatened them.

The Taiwanese company ASUStek has challenged the $200 tablet-reader Amazon Kindle Fire, which is in great demand, reports Sotovik.ru . The head of the company, Jerry Shen, demonstrated the new product at a joint presentation with nVidia at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, promising to sell it at the “magic” price of $249. How such a low price will be achieved is not known.

The employee of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Poland, Colonel Mikolai Pshibil, who tried to shoot himself directly at his own press conference, was placed in a psychiatric hospital. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the head of a medical institution in the city of Bydgosh. According to him, the patient was brought to a psychiatric hospital on Thursday morning.

Roscosmos again adjusted the time and place of a possible fall on the ground of the fragments of the Russian interplanetary station "Fobos-Gront". According to the new forecast, the remnants of the apparatus will fall from January 15 to 16 with the central point - January 15 at 16:12 Moscow time, said in a message published on the website of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation on Thursday.

The German police find out the circumstances of the shooting and the impudent murder of the state prosecutor right during the hearing in court. The criminal was the defendant, who opened fire from a pistol at the judge and the prosecutor. The murder, committed on Wednesday at 16:00, is suspected of a 54-year-old resident of the city of Dahau Rudolf U.