US President Barack Obama, together with his family, took part in the annual charitable concert dedicated to Christmas, Interfax reports with Loskoa to local television.

In the Primorsky Territory, investigators clarify the circumstances of the murder of a man in which the girl raped by him is suspected. According to the preliminary version, she killed the rapist who had beaten her for self -defense. Under the investigation was an 18-year-old resident of the city of Nakhodka, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation in the Primorsky Territory Aurora Roman.

The leadership of Rostelecom is developing a program for increasing the efficiency of local telephone networks. Only to modernize communication networks to the operator will require up to $ 10 billion, writes RBC Daily . The program attracts attention thanks to the proposal to reduce Rostelecom by half by 2023. Optimization proposals primarily concern the administrative and managerial personnel of the operator.

In the west of Moscow, the police discovered an abandoned half -year -old child. His mother, as it became known to the law enforcement officers, drank drinks with a man all evening, after which she left a stroller with her son and did not return for her. The kid was not injured from frosty night air - the doctors took him to the child’s house. The police are looking for the boy’s mother and prepares documents on the deprivation of the parental rights of her and the father of the infant.

The picture of the Russian director Inal Sheripov "White Film" continued her triumphal procession through festival screens. On the famous film take place in Monaco, a short tape was awarded the highest assessment of the jury, receiving the prize in the nomination "Best Art House Film), ITAR-TASS reports. “This picture, of course, became the decoration of the festival,” the organizers said following the award ceremony on Sunday.

The action "march of freedom" , which remains less and less time, is still not agreed. According to Interfax , the opposition failed to reach the consent with the metropolitan government. “Today, negotiations with the mayor's office are over. So far, no decision has been made. Tomorrow the discussion will continue,” said Sergey Udaltsov, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Opposition.

The press service of the Ivolginsky Datsan (Buddhist Monastery) located in Buryatia, where the residence of the Supreme Lama of Russia is located, talked about the attitude of the Buddhists to talk about the end of the world, which, according to the assumptions of those who believe in the prophecies of the Mayan Indians, should occur on December 21 of this year. Buddhist lamas have their own conviction.

Apple and Google decided to unite to buy a Kodak patent portfolio, which includes about 1.1 thousand patents. In the summer of this year, Apple and Google tried to buy patents separately and headed two competing groups. Apple also included Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures Management, and Google groups based on Android RPX and Asian, Bloomberg said. Initially, Kodak estimated its portfolio of patents in the amount of 2.21 to 2.57 billion dollars.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the lawsuit of the Machine Concert concert agency to the MTV television channel (Energia TV CJSC) to recover 100 thousand rubles for violation of the rights to use the song of Victor Tsoi "There is no time, but there is no money," RIA Novosti reports. The plaintiff believes that the television channel used Tsoi’s song in one of the programs, which violated its exclusive rights to text, music and execution.

The DJs of the Sydney radio station , whose DJs of the DJs on the phone actually brought to the suicide the nurse of the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, had to make excuses and apologize. At the same time, the company claims that in the actions of the presenters who in an original way tried to find out about the health of the royal person, there was nothing illegal, writes Sky News .

Arsenal London football club is ready to start negotiations on the transfer of Zenit midfielder Igor Denisov, says the British edition of the Daily Star . According to the newspaper, the British are ready to consider different options for the transaction, one of which is the exchange of Denisov for 31-year-old Andrei Arshavin. The foggy Albion believes that the decision of the leadership of the St.

In 2013, Lamborghini, on its 50th anniversary, will release an exclusive new model, reported by Automotive News with reference to the head of the Italian automobile industry Stefan Vinkelman. According to Winkelman, the new Lamborghini will be built in a single copy, while it should be an absolutely “fresh” model. The novelty will not be a successor to any existing Lamborghini and will not be a variation of one of the classic models.

The Government of the Russian Federation supported a number of amendments to the law on compulsory motor third party liability insurance. In particular, officials spoke in favor of increasing compensation in cases of property damage and harm to life and health. They also proposed a new compensation scheme - it is assumed that insurers will pay faster under it, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta .

While the Russian opposition meets the anniversary of the first thousands of rally in Bolotnaya Square, one of the most noticeable political transformations of recent times is a year. It was December 10, 2011 at the protest campaign for the first time an apolitical TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak was first seen.

In the Kostroma region there was a strange situation with bread prices: local residents are sold at a very high price, as a result of which people are forced to buy in the neighboring Ivanovo region. There, surprisingly, the same bread taken from Kostroma is cheaper, the governor of the Kostroma region Sergey Sitnikov said at an operational meeting on Monday.