Lecturer at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Agafonov, who died at the nightclub of The Real McCoy in Moscow on the night of December 16, was killed in a quarrel for an absurd occasion, and not because of the girl, as previously reported. The circumstances of his death resemble the conflict between the fighter of Rasul Mirzaev with the namesake of the deceased Ivan Agafonov last summer, but the reason for the quarrel, as the press found out, is another.

The chairman of the Moskomstroyinvest Konstantin Timofeev said on Monday that decisions on the allocation of sites for the construction of new mosques in Moscow, as reported on Monday in the information of a number of media, was not accepted. This is stated in a letter signed by Timofeev, which is at the disposal of the Interfax agency.

An analysis of housing prices in the USA and Russia shows that with incomparable quality, Russian prices are not inferior to American, the Russian blogger Spydell came to the conclusion, which independently compared the prices of apartments and houses in the USA and Russia for the largest cities. So, according to his calculations, housing prices in the center of Moscow correspond to the cost of apartments in the best areas of New York. In St. Petersburg, housing stands like in Los Angeles.

The famous American inventor and futurologist Ra Kurzweil became the director of Google Engineering Development and a member of the Corporation Board of Directors. He will engage in projects related to machine training and processing of linguistic data, open systems report. To date, in addition to the prediction of the future, Kurzweil has led him to the company that develops a speech recognition system.

The painting "I will be near" directed by Pavel Ruminov was recognized as the best films of the international festival of films about human rights "Stalker", whose closure ceremony was held on Saturday evening in the capital's movie house, RIA Novosti reports. The jury of the contest of the features of the directors of Valery Ahadov, Alexei Muradov and Andrei Osipova was also noted by the actress Maria Shalaeva, who performed the main role in the film, also celebrated the actress in the film.

The decision of the shareholders of the Norilsk Nickel to pay CEO Vladimir Strelkovsky $ 100 million for compensation payments caused indignation from the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. He believes that the company's owners must explain their decision to the company.

The national airfield and study of the US space (NASA) will have to part with the EBB and Flow gravitational probes. Satellites can no longer continue their mission due to a lack of fuel, and also because over time they sank into too low orbit, with which it is impossible to reliably fix gravitational changes, according to the NASA website.

The Internet Gooping boom brought young representatives of the middle class in line to the "Russian Post". Last year, the Russian Association of Electronic Communications and the Higher School of Higher Professional Education rated the turnover of a national online retail at 309.4 billion rubles. Physical goods, which are engaged in the “Russian Post”, account for 75%. The authors of the study predicted the market for 27% at the end of 2012, says Kommersant Money .

In the American city of Sidar Lake (Indiana), the police arrested a man who threatened to arrange shooting in elementary school. “The 60-year-old von Ai Meyer was arrested, who threatened to deal with his wife, as well as“ kill as many people as he could “in a local primary school,” ITAR-TASS reports citing a state police representative.

The fisherman Alexander Abdullaev, found at the end of November in the Yakut Taiga, admitted to cannibalism, was told by Sakhapress.ru in the investigative bodies of Neryungri. After four months of wandering of four people who went to the taiga supposedly fishing, two were found - Alexander Abdullaev and Alexei Gorulenko were found. Later they found the corpse of one of the two more missing ones - chopped off with an ax and almost completely devoid of flesh.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Damascus confirmed the fact of the abduction of two Russians, one of them has Russian-Syrian citizenship. This was reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the press secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission Sergey Markov. “Three citizens were stolen in the Tartu -Homus highway,” a press attache confirmed.

Twitter microblogging users have the opportunity to download the archive of their messages, RIA Novosti reports with reference to TechnicCrunch technoblog. In July, the general director of Twitter Dick Kostolo at a meeting with reporters promised to launch the opportunity to download the archive of messages. In September, Kostolo said that this functionality would be launched before the end of the year, and now this promise, apparently, began to be fulfilled.

In the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory, at an unregulated move, there was a car accident involving a car and a diesel locomotive. "The emergency happened at about 15:00 Moscow time. The driver of the VAZ car drove to an unregulated railway crossing, on which the train was moving. As a result of a collision, the locomotive dragged the car several tens of meters. The Lada driver was injured, " Interfax reports.

Thanks to the sixth contract, Lionel Messi is a leader in the standings of the Spanish championship Barcelona defeated the second “Atletico” with a score of 4: 1. The gap of Catalans from the Madrid club increased to nine points. The leader of the leaders seemed to the duel of the best scorers of the championship - Messi and Falcao.

The Moscow authorities will spend about 105 million rubles to ensure that on the New Year holidays, residents of the capital are able to entertain themselves not only by watching the TV. From December 20 to January 8, 1300 events will be held in the capital, the main of which will take place on New Year's Eve on Lubyanka, Manege and Tverskaya, Interfax reports. Celebrations will begin with trips around the city of street artists in Mandarin Mobiles.