The planned visit of the Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych to Vladimir Putin fell due to the insufficient preparation of the Ukrainian chapter for the meeting. In any case, they explained the need to transfer today's trip to Moscow on the website of the President of Ukraine. The meeting of Putin and Yanukovych was planned to be devoted to issues of Ukrainian-Russian cooperation, primarily in the energy and trade and economic spheres.

In the loud anti -corruption campaign, which the authorities deployed almost two months ago, it seems that there was a lull. And it is unlikely that this is a lull in front of the storm, experts believe. More recently, the cases of Oboronservice and the ex-minister of agriculture Elena Skrynnik seemed inexhaustible sources of information.

Someone forged the signature of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation, Sergei Magnitsky, under consent to hospitalization in the hospital of "Sailor's silence." This was announced in the Tver court of Moscow an expert who conducted a handwriting examination of the medical history of Magnitsky, Interfax reports.

In the Republic of Udmurtia, a pre -investigation check is being conducted on the fact of a daring attack on the state prosecutor in the court building. The prosecutor's office tried to kill the mother of a minor young man, found guilty of murder with a scarf and knife. However, the official saved the judge passing by. The emergency happened at 9:30 Tuesday in the Votkinsk District Court, the official website of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation reports.

The day before, it became known that the Ministry of Finance in the spring of 2013 will amend the State Duma, according to which luxury real estate will be taxed by an increased tax rate. However, owners of this type of housing will be able to get away from the additional fee for it, experts who are interviewed by Kommersant-FM say, so that the new collection will hit the middle-class representatives most of all. Elite real estate owners will pay increased taxes in 2014.

The New Delhi police took custody of the passenger transport driver, who is suspected of involvement in the daring group rape of the girl. The victim abused the suspect’s bus, and her boyfriend was present. The attackers brutally beat the pair, and after mockery they threw them on the move from the bus. Currently, a 23-year-old student-medical student who received serious injuries is in the hospital. Hospitalization was required for her friend, reports Ninemsn .

Russian boxer Denis Lebedev held the first successful voluntary protection of the world champion according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) version of the first heavyweight, defeating the representative of Colombia Sylgadom Silgado in Moscow in the Crocus City Hall Arena.

The romantic comedy with the sports bias "Playing for Keeps" headed the table of Russian rental leaders following the results of the past weekend, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kinobusiness portal. Over the past weekend, the story of the "star" football player performed by Gerard Butler, who was the will of the fate of the children's team coach and caused unprecedented excitement among the mothers of the wards, earned $ 1.2 million.

The head of the Papal Council for Social Communications, Archbishop Claudio Maria Chelly, announced on the eve of the Vatican radio that the number of subscribers for the account of the Papa of Roman Benedict XVI @Pontifex in the Twitter microblog in eight languages ​​exceeded two million.

The most elderly resident of the Earth - an American of Italian descent Dina Manfredini - died in the city of Johnston (Iowa) at the age of 115. This was reported by her granddaughter Laurie Logli. The Guinness Book of Records called Manfredini the oldest resident of the planet less than two weeks ago - after the 116 -year -old American Bessie Cooper died on December 4.

One of the largest American banks Morgan Stanley, which was the main underwear during the IPO of the social network Facebook, will pay a large fine to Massachusetts. Violation of laws governing the distribution of analytical data will cost a credit institution $ 5 million, Reuters reports.

Several Russian tourists almost died on Phuket Island in Thailand under a collapsed construction crane, Interfax reports citing local media. The boom of the lifting crane collapsed onto the minivan in which there was a group of tourists. Everyone who was on the bus was hospitalized.

Anirudh Surabhi, a student of the London Royal Arts College, created a cardboard bicycle helmet that protects his head better than an EPS inelastic polystyrene foam, which is usually used in the production of protective equipment. The helmet, named its inventor Kranium, appeared as early as 2010, but only now the company Abus, which is going to release the serial version of Kranium in the spring of next year, was noteworthy to a promising idea, CNews reports science and development .

The 29-year-old striker Toronto MaPLEI LIFS Joffrey Lupul, who, at the time of the LOKAUT in the NHL, signed a contract with the Yekaterinburg HC Avtomobilist, said he would not return to Russia after a break in the KHL regular championship. According to the "New Region - Yekaterinburg" , the Canadian scared Russian life. “I won’t return to the KHL, although I was sorry to leave the team, and my thoughts were sometimes visited.

"Premiere of Mikhail Zadornov's film "Rurik. "The Lost Story" became an event. That was the plan. The version of history offered by the famous satirist is so straightforward that it should have hooked a lot of people. We'll leave the analysis of the film's content to specialists. Although Mikhail Nikolaevich is convinced that any intelligent person can study history (“I understand the reproach addressed to me: I am not a scientist or even a candidate of sciences...