Olympic champion of the 2008 Games in Beijing in Walking 50 kilometers Italian Alex Schwazzer is disclosed for four years for using doping. The walker admitted to violation of anti -doping legislation and announced his career completion, reports rusathletics.com . “I am leaving the sport. I made a mistake. I wanted to be strong at this Olympics. I take full responsibility for what happened. I did it myself, it was my idea,” Ansa Agency quoted Schwacer as saying.

In Perm, the story with a missing child ended with a happy end: nine-year-old Natasha Musabaev was found alive and unharmed. The girl disappeared after a quarrel with her mother, and she managed to find her only upon returning from the work of her girlfriend’s parents, Interfax reports. “It turned out that Natasha fled to her girlfriend.

On December 21, the birthday of Joseph Stalin is celebrated - this year to the Soviet leader, if considered from the officially recognized date of birth, is 133 years old. In some cities of Russia, the late "father of peoples" does not allow themselves to be forgotten, even if residents and authorities want it.

The first murder over the Internet will happen in 2014. Such a prediction, according to Hacker.ru , was found in the next forecast of cybehrerosis for the next two years of IID (Internet Identity), which specializes in corporate Internet security services ( press release IID ). According to the technical director of this company Rasmussen, today, almost any complex device, from medical devices to transport units, has a wireless access interface.

In the new year, anyone will be able to subscribe to the SMS notification service from Rosreestr, thanks to which the owner will learn about all operations with his property. So it will be possible to reduce communication with officials and stop the actions of scammers in time. This was announced by the deputy head of Rosreestr Sergey Sapelnikov.

Hundreds of buildings belonging to the Italian state, including prisons, barracks and cultural monuments, will be leased. Thus, the Italian government intends to find funds to pay off its debts. The authorities have already chosen 350 buildings with which the project will begin, EUROMAG reports with reference to Le Figaro. In total, it is planned to pass 4300 buildings, among which even a medieval castle was included.

Participants in the Coordinating Council of the opposition called the State Duma’s decision on the adoption of the bill , the response to the “Magnitsky Act”, which, in particular, provides for a ban on the adoption of Russian children by citizens of the United States and called for the “Magnetic” initiators of the Law and politicians who voted for it.

“Today, on December 21, the first hearing took place in the Khamovnichesky Court in an exciting case - about the concealment of a crime by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. We are talking about the case of wiretapping. Exactly a year ago, the publication Life News (owned by Putin’s friends Yu. Kovalchuk and A. Gabrelyanov) published my telephone records negotiations with friends, relatives and associates. Disclosure of telephone conversations is a crime.

The famous American athlete, a participant in the three Olympiads in the average distances of Suzi Hamilton admitted that she had recently been engaged in prostitution. This helped her fight depression and everyday boredom. The 44-year-old wife and mother was an elite “call girl” under the pseudonym Kelly Landy and worked in chic hotels from Los Angeles to Chicago, receiving 600 dollars per hour for her services, writes New York Post .

Peter Madoff, the younger brother of the creator of one of the largest financial pyramids in Bernard Madoff, was sentenced to December 20 by the New York court to ten years in prison for participating in a relative’s scam. In December 2008, when the “fraudster of the century” Bernard Madoff was arrested, Peter was the head of the internal control department in one of the companies belonging to his brother. At the end of June, Madoff Jr.

In January of the next year, at the International Auto Show in Detroit, Toyota will introduce a prototype of a new sedan, reports Autosalery . According to preliminary information, the Toyota Furia concept car will be shown only on the screen, and it will be possible to observe the presentation on January 14 on the air on the Livestream portal. In a short video that the company released, it is clear that the prototype will be a four-door sedan of bright orange color, with carbon inserts.

Somali died off the coast of 55 people as a result of the collapse of the vessel with illegal immigrants. This was reported in the Office of the Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees (UVKB). According to the available information, the ship transporting 60 citizens of Somali and Ethiopia, on Tuesday, 18 de -Auba, went from the port of Sao, in the north of the country, towards Yemen.

The best film of the year, Russian film critics on Thursday evening at the ceremony of awarding the laureates of the White Elephant Award called Alexander Sokurov Faust. Sokurov also received the award in the nomination "Best Director's Work", RIA Novosti reports. I do not agree with the decision of the jury, because I think that the best film is the Orda and the director is Andrey Proshkin. This is a magnificent brilliant work! ”Sokurov said, receiving the“ White Elephant ”for directing.

The discovery of the Higgs boson and the major quasi -players, the decoding of the Denisov person genome, the receipt of new data on the neutrino properties and the landing of the Curiosity apparatus on Mars were in the rating of the main scientific achievements of 2012, compiled by the SCIENCE magazine. Every year, this authoritative publication sums up the results of the year, determining the most important events in different areas of science.

In the USA, where Adam Lanza had a reprisal in elementary school a week ago, a new massacre happened. Unknown on a country road in Pennsylvania opened fire, killing three. The shooting himself is also dead, clarifies USA Today . A woman and two men were his victims. As a result of the incident, three soldiers were injured. In one of them, a bullet stuck in the body armor hit.