The Egyptian general, the head of the Ministry of Defense and First Deputy Prime Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took the position of the overthrown head of the country Muhammad Mursi in July, became the "man of the year-2013" according to Time magazine. He won the vote of the journal readers by a significant margin, overtaking Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and American singer Miley Cyrus.

Supercar Mercedes-Benz Amg Vision Gran Turismo, designed specifically for the Gran Turismo 6 race video game, will still be launched into small-scale production, Livecars.ru reports with reference to the Jamesedition portal. The release of five copies of the AMG Vision Gran Turismo based on the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT supercar with a supercar will be engaged in an unnamed body atelier.

The Center for Structural Studies of the Institute of Economic Policy named after Yegor Gaidar found that 25 Russian banks will fall into the list of "systemically significant credit organizations". To do this, they used the previously published Methodology of the Central Bank, reports the Finmarket news agency . Experts found out that in terms of 2011-2013 (data for 2013, the 25 largest Russian banks can be included in the number of systemically significant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting in Sochi with the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Leaders discussed the issues of bilateral relations between countries, as well as trade and economic cooperation. The meeting takes place against the backdrop of ongoing protests in Ukraine and threats from the opposition leaders. About the meeting held at which Yanukovych drove after a visit to China, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told Interfax .

Founder of "Wikipedia" 47 -year -old Jimmy Wayles awarded a prestigious prize - gold Niels Bora medal, which is awarded UNESCO for a significant contribution In the development of science. The relevant information is published On the website of UNESCO. The prize was awarded to the American Wales in Copenhagen on Conferences Open World , dedicated to The 100th anniversary of the Niels Bore atom model.

The Pope Francis noted the role of ex-president of South Africa Nelson Mandela in the fight against the apartheid regime. The pontiff emphasized the merits of the former South African leader in the “creation of New South Africa” and expressed the hope that the Mandela’s example would inspire the nation to fight for “justice and universal good,” RIA Novosti reports with reference to the information of the France Press agency. Mandela died on Thursday in his house in Johannesburg at the age of 95.

In the South African Republic, in the evening of December 5, at the 96th year of his life, a legendary fighter with an apartheid, the first black president of the country, Nobel Prize Nelson Mandela, died. This was stated by South African President Jaycob Zuma. According to him, Mandela, who had been fighting with the disease for a long time, died in his house near Johannesburg, reports Reuters. “He quietly left at about 20 hours 50 minutes on December 5 in the presence of relatives.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, like President Vladimir Putin, does not agree with the argument that there are political prisoners in modern Russia. “If you think that we have political prisoners, then I do not think that we have them,” the head of government said during his lengthy interview to representatives of Russian television channels.

The United States does not have information confirming Syria by the next chemical attack against rebel groups. It is reported by Reuters with reference to an official source in Washington. On the eve of the Syrian opposition again accused the country's authorities of applying chemical weapons against rebel groups. According to the rebels, as a result of the attack, seven people were poisoned, they were found with swollen limbs and foam at the mouth.

The Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich Alexy (Frolov) was buried on Friday after the altar of the Council of the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow, where he served as a governor for 20 years. The funeral service was committed by the bishop's rank and took place at the end of the Divine Liturgy. Archbishop Alexy, who headed the Kostroma diocese since March 2010, died on December 3 after a serious long illness.

On Friday, at the Biathlon World Cup in the Austrian Hochfilzen, sprint races among men and women are held. In the female sprint, the first podium in the career at the World Cup was won by Russian woman Irina Starykh, who finished the third. The Swiss athlete Selena Gasparin won the race, overcoming a distance of 7.5 km with a result of 23.18.1 and one miss. The second result was shown by Veronika Vitkov from the Czech Republic (+1,2, 0).

Jordan was chosen by an unstable member of the UN Security Council along with other countries. Thus, the state took the place of Saudi Arabia, which abandoned the status of an unstable member of the United Nations due to the unwillingness of the international organization to intervene in the Syrian and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts. Russia is ready for cooperation with Jordan as part of the UN. During the vote for Jordan, 178 votes were cast, reports Reuters.

The Chairman of the Synodal Committee of the Moscow Patriarchate for Interaction with the Cossacks, Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, who performed at the First Great Congress of Cossack confessors, which was held in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, said that the modern Cossacks were in touch with the Orthodox Church.

In the Republic of Buryatia, the brutal murder of a young woman who decided to sell her SUV is revealed. Her assistant dealt with the victim, who decided not to give money after the conclusion of the transaction. And after the murder, the girl’s corpse burned. To date, the police have already detained the organizer of the murder and his accomplice. Both young people have given confessions. They also told where they hid the instrument of crime and bloodied things.

“It’s strange. There are lists of extremist literature, the court recognized it as such, so let these books not end up in correctional institutions, and don’t end up anywhere at all. The prisoner is limited in freedom, and not in the right to choose food for the mind. I haven’t seen the draft editorial board of the PVR, I don’t understand: will there be some kind of general list of books that cannot be read? Or will each institution determine this on its own?