Mercedes published official information about the new generation C-class model, reports Finams . The design of the car is made in the new Mercedes-Benz branded style, and the C-class out with the recently represented Cla and S-class outside and inside the C-class. Compared to the predecessor, the new model has grown a little in size. The length has become more than 95 mm (in total 4686 mm), and the width is 40 mm (in total 1810 mm).

The Italian police began searches in the house of the former Milan midfielder and the Italian football team Jennaro Gattuzo, La Gazzetta Dello Sport reports. The reason for the searches was the suspicion of the world champion of the organization of contractual matches in the series A. Also, another ex-player of red-black Christian Brocki was subjected to searches. Earlier, the Cremons police arrested four young people who were supposedly intermediaries in organizing contractual matches.

The United States will approach the record indicator of raw oil production of 9.6 million barrels a day by 2016. In the past, such a record was last beaten in 1970. This, as reported by Vesti-Economics , announced the US Energy Information (EIA). EIA experts on Monday presented a brief forecast for the production, consumption and import of hydrocarbon raw materials in the United States until 2040. In the extraction of natural gas, according to control forecast, stable growth is expected.

The Krasnodar Regional Court granted the appeal of the author of the publication of the semantic translation of the Qur'an Elmira Kuliev to the decision of the District Court of Novorossiysk on the ban on this translation. On Tuesday, the lawyer Kuliev Murad Musaev told the Russian agency of legal and judicial information (RAPSI).

The Norwegian intelligence service (NIS) actively collaborated with the American National Security Agency (NSA) in the case of wiretapping telephone conversations, including Russian politicians and representatives of business circles. This was reported by the newspaper on Dagbladet .

Gazprom will not abandon the New Year holiday and intends to spend it in Sochi. The corporate party will be held in the Galaxy cultural center, built by the company for the Olympics. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the gas monopolist Alexei Miller. “You know - we have Olympic objects that Gazprom built for the Olympics in Sochi, one of the objects is the Galaxy socio -cultural center. On December 20, the opening of this center will take place.

Satyric Arkady Arkanov, director Andrei Zhitinkin and writer Leonid Zhukhovitsky, supported the petition to change the anti -tobacco law published on the all -Russian movement for smokers. Culture figures called on citizens to "vote for a change in discriminatory anti -tobacco legislation." After the new document began to operate, the all -Russian movement for smokers' rights launched the collection of signatures among Russians who did not like the document.

In connection with the trip of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych to Moscow to a meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian Interstate Commission (URMK), outlined on Tuesday, the opposition convenes the next "People’s Veche" on the Maidan.

The number of inspections on the streets of the capital of the DPRK Pyongyan after the execution of the uncle of the leader of the country Kim Jong -Yna - Chan Song Taek - increased sharply, access to the city is closed to the city, and people live in constant fear of cleaning and arrests, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo .

An experiment on compulsory notarization of housing transactions can begin in February 2014 in 13 regions of the Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.

In Naples, the police arrested four people who are suspected of connections from the "Camorra" and hidden extortion. To collect money for Christmas gifts to the arrested criminal bosses, mafiosi forces merchants to buy flowers at fabulously high prices. According to the police, the attackers from the Matsarella clan in a hidden form imposed a tribute to store owners in Naples. Moreover, the racketeering is disguised as pre -holiday trade in colors.

With unique sketches of costumes made by Iv Saint-Loran designer for theatrical and ballet productions, you can now familiarize yourself with the Internet. Access to the archive was opened by the Saint Loran and his companion Pierre Berget, ITAR-TASS reports. The talent of the famous French couturier was in demand not only in the world of fashion. In 1959, Roland Peti ordered the master of costumes for the ballet "Sirano de Bergerak", in which the director played the main role.

According to Tatyana Ustinova, the book was started in August and is now almost finished. The writer noted that the idea of ​​writing a work was prompted by the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin and the head of the lower house apparatus Jakhan Pollyeva, and she already came up with the story, RIA Novosti reports. “He was given to me hardly incredibly.

The Cuban media, after a long break, posted a new photo of Fidel Castro. She was made during the meeting with the publicist Ignasio Ramonet. The conversation was "on the day when the 19th year was 19 years since the first meeting of Fidel with Hugo Chavez" (December 13, 1994), ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Cubadebate pro-government Internet portal. Castro and publicist "for more than two hours spoke about the recently published book of the Ranemon called" Hugo Chavez. My first life.

Copyright holders and largest Internet resources signed On December 17, the memorandum of Roskomnadzor "On cooperation in the field of ensuring exclusive rights when using films." At the same time, the Yandex, Google and VKontakte Internet companies are in no hurry to join.