About one false alternative “This time, a copy of the passport, a printing of a petition of the peace, a bottle of water, charging for mobile and contact phones of lawyers lay in my ladies handbag,” one of the participants in the Saturday rally wrote on her blog. “I write this article and see that the rally passions once again appeal not to the law, but to something else,” Valery Zorkin wrote in his article in yesterday's Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Members of the Organizing Committee of the Movement for Honest Elections, planning on December 24 in Moscow a rally proposed to create an association of voters of Moscow. The broadcast of the meeting was conducted by the website of the " Big City ".

The fourth power unit of the Kalinin NPP, located in the city of Udomlya of the Tver region, is included today, December 12, in the experimental and industrial operation by 50% of the rated capacity. The energy minister of the Russian Federation was attended by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the head of the Rosatom State Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko.

As a result of a collision in the air of two military helicopters in the US state of Washington, 6 military were killed, at least two were injured. It is reported by Fox News . The tragedy occurred on Tuesday night, December 13, during the exercises near one of the US military bases. According to the channel, four soldiers died in one car and two on the other.

The decision of Mikhail Prokhorov to nominate the president was not a surprise to Vladimir Putin, the source close to the presidential administration told Vedomosti (see: Vedomosti of 12/13/11, No. 235 "Alternative to Putin"). The billionaire has preserved contacts with Putin and his inner circle, for example, Yuri Kovalchuk and Sergey Chemezov. This is a tactical decision, the interlocutor of the newspaper said: you need to reduce public stress, weaken the protest of the last week.

Iran does not intend to return the United States to the United States, which was found in the Islamic Republic in early December, reports Iranian agency ISNA. As explained by the Minister of Defense of the country, Ahmad Vahidi, the fallen drone is the property of Iran. According to him, the country's authorities will subsequently decide what to do in connection with this.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov suggested that the owner of the publisher Alisher Usmanov redeem the Kommersant newspaper from him. This was announced in his microblog by the journalist of the publication Oleg Kashin. On the eve of Prokhorov announced his presidential ambitions. Today it became known that Usmanov fired the general director of Kommersant-Holding Andrei Galiev and the chief expert of Kommersant-Vlast Maxim Kovalsky.

Billionaire Boris Berezovsky, hiding from Russian justice in London, offered a self-confrontation from the post of Kommersant CEO, Demyan Kudryavtsev and the dismissed chief of Kommersant-Vlast, Maxim Kovalsky. This was reported to Berezovsky by Life News on Tuesday, October 13. Berezovsky recalled that Kudryavtsev, known as the assistant to the oligarch in the media, worked with him in London.

The bill on the cancellation of the passage barrier in the elections to the State Duma was submitted on Tuesday, December 13. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" . The parliamentary apparatus specified that the bill was prepared in the LDPR faction. A new bill, all the votes cast for all the parties participating in the elections are divided into 450 deputy mandates. This is how the price of one mandate in the voices is calculated.

Rosatom intends to reduce the expenses of state corporation enterprises for energy resources due to energy -efficient technologies. In 2009, Rosatom spent 25.2 billion rubles on energy resources, by the end of 2015 this amount is planned to be reduced by 25%energy efficiency programs. In 2011, it is planned to reduce these costs by 10%.

The Russian interplanetary station “Fobos-Gront”, stuck in a low near-Earth orbit, in any case will not be able to reach Mars, it must be recognized as lost. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" with reference to the general design of NPO npo npo Lavochkin Viktor Khartov. According to him, all ballistics have changed at the apparatus and in any case he will not be able to fly to Mars, which means the failure of his mission.

The Skolkovo Foundation and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) will cooperate in the field of corporate governance, international law and business administration, as well as in the creation of projects for the development of small innovative companies. According to RIA Novosti , the parties signed the corresponding agreement on Tuesday, October 13.

Experts of RIA Analytics compiled a rating of Moscow districts in support of pharmacies and pharmacy points. Leaders in the number of places where you can purchase medicines were the central, southeast and Zelenograd administrative districts. However, only the first of them reaches the European level, the newspaper "Moscow News" notes. The Central District of Moscow is a leader: there are 40.8 pharmacies per 100 thousand inhabitants.

Russian woman Marina Lopatina, who was in China to death , did not appeal, reports RSN . According to the Russian consulate, practice shows that there is practically no chance of appealing the sentence. Nevertheless, a 38-year-old resident of Khabarovsk can still count on the softening of the sentence. In the case of approximate behavior, the highest measure of punishment can be replaced by a lifelong opinion or even from 15 to 20 years.

On December 19 at 20:00, a public conversation will be held in the Lecture of the Polytechnic Museum in the first -person cycle with the participation of the director of the Norilsk Nickel Marketing Department Anton Berlin, the financial analyst of Stepan Demura and the president of the Neocon Expert Consultation Mikhail Khazin.