The Belgian police found in the apartment Nordine Amrani , who made an armed attack in Liege on December 13, the body of a 45-year-old woman. This was written on December 14, the Belgian press, reports the website of RIA Novosti . According to the police, the woman was killed immediately before the attack. It was reported that her body was literally chopped. The murdered lived in the neighborhood and was engaged in cleaning apartments.

Dmitry Konovalov, sentenced to execution for organizing an explosion in the Minsk metro, did not ask President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko about pardon. According to BelTA , said Deputy Prosecutor General Alexei Stuk about this. According to the prosecutor, the second sentenced to death, convicted of complicity in terrorist attacks, Vladislav Kovalev wrote a petition for pardon. Supervisory complaints by convicts have not yet been filed.

The Moscow City Hall agreed on an opposition rally of protest against fraud in the elections on December 24 on Academician Sakharov Avenue. This was announced by Gazeta.Ru by the deputy from Fair Russia Ilya Ponomarev. “The fact that we were not provided with Vasilievsky descent or Manezhnaya Square was motivated in the city hall by the fact that these places are already occupied for other promotions. We were not told who occupied them - and they are not obliged to do this.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation accepted a package of documents necessary for self-nomination as a candidate for the post of president of the ex-mayor of Vladivostok Viktor Cherepkov, Interfax reports. Before transferring documents to the CEC, Viktor Cherepkov told reporters that he “understands the situation” and adequately evaluates his chances in the election campaign. “My name is Nevalyashka, and the Kremlin guys are a political stuntman,” said Cherepkov.

Gryzlov will no longer be the speaker of the State Duma. Possessing zero charisma and the very low popularity of gryzlov was indeed a burden for the party and for the Duma. Whoever replaces him (they call many), the face of Russian parliamentarism will become more “human”. Will the parliament change? It is unlikely. The country lost the “hero” - Boris Gryzlov leaves the post of speaker of the State Duma and refuses the deputy mandate.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is really interested in buying a Kommersant Publishing House. This was announced on December 14 by its representative, reports the website of RIA Novosti . According to him, Prokhorov is interested in the acquisition of the ID, but the idea of ​​the current owner of Kommersant Alisher Usmanov about the unification of media assets can also be considered. “Prokhorov is really interested in this asset, this is not a political move, he was always interested in him.

On December 13, in the Belgian city of Liege, on the central square of Saint-Lamber, 33-year-old Nardin Amrani first threw a bus stop with grenades, and then opened random firing from a rifle along passer-by. The European media have already christened Amrani with the Belgian Breivik . Meanwhile, the number of victims of the terrorist continues to grow. According to the latest data, six people were killed as a result of the attack, including a one and a half year old child.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office handed over the Polish side of the next copies of the criminal case on the disaster of the Polish President aircraft near Smolensk in 2010, the RIA Novosti website reports. Earlier, in April 2011, 49 volumes of copies of materials in this criminal case were transferred to the Polish prosecutor's office, in the implementation of international instructions.

An electronic entry to the doctor will appear in every fifth clinic in Moscow in early 2012, said Vladimir Makarov, adviser to the head of the capital's information technology department on Tuesday, December 13. Earlier, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated that an electronic appointment for a doctor should be organized in all medical institutions of Moscow.

From January 1, 2012, employees of special forces will receive a salary for a salary of up to 100 percent of the salary. This is stated in the Decree of the Government of December 8, which was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Vyacheslav Makarov was elected to the post of chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. According to the site " EP ", for Makarov's election 33 deputies voted Legislative assemblies Of the 44 participants Meetings parliament . All V Legislative assembly St. Petersburg 50 deputies. Pavel Saltan, head of the Fair Russia faction, also claimed to be the chairman of the Parliament of St. Petersburg. 13 deputies supported his candidacy.

According to the information of the European Organization on Nuclear Research (CERN), physicists managed to get closer to the discovery of the elusive boson of Higgs - a theoretical Subatoma particle, which, if it is found, would help to clarify the formation of the universe, in particular, to explain the nature of one of the fundamental quantities - masses.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv today, December 14, admitted that the Prosecutor General’s Office unreasonably opened a criminal case against former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma on the charges of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. It is reported by " Polit.ua " The court thus satisfied the complaint of Kuchma’s lawyers against the decision of the First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin on the initiation of a criminal case against the former president.

Farmers of the Altai Territory increased buckwheat prices over the past two weeks by 40 percent and brought its cost to 15-16 thousand rubles per ton, the newspaper Kommersant writes with reference to the data of the Institute for the Conjunction of the Agrarian Market (Icarus). The processors hastened to raise the price of buckwheat cereals, which in the period from November 20 to December 10 increased the cost by 7.9 percent to 27.3 thousand rubles per ton.

“Currently, the accuracy of the GLONASS system, consisting of 24 working satellites, is registered in the region of four and a half meters. Upon completion of work on increasing the accuracy of the signal, and this will happen after two to three months, the accuracy of receiving the signal will increase to 2.5-2.8 meters, ”said Anatoly Shilov, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency. The existing federal target program for the development of the GLONASS system is completed on December 31.