The armed man opened shooting at a shopping center in a suburb of Portland in the American state of Oregon. As a result of the attack, two visitors were killed, one person was wounded, according to BBC Wednesday. The local journalist, present at what happened, explained that the attacker had released at least 60 bullets. The Police of the suburbs Klakamas, where the shopping center is located, explained that the police officer shot the criminal.

The outflow of capital from Russia this year can amount to approximately $ 60 billion. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the Ministry of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov, reports RBC . At the same time, he emphasized that the outflow will be less than last year. Earlier, the Ministry of Finance suggested that in 2012 this figure will reach 65-70 billion dollars. In early November, the Central Bank of Russia also considered that the outflow of capital could amount to $ 67 billion.

Anna Sakoyan North Korea successfully launched the rocket on December 12, 2012 at about ten in the morning local time from the SOCE cosmodrome. The first step of the rocket, according to South Korean sources, fell into the yellow sea, and the second - to the Filipino Sea. Later, the command of the aerospace defense of North America (Norad) confirmed that the satellite entered the orbit. In Pyongyang , they dance on the streets on this occasion.

GUP "Moskovsky Metro" posted on the public procurement website a competition for the provision of services for the insurance of metro wagons for 2013. Among the possible risks, the item “extraneous exposure” is indicated, which includes damage to the wagons from the fall of aircraft and spacecraft.

Two people suffered from the fall of ice from the roof of the house in St. Petersburg. This was reported in the company "Prominvest" owning the Housing and School No. 2, which serves this building, reports on Wednesday " Fontanka.ru " . At first, one person who suffered from the fall of ice on Ligovsky Prospekt , 58, was reported. However, as it turned out, in addition to a 27-year-old man, a resident of this house also received injuries.

The family of the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya filed a lawsuit in the Moscow City Court to recover from the alleged organizer of a crime, a former employee of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov ten million rubles as compensation for non -pecuniary damage, Interfax reports. In addition, during the court hearing, the victims demanded to cancel the pre -trial agreement of the investigation with the suspect, but the judge rejected the request.

In the exhumed remains of the late President of Turkey, Turgut and the Opala, who died in 1993 , found the poison, but the experts did not agree on whether he served as the cause of the death of a politician, Reuters reports with reference to local media. The Institute of Forensic Medicine of Turkey completed the autopsy on Tuesday - its results will be sent to the prosecutor.

Ekaterina Smetanova, a suspect in the criminal case of theft in Oboronservice, concluded a deal of cooperation with the investigation, reports on Wednesday Interfax with reference to the Main Military Prosecutor's Office. Earlier it became known that the former head of the “Expert Legal Support Center”, Ekaterina Smetanova, confessed the theft case in the OboronService company , subordinate to the Ministry of Defense.

Alexey Shironin "Gagarinsky Start", October 2008 NASA/Bill INGALLS Kazakhstan and Russia are considering the possibility of transferring the city of Baikonur to Kazakhstani jurisdiction, the other day, the head of Kazkosmos Talgat Musabaev said.

The director of the documentary "Term" is again called for interrogation to the Investigative Committee. This was announced in his microblog by journalist Alexei Pivovarov. “Pavel Kostomarov was again called to the Investigative Committee. At 14.00 on Thursday, ”Pivovarov wrote. Earlier, the authors of the “Term” project announced the suspension of filming the film, since due to searches they cannot guarantee protection against persecution to those whom they shoot.

The Western and Arab countries, which are part of the Syria friends group and sympathized with the uprising against Syria President Bashar al -Assad, declared the full political recognition of the Syrian opposition coalition, Reuters reports. The decision was made during a meeting in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh. “Friends of Syria” also called on Assad to resign and warned him against the use of chemical weapons.

Today, December 12, in Moscow, the IV International Forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry "Atomex 2012" starts in Moscow in the CVC "Expocentre". The organizer of the forum is the state corporation "Rosatom". By tradition, an exhibition and conference will be held within the framework of the forum. At the exhibition, suppliers will be able to directly present their products and services to customers.

The first message to the Federal Assembly of Vladimir Putin to his third legislature inevitably was to answer one simple question - "how to continue to live and develop the country." The message is generally such a genre, but the “first message of the third term” is symbolically much more significant than other presidential performances. The status of statements is perhaps the highest, and their bureaucratic apparatus will try to somehow comprehend and even probably implement.

In the ranking of the most reliable banks of the Russian Federation, prepared by the Profile publication, on October 1, 2012, the Fontservisbank Fund was in fourteenth place. For comparison, Rosbalt clarifies, in July the bank took only the 21st position. In the racking of the largest Russian banks in size of equity, published in the same publication, Fontservisbank OJSC is in 75th place, and in assets-in the 79th.

The Moscow City Hall did not agree on the route of the upcoming campaign “Marsh of Freedom”, which should be held on December 15. The leader of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov wrote on his Twitter that the authorities invited the organizers to conduct a procession along the Trubnaya-Kropotkinskaya route. “The city hall has no other options along the march route. This does not suit us. So, the option remains - Lubyanka at 15.00. Everyone goes on his own, ”Udaltsov said.