Employees of the largest British airline British Airways voted for holding a strike on Christmas and New Year holidays. As a result of a 12-day strike, about two million passengers who planned to spend a holiday holidays in other countries can suffer. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent Natalya Golitsyna, 92% of ten thousand members of the teams of airliners in the Rightsh Airways were voted for holding a strike during the Christmas period.

On Monday, Iran announced the arrest of several people who broke the portrait of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during anti -government performances on December 7. The exact number of the detainees is not reported. On the eve of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the opposition of violating the law and insulting Khomeini's memory. The opposition, for its part, accused the authorities of provocations.

In the gas sector, the Palestinian radical group Hamas celebrates 22 years from the date of its founding. According to representatives of the group, after a midday prayer, tens of thousands of its supporters will gather for a rally in gas. Since 2007, Hamas controls the gas sector, replacing the Fath movement from there, the leader of which is the head of the Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas. The United States and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

Almost 7 million rubles were received to the regional fund to help relatives of the victims and injured as a result of a fire in a nightclub in Perm. This was reported by the press service of the Governor of the Perm Territory. A fire in the club "Lame Horse" occurred on the night of December 5. 146 people became victims of the tragedy. 83 victims remain in hospitals in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Perm. Many are in serious condition. A criminal case has been opened.

Neither Boris Yeltsin and Aslan Maskhadov, nor their successors could withdraw Russia and Chechnya from a dead end The fifteenth anniversary of the beginning of the First Chechen War, which was gaining momentum in December 1994, was the reason for the memories of the participants and eyewitnesses of those events. Unfortunately, they turned out to be few, and they do not contain anything that no longer said fourteen, ten and five years ago.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, stated at a meeting on the country's socio-economic development in 2010, which the government and local authorities cannot overcome the economic crisis. According to Radio Liberty, Igor Karney, six months ago, Alexander Lukashenko literally forbade government officials to talk about the crisis, saying that in Belarus there is no crisis and will not be. " However, today I was forced to admit: the economic crisis has pierced all spheres of life.

President’s security problem. (Vladimir Abarinov).

Alexander Genis: It is difficult to imagine a more suitable sight in the festive New York than the rich retrospective of naive and good films of Italian neorealism, which are now taking place in the Lincoln Center. We are talking about this with the host of the film “American hour” by Andrei Zadansky. Andrei, this year I have such a suspicion that Hollywood did not work - there are fewer films than usual, and they are all not so good quality.

In Romania, some of the votes filed in the presidential election on December 6 continues. According to the first data, published on Sunday by the Central Bureau of Romania, while the current head of state Trajan Basescu is the leader. In the second round of elections, Basescu was declared a winner with a very small advantage. The opponent of Basescu, the leader of the Social Democrats Mirce, Joan, accused the authorities of fraud and demanded to cancel the voting results.

In the suburbs, the mayor of the city settlement Tuchkovo Vitaly Ustimenko and his wife were killed. According to information agencies "with reference to law enforcement agencies, on Sunday, the son of Ustimenko turned to the police - after he discovered his parents in the country. The investigation established that the couple were shot. Vitaly Ustimenko only recently became the head of the city of Tuchkovo. During the elections, there were several scandals related to voting results.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in connection with the detention of a transport aircraft with weapons from North Korea in Thailand, noted that the sanctions imposed on the DPRK can work. According to Clinton, the United States is satisfied with the actions of the Thai authorities. On Saturday, 35 tons of explosives, jet grenades and components for the Earth-to-air missiles were found at the Bangkok airport on board the IL-76 liner, which was landing at Bangkok airport.

In the north of Afghanistan, in the province of Baglan, 8 police officers died in the attack of militants on checkpoint. Two of the attackers were also killed. According to local authorities, the militants are part of the extremist group of Hezb-I-Izmi, headed by Gulbeddin Hekmatiyar, a former prime minister of Afghanistan, who went over to the Taliban.

In the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, sappers cleanse the section of the Tbilisi-Mozdok trunk gas pipeline. It is reported that two explosive devices have already been neutralized. Due to mining, the transit of Russian gas to Armenia through Georgia was interrupted. Gas supply to consumers in North Ossetia and Ingushetia was also stopped. According to the FSB, on Sunday evening, one powerful explosive device and several min-traps were discovered on the gas pipeline.

Raymond Carver: Prose of ferocious minimalism.

In 16 countries, the volume of industrial production decreased in October by 0.6% of the level of September, the EU statistics department reported. Earlier it was reported that in Germany, the largest economy in Europe, a decline in industrial production in October amounted to 1.8%. In all 27 countries of the European Union, combined, the volume of industrial production during October decreased by 0.7% - after growth by 0.1% in September.