The richest resident of Norway decided to sacrifice his condition for charity. This was announced by Radio Liberty correspondent in Scandinavia, Sergei Dzhanyan. The magnate and philanthropist Olav Tun decided to create a charity fund, transferring all his savings in the amount of $ 4.25 billion to him. The organization, which will be managed by a council of seven people will direct funds to finance research in mathematics, medicine, as well as charity projects.

Yekaterinburg Mayor Evgeny Roizman sees Yekaterinburg in the status of a constituent entity Attempts to change the federal structure are made by Ural politicians for the first time. In 1993, the head of the regional administration, Eduard Rossel , who later became the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, proclaimed the Ural Republic , which was able to exist a little more than four months.

Protesters in the Euromaidan In the center of Kyiv is a tense atmosphere. Yanukovych proposed negotiations, the opposition refused Several thousand people remain in the Independence Square in the center of Kyiv. On Wednesday, their number increased a little - after the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine last night made an attempt to clear the city center from protesters.

In St. Petersburg, there is no way to bury the remains of the victims of the Red Terror, which were found in mass burials under the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress at the end of 2009. As Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya said, experts found that these were the White Guards, Junkers, perhaps even the Grand Dukes, as well as people of all the titles and estates, which were shot in the first years after the revolution in the fortress prison, which was part of the VCHK system.

Dramatic events in the center of Kyiv have been unfolding for three weeks, but so far there is no feeling that the conflict can be resolved in political means. The Kiev political strategist, head of the Ukrainian Barometer Sociological Service, Viktor Nebozhenko, says about the radicalization of the situation in Ukraine in an interview with Radio Liberty. -, Surrounded by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, there are two groups of interests.

Yuri Growth Conversation with photographer Yuri Growth about life and teachers You take pictures, then there was no tank, there was a “corex”, a ribbon with pimples, wound a film, somehow show, somehow fix it. The bathroom was public, it was impossible to print there, because there were twelve neighbors. A small kitchen was organized in two rooms, I hung it and printed primitive photographs to friends. A person with a camera used certain privileges.

The Ukrainian revolution seems to be permanent endless. The authorities "eat off" from the area of invalid a piece by a piece, the Maidan territory is crushing, but his business, as they say, lives. The political exit from the impasse, into which the Ukrainian government drove itself, is not visible, and all the options for the development of events are Otkry. We’ll talk about this in the program.

The most influential policy of the world is just the most outstanding mediocrity of the Russian political class. And in this quality, he shares all his collective complexes. The arguments of the Russian patient (in any of his hypostasis: Putin, Kiselevskaya, Solovyovskaya), branding an agreement on the Association of Ukraine with the EU, primitively false. But, like all suffering neurotics, the Russian patient is lying inspired, passionate and sincere.

In the United States, a key tool for financial reform in the United States appears five main regulators of financial markets - from the Federal Reserve System to the Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - approved the day before the general editorial office of new requirements that can be carried out in their interests at the expense of their free funds.

Euromaidan in Kyiv (December 11, 2013) Airports and stations of Kyiv work again. Earlier, news agencies reported anonymous threats to make explosions, and the authorities were forced to evacuate passengers. More than 25 thousand gathered in the Kiev "Euromaidan" continue to restore the barricades, which were dismantled on Wednesday at night by representatives of law enforcement agencies.

The video reporting of Mikhail Sokolov from Yaroslavl, where on December 10 a press conference was held by the co-chairs of the Party of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov and Mikhail Kasyanov.

The graphic symbol of the ruble was the letter P with a horizontal dash. This decision was made today by the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia, the Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina told reporters. The proposals to introduce a symbol of the Russian national currency, by analogy with the US dollar and pound sterling, were made back in the mid-90s and began to sound more and more often with the advent of the euro.

Victoria Nuland distributes sandwiches US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who is now in Kyiv, met on Independence Square in the city center with demonstrators from among supporters of European integration of Ukraine. Nuland arrived in the country in an attempt to promote international efforts to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine, where protests continues against the government’s decision to suspend preparations for signing an agreement on the Association with the EU.

Viktor Shenderovich in the program "Face to the event" about the changed intonation of protest