The next Russian football championship will be the longest in history. Each club will play in 2011-2012 at 44 matches - instead of the usual 30 games. A long championship will increase the number of fan trips. Photo: Olga Sorokina / Salt Such a decision was made in Moscow at the next meeting of the general meeting of the Russian Football Premier League. The structure of the calendar of the national football competitions among the Premier League League Cligs of 2011-2012 was fully approved.

The photojournalist of the St. Petersburg newspaper My District, Alexander Astafyev, arrested last weekend in Minsk, began a hunger strike. On Tuesday, December 21, the Belapan news agency reports. Astafyev was convicted for 15 days for participating in an unauthorized rally of the Belarusian opposition, held on December 19.

Forbes magazine called the most expensive purchases of billionaires in the world in the outgoing 2010. Real estate, works of art and elite horses were popular, according to Tuesday, December 21, Forbes. The list was headed by Russian Roman Abramovich, who bought the island of New Holland in St. Petersburg for $ 400 million. The head of the hedge fund, Stephen Cohen, a well-known collector of paintings, in 2010 invested $ 145.4 million in works of contemporary art.

580 arrested during the rally of the Belarusian opposition in Minsk on December 19 were sentenced to administrative arrests. On Tuesday, December 21, reports Interfax-West The law enforcement agencies explain that the terms of arrest vary from 5 to 15 days. However, it is reported that many detainees during the rally were released - primarily minors and people with children, as well as some citizens of foreign states and journalists.

Singer Boris Moiseev is in intensive care with a preliminary diagnosis of stroke. On Tuesday, December 21, the Life News resource reports. The 56 -year -old singer was taken to one of the private Moscow clinics. His condition is serious. According to media reports, now Moiseev is in the intensive care unit. He has already done computed tomography, in the near future the singer will go through an electrocardiogram and checking the work of the heart.

The Investigative Committee qualified what happened on December 11 on Manezhnaya Square as calls for riots, disobedience to law enforcement agencies and violence against citizens. On Tuesday, December 21, the Kommersant newspaper writes. As the publication managed to find out, the investigating authorities did not have enough evidence to recognize the unauthorized rally of several thousand football fans and nationalists, during which several people were beaten, riots.

In less than three years, it will be sixty years old, as Joseph Stalin has died, but they continue to think , talk about him, and even talk jokes. Literature about Stalin, including in English, is still coming out, and not reprints-freshly: “Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar”, “The Ghost of Stalin”, “Stalin: Destroyer of Nations”.

In less than three years, it will be sixty years old, as Joseph Stalin has died, but they continue to think , talk about him, and even talk jokes. Literature about Stalin, including in English, is still coming out, and not reprints-freshly: “Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar”, “The Ghost of Stalin”, “Stalin: Destroyer of Nations”.