Housing prices are rising in all major cities of the country Real estate prices in the largest cities of the country were divided into four groups. In the first group is Moscow with an average price of $5,299 per square meter. The second group included St. Petersburg ($3,115), Yekaterinburg ($2,563) and Novosibirsk ($2,438). These are the largest cities in the country in terms of population and economic weight.

The judgments of the clergy (at least before the film was awarded the patriarch's diploma) were very different. And not only positive ones. Archpriest Georgy MITROFANOV, professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy: — I am a member of the Synodal Commission for Canonization, and I am very tired of the fact that the people often consider foolishness to be the highest type of holiness. In a kind of “national ranking” of saints, it is the holy fools who take first place!

And demands a rejection of “Soviet stereotypes” Two weeks before the presidential elections in Uzbekistan , scheduled for December 23, President Islam Karimov made a speech that can be considered a programmatic speech. Mr. Karimov, of course, is the leading contender among the four candidates for the post of head of state, which he has held since Soviet times for nearly two decades.

FOOTBALL. December 11--12. Champions League . 6th and final round of the group stage . December 10--16. World Club Championship. Tokyo, Yokohama, Toyota (Japan). Quartet “D” teams completed the group stage of the Champions League first. The Italian Milan and Scottish Celtic made it to the playoffs, and the Portuguese Benfica, having beaten Shakhtar Donetsk away (2:1), deprived the Ukrainian club of the opportunity to continue the European campaign in the UEFA Cup.

On Saturday, January 27, the Golden Eagle cinema awards will be presented. The absolute leader is Pavel Lungin's film "The Island", which has eight nominations, and now, after it was shown on television with an unusually high rating (it was watched by 20% of the country's population), it has every chance of being named the best film of the year.

The arrival of perhaps one of the most talented coaches of the late Soviet school, Yuri Semin, to Dynamo Kiev is in some ways similar in concept to the invitation of Dick Advocaat to Zenit or Guus Hiddink to the Russian national team.

NASA delays shuttle launch until early January The launch schedule for American shuttles to the International Space Station has been disrupted again. NASA leaders, it seems, decided not to worry themselves and the astronauts and postponed the launch of the Atlantis shuttle, which was supposed to go into orbit from December 6 to 13, to early January.

Muammar Gaddafi seeks compensation and contracts A two-day summit meeting of 80 delegations from two parts of the world ended yesterday in Lisbon with the signing of the joint declaration “Strategic Partnership between the European Union and Africa”. The document provides for increasing economic cooperation between two continents - prosperous Europe and poor Africa. There were some unpleasant surprises in Portugal.

The house of the head of the administration of Nazran was shelled In Nazran on Sunday night, unknown persons fired grenade launchers at the house of the head of the city administration, Magomed Tsechoyev. It was only by luck that there were no casualties - one of the grenades flew into the window and exploded inside, but all the inhabitants of the house were in other rooms at that moment. The security agencies of Ingushetia did not comment on the incident.

United Russia shares the parliament of Vladikavkaz with itself North Ossetia is the first of the Caucasian republics to experience the delights of the new system of regional representation in the State Duma. After a short discussion, the regional list of the universally victorious United Russia party was headed, as in the vast majority of other regions, by the head of the republic , Taimuraz Mamsurov .

The film is very actively discussed on LiveJournal and in other blogs (online diaries). Most of the participants like the film, and we selected those reviews that contain some aspect or shade that is different from others. Punctuation marks - to make reading easier - were placed by the editors, grammatical errors were corrected, and the style was left as is. “A very touching film, but there’s a constant feeling of being hammered into the BRAIN.

Another passenger bus was blown up in the Stavropol Territory In the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, an Ikarus regular bus, traveling along the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol route, exploded last night. As a result, two people were killed and five more were injured and burned.

Eastern Europe and the Baltics join the Schengen agreements Nine new countries will soon join the Schengen agreement. From December 21, European countries such as Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Malta will abolish border controls within the Schengen zone. In November 2008, as it became known recently, the list will also be replenished with Switzerland. Currently, the Schengen area is formed by 15 states.

IMF chief takes 'socialist commitment' to downsizing French socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who headed the International Monetary Fund a month and a half ago , expressed his attitude towards this organization in the most unexpected way.

Kosovo Albanians are ready to declare independence Today the mandate given by the UN to the international mediation troika to determine the status of Kosovo expires. Representatives of Russia, the USA and the European Union reported ahead of schedule. On December 7, they presented a report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon , in which they noted the inability of the Serbian leadership and the authorities of the Kosovo region to come to an agreement.