In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

Mirvish Productions presented the earlier Stratford production at the Canon Theatre, Toronto, in December 2010 through January 2011.

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

As of December 2011, the City Council members are: Loretta Clawson, Mayor ; Jamie Leigh, Councilor, Mayor Pro-tempore ; and Councilors: Rennie Brantz, Andy Ball, Allan Scherlen, and Lynne Mason.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

In December 2011, BJU announced its intention to apply for regional accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ).

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

As of 23 December 2011, the Deputy Prime Ministers are Radimir Čačić, Neven Mimica, Branko Grčić, and Milanka Opačić.

As of 23 December 2011, the prime minister is Zoran Milanović.

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Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank on Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

The current version of the standard ( now known as " C11 ") was approved in December of 2011.

On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN-Decade on Biodiversity.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

The 16 largest corporate bankruptcies as of 13 December 2011:

In December 2011 the UK's Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb, voiced concern that children can become " too dependent " on the use of calculators.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

On December 6, the Council of People's Commissars ( Sovnarkom ) strategized how to persuade government workers to strike across Russia.

A month later, on December 5 and 6, the Soviet Il-28 bombers were loaded onto three Soviet ships and shipped back to Russia.

In December 1917 the Bolsheviks were themselves under intense pressure from the Germans to conclude peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, and Russia Bolshevism was in deep crisis, with a demoralized army and the fate of the October Revolution in doubt.

The tide turned in December 1941, when the invasion of Russia stalled in cold weather and the United States joined the war.

While preparing for the Invasion of Russia, Hitler decided to attack Greece in December 1940 to prevent a British attack on his southern flank.

Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

In December 2008 Stalin was voted third in the nationwide television project Name of Russia ( narrowly behind 13th century prince Alexander Nevsky and Pyotr Stolypin, one of Nicholas II's prime ministers ).

A recent Russian promise to supply Lebanon with T-90 tanks has been in discussion since the Lebanese Defense Minister's last visit to Russia on December 16, 2008.

In December 1998, scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research working in Dubna, Russia bombarded plutonium ( Pu ) with calcium ( Ca ) to produce a single atom of element 114 ,< ref > flerovium ( Fl ).

Whilst on a state visit to Russia in December 2008, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed his desire to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the future, and stated that Nicaragua is in solidarity with the people of the two countries.

* Foster chosen for iconic redevelopment Mikhail Bode, Russia Beyond the Headlines 18 December 2007

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II ( START II )— signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3, 000 to 3, 500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles ( MIRVs ) on intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs )

Bismarck had first made this famous comment to the Reichstag in December 1876, when the Balkan revolts against the Ottoman Empire threatened to extend to a war between Austria and Russia.

On 18 December, Hitler signed War Directive No. 21 to the German High Command for an operation now codenamed " Operation Barbarossa " stating: " The German Wehrmacht must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign.

The United States successfully flew its first Open Skies mission over Russia in December 2002.

The Soviet Union came into being under the treaty of union in December 1922, which was signed by Russia and three other union republics – Belarus, Ukraine, and what was then the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ( an entity including what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ).

Finland was the first republic that declared its independence from Russia in December 1917, and established itself in the ensuing Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918.

Throughout the Cold War, this right was widely considered to be meaningless ; however, the corresponding Article 72 of the 1977 Constitution was used in December 1991 to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union, when Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus seceded from the Union.

Both countries have signed diplomatic missions on December 11, 1961 Russia has an embassy in Dar es Salaam, and Tanzania has an embassy in Moscow.

Peace negotiations began on December 22, 1917, a week after the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, at Brest-Litovsk ( modern Brest, Belarus, near the Polish border ).

After a brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released the highly exclusive live album From Russia With Love in December the same year, recorded live in Moscow on 3 September 2010.

The American writer Joel Barlow ( 1754-1812 ) died here on December 26, 1812, while fleeing Russian forces pursuing remnants of the French army after Napoleon's unsuccessful invasion of Russia.

* December 17 – Oxana Fedorova, Miss Universe 2002, of Russia ( Dethroned )