Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a list of instructions for implementing the initiatives of his message to the Federal Assembly. The Kremlin press service reported this on Wednesday.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. reported this on Wednesday, December 28, RIA Novosti citing the press secretary of the head of state, Alfredo Scocimarro. Kirchner is expected to undergo surgery on January 4 at the Austral Hospital in Buenos Aires. Christina Kirchner intends to take sick leave until January 24. During this time, according to article number 88 of the National Constitution, she will be replaced by Vice President Amado Budu.

RIA Novosti Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Education and Health Olga Golodets about migrant children, garage thinking, procurement and an ineffective system Before Sergei Sobyanin joined the government in December 2010, Olga Golodets headed the board of directors of the Soglasie insurance company, and previously worked for almost 9 years at Norilsk Nickel, responsible for personnel and social policy. — In the spring, we met and discussed methods for rating schools.

The funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini can be considered the most massive, and the largest television audience was at the funeral ceremony for Princess Diana Today in Pyongyang the funeral of Kim Jong Il, the undisputed leader of North Korea for the last 17 years, took place. They resulted in a grandiose demonstration of popular grief.

The Election Commission of the Moscow Region appealed to law enforcement agencies with a call to initiate a criminal case against journalist and blogger Oleg Kozyrev under the article “libel.” “Today I received two letters. The letters are responses to my complaint to the CEC. There I complained about the Moscow and Moscow region election commissions for election commission posters similar to United Russia posters,” Kozyrev wrote on Wednesday in his LiveJournal .

photo Itar-TASS Surkov was not ready to work with Putin. Volodin in his place will strengthen the regime, but will accelerate its fall Vladislav Surkov is demonized by representatives of the liberal intelligentsia. But he will seem like a witty democrat when they encounter the Kremlin's new technologist. The efficient Vyacheslav Volodin is a master of intrigue, but he has never been soft with his opponents. If Surkov works with a scalpel, then Volodin always chopped with an ax.

Igor Terentyev Author Nikolai Valuev (Photo by Sergey Fadeichev/TASS) Income, features and the most interesting quotes from deputies of the Duma of the VI convocation A large number of veterans, as well as deputies whose names almost no one knew, left the State Duma. They were replaced by a whole squad of stars, representatives of working professions and young apparatchiks. Forbes selected the 20 most interesting characters from among them.

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov has been appointed as the representative of the Russian Federation on the council of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). The corresponding presidential decree was posted on the official legal information portal on Tuesday. The new supranational body will coordinate integration processes in the formats of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space (SES) of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, launched on January 1, 2012.

On Wednesday, December 28, the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is taking place in the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang, RIA Novosti reports citing South Korean media. Kim Jong Il's embalmed body will rest in a glass sarcophagus next to his father Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994, in the former Kumsusan Presidential Palace.

Political strategist on Vladislav Surkov's departure from the Kremlin Vladislav Surkov, who oversaw domestic policy issues in the Presidential Administration for more than 10 years, leaves the Kremlin for the White House. Vyacheslav Volodin was appointed to his place. With a request to explain the meaning of this castling, Forbes turned to political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky: for a long time he collaborated with the AP, but in April 2011 the Kremlin abandoned this cooperation.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum An American newspaper analyzed data from almost 100 thousand Russian polling stations and identified a number of statistical anomalies on The Wall Street Journal Wednesday published the results of a large-scale analysis of data on the results of elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, obtained from 95,228 Russian polling stations.

Inflation in the Russian Federation for the week from December 20 to 26 amounted to 0.1%. This data was provided on Wednesday by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Prices rose 0.1% for the seventh week in a row. Before this, inflation was 0.2% for two weeks. Since the beginning of the month, consumer prices have increased by 0.4%, since the beginning of the year - by 6.1%, compared to 1.0% and 8.7%, respectively, for the same periods in 2010.

The Supervisory Board of Vnesheconombank, chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, at a meeting on Thursday, December 29, will consider the issue of providing a $1 billion credit line to Sukhoi Civil Aircraft CJSC for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 project. The press service reported this on Wednesday government.

Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin launched his website on Wednesday and started a microblog on Twitter . After several hours of operation, the portal was closed for revision. In his first Twitter post, Kudrin explained that the site “starts tomorrow.” The ex-minister's microblog currently has about 4,000 subscribers. The following sections were presented on Kudrin’s portal: news, biography, scientific activities, media and hobbies.

Sberbank and Cetelem (the consumer lending division of the BNP Paribas group) have entered into a binding agreement to create a joint bank in the Russian POS lending market. This is stated in a message from the credit institution. Sberbank's share in the joint venture will be 70%, the remaining 30% will be owned by BNP Paribas Personal Finance France, which owns the rights to the Cetelem brand. The joint bank will operate under the Cetelem brand.