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In the Sverdlovsk region, another dishonest, but very cunning way to earn a living has been invented. You can get this “food” from the back of the truck while driving. A gang of three kidnappers with stunt skills managed to do this operation at least 15 times before they were caught by the police. During a search of the robbers' apartments and garages, investigators discovered caches of stolen products.

December 29, 2005, 11:38 AM Opinions Normal care Konstantin Sonin An official - be it a presidential adviser, a minister, or a president - does not need to perceive himself as a resuscitator, in whose absence the patient will certainly die. He won't die. resignation Andrei Illarionov's from the post of presidential adviser is a very civilized act.

On Wednesday, France Press summed up the year 2005 in terms of the funniest events. They feature “talking” elephants, panties crawling out from under their pants, and twins who fooled the police. For example, Norwegian scientists last year made an extraordinary discovery about the life of elephants. They proved that they, like parrots, can imitate sounds. As an example, the researchers refer to a young elephant from a zoo located near the railway.

Ukraine demands gas Text: Mikhail Krasnov Negotiations between the ministers of fuel and energy of Russia and Ukraine on gas supplies and transit conditions in Moscow on December 28 ended in nothing. But Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov made a statement that Gazprom underpaid Naftogaz by about 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas as payment for transit. Naftogaz added that they exceeded the transit plan, but Gazprom refused to pay for additional volumes of gas transferred to Europe.

28 DECEMBER 2005 18:10 | ROADS The “Congestion Center” has been reintroduced in Moscow At about 3 p.m., the capital's State Traffic Inspectorate reintroduced a special plan for regulating traffic in the city, “Congestion Center.” The road situation is not critical at the moment, but traffic has slowed down significantly. The Congestion Center plan has been introduced to prevent the situation that occurred last night.

Hundreds of cars and trucks are blocked on the roads due to heavy snowfall in northern France. Snow removal equipment cannot cope with a large volume of work. Traffic is restricted not only on many secondary roads, but also on some highways. The snowfall that began the day before covered most of France. In some areas the snow cover was 15 cm thick. As a result, serious interruptions in land transport communications, primarily road transport, occurred across most of the country.

December 28, 2005, 10:30 Society And yet Galileo turns Marina Lemutkina A European satellite was launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using a Russian launch vehicle, marking the beginning of the creation of the European Galileo navigation system. Together with similar systems in Russia and the United States, it will make it possible to easily detect any object on Earth or in low-Earth orbit.

December 28, 2005, 10:49 Politics Lebanon and Israel exchange missiles Anatoly Goldovsky Israel came under rocket fire from Lebanon on Wednesday night. Towards the morning, Israeli fighter jets responded by attacking a militant base near Beirut. It is still unknown which group started the shootout. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, an exchange of missile strikes occurred between the Israeli military and certain militants in Lebanon.

December 28, 2005, 11:26 Cars AvtoVAZ filed a lawsuit against the GM-AvtoVAZ joint venture The Russian automaker filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Samara Region against GM- AvtoVAZ , demanding compensation for losses. AvtoVAZ management believes that the plant suffered losses due to the shutdown of the GM-AvtoVAZ conveyor due to claims by the management of the joint venture regarding the quality of bodies supplied by AvtoVAZ.

December 28, 2005, 10:50 Cars In India, 22 people were killed when a bus collided with a tanker. At least 22 people were killed Wednesday in India when a bus collided with a tanker truck carrying chemicals. Most of those killed in Gujarat were burned alive, police said. The bus was traveling from Bombay and 200 km from Ahmedabad collided head-on with a tank.

December 28, 2005, 17:25 Politics The Kremlin is clean Alexey Levchenko , Fyodor Rumyantsev The head of the parliamentary commission on Beslan, Alexander Torshin, announced a report on the progress of the investigation to members of parliament. Key questions remain unanswered. As Gazeta.Ru learned, the text of the report itself provoked sharp criticism from members of the commission from the opposition, who accused Torshin of shielding the president.

December 28, 2005, 11:39 Society The sailors have arrived Anastasia Makryashina Russian sailors who spent two years in a Nigerian prison have finally returned to their homeland. Today they will go home to their relatives. The crew also intends to win wages from their former employer, a Greek shipping company, for the two years they spent in Nigeria. Each of the 12 sailors is owed $10 thousand.

December 28, 2005, 16:08 Society Texas is on fire at Christmas Anastasia Makryashina Photo: AP In Texas and Oklahoma, drought and Christmas fireworks have caused the largest wildfires in the last five years. One person was killed and several suffered burns or smoke inhalation. Dozens of houses and cars burned down. In the US states of Texas and Oklahoma, large fires are raging - the prairies are burning. The cause of the fires was a severe drought that has prevailed here since the summer.

December 28, 2005, 15:01 Cars British retro roadster Aquila will go on sale in April Small-scale production of Aquila models has been established in the UK. The body of the new roadster is stylized to resemble the 30s, but under the hood a brand new 4- or 6-valve Ford Zetec engine is installed, accelerating the car to 100 km in 6.7 seconds. and up to a maximum speed of 193 km/h. The car can also be equipped with an 8-cylinder Rover V8.