01:59 (December 11) Semshov will sign a new contract on Tuesday On Tuesday, Dynamo midfielder Igor Semshov will sign a new two-year contract with the club. “The old contract expired in a year, and there was an offer from the club to extend it,” Semshov told Soviet Sport. - If there is interest from both the club and the coaching staff, that’s great!

December 11, 2007, 17:27 Sports Kahn fined and removed from Bayern's starting squad Bayern have temporarily suspended 38-year-old goalkeeper Olivar Kahn for a disciplinary violation ahead of the UEFA Cup match with Aris. According to UEFA's official website, the veteran, who has played in 12 of 16 Bundesliga matches this season, will also miss the game against Hertha this weekend and will pay a fine of €25,000 for “violation of club discipline,” the details of which have not been disclosed.

December 11, 2007, 11:44 Business Tomorrow ruble\$ - 24.4174 The weighted average dollar exchange rate at the single trading session with settlements tomorrow as of 11.30 Moscow time decreased by 7.06 kopecks and amounted to 24.4174 rubles per dollar.

11:06 (December 11) The Moscow prosecutor's office checked minibuses The Moscow City Prosecutor's Office conducted an inspection of the implementation of legislation on the safety of passenger transportation by minibus taxis.

December 11, 2007, 22:45 News Luzhkov evaluates the Medvedev-Putin duo positively Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov list , who headed the Moscow United Russia in the last State Duma elections , has a positive attitude towards the possible duet of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia and Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister. “If we talk about professionalism, I rate two of these candidates positively.

December 11, 2007, 03:52 Sports Tretyak: I don’t understand the criticism of the FHR general director The head of the FHR, Vladislav Tretyak, does not understand the criticism leveled at the General Director of the Federation, Sergei Harutyunyan . “I don’t understand why FHR and Harutyunyan should be criticized now. The championship is going well, the federation is working normally, the coaches receive normal salaries. People are living better! Previously, FHR was simply not respected!

December 11, 2007, 17:31 Sports UEFA: football players began to use doping less In the 2006/07 season, the UEFA working group to combat the use of prohibited substances identified five positive doping tests among football players, which is two less than the previous season, the UEFA official website reports. In total, the working group conducted 1,662 doping tests, which exceeds the number of checks carried out during the same period a year earlier.

December 11, 2007, 19:58 News Foreign Ministry: Russia condemns terrorist attacks in Algeria The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Algeria , which, according to the latest data, killed 67 people. “Moscow strongly condemns these vile attacks by terrorists, whose victims are innocent people. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

December 11, 2007, 13:38 Business The gas price for Belarus will be discussed on the 20th of December The price of Russian gas for Belarus will be discussed at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State, which will be held in Moscow in the third decade of December, Roman Shirma, head of the main department of the fuel and energy complex, chemical and pharmaceutical industry of the Ministry of Economy of Belarus, said at a press conference in Minsk.

December 11, 2007, 19:12 News Another person died of rabies in the Voronezh region A resident of the Petropavlovsk district of the Voronezh region died of rabies (hydrophobia) after she was bitten by a stray dog, Olga Gunina, head of the epidemiological surveillance department of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor , said on Tuesday . This is the second death from this disease in the region in the past week after an 11-year interval.

On Tuesday night in the town of Volokolamsk near Moscow, 40 Korean workers were attacked by hooligans. As a RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region reported, about thirty hooligans broke into the territory of a private enterprise where citizens of the DPRK worked and lived in residential trailers. They beat the Koreans with pieces of metal bars and baseball bats.

December 11, 2007, 20:34 Society Guaranteed self-drowning The investigation established that the cause of death of Oleg Zhukovsky from VTB was drowning Elena Shmaraeva The case of the death of banker Oleg Zhukovsky may be closed in the near future. The version of the murder of the VTB top manager is essentially excluded. It seems that Zhukovsky took the reasons for his suicide into the water with him.

December 11, 2007, 23:37 Sports Triumph beat Buducnost On Tuesday, in the group stage match of the ULEB Cup, Triumph (Russia) beat Buducnost (Montenegro) with a score of 75:65 (18:19, 18:19, 16:15, 23:12). The results of this and other matches, as well as the standings of the teams, can be viewed at the European Basketball Cups.

03:42 (December 11) Dalenergosbyt again initiates bankruptcy of a military plant Dalenergosbyt again filed an application with the Arbitration Court of the Primorsky Territory to declare the 30th ship repair plant of the Ministry of Defense in the village of Danube bankrupt.

Famous Canadian singer, rock-pop star of the 90s Bryan Adams performed his best songs on Monday at the Moscow State Kremlin Palace, reports RIA Novosti correspondent . The artist became famous in the mid-80s for his lyrical rock ballads. Adams managed to play a concert in Moscow with the help of four musicians, with a minimum of stage design and a full hall of the Kremlin Palace, consisting mainly of young people under 30 years old.