December 15, 2008, 16:17 Society "We were too cruel" The Ryno gang was sentenced Grigory Tumanov , Alena Maryanova A gang of juvenile nationalist murderers has been sentenced in Moscow. Skinheads Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky received 10 years in a general regime colony for 20 murders and 12 attempts. Their accomplices will spend 6 to 20 years behind bars. The Moscow City Court sentenced the “Ryno gang” - skinhead killers operating under the leadership of Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky.

December 15, 2008, 18:53 News Pakistan will not allow foreign investigators access to Mumbai terror attack suspects Pakistani authorities will not allow foreign investigators to interrogate Islamists who were detained in the country after the terrorist attack on Mumbai. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announced this to journalists today in response to the call of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown .

News About 20 people attended a rally in Moscow in support of Aleksanyan About 30 people take part in a picket in support of former Yukos vice-president Vasily Aleksanyan , organized by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and the Memorial human rights center. This was reported by a correspondent for the radio station “Echo of Moscow”.

Sport Ince could be sacked from Blackburn in the next 24 hours Paul Ince's future as Blackburn manager will be decided in the next 24 hours, The Times reports. The decision was supposed to be announced on Sunday, but the council meeting was postponed due to the wedding of Ince's son. “Let it be as it should be. It doesn't bother me. Now I am disappointed with my players and our fans. I am sure that the reason for our defeats is not in me, but in the lack of dedication of the players,” Ince said.

December 15, 2008, 09:44 News WSJ: Google wants to create a faster line for its content Inc. Google ​ intends to achieve privileged conditions for the movement of its content on the Internet, writes The Wall Street Journal. To do this, she approached the major cable and telephone companies with a proposal to create a special line for their traffic. Thus, it would undermine the internet's core principle of providing equal opportunity for all content.

The 2008 world champions as part of the Russian national hockey team were awarded Mercedes-Benz cars. The award ceremony took place on Monday at the Small Luzhniki Sports Arena. According to the All Sport agency, everything went quickly and cordially. Players, coaches and staff came out onto the site, along the perimeter of which 28 cars were installed, to the song “Our Youth Team” by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov .

December 15, 2008, 12:57 Culture Fools love to gather in pairs The stupidest movie plots and movie couples-2008 Yaroslav Zabaluev The stupidest plots and couples in the cinema of the past year were selected: Joker, WALL-E and the flying Will Smith surprised film critics less than the Loom of Fate. At the end of the year it is customary to draw up charts. Well, there’s the best hamburger of the year, the best advertisement, the best movie, the best...

December 15, 2008, 16:40 News The Ministry of Finance forecasts economic growth in 2009 to 3% The Ministry of Finance forecasts economic growth in 2009. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin told reporters about this today . “All the measures that we have envisaged are taken into account in the new forecast; we expect positive growth next year of up to 3%,” he said.

December 15, 2008, 18:21 Business The Duma will send commissioners to banks Along with money from the state, banks will receive supervisors from the Central Bank Ekaterina Mereminskaya Central Bank representatives will be sent to 10 banks that received anti-crisis money from the state. The Central Bank will send authorized representatives to banks that received government money. This right is given to him by the bill “On Amendments to Art. 76 Federal Law “On the Central Bank”.

December 15, 2008, 11:42 News Georgians named the cutest and most scandalous politician The results of a sociological survey have become known, revealing the most attractive and most scandalous politicians in Georgia. was named the most likable politician Former permanent representative of Georgia to the UN Irakli Alasania - 12.8% of respondents voted for him.

December 15, 2008, 12:23 Politics Two-party unicameral Turkmenistan elected parliament Alexandra Sheiko In the first parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan, held after the constitutional reform, almost 94% of the population took part. 125 parliamentary seats will be occupied by politicians from the Democratic Party, which is headed by the president, and the Revival movement, which, in fact, is led by him.

Vladimir Milov National burden of Russia Vladimir Milov Leader of the Democratic Choice movement, head of the Energy Policy Institute In the context of the crisis, the Russian authorities for the first time thought about the need to freeze previously approved plans to increase prices for the products of infrastructure monopolies - electricity, gas, rail transportation, and utilities.

December 15, 2008, 15:57 News An effigy of a “Russophobe minister” was burned in Crimea In the capital of the Crimean autonomy, near the building of the permanent mission of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, supporters of the Russian Bloc party and the Russian Community of Crimea burned an effigy symbolizing the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Ivan Vakarchuk.

December 15, 2008, 19:16 News Gas was sprayed from a can in a Moscow metro car Gas was sprayed from a canister in a Moscow metro car. The incident occurred on the stretch between the Dynamo and Airport stations. This was reported by a Gazeta.Ru correspondent. According to him, the passengers' eyes began to hurt, and many began to cough. Two young girls became ill. Everyone in the carriage got off at the nearest station.

December 15, 2008, 13:28 News Protesters outside the Athens courthouse threw eggs at police In Athens on Monday, protesters pelted police with eggs near the courthouse. Protests are planned to take place all day today. There are about 50 people at the court. The scale and intensity of the protests dropped significantly over the weekend, and Athens was almost calm on Sunday.