Lukoil. Logo from the site www.lukoil.ru An employee of Lukoil, Alexander Tsygankov, who was detained in Libya at the end of November, should be released in the coming days. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced after a visit to Libya to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov. “There is a question that is connected with a misunderstanding,” Minister Lavrov explained on Monday.

Schoolchildren. Photo from the site yuga.ru The board of the Ministry of Education and Science on Wednesday will consider and approve a new list of textbooks for teaching in schools in the future academic year. Among them is the scandalously known textbook "History of Russia. 1945–2007", created on the basis of "Book for the Teacher" Alexander Filippov. According to an independent newspaper on Tuesday, it has already been published in a thousand copies.

Priest at school. Photo from the site '' New Izvestia '' The "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" will be taught in Russian schools in the framework of the compulsory subject "Spiritual and Moral Culture" since 2009. As Interfax reports, such a statement was made by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II.

Pensioners. Photo from the site www.tvc21.md The norm that limits the participation in the funded pension system of Russians who were born before 1967 does not contradict the basic law of Russia. Such a decision, as RIA Novosti reports, was made on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court.

CEC of Russia. Photo from Newsru.com The court complaints of the candidates of the nominates against the presidential post in connection with the refusal of the Central Election Commission of Russia to allow them to participate in the upcoming elections have no prospects. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by a member of the CEC Evgeny Kolyushin.

Supreme Court. Frame RTR Three of the nine self -nominates, to whom the Central Election Commission refused to register as candidates in the election of the President of Russia, appealed this decision in the Supreme Court. According to Interfax, the secretary of the CEC Nikolai Konkin announced this on Monday. According to him, the complaints were filed by Valery Bespalov, Yuri Gujabidze and Valery Zubkov. By law, the Supreme Court must consider the complaint within a five -day period.

Alexey Frenkel. Photo from the site Kasparov.ru Alexey Frenkel, accused of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, accused Kozlov’s colleagues of this crime. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, Frenkel announced this in a petition for the termination of his criminal prosecution. According to the accused, Kozlov was eliminated by senior officials who were afraid of the results of the FSB verification.

Prosecutor General. Photo from Newsru.com By the end of the year, the Prosecutor General’s Office intends to finish the audit of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office. According to "News Time" on Tuesday, the audit materials should come from regional and specialized departments of the department to the Prosecutor General no later than December 28. 2008, as the newspaper suggests, will begin with a scandal around the publication of the results of this audit.

Yuri Baluevsky. Frame NTV The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yuri Baluevsky extended the term of military service. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense. "The service life of the military leader has been extended until 2010," said the representative of the department.

Ambulance In Tyumen, where there are 30-degree frosts, on Tuesday night, an elderly woman froze for railway barriers. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by an employee of the regional rescue service Elena Tretyachenko. The emergency occurred on the Communist Street in the area of ​​the Doca "Red October". “The woman walked along the sidewalk along the barrier. Passing by, she decided to hold on to the fence with her hand,” said Tretychenko.

Islam Karimov votes in the presidential election. Photo from Uza.uz website Islam Karimov was declared the winner of the presidential election held on Sunday in Uzbekistan. The current head of state received 88.1 percent of the vote, reports Ferghana.ru. None of Karimov’s rivals scored more than 4 percent. For Asliddin Rustamov, 3.7 percent of voters were Zvarozhili, for the Dilograms of Tashmukhamedov - 2.94, for Akmal Saidov - 2.85 percent.

Three whales The investigation in the case of the smuggling of furniture in the shopping centers "Three Whales" and "Grand" was completed, the lawyer of one of the accused Kirill Polishchuk said, RIA Novosti reports. “Today we were announced about the completion of the criminal case. Our client Sergey Zuev, the owner of the Grand and Three Whales, refused to sign the protocol on the completion of familiarization with the case file, since he studied it in full,” the defender said.

Badri Patarkatsishvili. Photo from the site inosmi.ru The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday in the evening released an audio recording, where President Badri Patarkatsishvili discusses a bribery plan for the director of the operational department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ereml Kodua. According to News-Georgia, this was stated on Tuesday by the Deputy General of Georgian Prosecutor Nikoloz Gvaray at a press conference in Tbilisi.

Prosecutor General. Photo from Newsru.com Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika proposed simplifying the inquiry system in the investigation of criminal cases of small and moderate gravity. According to RIA Novosti, according to him, this initiative was reflected in the bill prepared by the department. According to the Prosecutor General, this will reduce the load on investigators, since representatives of law enforcement agencies will be inquiry.

Comlex S-400. Photo from the site www.vesti.ru Weapons export in 2007 will reach $ 7 billion, which is $ 500 million more than it was in 2006. At the beginning of the year, "gunsmiths" expected to earn at least $ 8 billion, Kommersant reports. According to the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), aviation equipment continues to be in greatest demand: Sukhoi aircraft, MiGs, Milya helicopters.