Schengen visa. Photo Newsru.com Switzerland will join the Schengen zone on December 12. According to RBC, such a decision was made at a meeting of ministers of the internal affairs of the European Union. From now on, for a ground crossing of the border, additional passport control will not be required, but it will remain at the airports until the end of March 2009, when the airlines present their summer schedule.

Alexey Kudrin, Minister of Finance of Russia. Photo by RIA '' News '' The Russian government has begun to reduce the budget for 2010. According to Kommersant on Friday, de facto, this decision was made at a meeting of the office the day before. The budget-2009, within the framework of the three-year budget for 2009-2011, will be reviewed after the budget and antiquity meeting from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on December 5.

Vodka. Photo from the Air Force website Loud murders in Vladikavkaz on November 26 and 27, as well as the murder of a native of Georgia on Trifonovskaya Street in Moscow, can be interconnected. According to Interfax, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies stated this. "According to one version, resonant murders are an attempt to redo the vodka market in North Ossetia," the agency’s source said.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru President-1 (which Medvedev), by his self-interest, as well as by the will of the President-2 (which Putin), albeit the main, but so far, the reserve (reserve of the Chekist command), has not gone to the tragic anniversary of the Holodomor to Kyiv. With a false excuse on the sugar lips and with poorly hidden hatred in empty eyes. Like, I won’t go, because no one specifically threw Ukrainians, they swore everyone, and us too.

Banks will create a mutual assistance fund. Photo http://www.vedior.com The chosen loss of the banking system in Russia in October amounted to 39.3 billion rubles. According to Kommersant on Friday, 683 banks turned out to be profitable at the end of October - their total result amounted to 29.7 billion rubles. The remaining third of the banks received a loss, which together amounted to 69 billion rubles.

Fire. Photos of faces Six people died in Perm as a result of a fire in a two -story wooden non -residential house located in the Dzerzhinsky district of the city. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by an employee of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in the Perm Territory. "On Friday, at 5.00 local time, a fire occurred in a two -story wooden non -residential house on Kommunarov Street in the Dzerzhinsky district of Perm.

Jupiter from the site www.afit.edu According to the results of the new computer modeling conducted by American geophysicists from the University of California, Berkeley, the sizes of the internal solid nucleus of the largest planet of the solar system of Jupiter should more than twice the previous estimates.

Special forces in Mumbai. Photo by ar In Mumbai from the Trident Oberoi hotel captured by terrorists, the last of the Russian citizens remained hostage, Alexander Pakhomov, Interfax reports. "Our compatriot Alexander Pakhomov was also released. He is outside the hotel, he has good condition, he already talked with the Indian police and was noted in the Russian General Consulate," Roman Vorobyov told the attachment of the Russian Consulate General.

Hegumen Eustathius against the backdrop of an icon with Stalin. Photo from the site '' Russian line '' Hegumen Eustathius (Zhakov), who put an icon in the church with the image of Joseph Stalin, asked "under the pressure of the public" to dismiss him from office, Kommersant reports on Friday. The day before, it became known that the St. Petersburg and Ladoga diocese would not bless the icon with the image of Stalin, which is exhibited in the church of the Holy Princess Olga in Strelna.

After the attack of terrorists in Mumbai. Photo by ar Two Aeroflot flight attendants, which were blocked for more than a day in the Trident Oberoi hotel in the Indian Mumbai hotel, left the hotel. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the airline representative office in India Igor Ivliev. “They were not injured, now we are placing them in a hotel,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Bronze soldier in a military cemetery. Photo from Newsru.com The Tallinn District Court refused the relatives of the captain of the Red Army, Ivan Sysoev, who demanded to return the monument to the Warrior -Lover to their former place - from the military cemetery to Tynismyagi Square in the Center of Tallinn, reports Postimees. Earlier, the daughters of Sysoev appealed to the Tallinn administrative court, but received a refusal. In the district court, they tried to appeal the previous decision.

Christmas tree. Photo from the site foundfoto.ru The government transferred a day off from Sunday January 11 to Friday January 9th. According to the press service of the government, the corresponding decree of November 26 was signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Thus, the New Year holidays at the beginning of next year will last 10 days - from January 1 to 10.

Opposition campaign in Thailand. Photo by ar Oppositionists who blocked the work of two Thai airports agreed to go to negotiations with the country's authorities. They will take place on Saturday, November 29, reports Lenta.ru. On Thursday, the opposition managed to completely take control of the second airport of Bangkok Don-Muang. The work of the Suvannapum airport was stopped on Tuesday. The airports introduced a state of emergency.

The head of the development of judicial reform in the early 90s, a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, the Independent Legal Expert Council, the author of scientific books and manuals for prisoners, discusses the problems of jury trial in Russia.

Bishop of Anadyr and Chukotka diomid. Photo from the site fap.ru The former bishop of the Anadyr and Chukotka diomid is threatened with excommunication if he does not stop his schismatic activity and does not play. This statement on Friday was made by the manager of the Anadyr and Chukotka diocese, Archbishop of Khabarovsk and Amur Mark, RIA Novosti reports.