Oil production. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' Sprink quotes of Russian oil Urals with delivery in Rotterdam decreased by 14.5 percent to 35.6 dollars per barrel; At the port of August, 16.2 percent to $ 34.9 fell, the Vedomosti reports. The last time Urals cost less than $ 35 in July 2004. At the same time, a poor conjuncture in oil markets capable of depriving Russia of its reserve fund.

Matthew Braise, assistant to the US Secretary of State. Square of Georgian television Conducting a special OSCE summit to discuss the project of a new agreement on European security in 2009 prematurely. And Russia, which provoked a war in the Caucasus and completely destabilized the region, has no moral rights to lead the process of reforming systems of international obligations.

The flag of Estonia. Photo Postimees The Ministry of Regional Affairs of Estonia proposed amendments to the legislation that would give residents of the country an additional basis for a change in name and surname, reports Postimees.

The march of disagreements. Moscow, November 24, 2007 Photo Grani.ru The Coalition "Another Russia" is ready to change the route of the "disagreement" planned on December 14 in Moscow, but only if the mayor's office agrees to leave the triumphal square as the place of gathering of the participants in the action. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by the press secretary of the coalition Lyudmila Mamina.

The study of the skulls of the Stone Age. Photo BBC News Russian scientists from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences managed to make a number of unique finds in the suburbs, in the area of ​​the city of Zaraysk (150 kilometers from Moscow). In particular, during the excavations on the Zaraysk archaeological parking lot, they found two upper -paleletic female figures cut out of the mammoth tusk (such figures are called "venerers").

Ford conveyor in Vsevolzhsk. Photo Focus3.ru Ford officially announced that the main conveyor of its Russian plant in Vsevolozhsk will be stopped for almost a month - from December 24, 2008 to January 21, 2009. This is stated in a statement by the press service of the company. The reason for stopping the conveyor is the need to reduce production volumes in December and January due to a decline in sales and traditional New Year holidays.

The section of stalactite from the karst cave Surek. Stalactite consists of calcite and other minerals brought by water. Photo from the site www.news.wisc.edu The American and Israeli geologists who have studied with the help of geochemical methods of stalactite from the Karst Cave of Surek , located in the reserve near Jerusalem, claim that they managed to establish one of the probable reasons for the weakening of the Roman and Byzantine empires more than 1400 years ago.

Concluded in Guantanamo. Photo by ar A suspect in organizing the attack on September 11, 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants in this case are ready to admit their guilt. According to Reuters, they said this in a letter sent to the military judge to Guantanamo. “We came to a single opinion and demand from the commission to conduct an immediate hearing in order to listen to our confessions.

Alexander Potkin after the attack of unknowns. Frame '' DPNI-TV '' The leader of the movement against illegal immigration, Alexander Potkin (Belov), on which on Saturday in the Lyubertsy near Moscow was an attack, was ready to pay a reward for information about the attackers. For information capable of bringing the attackers to the trail, the DPNI will pay 50 thousand rubles. Potkin promised to pay 10 thousand dollars for issuing an attack by the attack, according to the DPNI website.

MiG-29. Photo from the site www.combatavia.com1.ru According to preliminary data, the MiG-29 fighter disaster in the Trans-Baikal Territory, as a result of which the pilot died, occurred for technical reasons, Interfax reports. “The disaster occurred preliminary for technical reasons. The exact reason will become known after the decryption of“ black boxes, ”said Andrei Petruk, deputy head of the military investigative department at the Chita Garrison Prosecutor's Office.

"Russian March" in Moscow. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru The Organizing Committee of the "Russian Marshal" refused to hold the event. According to Interfax, one of the organizers of the march, the leader of the "Slavic Union" Dmitry Demushkin, announced this.

The building of the European Commission. Photo Newsru.com The European Commission announced new, uniform for all countries of the European Union, the rules for treating citizens who seek asylum, reports Interfax.

Logo of the Standard & Poor's agency. Photo from the website of the agency The Standard & Poor's International rating agency has lowered the sovereign ratings of Russia, the company’s official press release says. The long -term rating for obligations in foreign currency is reduced to the level of "BB", and the short -term - to the "A -3" level. The forecast for the ratings is left "negative".

Alexey Lebed. Photo from the site www.news.flexcom.ru Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted the candidacy of Viktor Zimin to the Supreme Council of Khakassia to give him the powers of the chairman of the regional government, the Kremlin press service reports. Zimin is a deputy of the State Duma, head of the Khakass regional branch of United Russia. The powers of the current head of Khakassia Alexei Lebed expire on January 15, 2009.

Fight in Moscow. Photo by ITAR-TASS In the south-west of Moscow, police officers prevented a clash between 100 teenagers, RBC reports. The signal of the accumulation of youth on Pavlik Morozov Street in the village of Lipki entered law enforcement agencies the night before. The policemen who arrived at the scene found that a quarrel arose between two groups of youth at the age of 18-20. After a conversation with the police officers, the teenagers parted, but 18 of them were still detained.