Lom-Ali Gaitukaev. Photo rospres.ru The Chechen criminal authority of Lom-Ali Gaitukaev took part in the liquidation of Shamil Basayev. According to Rosbalt, this statement was made by Gaitukaev himself during the hearings in the Tagan court of Moscow, where the case of extortion of money is being considered by a former employee of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov.

Russian military in South Ossetia. Frame NTV Russian soldiers who fought in South Ossetia in August 2008 were assigned the status of veterans. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the Kremlin press service, changes to the law "On Veterans" were signed by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Anatoly Bagmet. Photo from the site www.sledcomproc.ru Anatoly Bagmet, head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, was dismissed from his position and dismissed from the prosecution authorities. According to Interfax, this information was confirmed by the official representative of the Prosecutor General Marina Gridneva. The corresponding order was signed in the Prosecutor General on Friday.

Icon of the Toropetskaya Mother of God. From the site rus-icons.narod.ru The Public Chamber proposes to legislate the procedure for the transfer, both for permanent and temporary storage of museum exhibits of religious value, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Chamber. She also advocates the development of a law on the special status of museum collections for religious purposes.

Strasbourg Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights awarded Russian citizen Denis Vasiliev 153 thousand euros compensation for the fact that, due to the inaction of the police and doctors, he became a disabled person of the second degree. According to Kommersant, 75 thousand euros of this amount are compensation for material damage, the rest is moral.

Snowfall. Photo from the site http://primpogoda.ru Due to heavy snowfall in the Voronezh region, traffic along the Don federal highway on the site from the 700th to the 700th kilometer was stopped, ITAR-TASS reports. Now only snow removal equipment is working on this segment. The Voronezh department of the Ministry of Emergencies does not exclude that in the near future the entire section of the route in the Voronezh region will be blocked.

Okhta Center. Photo from the site www.ibk.ru The authorities of St. Petersburg and the company "Gazprom Neft" closed a deal for the sale of 22.69 percent of the shares of CJSC "Social and business center Okta", operator of the construction project on the banks of the Neva Okhta-Center and the daughter of Gazprom. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported by a press secretary of the city finance committee Larisa Fedchenko. “Money is transferred to the budget today,” she said.

Moonshine The Government of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug is going to ban the moonshine in the region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Department of Culture, Sports and Information Policy of Chukotka. A ban on the sale of alcohol will also be introduced to persons who are already intoxicated. Such measures are associated with the growth of alcohol consumption in the region. In the list of measures to combat alcoholism proposed by the government, about 40 points.

Crematorium of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo from the site avia.russian.ee On the night of December 18, a metal plate with the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" was stolen from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gate, RIA Novosti reports with reference to RMF FM. Museum employees reported the theft to the police. The official representative of the Malgozhat Yurechka police told AFP that the theft was committed at about 6 in the morning local time.

Warheads. Photo from the site www.pravda.ru In Geneva, Russian and American diplomats basically completed work on a new START Treaty, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Interfax and the military-diplomatic source of the agency in Moscow. "The provisions of the new START Treaty are agreed, which in the near future an official statement can be made," the source said.

Vladimir Turchinsky. Photo from the site http://kinobank.org The athlete and showman Vladimir Turchinsky was buried on Friday in a cemetery in the village of Voskresenskoye, Moscow Region. According to RIA Novosti, during the burial, only the closest friends and relatives of the deceased were present - only about a hundred people. In memory of Turchinsky, three saluta salvos sounded in the cemetery.

Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine. Photo http://ukrinform.info In recent years, attempts on the life of Yulia Tymoshenko have been preparing in recent years at least six times. About this to the Ukrainian publication "Komsomolskaya Pravda" was told by the Head of the Professor of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Golden bed. Photo from the site Mebelmoscow.ru The Prosecutor General’s Office found more than 20 corruption factors in the law on public procurement, said the head of the department of the department Alexander Anikin at a seminar dedicated to the fight against corruption. This was reported by "Vedomosti". Anikin promised that proposals to amend the law will be submitted to the government.

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Police. Photo by ITAR-TASS In Russia, a new form of employees of the patrol service service has been developed, which, in particular, will be sewn with the personal data of police officers, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General Vladimir Lukyanov.