Alexey Kudrin. Photo by ar Russia will fully spend the reserve fund in 2010 and resort to borrowing. As Prime-Tass reports, the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin stated this. "In 2010, we will go to increase public debt," he said. “If at the end of this year the public debt is 9.8 percent of GDP, then next year, if we carry out all loans, which we plan in the domestic and foreign markets, then there will be 12.8 percent of GDP,” Kudrin said.

Patriarch Kirill. Frame of the TV channel ''Vesti'' Patriarch Kirill urged Russian diplomats not to humiliate themselves in front of foreign observers and judges, Ekho Moskvy reports. He made this statement at the Russian Academy of Civil Service, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate. The primate of the Russian Orthodox Church considers it unacceptable for external forces to evaluate life in Russia according to alien civilizational and cultural standards.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the site "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Russia needs to develop shock offensive systems of weapons, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". According to the head of government, this will maintain a strategic balance with the United States, which, unlike Russia, develop a missile defense.

Alexey Golovan. Photo from the site www.dni.ru President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Alexei Golovan, the President of the President of the President of the Rights of the Child. The corresponding decree is posted on the Kremlin’s official website. As indicated in the document, Golovan is dismissed of his own free will. Golovan himself did not comment on information about his dismissal. Alexey Golovan was appointed Commissioner for the Rights of the Child under the President on September 1, 2009.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photos of faces Happy Americans in their promised country have a cute custom: somewhere in Pennsylvania they have a thick fringe of Phil for a year. In February, several delegates in the cylinders wake up a poor animal and demand a forecast from it: whether spring will come early. Regardless of the shadow of the pot -bellied Phil, spring in the USA comes regularly.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. Photo by ITAR-TASS There will be no problems with pumping oil to Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told reporters. It is reported by RBC. According to Sechin, in December, the Naftogaz Ukraine division appealed to AK Transneft with a proposal to change the current oil pump and tariff pumping regime with an introduction of a number of additional conditions. Transneft after that turned to the government.

Ufa. Photo from the site ufa1.ru In Ufa, the head of the Department of Economic Safety and Information Protection of the Bashneft oil company Vladimir Butorin was killed, the press service of the SCP reports. His body with five gunshot wounds was found near the house where he lived. In fact, a criminal case has been instituted. According to Infox.ru in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the murder was committed at about 9 a.m.

Amber room. Photo from Senat.org In St. Petersburg, after the attack of the unknown, the restorer of the amber room Alexander Zhuravlev died. According to Fontanka.ru, on December 21, the restorer hit the head at the entrance of his house in the Vyborg district of the city to select money, documents and a mobile phone from him.

Traumatic pistol. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru In Moscow, robbers shot a designer from France in his own apartment, RIA Novosti reports. The victim was hospitalized with injuries. 5 thousand euros were stolen from him. An armed attack on the apartment of Jacques Henri Antoine von Pol, was committed at 16.30 on December 28. His apartment on Petrovka included two unknown people who introduced themselves as couriers. They demanded money and values.

Monument to Stalin in Gori. Photo from the site www.svobodanews.ru Georgia is ready to give Russia a monument to Stalin, erected in Gori, in exchange for Abkhazia or South Ossetia. According to GHN.ge, the Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temur Jacobashvili stated this.

Alexander Shurman. Hard of news. In Perm, the former collector Alexander Shurman partially pleaded guilty to the abduction of 250 million rubles of Sberbank. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Two accomplices of Shurman - his wife Elena and the driver, who brought the shurman from the crime scene to the house, Dmitry Khudyakov also partially pleaded guilty. The father -in -law of the main accused Rashid Salimzhanov, who was accused of storing the stolen money, pleaded his guilt completely.

Putin at the Sollers factory. Frame NTV Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the launch ceremony of Sollers OJSC in Vladivostok and swept at the first Patriot Limited UAZ factory, RIA Novosti reports. Sollers CEO Vladimir Shvetsov told reporters that this car was assembled for the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi. Putin recalled that Berlusconi asked him to sell this car at a discount.

Mi-8. Photo from the site www.airwar.ru In Kamchatka, an emergency landing was made by the Koryak Airlines Mi-8 helicopter. According to RIA Novosti in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, as a result, one person died, two were seriously injured. The incident occurred 70 kilometers from the village of ESSO in the Bystrinsky district of Kamchatka, about 03.00 on December 29. On board the helicopter were three people and two tons of cargo.

Putin and Saakashvili. Photo from the Air Force website Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the story with the "Memorial of Glory" and plans to restore the monument in Moscow in Kutaisi will be "another blow to Georgia's nose." It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." Georgia, according to Putin, committed a crime against historical memory. According to Putin, the author of the project sculptor Merab Berdzenishvili "positively reacted to the idea" restore the monument in Moscow.

Tanker St. James Park. Photo from the site "Sea Bulletin" Somali pirates captured the T.James Park tanker, on board there are sailors from Russia and Ukraine, reports "Marine Bulletin - Council." According to this publication, the chemist tanker went under the British flag from Thailand to Spain, it contained only 25 crew members. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that they will already check information about the possible seizure of Russians, RIA Novosti reports.