14:12 // 12/15/2005 The representative of the European Commission Pierre Dibman said that almost the entire population of the country is victims of corruption in Russia. "According to international experts, the level of corruption in Russia has not decreased, but has increased, and in the country now 143 million are victims of corruption, that is, a complete census of the population," Dibman said on Thursday in the State Duma.

The Deputy Prime Minister decides to whom to amnesty in Chechnya, as it became known yesterday, “Gazeta”, one of the militants, convicted of participating in illegal armed groups (NVF), appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a demand to apply an amnesty promised by the authorities. Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer of a 20-year-old resident of Urus-Martan Zaura Musikhanov, told Gazeta that his client had gone to the mountains to the militants after he lost nine relatives in 2002.

The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow filed a lawsuit against the lawyers of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MENAATEP MFI Platon Lebedev on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the official representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Moscow.

If not for a terrible cork, of course I would not notice anything. Small stretching across the Leningradka: “On December 20. Happy Employee of the Security Organization! Concern“ KROST ”. Nevertheless, even despite the traffic jam, I might not pay attention to it. There is never any one and whom it happened. But it so happened that I live in a house that built a“ KROST ”. They are building badly in Moscow.

In Russia, it is unlikely that anyone will meet him yesterday President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited Sochi at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the eve of the visit, the press service of Lukashenko spread a message that, in addition to other documents, the head of Belarus brought to Sochi a draft constitutional act of the Union State.

The Middle Kingdom found the Eastern Siberia alternative to the oil pipeline - the Pacific Ocean of the Chinese authorities, obviously, doubt the success of negotiations on participation in the project of the Eastern oil pipeline. At least today the Celestial Empire is trying to insure with the help of other hydrocarbons. The first oil "thread" atas - Alashankou China handed from Kazakhstan.

Atamans lobbled the law on budget financing the other day the president signed the Law “On the State Service of the Russian Cossacks”, which has been discussed in the State Duma for ten years. The only thing the Cossacks managed to achieve is to increase financing and transformation of previously provided various privileges and tax disinfects into money. It turns out that the price of a ten -year lobbying of the law is monetization of benefits.

Bob Dylan will become the host of the 60-minute radio show in America, the legendary American musician Bob Dylan has always been famous for his originality and unpredictability. And now the 64-year-old Dylan surprised everyone that he would perform in the new role for himself. Since March next year, his weekly music program will be released on the air of the HM satellite radio station (“ex-em”).

09:51 // 12/15/2005 In the Narofominsky district of the Moscow Region, an armed attack on the house was committed, one person died, RIA Novosti was informed in the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region. "On the eve of the evening in the village of Brekhovo, Narofominsky district, three unknown men in masks broke into the house on Dachnaya Street," the agency’s interlocutor said.

In the Moscow government, an influx of students is expected by Yuri Luzhkov once again expressed the initiative to create an alternative government. Speaking yesterday at the Moscow Office of the Ministry of Emergencies near Moscow to representatives of Moscow universities, the mayor said that he did not intend to be limited to two meetings of novice deputies in August 2006. The student government will be formed on the basis of the city educational project "Civil Change".

The post of financial director of Yukos will not long remain a vacant callistctor of the Yukos oil company Bruce Mizamor decided to find a more calm place of work. Today, the company’s board of directors will consider the re -request of the resignation manager. In an invoice for his leadership, Mizamor complained that the situation in Yukos does not allow him to effectively fulfill his duties and represent the company.

09:47 // 12/15/2005 US President George Bush took responsibility for the invasion of Iraq, while recognizing the mistakes of American intelligence, which collected incorrect data that became an occasion to the beginning of a military campaign, Rosbusinessonsulting reports. "Intelligence data really turned out to be incorrect. As the president, I am fully responsible for the decision to enter Iraq," the American president said at the foreign policy in Washington.

19:53 // 12/15/2005 Contrary to the information that appeared in the American press, US President George Bush does not plan to send the Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld to resign. This was announced by the head of the American administration in an interview with the FOKS-Nus television company. The pentagon chief “works great”, and “I have no intention to replace it,” Bush noted in an interview, broadcast on Wednesday evening.

15:11 // 12/15/2005 Exams for a driver’s license from 2006 will accept special commissions, the first deputy Minister of the Interior Alexander Chekalin told RIA Novosti. According to him, this is provided for by the Federal Target Program to increase road safety for 2006-2012, which was approved at a government meeting. According to Chekalin, the commission will include representatives of the traffic police, a transport organization, a company for OSAGO, municipality and the public.

The Perekrestok is making another attempt to settle in Ukraine since the beginning of November, rumors roam in the market that the Russian network of the Perekrestok supermarkets is negotiating the purchase of a Ukrainian Furtsh supermarket network. Yesterday, one of the Ukrainian weekly - "Agro -Gossok: Vegetable Tu Fruit" announced that the deal between the networks took place.