A decrease in the refinancing rate of the Central Bank will inevitably lead to a decrease in deposits in deposits in September, the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, Alexei Ulyukaev, promised to reduce the refinancing rate if inflation is 10% following the results of this year. However, even then it was clear that the increase in prices by the end of the year in any case would exceed this value, and therefore everyone relaxed.

The law will begin to operate three months later on Friday the State Duma at the last plenary meeting this year adopted a law on non -profit public organizations. The law will come into effect after 90 days from the date of its official publication. He introduced a new procedure for state registration of Russian and foreign NPOs. Unlike the first reading, the final version of the law for foreign NPOs introduces the notifying nature of registration.

Nikita Belykh believes that the “real beauty” of the right - in ideology, the Union of Right Forces declared his intention not to flirt with the authorities for tactical victories. To this conclusion of the leader of the ATP Nikita Belykh, the results of the regional elections recognized by him unsatisfactory. “The closer we are to the Kremlin, the farther we are from power,” the leader of the right -wing leader proclaimed on the Saturday party council.

"If Maria and Joseph took a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem today, they would not have reached their goal" despite the pouring rain and the cold penetrating to the bones, dozens of Italian tourists enthusiastically sang Christmas hymns in Bethlehem. “To conduct Christmas here, in Bethlehem is the dream of any Christian. Cold and rain are not an obstacle to us,” said Maria -Francesca, a tourist from Milan, who arrived on holidays on the Holy Land with the whole family.

The head of the Pentagon fed and inspired American soldiers in Iraq, on the eve of the West Christian Christmas, the head of the Pentagon Donald Ramsfeld personally fed American soldiers serving in Mosul, a Christmas dinner and promises to win the Iraqi campaign in the end. The Iraqi city of Mosul became the final point of the 5-day trip of Donald Ramsfeld, which began in Pakistan and continued in Afghanistan and Jordan.

The process of acquiring Roszagranbanks on Friday Vneshotorgbank (VTB) has officially announced that a point was put in a long -term case on the transfer of shares of Roszagranbans. As a result, VTB acquired shares in OST -West HandelsBank - 32%of the shares, the Luxembourg East -West United Bank - 34%, the Austrian Donau Bank - 85%, the Moscow People’s Bank (London) - 88.89%, a commercial bank for Northern Europe - Eurobank (Paris) - 87.04%.

In Poland, the president’s inauguration ceremony was held on Thursday, 56-year-old mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kachinsky, resigned the powers of the head of the Polish capital. Speaking at the city hall, he said: “It was a great honor for me to work as mayor of Warsaw.” The even greater honor was waiting for Kachinsky the next day: on Friday morning at a meeting of both chambers of the parliament, he solemnly took the oath of allegiance to the people and the constitution and officially took office.

The authorities of Kyrgyzstan issued to Kazakhstan one of the opposition leaders alarming for the Kazakh opposition entered the other day from neighboring Kyrgyzstan. According to local human rights activists, one of the leaders of the opposition movement of the “Union of Patriotic Youth of Kazakhstan” Makhambet Abzhan, after a two -week stay in the Bishkek pre -trial detention center, was sent to his homeland, where he threatens up to 10 years in prison.

On December 25, in his first Christmas speech, Pope Benedict XVI reminded Christians of the need for constant spiritual work. Turning to the traditional Christmas message by Urbi et orbi, dad emphasized that in the era of scientific and technological progress, the man of technological era risks becoming a victim of the success of his mind and the results of his activity, if he encounters spiritual atrophy, with the void of the heart.

The South Korean scientist is accused of fabricating the results of experiments with stem cells The scandal around one of the most successful cloning specialists stretched for more than one day. First, a murmur rose in the scientific community about how last year the 53-year-old professor Khvan from South Korea managed to get fresh eggs for the first experience in human cloning. A few weeks later, a real scientific soap opera broke out around this case.

Piano concerts at the December evenings festival Festival "December evenings" was founded by Pianist Svyatoslav Richter. It is not surprising that it was precisely the chamber musification on the piano that has always been a reliable and strong basis of the festival. The current, twenty -fifth "evenings" turned out to be especially productive for pianists.

18:30 // 25.12.2005 Special navigation of postal envelopes in the memory of the wife of the Decembrist, Princess Maria Volkonskaya, took place today in Irkutsk. Thus celebrated the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of her departure from Siberia. The daughter of the Hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, General Raevsky, Maria Volkonskaya, at the age of 22, abandoned civil rights and class privileges in order to be next to her husband convicted of hard labor.

The results of the year in youth policy last year, the confrontation of the Kremlin and the opposition was reborn in a stubborn struggle of youth movements. During this time, the authorities created a whole “anti -Orange” front of the young “United Russia” devoted by the President, ultra -rationalists under the auspices of the Eurasian Youth Union and members of the “Our” movement, calling themselves anti -fascists.

The Russians will go to the car service for the coupon in the new year the traffic police may lose one of their main prerogatives: the Russian government intends to transfer the right to conduct state inspection (TRP) to commercial maintenance stations (STO). This was announced last Friday by the head of the office of the Cabinet of Ministers Sergey Naryshkin following the meeting of the administrative reform commission, the chairman of which he is.

Tehran is ready to resume negotiations on the nuclear program last Saturday the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the second time in the last month, Iran turned to Iran with an official proposal - to enrich Uranus for Iranian nuclear stations on Russian territory.