15:35 // 27.12.2005 The head of the Presidential Candidate, the head of the presidential candidate, Viktor Sheiman, the head of the Presidential Administration, submitted an application for the departure of the head of the administration, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Belarus Lidia Yermoshin told reporters. She explained that according to the law, Sheiman does not have the right to combine the posts of the head of the administration and the head of the initiative group.

13:36 // 27.12.2005 To monitor the implementation of national projects in the regions, working groups will be created under federal inspectors, and at the level of federal districts, coordination councils at the presidential envoy, the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting of the State Council.

One way or another, in this regard, all political forces were noted the topic of xenophobia and the struggle against neo -Nazemism last year by the society. Against the background of a wave of murders on racial grounds, the “moderate” nationalists convinced the Kremlin in the ability to take control of the crowds of hooligan neo -Nazis. In turn, the liberal opposition tried to appropriate the title of main fighters with fascism.

13:02 // 27.12.2005 Vladimir Putin demanded competently and effectively spend the money allocated on national projects, RIA Novosti reports. “We said all the time - not enough, not enough, little money. Now we have allocated as much as we need. We need to competently master it,” said the President of the Russian Federation at a meeting of the State Council dedicated to national projects. Source: gzt.ru

09:37 // 27.12.2005 Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the Federal Budget for 2006", the Kremlin press service told RIA Novosti. The law was adopted by the State Duma on December 7 and approved by the Federation Council on December 14. Budget revenues are planned in the amount of 5 trillion 46.1 billion rubles, expenses - 4 trillion 270.1 billion rubles, a surplus of 776 billion rubles. The predicted GDP level next year will be 24 trillion 380 billion, inflation - 7-8.5%.

Russian rock 2005: The results of the year 2005 before his beginning inspired vague, but persistent optimistic expectations: the previous, 2004, was painfully stagnant and inexpressive. For the most part, we were justified - this year we got a lot of good music. True, there were no stunning debuts in it, but already famous artists have released their best work in recent years.

From the New Year, motorists will live according to the new rules of movement, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a New Year's surprise motorists. From January 1, a new version of the traffic rules comes into force - as usual, processed and supplemented. The current changes are not a couple of last year (then the traffic police explained to us what the adjacent territory was, ordered to go around obstacles only on the right side and forbade Gazel to go in the left row).

18:35 // 27.12.2005 The ex-prime minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin believes that Andrei Illarionov had to resign from the post of adviser to the President of the Russian Federation for a long time. “He was kept in vain for so long in the Kremlin,” Chernomyrdin frankly said Interfax on Tuesday.

15:10 // 27.12.2005 Andrei Illarionov resigned from the post of adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on economic issues. He stated this to ITAR-TASS , explaining his decision at a briefing. Illarionov emphasized that “there are many reasons for such a solution” and identified three most important ones: “changing the economic policy and the economic model, changing the political regime and the emergence of a corporatic model of the state.” Source: gzt.ru

16:50 // 12/27/2005 The leader of the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin considers it necessary to unite the Communists and "Motherland" into a single coalition. "Our voters and activists are aware of the need for further consolidation of the Russian folk-patriotic forces," he said on Tuesday at a press conference in Moscow. “We are ready for any connection - for organizational, for joint political actions, to a series of political shares, and so on,” Rogozin said.

21:20 // 12/27/2005 The entire personnel of the metropolitan traffic police entered the roads of Moscow to manually adjust the traffic. According to RIA Novosti in the traffic police department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the city has introduced a special plan "core center". Now all the traffic police officers who are on the shift work as traffic controllers.

13:58 // 27.12.2005 Since 2006, the procedure for the provision of a service for a free travel in the railway transport of a suburban message has been changing, the chairman of the board of the Pension Fund of Russia Gennady Batanov told the press. 7.8 million citizens will have the right to free suburban passage in 2006.

Andrei Illarionov resigned from the post of adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on economic issues. "I gave a petition to my employer and I think that in the near future it will be satisfied," Illarionov told reporters at a briefing in his office in the Kremlin. “As long as there was an opportunity to do something in this post, including the opportunity to say, I considered it important to stay here.

The free economy turned into state energy in 2005 was the most unpredictable. At first, the MECTR forecast a significant drop in GDP growth from 7.2% in 2004 to 5.9% in the outgoing. When summing up 11 months, it turned out that growth could be 6.4%. Optimists are already talking about a repetition of the results of the last year. However, what has spurred growth at the end of this year, the government is definitely not known.

Iceland and Finland entered the competition for Santa Claus Christmas and New Year's holidays give rise to disputes: what country is the birthplace of Santa Claus? To prove that it is on their territory that the white -bearded grandfather lives, giving children gifts, are striving for Finland, Norway, Russia and Denmark. Recently, Iceland also announced her claim. This happened when the Reuters news agency sent letters addressed to Santa Claus or Santa Claus to eight northern countries.