The housing market will have to work on the mistakes of the real estate market this year was rich in surprises, most of which can not be pleasant: the ongoing rallies of deceived equity holders, the outrage of developers with the new law on shared investment of housing construction. But the most striking event of the year can be safely called a galloping increase in housing prices in the capital, which made a national project to implement affordable housing with a fiction.

The Libyan Court for the second time sentenced the Libyan Court for the second time for the second time for the second time he sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor to death, who are accused of intentional infection of children by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The first death sentence sent to doctors in 2004 was canceled, but the Supreme Court of Libya sent the case for a new consideration.

13:55 // 12/19/2006 In 2006, during 119 special operations in the North Caucasus, the Russian special services destroyed more than 100 leaders of gangs, ITAR-TASS reports. “This year, the activities of terrorists such as Basaev, Sydullaev and the representative of Al -Qaeda, a citizen of Jordan Farid Yusef Mimyira, better known as Abu Havs,” Nikolai Patrushev at a meeting with the leaders of the leading Russian media, was neutralized. Source: gzt.ru

13:32 // 12/19/2006 In 2006, the FSB stopped the activities of 27 personnel employees and 89 agents of foreign intelligence services. This was stated at a meeting with the leaders of the leading Russian media, the director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev. “This year, about 40 foreign special services were recorded in relation to Russia, the activities of 27 personnel employees and 89 agents of foreign special services were suppressed,” Patrushev said.

Gifts to the laureates of prestigious awards will be cheaper 100 times in 2007 at the Oscar award ceremony, the actors, together with gifts, will receive tax returns. In order not to expose them to the risk of a collision with the tax authorities, the American film academia revises the contents of gift packages. The organizers of other awards decided to do the same.

The decision of the court, which takes off the ex-mayor of Pyatigorsk for a car accident, will be protested by the Stavropol Regional Prosecutor's Office yesterday, that the criminal case of the former mayor of Pyatigorsk Igor Tarasov, accused of an accident in which five people were killed.

The head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry explained the reasons for the confrontation with Russia, Gela Trahzhashvili, believes that the unresolved conflicts around Abkhazia and South Ossetia interferes with the stable development of Georgia, and Russia is to blame. “This is the main obstacle that Russia uses to stop the movement of Georgia forward,” said Philohashvili.

13:16 // 12/19/2006 The State Duma decided to transfer to January next year the consideration of a package of bills tightening the punishment for violation of the rules of the road, RIA Novosti reports. The package includes 14 bills on issues regarding fines for violation of traffic rules. Some of the bills will not be recognized as alternative and will be considered separately. The State Duma simply does not have enough regulatory time to discuss all 14 bills.

16:44 // 12/19/2006 The construction of the metro in the Moscow Region will begin in 2007, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Minister of Transport of the Moscow Region Peter Katsy. According to him, the first station behind the ring road along the Filevskaya line will begin to be built next year in the area of the Crocus-City complex. "Since this line will be extended to Mitino, residents of Krasnogorsk will be able to use it," he said.

Professional cycling is time for a funeral - to be different in a shroud and with weeping to see in another world. The notorious shepherd shouted the “wolf” already a million two thousand times - the listeners are completely unconscious and no longer understand who the wolf is and who should eat. Doping scandals have long been scumbaging the reputation of cycles, but for some time the situation still did not get out of control.

The investigation of the high -profile criminal case was resumed as it became known to the "Gazeta", the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office in the Southern Federal District resumed a previously suspended investigation in the criminal case against Ahmed Zakaev, initiated back in 2001.

The first suspect was the former constable on Monday on suspicion of the murder of five prostitutes, whose naked bodies were discovered in early December, a former constable, 37-year-old supermarket worker Tom Stevens. Before the arrest, the police interrogated him several times, and for the first time in early November - after 19 -year -old Tanya Nichols disappeared on October 31.

19:52 // 12/19/2006 The Federal Service for the Control of Drug Training (FSKN) completes the creation of a single data bank that will accumulate information about persons who have committed crimes in the field of drug trafficking. Rosbalt A reports that in fact the bank is already functioning. It allows you to fully ensure the collection and accumulation of information resources of the federal executive bodies to organize the fight against drugs.

The Moscow Military District reports on the fulfillment of the draft plan for military commissions called for 100% of the planned number of recruits, that is, 25.8 thousand people. Of these, 86% - 22 thousand people have already been sent to the troops, the rest will be sent until December 31 of this year.

Students of the American College helped scientists to prove that the human sense of smell is much better than it seems to be believed that a person is deprived of the ability to identify smells, but the experiment of American scientists proves the opposite. The unique abilities of the human smell helped them were helped by college students who agreed to crawl along the grass with blindfolded eyes, trying to track the traces of chocolate.