19:00 // 12/20/2006 The director of the Hermitage Academician Mikhail Piotrovsky, who was in Moscow, told ITAR-TASS that "for him it is a great joy, to find after the loss the famous picture of the French artist Leon Jerome" Basin in the harem. "According to him, this is" a real gift in the great holiday of Christmas and I am sure of the brush of a wonderful French artist.

The reassigned governor promises to St. Petersburg five tense years yesterday, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg examined in less than two hours and approved the candidacy of Valentina Matvienko proposed by the President of the Russian Federation for the position of governor of the city. Only three deputies voted against. Their position was supported by several picketers gathered at the entrance to the Zachi, but they were detained by the police.

The Ministry of Economic Development is building export and infrastructure plans yesterday about the results of work and plans for the future not only the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov reported, but also the deputy head of the MECHILE Kirill Androsov. The priority in the work of its ministry next year will be the "creation of conditions for supporting export industries", as well as the implementation of energy policy and the construction of infrastructure within the country.

The Russian hacker manipulated the shares of American firms, the American authorities attracted the Russian hacker to trial, who illegally gained access to the accounts of customers of the brokerage company and managed the money of their owners, raising the prices of the shares he needed. Applying the well -known “pumping and reset” scheme, the entrepreneurial Russian received $ 354 thousand illegal income. The court hearing is scheduled for December 29. A resident of St.

The footballer of the Moscow "Spartak" Denis Boyarintsev - "Gazeta" The midfielder of Spartak Denis Boyarintsev distinguished himself in several luxurious goals in the past year. His blows from behind the penalty are able to shake the imagination of the most advisable skeptic. Moreover, some of Denis's balls were extremely important for the result. On his account, the first and last goals of Spartak in the group tournament of the Champions League.

The IFIL Foundation has acquired the largest private consulting company Italian IFIL investment fund, owned by the ANIELLI family, acquired a 67.5% shares of the Cushman & Wakefield consulting company operating in the real estate market. According to the press service of Cushman & Wakefield, the Italian Fund invests $ 563 million in the consulting company. Perhaps this is not the latest acquisition by the IFIL structure operating in the world real estate market outside Italy.

The Moscow City Duma introduces the minimum size of the rooms for the casino today Mosgor Duma will hold an extraordinary meeting, at which it plans to adopt the amendments to the city law “On the placement of gambling objects in the city of Moscow”, which are hastily made by the mayor, establishing a “minimum set” for gaming institutions. For the casino, according to the draft amendments, the minimum area of 3 thousand square meters was installed.

Half of patients with lung cancer after surgery begin to smoke again according to a study conducted by a medical school at the University of Washington, almost half of the 154 smokers who had an operation at an early stage of lung cancer, again began to smoke two weeks after surgery. The risk of the resumption of the disease in them is 60%. These data were published in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. “Our patients can no longer live without nicotine.

10:39 // 12/20/2006 Tara Conner won the Miss America title in April this year, and in July took fourth place at the Miss Universe contest. After the victory, she worked as a model and participated in many charity events. However, a few days ago, Conner was seriously criticized in the press, reports Echo of Moscow . Journalists learned that she regularly visited New York bars, where she often drunk. The fact is that 21 years old - American majority - she celebrated only last Monday.

19:36 // 12/20/2006 “Korbina Telecom” can conduct an IPO in Moscow, London or New York until the end of 2008. This was reported in the Golden Telecom press release, which refers to Prime-Tass . Golden Telecom signed a protocol on the terms of the transaction on the acquisition of the Corbina Telecom control package.

The capital of Italian fashion officially forbade too thin models to participate in the shows of the city of Milan and its powerful fashion industry signed an agreement according to which fashion models are younger than 16 years old and those girls whose body weights below 18.5 will not be allowed to participate in fashion shows.

The British are accustomed to the "Russian Winter" on January 11, 2007, Muscovites and Londoners will be able to observe the chess duel of the famous grandmasters of Russia and the UK. The duel should turn out to be tense even physically: chess players will have to move ice figures of meter height on boards of 15 by 15 meters.

The Western media seek to “draw the image of Russia exclusively in dark colors” yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a press conference on the foreign policy results of the year. Among the issues that the minister touched on in his speech, there was a problem of the Middle Eastern settlement, the Iranian nuclear program, relations between Russia and the EU, the Russian-Georgian issue and even the Litvinenko case, which, according to Lavrov, is blessed in the Western press.

United Russia will again put forward the candidate of the permanent mayor of the United Russia faction in the Moscow City Duma will nominate the candidacy of Yuri Luzhkov for the post of mayor of Moscow for a new term in December 2007. True, only if the consent of Yuri Luzhkov himself, the vice-speaker of the Moscow City Duma, the head of the United Russia faction Andrei Metelsky, agreed.

The reform of the European Court of Human Rights in Russia is not welcomed yesterday by State Duma deputies by a majority vote refused to ratify the 14th protocol to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Thus, Russia, which remains the only member of the Council of Europe, who did not ratify the document, has become on the path of reforming the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).