The new prime minister shared the new Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fuda with his first program speech in the Japanese parliament with parliament yesterday. In his speech, Fucu, first of all, designated the country's foreign policy interests. The basis of Japan's foreign policy was a union with the United States, and as one of the first tasks was to extend the participation of Japanese ships in a peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan.

In Moscow, they are wondering which side Tymoshenko will turn to Russia in the moods of Ukrainian statesmen due to uncertainty with the results of the elections yesterday, a light chaos reigned yesterday. Both sides - both the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych and the orange - proclaimed themselves winners, and both in the evening expressed distrust of the work of election commissions.

17:26 // 01/01/2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the United Russia election congress, called for thinking "about updating" the highest authorities of the party leadership, ITAR-TASS reports. “The party should constantly develop and update, open promising opportunities for energetic, talented, creative young people,” he said.

Russian pensioners were offered to tolerate two and a half years. The state will need so much to bring social pensions (payments to citizens who do not receive labor pensions) to the so -called subsistence minimum of the pensioner. And labor pensions (94% of pensioners receive them) in 2010 should exceed 5 thousand rubles (30% higher than the subsistence minimum of the pensioner). This was announced yesterday by the head of the Pension Fund Gennady Batanov.

20:08 // 01/01/2007 The Congress of United Russia approved changes and additions to the charter of the party. As the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the party Vyacheslav Volodin explained, they are associated "with the transition to a proportional electoral system", as well as with bringing the charter in accordance with the current legislation, ITAR-TASS reports.

16:41 // 01/01/2007 The painting by Nikita Mikhalkov "12" was nominated from Russia for Oscar film award in the nomination "Best Foreign Film of the Year". ITAR-TASS was announced by the chairman of the Russian Oscar Commission, director Vladimir Menshov. According to him, according to the rules of the American Film Academy, the commission considered films that were released from October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007.

12:37 // 01.10.2007 Russia is ready to increase the number of state scholarships for foreign students and graduate students studying in Russian universities. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the opening of the second World Forum of foreign graduates of Russian and Soviet universities. According to him, more than 7 thousand scholarships are paid annually for admission to the training of foreign citizens and compatriots from the CIS countries annually.

18:09 // 01/01/2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to become a member of the United Russia party, ITAR-TASS reports. "Thank you again for these proposals, I really, although I was one of the initiators of the creation of" United Russia ", but also as the vast majority of citizens of the country, I am non -partisan," the president said at the Congress of United Russia. “And I wouldn’t want to change this status,” he said. Source: gzt.ru

The Ministry of Natural Resources will reproduce the mineral resource base in a new way, by the end of the year, the Ministry of Natural Resources will introduce a new program for the reproduction of the mineral resource base to the government. This was announced yesterday by the head of the ministry Yuri Trutnev. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, in 2006, for six of the 37 main types of minerals, including oil, more reserves were explored than mined.

In Russia, a center for monitoring of the side effects of drugs appeared - pharmacon supervision at the College of Roszdravnadzor, held in the last week of September, a center for monitoring the side effects of drugs was created - pharmacon supervision. He will be headed by a member of the RAMS, Professor Vladimir Lepakhin. The Monitoring Center will operate on the basis of the FSU Scientific Center for Expertise of Medical Application.

18:48 // 01/01/2007 The leader of United Russia Boris Gryzlov believes that the decision of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to head the party list in the Duma elections demonstrates "a connection with the Party for the Development of the All -Russian Strategy." United Russia supported the president in everything, actually coordinated legislative activities with him, and Putin’s decision to head the federal lists is a logical move, ”he said.

The Moscow Football Club will play today with Istanbul Fenerbahce the first Moscow Ligocapian guests of Moscow to become football players of the Turkish "Besener" this year. We can say that the visit of the southerners to the Russian capital has become a kind of epigraph to the poem entitled "The Champions League Final in Moscow." Do not forget that it is the Russian capital that has to accept two finalists of the most prestigious European tournament.

19:36 // 01/01/2007 The head of the People’s Democratic Union and ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov spoke out for creating a single democratic front before the upcoming presidential elections in March, RIA Novosti reports. “We must start a conversation about consolidation,” he said at a press conference in Strasbourg.

09:50 // 01.10.2007 In Russia, an autumn appeal begins. According to Echo of Moscow , today's draftees will serve a year and a half, and from January 1, 2008, the military service period will be one year. The Ministry of Defense complain that the quality of the draft contingent remains unsatisfactory. A year ago, every third drafte was unbearable to service for health reasons.

19:29 // 01/01/2007 The President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov considers the decision of President Vladimir Putin to head the federal list of United Russia is absolutely correct.