12:12 // 05.12.2007 The Tyumen Regional Court recognized the lawful detention of the head coach of the Russian national team in Karate-da 34-year-old George Khizhnyakov, who was arrested as part of the criminal investigation on the facts of the theft of expensive foreign cars, RIA Novosti said on Wednesday the senior assistant to the Tyumen region to interact with the media and the public Elena Melnikova.

13:24 // 05.12.2007 The environmental consequences of the disaster in the Kerch Strait, where during the storm on November 11, the vessel sank and about two thousand tons of oil products resulted in the sea, can be liquidated no earlier than 5-10 years, the Greenpeace, Viktor Zubkov and Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said. On November 11, the storm caused unprecedented incidents in the Azov and Black Seas: four vessels sank in one day, six sat aged, two tankers were damaged.

The order and state planning are becoming increasingly important for Russians, the analytical center of Yuri Levada published yesterday the results of a large -scale study "State, Order and/or Freedom." The respondents asked seven questions on general topics: “What is happening in the country now?”, “Are order and democracy in Russian conditions?”, “What is democracy?” etc. The current state of sociology in Russia gives skeptics a lot of grounds to reproach it for a decrease in objectivity.

17:45 // 05.12.2007 In the center of Moscow on Thursday, the movement of machines will be limited due to mass events, ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the capital's traffic police. They noted that from 08.30 Moscow time to the end of the shares - approximately until 20:00 Moscow time - the movement of vehicles will be limited, including public, along the Vasilievsky descent, the Big Muscovores, Bolotnaya Square, the streets of Moskvoretskaya, Varvarka and Bolotnaya.

17:32 // 05.12.2007 The Georgian Foreign Ministry expresses a surprise and tough protest by the content of the statements made by the representative of the United Russia party Boris Gryzlov on December 3. This is stated in the statement of the foreign policy of Georgia on Wednesday on Wednesday on December 5 in Tbilisi, reports News-Georgia.

17:28 // 05.12.2007 Particular attention at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels will be paid to the issues of the interaction of Moscow with the Alliance. In particular, the resolution of the situation around the contract on ordinary armed forces in Europe (DOVS) and the deployment of the third positional district of the American global missile defense system and its conjugation with the development of the software within the framework of NATO in Europe.

The largest US bank cannot find the head yesterday it became known that the next contender for the post of head of Citigroup, the general director of Deutsche Bank, Joseph Ackermann, refused the proposed position. A month has passed since the bank broke up with its CEO Charles Prince after an inglorious write -off in October in mortgage bonds in the amount of $ 3.3 billion.

17:04 // 05.12.2007 The Russians will receive pensions in time at the beginning of the new year, the chairman of the board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Gennady Batanov is sure. "From December 25, we will already begin to pay a pension for the first days of January," he said in an interview with RIA Novosti . According to Batanov, it is planned that on weekends the January days of the Russian Post will work.

15:37 // 05.12.2007 Political parties, which received less than 3% of the vote in the Duma elections, will suffer significant financial losses. First of all, these are the amounts that they will have to pay the media as compensation for free of charge provided by the airtime and print area, the CEC member Elena Dubrovina explained. According to her, we can talk about the amounts of 60-90 million rubles for each batch.

18:41 // 05.12.2007 In September-October of this year, VTsIOM conducted a survey of 1.2 thousand respondents in 40 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including owners-owners and top managers of private companies, RIA Novosti reports.

13:08 // 05.12.2007 This year, the Finnish embassy plans to issue more than 600 thousand visas to Russian tourists, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced by the ambassador of Finland in Moscow Harry Helenius. “Every day we receive more than 2 thousand applications from Russians who would like to go to Finland,” the ambassador informed.

12:37 // 05.12.2007 Finland does not intend to create specialized centers for the issuance of visas, similar to the created by the UK and France, the ambassador of Finland to the Russian Federation Harry Helenius said. "The creation of such visa centers is not in the plans of Finland.

The defeat of Billy King and the victory "Sacramento Kings" - the main news of the NBA is the main event of recent days in the National Basketball Association was the change of general manager in Philadelphia. Instead of Billy King, who headed the "76th" for a whole decade, Ed Stefansky was appointed for this post.

17:29 // 05.12.2007 The Committee of Solidarity Acts, uniting trade unions and public organizations of St. Petersburg, will hold a number of pickets with the official dealers of Ford in St. Petersburg in support of the workers of the Ford Motor Company CJSC, the Committee said today.

20:39 // 05.12.2007 The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov supports the efforts of the Lebanese in agreement of the consensus candidate for the post of head of state. This was reported today in the Russian Foreign Ministry following the results of the telephone conversation of the Russian minister with one of the leaders of the parliamentary majority in Lebanon Saad Hariri. According to ITAR-TASS , the conversation took place on the initiative of the Lebanese side.