The day before, the head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, nevertheless met with his deputy since the meeting of Alexei Kudrin and Sergey Storchak in the Lefortovo isolator took place without the participation of lawyers, the details of the conversation are unknown.

14:49 // 12/14/2007 Next year, Moscow schoolchildren will take two compulsory exams in the form of a single state exam / USE / - Russian language and mathematics. According to ITAR-TASS in the capital's city hall, if only Russian was mandatory this year, then in the next schoolchildren will already take two subjects.

11:43 // 12/14/2007 The Russian Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Canadian radar satellite Radarsat-2 today starts from the Baikonur cosmodrome. According to ITAR-TASS in Roscosmos, "the launch of the carrier with the Canadian satellite is scheduled for 16.17 Moscow time." The spacecraft (ka) "Radarsat -2" is equipped with a radar with a synthetic aperture, its resolution - 3 meters.

19:03 // 12/14/2007 The third and fourth transport rings in the south of Moscow will connect the new highway, the creation of which is provided for by the plan for the construction of the Crystal Island cultural and business center, said the chief architect of the capital Alexander Kuzmin at the urban planning council. "The construction of the center will require a significant development of transport infrastructure.

16:41 // 12/14/2007 The famous Australian actress Nicole Kidman won the British newspaper Daily Telegraph , which reported that the Star does not fulfill the terms of the contract with the perfume company of Chanel, RIA News reports. "The article wrote that, despite the multimillion -dollar contract with Chanel, the plaintiff (Kidman) openly advertised the product of a competing company," Kelly said. The amount of the compensation that the actress was not disclosed is not disclosed.

17:07 // 12/14/2007 In Russia, they are outraged by the ongoing acts of vandalism in relation to monuments to the Soviet soldiers-liberators in the western regions of Ukraine. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said in the Russian foreign policy. "The ongoing acts of vandalism in relation to monuments to the Soviet soldiers -liberators in the western regions of Ukraine - in Chervonograd, Drogobych, Lviv, Ivano -Frankivsk - were informed on Smolenskaya Square.

21:16 // 12/14/2007 The British Foreign Ministry made a sharp response to the statements of the head of the Russian foreign policy department Sergey Lavrov about the relations of Moscow and London, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier on Friday, Lavrov said that in the summer of this year the British side went "for a systematic deterioration of relations with Russia" in areas such as cooperation in the fight against terrorism and facilitating the visa regime.

Viktor Zubkov has not yet accepted the resignation of the head of the PFR Gennady Batanov, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has not yet signed a petition for the resignation of the head of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Gennady Batanov, the Deputy Prime Minister, the head of the government apparatus Sergey Naryshkin told reporters on Friday.

21:14 // 12/14/2007 Fire duty was removed at the office building of the old building on Smolenskaya Square in the center of Moscow, where a fire occurred on Thursday, the area of which was 600 square meters, RIA Novosti reports. On Thursday, two fire engines were on duty near the building, as wooden floors (buildings) could flare up again. It took firefighters for almost three hours to localize the fire raging on the second and third floors of the building.

09:46 // 12/14/2007 The traffic along the Transkavkazsky highway (transcles) passing through North Ossetia and connecting Russia with the Caucasus states is closed due to avalanche danger, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic told RIA Novosti . "Due to the abundant snowfall and a sharp increase in the threat of snow avalanches, it was decided to close the traffic on Transcam from 21.30 Thursday to a special order," the source said.

19:42 // 12/14/2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin is satisfied with the agreements reached in Minsk during negotiations with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and at a meeting of the highest state council of the Union State. "Relations between Russia and Belarus are fundamental and are truly strategic," Putin quotes RIA Novosti .

17:03 // 12/14/2007 Russian economy "is already part of the ten largest economies in the world, but this is only the beginning of the path," said the first Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, welcoming the laureates of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology in 2006, ITAR-TASS reports.

21:44 // 12/14/2007 The signing and final ratification of the state border of Russia and Latvia will allow political disagreements between the two countries, in particular, on the issue of disputed territories, the Russian ambassador in Latvia Viktor Kalyuzhny believes.

15:24 // 12/14/2007 The organizers of the Russian cinema festival opening today in Poland excluded from his program the movie "1612. The Chronicle of the Time of Troubles" directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, ITAR-TASS reports. The tape, one of the main roles in which the famous Polish actor Mikhal Zhebrovsky plays, talks about the Polish aggression against the Russian state in the early seventeenth century and has already received the characterization of the "Antipolskaya" in the local press.

18:52 // 12/14/2007 Gas prices for Belarus will not increase. According to Prime-Tass , this was announced today by Russian President Vladimir Putin after the end of the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in Minsk. "Gazprom will comply with the agreements reached in December last year, and supply gas to Belarus at appropriate prices," the head of the Russian state emphasized. Source: gzt.ru