15:31 // 12/17/2007 The Italian Quarter will begin to be built in Blagoveshchensk in 2008. Today, the author of the complex development project of the Severnaya microdistrict, the architect from Italy, Corrada Katania, presented the leadership of the city hall, builders and the public with the final version of the project. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the city hall.

Lawyer Henry Reznik said that they are charged with the fourth detainee in the Storchak case today the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation charged Igor Kruglyakov, a member of the Board of the Interregional Investment Bank, was charged with the attempt on the theft of budgetary funds.

The European Union proposes to make banking competition in Russia honest for the development of the banking sector in Russia, foreign investments and an increase in the level of financial knowledge of the population are needed.

12:26 // 12/17/2007 Five members of the UN Organizational Committee on Climate Changes, held on the Indonesian island of Bali, died in a car accident on Java Island, another was wounded, RIA Novosti reports with reference to representatives of the local police. The incident occurred early in the morning in the area of the city of Losarang in the province of West Java.

12:23 // 12/17/2007 The oil spot formed as a result of leakage of petroleum products in an accident on the Polish pipeline on December 16, will not reach Poland to the Kaliningrad region, RIA Novosti said an employee of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, Alexander Polonsky. The leakage of oil products came from the Plotsk pipeline - Nova, the whole Velka, a giant spot of several kilometers in the size of the Visla river towards the Baltic Sea.

12:36 // 12/17/2007 World markets are awaiting a sharp jump in food prices. This was written by the British Financial Times . According to the newspaper, an impulse for the expected jump was a sharp increase in prices for cereal products and on rice on the last day of the last trade week. So, on Friday, the prices for the March futures of wheat reached their historical record during the auction on the Chicago agricultural exchange and amounted to $ 9.80 per brown.

14:59 // 12/17/2007 The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev informed today Russian President Vladimir Putin on how preparations are being prepared for the direction of maternity capital to improve housing conditions. "The government approved the rules for obtaining and sending maternity capital to improve housing conditions," he said today at a meeting of the president with members of the government, answering the question of the head of state.

10:36 // 12/17/2007 About 50 cars collided today on Victory Avenue in Kiev due to ice on the road, there are victims, ITAR-TASS reports. The accident stretched about half a kilometer, the traffic is blocked. According to the State traffic inspectorate of Ukraine, this morning throughout the country is a surge in traffic accidents. Source: gzt.ru

In involvement in the terrorist attack on the bus Pyatigorsk-Stavropol, the resident of Ingushetia is suspected of the press service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Territory today reported that the suspect was detained in the territory of the Kabardino-Balkaria, the suspect was detained in the explosion of the bus explosion in Nevinnomyssk. It turned out to be a native of Ingushetia, he was detained about 05.00 Moscow time on December 16.

12:52 // 12/17/2007 In the Dagestan village of Gimra, the Untsukul district, where a counter-terrorist operation regimen was announced from December 15, during the courtyard inspections one machine, six TNT checkers, weighing 400 grams each, and about 50 cartridges of 7.62 mm caliber were removed, ITAR-TASS reports.

Vladimir Putin promised citizens to head the government if the president was chosen by Dmitry Medvedev, the eighth congress of United Russia was supposed to simply approve the decision of the president of the week ago on the choice of Dmitry Medvedev as a successor yesterday. But Vladimir Putin managed to give this procedure a new shine.

12:50 // 12/17/2007 In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a native of the North Caucasian region was detained, suspected of abduction of a person for the purpose of ransom. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the department of assistance programs for the Federal Security Service in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Representatives of the special services noted that a certain Ruslan Arzkhaev came into view during operational measures for the search for persons involved in the commission of a terrorist nature.

09:21 // 12/17/2007 The workers of the Ford plant in the Leningrad Region suspended the strike, but they can resume it in February, the representative of the Ford Motor Company CJSC told RIA Novosti . "We stopped the strike, the plant goes into normal mode. We sit down at the negotiating table," said the representative of the trade union. According to him, the trade union still requires an increase in the basic wage amount from March 2008 from 19 thousand rubles to 28 thousand rubles.

12:25 // 12/17/2007 Rescuers still have not found three people who disappeared in the tundra in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug almost a week ago, an employee of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies told RIA Novosti . "In the Tazovsky district, the search for a 28-year-old man and his two fellow travelers-orewoods, who went on December 11 at the Buran snowmobile towards the Yaraik factor, and their whereabouts are unknown to the present," the source said.

The pirate vessel for 300 years lay under water at a depth of 3 meters 400-ton Quedagh Merchant never reached the shores of the Dominican Island of Katalina. After 300 years, a ship, the thoughts of which all this time haunted the treasure hunters, found a local diver. The wreckage of the vessel, the gun and anchor were at a depth of 3 meters just 21 meters from the coastline. It seems that they can tell a lot about Kidda hanging in London for piracy in 1701.