11:42 // 12/19/2007 The world chess champion Vishvanatan Anand would like to die again with Harry Kasparov. At a meeting with journalists in Kolkat (former Calcutta), he admitted that “it would be happy with such an opportunity,” ITAR-TASS reports. “I have not had to play with Kasparov for a very long time,” said an outstanding Indian chess player. “It will be a great joy for me if he changes his mind and returns to the sport.

15:24 // 12/19/2007 The FSB of the Russian Federation exposed two high -ranking officials who pretending to be employees of this special services in 2007, said the director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev. This is reported by RIA Novosti .

18:25 // 12/19/2007 Veterinarians found that the bird flu for the Gulyay-Borisovskaya poultry farm in Zernogradsky district of the Rostov region, the outbreak of which began at the end of November, entered wild birds, the director of the Rostov Regional Vetlaboratory Anatoly Shapovalov told RIA Novosti .

In Russia, Ukraine and Serbia, the majority of land residents are ready to argue with this to democracy the best form of social structure. The most supporters of democracy live in the countries of Western Europe and North America, they highly assess democracy in Africa and Asia, but the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe are skeptical of democracy. Sociologists from Gallup International came to such conclusions.

12:45 // 12/19/2007 59 Primorsky families living in dilapidated houses will receive modern apartments on New Year's Eve, ITAR-TASS reports.

14:29 // 12/19/2007 In Ingushetia, employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Ingushetia, together with the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, held measures to detain a local resident who is suspected of participating in illegal armed groups.

14:59 // 12/19/2007 The Verkhovna Rada ahead of schedule terminated the deputy powers of 14 people's deputies from the coalition who went to work in the government, reports Prua .

16:47 // 12/19/2007 Cairo police arrested a butcher who, in his shop, sold Muslims a pork forbidden in Islam under the guise of lamb, RIA Novosti reports. The fraudster specially organized the brisk trading of pork on the eve of one of the main Muslim holidays-the sacrifice of the Idal-Adha, when fresh meat is not linger on store shelves. The merchant sold cheap pork meat, prudently tinted with potassium permanganate, pretending it for expensive fresh lamb.

10:04 // 12/19/2007 The Moscow City Court will begin consideration of the criminal case on the explosion in the Cherkizov market in Moscow on August 21, 2006, which claimed 11 people, the head of the press service of the court Anna Usacheva told RIA Novosti . "Today, preliminary hearings will take place, which, according to the law, will be held closed," she said.

In the Smolensk and Yaroslavl regions, the management of President Vladimir Putin was replaced by the leadership yesterday to approve the Legislations of the Smolensk and Yaroslavl regions of the candidacy for the positions of governors. In the Smolensk region, this is Sergey Antufiev, in Yaroslavskaya - Sergey Vakhrukov.

15:26 // 12/19/2007 The presidency of the Russian Federation, the elections of which will be held on March 2, 2008, while four candidates from parties and 11 self -nominates claimed, said Nina Kulyasova, a member of the CEC, RIA Novosti reports. She recalled that on December 18 the deadline for submitting documents from self -nominated in the Central Election Commission expired.

13:20 // 12/19/2007 Employees of the Krasnoyarsk police are looking for a brother and sister 9 and 13 years old, who left the house in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Krasnoyarsk on Monday evening, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti Krasnoyarsk Valery Voronyuk. “According to the parents, in the evening they went to work on the night shift and the last time they called up with the children around 19 hours local time. After that, no one took the house of the house.

11:35 // 12/19/2007 The editors of the leading newspapers of Buryatia filed an open letter to the President of the Republic Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn with a request to "protect freedom of speech from the economic pressure" of the local retail trade in the press - "News". The company notified the editorial office of the termination of previously concluded contracts for the sale of newspapers.

13:32 // 12/19/2007 Information about the threat of explosion of the Moscow City Court was not confirmed. This was announced by the head of the press service Anna Usacheva. "Information about the laid explosive device in the building of the Moscow City Court was not confirmed," ITAR -TASS quotes her words. According to her, the court building for the presence of an explosive device was conducted for more than 2.5 hours.

13:10 // 12/19/2007 The domestic auto industry will collide by 2015 with the strongest competition in the market. This was stated at the 16th International Automobile Conference "Results and the main features of the development of the automotive industry of Russia in 2007" Deputy Director of the Department of Trade Directorate of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Andrei Kushirenko.