13:47 // 27.12.2007 17 cast -iron lids with a total weight of about 850 kilograms were discovered by police officers of the city of Michurinsk, the Tambov region in an apartment near a local resident. “According to investigators, a 30-year-old unemployed man throughout the city collected cast-iron lids from hatches, with the subsequent intention to put them in scrap metal.

19:59 // 27.12.2007 The resignation of the Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) Gennady Batanov does not indicate his poor work and is not related to the implementation of pension reform, experts surveyed by RIA Novosti believe. On December 11, Batanov submitted a statement to the government to leave his own free will in connection with retirement. On December 27, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation accepted the resignation.

18:59 // 27.12.2007 The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov signed an order to release Gennady Batanov from the post of head of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. He reported this in an interview with reporters. According to Zubkov, the new head of the FIU has not yet been appointed. Zubkov also said that today he discussed with the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova possible candidates for the new head of the FIU.

The cordon on Manezhnaya Square, established after the evening incident, is preserved. Currently, exits to the square from the side of the Alexander Garden, Krasnaya Square and Tverskaya Street are blocked, law enforcement officers work on the spot. The surroundings of the area were empty, only a broken lantern and granite fragments in the entrance to the Zezhotny Range shopping center from Manezhnaya Square showed about the explosion that occurred here, in addition to the cordon.

In the opera - without images, in the drama - without directors, the main character of the ballet year was the Corsair. In the spring, with a large pomp, he was put in Yekaterinburg Prime Minister of the Paris Opera Jean-Giim Bar. Then the Bolshoi Theater spoke with his version, where Svetlana Zakharova performed Medora with brilliance and humor. And in the fall, the Kremlin Ballet showed the updated version of the production of Yuri Grigorovich, with Anastasia Volochkova as the main character.

Over the past 2007, the Russian tourist formally became more protected, and his ability to travel significantly expanded. On December 21, the Schengen community was replenished with nine new countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Malta. For Russians, this means that from now on, along with 15 long-standing participants in the Schengen agreement, nine more new countries can be freely visited by receiving a single Schengen visa.

14:35 // 27.12.2007 The fishing vessel sank 76 kilometers east of the city of Chumundzhin off the coast of South Korea, one person died, five are considered missing, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the coast guard, a fire occurred on the ship. Unable to cope with the fire on their own, the sailors jumped into the water. One of them died from hypothermia three hours after salvation. Coast guard conducts a search and rescue operation.

12:54 // 27.12.2007 Former mentor of the Moscow CSKA Arthur Georges will head the Iranian national football team, RIA Novosti reports citing informed sources. "Arthur Georges on Wednesday was chosen as a new coach of the national team of Iran football," the agency’s interlocutor said. As expected, the Portuguese will arrive in Tehran in the near future to sign the contract.

15:40 // 27.12.2007 The world's first Glospace SGK-70 Automobile Navigator (Glospace SGK-70), which works simultaneously with two navigation satellite systems-GLONASS and GPS, went on sale and has already been sold out in Moscow stores Ion. An elegant and fairly compact device has been created and is produced by the Research Institute of Cosmic Instrumentation (KP Research Institute). The software was prepared by a division of this Research Institute of Cyberceau.

In Russia, an unprecedented “country is being built again to the model of non-profit capitalism, GDP growth is reduced (6-6.5% in 2008-2010), inflation, on the contrary, practically does not go down, the reforms do not go, the quality of the macroeconomic policy worsens, the proposal in the labor market”-such a pessimistic picture was painted by the head of the Ministry of Finance Elepe Gurvich.

15:00 // 27.12.2007 At least four activists of the opposition wing of the party of the Muslim League of Pakistan died at the hands of unknown terrorists, representatives of the Pakistani opposition told reporters. According to these data, the procession of supporters of the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan Navaz Sharif, representing the Party of MLP (N), was fired by unknown militants in the Karal Chouke region 15 km north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

The deputy chairman of the form of the RAMS Pavel Vorobyov in an interview with Gazeta, the main medical topic of the outgoing year was the discussion of the concept of healthcare development for 2009-2018. Doctors, officials and economists argue about her problems and ways of resolving them. However, some of the experts believe that the discussion has followed the wrong path and the new concept will not solve the problems of Russian medicine.

15:12 // 27.12.2007 The lawyer of one of the defendants in the case of officers accused of killing Chechens, Evgenia Khudyakova does not know the whereabouts of his client, reports RIA Novosti from the courtroom. Khudyakov did not appear in court for a sentence. Khudyakova and Sergey Arakcheev are accused of abduction and illegal retention of a person, as well as the murder of three employees of a construction company who built a military facility of the federal forces in Chechnya.

In Russia, a single telephone number for emergency services is introduced by 2012, Russia will switch to a single phone number of rescue services: 112. The head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu announced this at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. According to the calculations of the miningforms, the introduction of a single phone number will help to reduce human losses by 15-20% during extraordinary incidents, in other words, to save the lives of 7-8 thousand people a year.

12:12 // 27.12.2007 75 years ago, December 27, 1932, an internal Soviet passport appeared. According to ITAR-TASS , the appearance of the passport changed several times, later a photograph appeared in it. The burgundy cover of the certificate was received by the familiar to the older generation in 1974. Our grandparents still remember the passports of the 1953 sample of a smaller format, with the cover of a dark green color, on which there were no letters "USSR".