Even in the context of the financial crisis, the waste of Russians on the New Year's table and gifts remain unchanged. Russians are ready to save only at entertainment outside the house. Moreover, in comparison with the last year, the number of those who intend to spend up to 10 thousand rubles has grown by 3%. This is evidenced by the data published on Monday by a survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).

15:00 // 12/15/2008 "Russian railways" in connection with a strike on the Hungarian railways today reported a temporary stop of selling tickets for non -reproductive passenger cars, following the stations in Hungary. "The sale of tickets to wagons was also suspended, following the trains transit through Hungary and reinforced on its territory to trains of other European destinations," the company’s press service said.

$ 140 million allocated to the UN for the vaccination program disappeared more than 20 developing countries that are involved in the Vaccination programs supported by the UN, regularly exaggerated the data in the number of vaccinated children. This was reported yesterday by the agency of AR, citing the magazine The Lancet. As a result, about $ 140 million allocated for programs disappeared in an unknown direction.

15:48 // 12/15/2008 The adviser to the President of Zenit on transfersal policy, Konstantin Sarsania, became the new head coach of the Club of the Russian Football Premier League “Khimki”, RIA Novosti reports. Such a decision was made on Monday at a meeting of the supervisory board of FC Khimki under the leadership of the club of the club Vladimir Strelchenko. The agreement is designed for two years. Konstantin Sarsania was born on June 11, 1968 in Moscow.

Deltacredit bank doubled the Monthly Mortgage Payments as it became known to the “Gazeta”, last weekend Deltakredit bank, which is part of the Societe Generale banking group, sent a letter to its mortgage borrowers, which notified the monthly payment. True, not to everyone, but only to those customers who have a ruble loan with a floating rate. According to bank settlements, the monthly payment for such debtors is about half.

In the spring, the Constituent Congress of the Youth Valdai club was scheduled in the Public Chamber (OP) yesterday the Investigating Russia program was pronounced, within the framework of which students and journalists from Ukraine, France, Norway, Germany, Japan and other countries were visiting Russia for a week. The purpose of the program, according to its organizer, member of OP Irina Plescheva, is to debunk the stereotypes about Russia.

09:35 // 12/15/2008 A student from Kazakhstan was killed in Moscow, ITAR-TASS reported today in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. The night before, near house 2 on Butlerov Street, the body of an 18-year-old student of the Russian State University of Oil and Gaza named after Gubkina. As established by the forensic experts, a young man, a citizen of Kazakhstan, received a penetrating stab wound and died of this. All versions of this crime are currently being considered.

The regular naval message is resumed between the countries yesterday between mainland China and Taiwan for the first time since 1949, a regular sea message was resumed. This event has become another symbol of the gradual establishment of relations between Beijing and Taibe. Agreements on the development of transport links between the banks of the Taiwan Strait were signed in Taibe in early November.

19:05 // 12/15/2008 Saint-Luis and Detroit can play the starting match of the next season in Sweden. The NHL began negotiations on holding the starting match of the next season between Detroit and St. Louis in Sweden. "The representatives of the league asked if we were interested in starting the next season with a match in Sweden. We agreed. But the negotiations have just begun, so we need to discuss a lot more," said Ken Holland general manager in an interview with The Detroit Free Press.

A serious rise in price will not affect only the residents of demolished five -story buildings by the Moscow government approved the tariff rates for hiring municipal housing and housing and communal services for 2009. For some positions, the rise in price will be 20%. On average, the increase in hiring prices, repair and maintenance of residential buildings did not exceed the limits established by the Federal Tariff Service.

Televedel brought together Alexy II and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both the funeral of the Patriarch, and the 90th anniversary of the writer, recorded television with generosity, which had not lowered alive. But what is noteworthy. Whenever such important coincidences collapse on the channels, it is especially noticeable how contradictory is the territory of TV. The departure of the Holiness was furnished with unprecedented splendor, thoroughness, details.

Following the building materials, the reduction of the cost of construction by 20-25% on average for Russia is predicted by the President of the Association of Builders of Russia (ASR), Nikolai Koshman, will begin to become cheaper. Matter, according to Nikolai Koshman, there will be not only building materials, in the wholesale market of which the price reduction has already been on this fall. Next year, in his opinion, the following component of the cost of housing - land will come.

09:12 // 12/15/2008 Today, Russian Railways put into operation at the stations of Moscow and St. Petersburg 43 self-service terminals to buy tickets. Since November 5 of the current year, Russian Railways has put into trial operation the technology for selling long -distance trains paid for bank cards and issued through the transactional self -service terminal (TSS). During the first month of the system, passengers were drawn up by 5.6 thousand travel documents, RIA Novosti reports.

Infrastructure projects will unite the state and business public -private partnership (PPP) - a temporary alliance between the state and the business for the implementation of socially significant projects, should become an effective tool in the fight against the crisis.

Developers are waiting for budget money by the authorities to save the housing market plunge builders into despondency. This concern about this was expressed at yesterday’s press conference by the President of the Association of Builders of Russia (ASR) Nikolai Koshman.