16:29 // 12/18/2008 In Bollywood, they will make a film about terrorist attacks in Mumbai. According to the Associated Press , Indian producers are already thinking how to transfer the cruel attack of terrorists on a large screen. Recall, on November 26-29, a group of ten terrorists, immigrants from Pakistan, attacked the Indian city of Mumbai, capturing two fashionable hotels, a popular restaurant, a crowded railway station and the headquarters of the local Jewish community.

13:27 // 12/18/2008 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced the beginning of the annual operation "Pyrotechnics". This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Department of Public Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Leonid Vedenov.

The mortgage housing lending agency (AIZHK) decided how exactly it will support mortgage borrowers. The corresponding program on Thursday was approved by AIZHK's supervisory board, and now it remains only to coordinate it with the government. The program provides for large-scale measures that facilitate the debt burden on people, whose standard of living has sharply decreased due to the crisis.

Maxim Chudov and Albina Akhatova made a gold double in Hochfilzen in an interview with the newspaper with individual races opened the third stage of the Biathlon World Cup. The victory in them was celebrated by Russian biathletes Maxim Chudov and Albina Akhatov. Following the relay turret, our shooting skiers made their personal ones. Initially, the third stage of the World Cup was to be accepted by Slovenian Poklika.

The heirs of Korney Chukovsky lost the lawsuit of the Moscow City Court, on Thursday, in force, the decision of the Basmanny Court of the capital, who deviated the lawsuit of the granddaughter of the famous children's poet Korney Elena Chukovskaya to Procter & Gamble.

16:26 // 12/18/2008 The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin visited the Leader-Resource Cardboard company in the Lipetsk region, RIA Novosti reports. The Prime Minister examined the plants for the production of corrugated cardboard, which is used for packaging industrial and food products. A tour of the workshop for the head of government was held by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lipetskagrosnabservis LLC Oleg Donskoy.

09:46 // 12/18/2008 The next month, George Bush will arrange a lunch in the White House for the chosen US President Barack Obama and three former US presidents - Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton, RIA Novosti reports. A joint lunch with the participation of one current, one future and three former US presidents is scheduled for January 7. Bush leaves the post of US President January 20, 2009. On the same day, Obama takes the oath and becomes a new chapter. Source: gzt.ru

21:40 // 12/18/2008 On Thursday, the deputy head of the rear of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd Region Andrei Voitskhovsky was detained for a bribe. According to the investigation, the officer established his own rules for firms wishing to participate in the repair and construction of investigative insulators and district internal affairs departments. Those who took up the work should have paid him 20% of the amount of the contract.

17:58 // 12/18/2008 The Housing and Public Utilities Reform Promoting Fund approved the applications of six regions that asked for overhaul of houses and resettlement of housing, RIA Novosti reports with reference to public relations between the state corporation. For the first time, the Moscow Region and Chukotka applied for financial support to the housing and communal services fund. Repeated funds will receive the Novgorod, Tver regions and Udmurtia.

The Blackwater security agency may stop working in Iraq by the Council of the State Department of the United States recommended not to renew the Blackwater private security agency License to work in Iraq. The corresponding report was sent to the US Secretary of State Condolizes Rice. And earlier, the US Department of Justice brought the company to five employees of the company of murder of civilians.

But the authorities will demand from the returners of the acceptance of citizenship of South Ossetia in Geneva yesterday the third round of international consultations on safety and stability in the Caucasus opened. After a working lunch in the palace of nations, negotiation participants began discussions in the format of a working meeting. Representatives of Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, the USA, the European Union, the OSCE and the UN take part in the discussions.

The financial crisis has struck all sectors of the economy. But the Internet industry, which has not yet been completely recovering from the collapse of the dotcomes, seems the most vulnerable. However, the head of the Google representative office in Russia, Vladimir Dolgov, assured the correspondent of Gazeta Anton Trifonov, that everything is not so scary. - How will the global economic crisis affect the world Internet industry as a whole and Google in particular?

20:14 // 12/18/2008 According to Mlive, the main goalkeeper of Detroit Chris Osgood, due to the injury of PAH, missed the last training of the team. In Detroit, they could not name the exact date when the Osgood returns to duty. Source: gzt.ru

17:22 // 12/18/2008 The subject of Great Britain, 33-year-old Rangzib Ahmed was found guilty of belonging to the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, the Manchester Royal Court said, RIA Novosti reports. 29-year-old Khabib Ahmed was found guilty of proximity to the group and intention to become its member. As the prosecution implies, both criminals (they are not interconnected with related bonds) were members of three Al-Qaeda cell, which carried out a certain task of the leadership of the group in the UK.

21:47 // 12/18/2008 The elected US President Barack Obama appointed Mary Shapiro the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), RIA Novosti reports citing Reuters.