09:45 // 23.12.2008 The Thai court postponed until March 6 a hearing in the case of extradition to the United States, Russian Viktor Buta, arrested on charges of weapons trade. But was detained on March 6 in Thailand, where he came as a tourist. The United States accuses him of illegal weapons trade, including the supply of weapons “Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia” in the supply of weapons, and achieve its extradition.

22:00 // 23.12.2008 Yesterday, a reporting and election conference of the Russian Federation of Russia (FSBR) was held in the building of the Russian Olympic Committee, during which the election of the President of the FSBR was held. The current President of the FSBR Olympic champion Mikhail Mamiashvili was re -elected by a unanimous decision on this post, the whole sport reports. All 147 delegates of the conference from 79 regions of the country voted for the candidacy of Mamiashvili.

12:27 // 23.12.2008 The Nizhny Novgorod police officers detained the professor of the Volga State Academy of Water Transport (VLAVT), a suspect in the murder of a professor, he was a student to whom the teacher did not set off, the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod region said on Tuesday.

12:24 // 23.12.2008 The State Duma intends to consider the bill to the spring session, according to which the candidates of future governors will be offered to the head of state to be the parties that defeated the regional parliamentary elections.

15:13 // 23.12.2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of the courts of the Russian Federation", the Kremlin press service reports. The law was adopted by the State Duma on December 10 and approved by the Federation Council on December 17.

16:50 // 23.12.2008 The revenue part of the budget of the Moscow Region for 2009 will be reduced by 23 billion rubles. The corresponding amendments to this document approved the Moscow Region government today. The need to adjust the budget is associated with an unfavorable forecast of income from income taxes and income of individuals. "The previously predicted volume will most likely not be provided," said the acting Regional Minister of Finance Tatyana Krikunov.

The FAS completed the audit of the drug retail in Russia by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) summed up the results of the analysis of the market for the retail trade services. According to the head of the Social Sphere and Trade Department of FAS Timofei Nizhny Novgorodtsev, this was the largest check of pharmacy chains in Russia. In total, in 2007-2008, the department checked 2.2 thousand local farmes.

The attacks on the violinists of the orchestra Vladimir Spivakov are still considered accidental coincidence the second attack on the musicians of the Virtuoso Moscow orchestra in the Russian capital. The criminals beat the violinist Denis Shulgin and abducted his instrument. On Monday evening, Virtuosa gave an annual charity concert in the chamber hall of the metropolitan house of music on the Cosmodamian embankment.

09:29 // 23.12.2008 Six people died last night in a burned sauna in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region, a representative of the Central Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti . "The sauna burned in the village of Yakhroma on Lenin Street. At 5.25 Moscow time, the fire was eliminated, the bodies of six people were found under the rubble," the interlocutor said.

The metropolitan city hall approved the updated general plan of the city yesterday the metropolitan government as a whole approved the project of the actualized general plan of the city until 2025. In the spring of next year, this main document of the development of the metropolis will be presented at public hearings throughout Moscow, and then it will once again approve the government and consolidate the Law of the Moscow City Duma.

17:36 // 23.12.2008 The Moscow police did not detain journalists or photographers in connection with an unauthorized action held in the lobby of the building of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on Tverskaya on Tuesday, a representative of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate told RIA Novosti.

15:14 // 23.12.2008 A tourist from the UK found in Jerusalem a treasure of the gold coins of the Byzantine era - the largest in the history of excavations in the city, said the Antiquities of Israel on Monday. The British tourist decided to diversify the trip to Israel participating in the excavations of the 7th century Building. All 264 coins depict the emperor of Byzantium Irakli (610-641) in armor and with a cross in his hand.

The leadership of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office (SCP) and the European Publishing House presented the Ossetian tragedy yesterday. The White Book of Crimes against South Ossetia. August 2008. " It tells about crimes committed by Georgian troops and special services in August this year.

14:27 // 23.12.2008 President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law "On Amending the Federal Law" On Insurance of Deposits of Individuals in the Banks of the Russian Federation, "the press service of the head of the Russian state said.

15:43 // 23.12.2008 In the next two years, Qatar intends to increase the production of liquefied natural gas to 7.8 million tons, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Energy of Qatar Abdulla Bin Hamad al-Attyy at a meeting of the ministers of the forum of the countries of gas exporters in Moscow on Tuesday. “Over the next two years, we intend to significantly increase the production of gas and LNG,” he said.