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.

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.

The poet Constantan Grigoriev died the death of Constantan Grigoryev, with whose name the Order of Courteemic Mannerists and the successful musical project "Bachyt-Computer" are inextricably linked, was a complete surprise. A 40-year-old poet, caught by a heart attack on the way to work, died on December 22.

13:09 // 23.12.2008 Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Russia, Colonel General Nikolai Reznik, died in Moscow, said the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky. "He died in the Vishnevsky hospital after a serious and long illness," Drobyshevsky said. Nikolai Reznik died in the sixtieth year of his life, notes RIA Novosti .

21:10 // 23.12.2008 The Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church at a meeting chaired by the manager of the diocese of Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal on Tuesday in the Novodevichy Monastery of the capital approved three delegates to the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which will be held on January 27-29 and elected the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.

13:58 // 23.12.2008 China will send three warships to protect merchant ships from pirates to the Gulf of Aden. According to the Associated Press , the armed ships will sail from China on the coming Friday. The information that China plans to send several warships to the shores of Somalia last week, after the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China He Jafay said that Beijing was close to join the fight against pirates.

Gas exporters create their neopes today in Moscow, energy ministers of 14 countries owning 73% of the world gas reserves and providing 42% of its world production will gather in order to develop the general rules of the game in the gas market. "Our goal is to ensure a balance between gas suppliers and pursue a coordinated policy between countries - manufacturers and consumers of fuel," said Russian Minister of Energy Sergey Shmatko.

12:22 // 23.12.2008 The American authorities are investigating the causes of a fire on board Boeing 737 at Denver International Airport. According to the Associated Press , the aircraft passengers said that they had heard the noise and roar before the plane moved from the runway. As previously reported, on Saturday evening, at Denver Airport (Colorado), the aircraft of Continental Airlines, heading to Houston, moved off the runway and caught fire.

SCP presented the printed results of the Georgian attack investigation into South Ossetia by 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.