19:11 // 24.12.2008 Three US troops died in Iraq as a result of a traffic accident, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Associated Press Agency. The incident, the details of which are not reported, occurred in the central part of the country. According to the agency, since the start of the operation in Iraq, the total losses of the US Armed Forces amounted to four thousand 216 troops. The military operation of the United States and its allies against Iraq began in March 2003.

11:54 // 24.12.2008 Communist deputies and their colleagues from the Fair Russia faction expressed indignation at the actions of riot police during the protest in Vladivostok against raising import duties on foreign cars and proposed to create a parliamentary commission to investigate all the circumstances of the incident. New duties on imported divided "foreign cars" will enter into force on January 12, recalls RIA Novosti .

16:04 // 24.12.2008 President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko must voluntarily resign, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a briefing on Wednesday. Earlier, at a briefing, she accused Yushchenko of speculations on the hryvnia course, which since the end of September has already fallen into account. In the media there was information that Tymoshenko was preparing impeachment to the president, recalls RIA Novosti .

13:55 // 24.12.2008 Members of the Public Chamber (OP) of the Russian Federation intend to appeal to the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev with a request not to sign the law approved by the Federal Assembly that restricts the powers of the jury when considering cases of terrorism, espionage and organizing riots, said the secretary of the chamber, Yevgeny Velikhov. With this initiative, a member of the chamber, lawyer Henry Reznik, made this initiative at the plenary meeting.

The Russian advertising market may fall by 20-30%next year, experts from the guild of periodical publishers (hip) believe. It is on the basis of this forecast that leading publishing houses plan their budgets for 2009. “We plan that next year, advertising revenues will be reduced by 30% compared to this year.

16:13 // 24.12.2008 The State Duma at the meeting adopted in the second and third reading the amendment to extension for six months - until July 1, 2009 - the opportunity to receive citizenship of the Russian Federation in a simplified manner, RIA Novosti reports.

16:30 // 24.12.2008 The Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) of the Russian Federation terminated the criminal case, instituted in April of this year on the fact of the explosion on Korolev Street in Moscow, which was the victims of which were three people, the assistant to the head of the capital's department of the SCP Victoria Tsyplenkova told RIA Novosti . The explosion in the house on Korolev Street thundered on April 4.

Control over the Serbian energy holding passed to Gazprom Neft, Moscow managed to defend economic dividends promised by Belgrade in exchange for political support from the Kremlin. Contrary to active resistance from some political forces of Serbia, Gazprom Neft has established control over the Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) national energy holding, which controls about 70% of the republic’s fuel market.

15:09 // 24.12.2008 The Board of the Federal Tariff Service (FST) approved an increase in gas prices for industry in 2009 at 5%, the representative of the department told RIA Novosti . Thus, the initial tariff plan was reduced, which involved an increase in the wholesale value of gas for industry by 25% from January 1, 2009.

The International Community decides how to be with the prisoners of the scandalously known US prison makes an increasingly straightforward hint that prisoners of the notorious American Prison "Guantanamo", which is planned to be closed in 2009, should not be engaged in Washington, but the European Union.

17:50 // 24.12.2008 The Moscow authorities predict the rise in prices for some goods that are not included in the consumer basket to 20% in 2009, said Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the department of consumer market and services, RIA Novosti reports. “It is already known that inflation on Russia (this year) amounted to about 13.5%. The increase in prices in Moscow (in 2009) will be approximately at the same level, that is, by 13%, but for some goods it can be up to 20%,” said Kidsov.

16:14 // 24.12.2008 The Dimitrovgrad city court today satisfied the request of Yuri Budanov for parole. The decision was made at a visiting meeting in a correctional colony. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Vasily Winter.

12:59 // 24.12.2008 The Boeing 767 aircraft Aeroflot, which was from Moscow to Hong Kong, made a forced landing at the Novosibirsk airport "Tolmachevo", said Oksana Gorbunova, senior assistant to the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor for Media and the Public Media and the Public. According to her, on December 23, at 22.24 (19.24 Moscow time), the Boeing 767 Aeroflot aircraft, which performed flight No. 595 with the Moscow-Kong Kong message, was forced to get in Tolmachevo.

10:50 // 24.12.2008 The leader of the Ukrainian Opposition Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych supports the need for impeachment of President Viktor Yushchenko, RIA Novosti reports. In Ukraine, there is a confrontation between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whom experts consider probable candidates for the presidential election in late 2009 - early 2010. Both from the prime minister and the president, accusations against each other are constantly sounding.

10:21 // 24.12.2008 The California Health Department began an investigation into a cosmetologist surgeon, who used fat remote from his patients to make biofuel, RIA Novosti reports citing Forbes magazine. Dr. Craig Alan Bittner, who owned Liposculpture in Beverly Hills, did not hide his actions and even promoted them on a specially created site. Patients not only get rid of sagging stomachs, but also take part in the salvation of the earth, ”the surgeon explained. Source: gzt.ru