20:21 // 24.12.2008 The ruble exchange rate in relation to foreign currencies will be established more flexible, taking into account the real economic situation, while the course fluctuations will not cause the losses that occurred as a result of the sharp devaluation of the ruble in 1998, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian television channels, RIA Novosti reports.

Already the third season, the School of Dramatic Art lives without its artistic director Anatoly Vasiliev. But his student Igor Yatsko, an actor and director, who headed the theater, continues the teacher’s case. The performance of the Yatsko “Death of a Wild Warrior” according to the work of the same name by Moscow composer Vladimir Martynov - almost the mystery.

20:35 // 24.12.2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the Ukrainian authorities to completely pay off the debt for Russian gas, according to the latest data exceeding $ 2 billion, and threatened with sanctions in case of non -payment, RIA Novosti reports. "The money must pay to the last ruble if they do not want their economy, ultimately, encounter sanctions and requirements from the Russian Federation. It is impossible to continue on this way.

Moscow suspended the struggle with street tents, a program for turning small -zero -trading (Larkov and tents), which is conducted by the Moscow government, will be suspended for at least a year, announced yesterday the head of the consumer market and the services of the capital's government, Vladimir Malyshkov. The crisis helped the tents. “Not a single stall will be curtailed in 2009, because small outlets are also jobs,” the official emphasized.

17:14 // 24.12.2008 The State Duma at the meeting adopted in the first reading a bill on a change in the procedure for the formation of the Federation Council (SF), RIA Novosti reports. For work in the field, it is proposed to send only representatives from the region from among the deputies of the parliament of the subject of the Russian Federation and elected local governments. The new procedure for forming the SF is proposed to be introduced since 2011.

16:00 // 24.12.2008 In Moscow, the Arbitration Court collected from Arbat Prestige, owning a network of perfumes and cosmetics stores, in favor of Sberbank more than 224 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. Thus, the court granted the claim of Sberbank. These funds were recovered in jointly from Arbat Prestige and Arbat and Ko, part of the Arbat Prestige group.

16:22 // 24.12.2008 The Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia during the day introduced the regime of the contra -nervous operation (KO) in the area of the settlement of Alkun in connection with the information that appeared about finding militants there, the representative of the operational headquarters in Ingushetia told RIA Novosti .

16:54 // 24.12.2008 The volume of Russian investment on agreements signed on Wednesday will amount to $ 1 billion to 2.5 billion, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy chairman of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev.

10:04 // 24.12.2008 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko does not exclude that after the New Year the Belarusian parliament can consider the appeals of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to recognize their independence. “After the New Year, our parliament will consider these issues, and if there is the will of the people and parliament, the president will sign the corresponding decree on the recognition of independence,” Lukashenko said in an interview with reporters in the Brest region.

14:41 // 24.12.2008 The Prime Minister Somali, appointed only a week ago, resigned. According to him, his decision was influenced by the struggle for power between the two fractions of the government. Mohammed Mohamud Gudled was appointed head of government Somalia on December 16. The corresponding order was signed by President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed after the previous prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein, was dismissed.

15:37 // 24.12.2008 Almost 1.4 thousand people have reduced from work in Moscow from December 15 to 19, and now official unemployment is 21.6 thousand people, the Office of the State Employment Service of the capital. At the end of November, 19.4 thousand unemployed were registered. The Moscow employment service can offer 165.2 thousand vacancies.

Human rights activists completed the audit of hospitals in Moscow at the press conference “Social Standards in the field of healthcare”, which took place yesterday in Moscow, Valery Gabisov, the responsible secretary of the interregional public human rights organization, called the violations of patients of patients in Russia ubiquitous phenomenon. "If the government does not want a social explosion, it is urgent to strengthen control over the healthcare sector by civil society," he said.

12:35 // 24.12.2008 Evander Holifield filed a protest to the World Boxing Association (WBA) to the decision of the judges who gave Nikolai Valuev a victory in a full -time duel. The Holifield fight with Valuev, who defended the title of world weight champion according to WBA, was held on December 20 in Zurich. According to the results of 12 rounds, the judges recorded the victory of the Russian (116: 112, 115: 114 and draw 114: 114), RIA Novosti recalls.

The capital’s department of nature management reported on work by Leonid Bochin, the head of the Moscow Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection, reported on the work of his unit this year. He also announced plans for the next year and said that everything is good with protecting the environment in the capital, only federal authorities interfere. First of all, according to the department, the capital is growing a natural complex.

In the Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition “Theater in the Creativity of Artists of the 1920-1930s” was opened in the two halls of the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val opened the exposition of the graphics “Theater in the work of artists of the 1920-1930s”.