VEB deputy chairman Anatoly Ballo, in an interview with Gazeta, VEB at the same time is both the largest development institution and the leading tool for supporting the real sector in a crisis. And the severity of the crisis does not remove large investment and innovative projects from the bank. About how the bank manages to solve the expanding circle of tasks, the deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank Anatoly Ballo told the editor of the economic policy department Konstantin Smirnov.

The President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, in an interview with Gazeta, Alexander Shokhin, will celebrate the New Year away from the house. But the head of the RSPP explained to Gazeta that he with his soul with those who took responsibility for the country's economy. - What does the New Year holiday mean to you? - This, of course, is the most welcome holiday on Earth.

20:47 // 12/25/2008 The list of enterprises that will be provided with state support at the federal level is published on the website of the Government of the Russian Federation. The list includes 295 companies from the following industries: transport, energy, oil and gas, coal industry, communications, media, metallurgical and mining industry, chemistry and petrochemistry, auto industry, defense industry, air, suspension, engineering, agricultural building, and energy mass building.

Scientists refute the exaggerated risks of cousin marriages in the risk of developmental malformations in children who may appear in families formed by cousins and sisters, approximately correspond to the risks of children born of women over 40 years old, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday. This conclusion was reached by American and New Zealand researchers. Scientists have proved that the prohibitions on marriages between cousins and cousins are deprived of scientific grounds.

14:08 // 12/25/2008 The international reserves of the Russian Federation have grown over the third week of December by 15.4 billion dollars, which is a record weekly growth over the past almost five months of almost a non -stop fall, and amounted to 450.8 billion dollars against $ 435.4 billion on December 19, according to the Bank of Russia data.

16:13 // 25.12.2008 The Government Commission on Friday will consider the results of the work of the Rostekhnadzor commission to re -investigate the causes of the accident at the Uralkali mine in Berezniki. This was announced today by the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Yuri Trutnev. "Tomorrow will be a meeting of the Government Commission to prevent the consequences of the accident in Berezniki," he said.

10:37 // 25.12.2008 Snow avalanches completely blocked the Transkavkaz highway - a road that connects Russia to Transcaucasia, including South Ossetia. According to ITAR-TASS Assistant to the head of the Ministry of Emergencies of North Ossetia, Vladimir Ivanov, from 00.00 Moscow time, the movement of vehicles in Transcam is completely prohibited due to strong avalanche hazard and ongoing snowfall.

12:15 // 25.12.2008 Colonel Oleg Alborov, in which the deceased hockey player of the Omsk Vanguard, Alexei Cherepanov, was served, was dismissed from the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel Vladimir Karpenko said the assistant commander of the railway troops.

The number of crimes against minors is growing the fight against crimes against minors remains one of the key areas in the work of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation (SCP). According to the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, the situation is such that we can say: an undeclared war is waged against children. This year alone, there were 12.5 thousand minors on the wanted list. “But they are somewhere, they were taken away somewhere.

13:17 // 12/25/2008 Hundreds of passengers spent the night before Christmas at Chicago Airport. According to Associated Press , it is obvious that many of them will have to stay here for another night. The reason for this was the strong snowfall, which fell upon the United States last week. Due to snowfall at airports throughout America, flights were detained or canceled. So, the day before, about 500 passengers were blocked at the O´hara International Airport in Chicago.

The special project of the newspaper continues the traditional section of the newspaper "Sports Headquarters" is released in a new format. Each observer makes forecasts for any events, not limited to only one championship or sport, in the amount of 1 thousand conventional units (W.E.). He distributes this money at his own discretion. Alexander Shmornov NHL KHL English Premier League The New Year's forecast should be easy and free from previous results and concepts.

21:16 // 12/25/2008 Two people, including a police officer, were injured during a shootout on Thursday in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, one militant was killed, a representative of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Thursday. At about 12.00 Moscow time, police officers who were serving at a stationary post "Mayak-12", near the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, noticed a suspicious car.

11:08 // 12/25/2008 The business and cultural complexes of the Embassy of Belarus in the Russian Federation will be opened in the Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky estate in Maroseyka in Moscow, a source in the city administration said. "The Embassy of Belarus will place in 2008-2011 at the expense of its own funds of business and cultural complexes on Maroseyka Street in the estate of Field Marshal P.A. Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky," said the city hall.

At home, they will celebrate the New Year with a third more Russians than last year the deterioration of the economic situation did not slow down to affect the New Year plans of Russians. Many of those who were going to celebrate the holiday abroad, postponed the trip and plan to return to the good old tradition - to celebrate the New Year at home, in the circle of relatives, with a presidential congratulation on TV, a Christmas tree and a salad Olivier.

The country first announced this day by the public holiday today Iraq first met Christmas at the state level. The country's Christian minority received gifts and congratulations from the government. In the main Christian churches of Iraq, worships were held. However, the holiday did not do without excesses, forcing to recall the difficult situation with security in the country and that Christmas would hardly become a state holiday without the military presence of Western countries in Iraq.