12:47 // 26.12.2008 The Moscow District Military Court took one another jury, which is part of the collegium considering the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, RIA Novosti reports. The court excluded from the board of the main assessor No. 6 due to his illness. Thus, 12 main and four spare jury remained in the collegium. Politkovskaya was killed on October 7, 2006 at the entrance of his house.

17:42 // 26.12.2008 The bus with children rolled over on the Kharkov-Rostov highway in the village of Mayaki in the Slavyansky district of Donetsk region, seven people were injured, the press service of the GAI GUMVD of Ukraine in the Donetsk region reports. "Children went on an excursion to Soledar. Six children and one adult were injured," the report said. In total, there were 50 people on the bus, of which 48 children. There are no dead.

13:51 // 26.12.2008 Investigators opened a criminal case against the head of the Mozhaisk municipal district of the Moscow Region Vladimir Nasonov, who was accused of not being ordered to spend more than one million rubles from the budget, the head of the media interaction department at the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin.

18:56 // 26.12.2008 The RTS stock exchange completed the trading session with a decrease in the index within 1.80%, RIA Novosti reports with reference to these exchange data. According to the results of the auction, the RTS index dropped by 1.74% - up to 644.47 points. In Friday leaders were the shares of the GAZ group (-8.82%) and Inter RAO UES (-4.35%), in growth leaders-RITEC shares (+50.00%) and TGK-11 (+9.09%). Source: gzt.ru

20:58 // 26.12.2008 More than a dozen gas cylinders were found in the basement of the house in Yevpatoriya, where an explosion that claimed the lives of at least 27 people thundered, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the website of the State Committee of Ukraine on Industrial Safety, Labor Protection and Mining Supervision (Gosgorpromnadzor).

14:17 // 26.12.2008 The wages in the capital from January to October of this year increased by 28.3% compared to the same period last year, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti . "159.9 billion rubles of budgetary funds were sent to the wages of the social sphere of the capital," the agency’s interlocutor said. He recalled that in the capital since May 1 of this year, the city minimum wage was increased to 6,800 rubles, and from September 1 to 7,650 rubles.

15:26 // 26.12.2008 After the most scandalous musician of the Russian show business Sergey Shnurov canceled several concerts that was supposed to give with Leningrad in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities, there were rumors that the shocking group of St. Petersburg had come to an end.

20:47 // 26.12.2008 The Israeli authorities missed about a hundred trailers with humanitarian goods on Friday to the gas sector, despite the ongoing shelling from the Palestinian side, the representative of the Israeli defense army told RIA Novosti .

09:34 // 26.12.2008 A fire in a warehouse with fur products in the north-east of Moscow, flashed the night before, is extinguished, material damage is found out, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. "Firefighters extinguished the fire in the warehouse building at 6 Serebryakov, 6 to the northeast. There are no victims," the agency’s interlocutor said. The fire area is installed.

16:01 // 26.12.2008 The second of the Siamese twins died a month after the separation. According to Associated Press , Fates Williams, in early December, divided with her sister Hope, died the day before. The Gemini Fates and Hope Williams were born in London on November 26. The grown -up girls had a common abdominal cavity, one for two intestines and liver. In early December, the doctors of the Great Ormond Street London Hospital carried out in an operation to separate the twins.

18:45 // 26.12.2008 The Palestinian missile hit the residential building in the north of the gas sector, killing two Palestinians, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the local radio. The reactive projectile was released by militants through the territory of Israel, but did not reach the border. In the dead, sisters were identified at the age of five and 12.

17:35 // 26.12.2008 Employees of the St. Petersburg metro were forced to stop traffic on the Kirovsko-Zorgsk branch for some time due to a person who had fallen under the train, a representative of the subway press service told RIA Novosti . “At 15.38, at the Baltic” metro station, a man fell onto the rails. The voltage was removed from the contact rail, the movement of trains in one direction was stopped. At 15.50, the man was able to raise from the tracks, he was hospitalized.

18:07 // 26.12.2008 The amount of subventions from the federal budget in Moscow for programs for the rehabilitation of disabled people in 2009 will amount to 1.9 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova at the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of and the Moscow Government on the transfer of part of the federal powers to support the disabled.

20:25 // 26.12.2008 The youth movement "Our" and political organization "Steel held in the Pushkin Square an exhibition of New Year's gifts for the presidents of Georgia, Ukraine and the USA, offering Mikhail Saakashvili to eat ties, Viktor Yushchenko - to remake the flag of Ukraine, and George Bush - to redraw the map of the world, RIA Novosti reports.

14:26 // 26.12.2008 The official dollar exchange rate established by the Bank of Russia from December 27 rose to a three -year maximum - 29.0058 rubles, the Central Bank evidence Compared to the level set from December 26, the dollar increased by 33.23 kopecks. The official euro exchange rate from December 27 is 40.7880 rubles, which is 60.21 kopecks higher than the course established by the Central Bank from December 26, RIA Novosti reports.