According to Reuters , Iranian units continue to remain in the area of the oil field, which is the subject of the border dispute between the two countries. Earlier it was reported that violation of the border by the Iranian military occurred the day before and they had already left the disputed deposit. "At 15.30 local time (15.30 Moscow time), 11 Iranian soldiers penetrated the Iranian-Iraqi border and established control over an oil well of 300 kilometers southeast of Baghdad.

But the agreement on the euro safety of the general secretary of the Alliance considers it superfluous On Thursday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen, completing his visit to Moscow, held a conversation with the Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. According to the results of the visit, the Secretary General said that Russia and NATO could well create a single missile defense system, however, in the distant perspective, by 2020.

On Friday, December 18, on suspicion of bribery, the former Prime Minister of South Korea Khan Mien Suk arrested. She is accused of receiving a bribe of $ 50 thousand in 2007, when she was the Prime Minister. Khan Mien Suk denies all the accusations against him and promised to achieve that she would prove his innocence. Her supporters say that the arrest was political, because at the moment the ex-Prime Minister is in the opposition to the current leadership of South Korea.

The LDPR faction is outraged by the appeal of members of United Russia to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika, with a request to conduct a “inspection on media reports” that Vladimir Zhirinovsky “uses the Maybach car worth about 800 thousand euros”. At today's plenary session, the LDPR deputy Sergei Ivanov suggested that the United Russia first look at “at his expensive clock”, and then show principles and write again to the Prosecutor General.

The British meteorological service officially confirmed that the data of the University of East England, accused of falsifying information about global warming, are inaccurate. But the inaccuracy turned out to be a completely different kind: the university employees of the global warming were not transformed, but underestimated.

Police officers will receive new uniforms in 2010, on which their photos, surnames, as well as the name of the units in which they serve will be posted. According to the head of the Department of the rear of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukyanov, thereby the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Rashid Nurgaliev will be fulfilled that the identification data of employees be placed in police uniform, RIA Novosti writes.

The actress Melanie Griffith was diagnosed with skin cancer at an early stage. She had an operation that was successful. According to doctors, the procedure for removing cancer on the face was done early enough to avoid possible complications. According to the Ar , after the procedure, Griffith remained a bruise under the eye.

The Bank-Bank, which has barely avoided bankruptcy last year, which, by decision of the government, should turn into a postal bank and compete with a Sberbank, will receive a subordinated loan from VEB for 16 billion rubles. Vnesheconombank will allocate Svyaz-Bank with a subordinated loan of 16 billion rubles. Such a decision, as the VEB press service said today , was adopted on the eve of December 17, the supervisory board of Vnesheconombank, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Intel told details about Core i3 and i5 chips. The central processor in them will be integrated with the graphic core. Just the other day, the US antimonopoly bodies launched an investigation whether Intel has the right to integrate these two chips in the same product. Intel has announced 17 new Core i3 and i5 Linee processors, 32 nanometers made according to the 32 Nanometers architecture (the components in these processors are measured by 32 million meters).

In the Voronezh region, due to heavy snowfall on December 18, the movement of vehicles was stopped on the section of the Don federal highway, connecting the south of Russia with the center, from the 700th to the 777th kilometer. It is possible that in the near future the entire section of the route in the Voronezh region will be blocked. The day before, a large cork was formed on the Don highway in the Rostov region due to snow drifts, which was just starting to dissolve.

Viktor Susyura was arrested in October 2009 in the case of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia Viktor Susyura, an ex-head of the UFSB economic security service in the Kuban Alexander Moliboga was put on the international wanted list. He is accused of organizing a criminal community and smuggling.

The Government of the Russian Federation received the right “in order to stabilize prices” to establish for a period of not more than 90 days the maximum permissible retail prices “for certain types of socially significant primary necessities” - if over the past 30 days in the territory of one or several regions the growth of retail prices for these goods amounted to 30% and higher.

Among the dead are still 149 people. As of December 17, there were 80 victims in the hospitals, of which 20 people were in extremely serious condition, 42 people in difficult condition. According to the Ministry of Health and Social Development, which is given by RIA Novosti , on Thursday, 55 people remained in the medical institutions in Moscow, of which 14, 30, are 30. Including at the Research Institute of the SP. N.V.

Photo: Abramov Denis Russians still treat Joseph Stalin well, but the number of those who believe that today the country is not needed by such a ruler has increased in recent years. Sociologists are sure: the share of those to whom Stalin is indifferent will also grow. On Monday, December 21, it will turn 130 since the birth of Joseph Stalin .

Somali pirates (13 people), whom the Dutch warship was detained two weeks ago, were released, since not a single country agreed to charges them. The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands said that the European Union failed to find a country that would have agreed to charge the pirates.