At the end of December, investment banks are traditionally trying to predict what to wait for investors in the new year. However, if nothing extraordinary does not happen, then 2004 will be slightly different from 2003 - the state of the economy will determine the word “stabilization” that are loved by government officials and little understandable to the wide segments of the population.

The conference, entitled "The Power of Deep desire" dedicated to the church service of women, was held on the eve of the Pentecostal Church of the Russian Union of Christians of the Vera of the Gospel (Roskhwe) "Ark". It was attended by representatives of the "Ark" and other churches, the Blagovest-info reports. According to the founder and leader of the women's service, Nina Ryakhovskaya, such a serious topic for the conference was not chosen by chance.

The military prosecutor's office opened a criminal case in connection with the hazing relations that led to the unauthorized abandonment of units by six military personnel in one of the military units of the air defense, Interfax reports.

In Germany, on Tuesday, after urban transport workers, civil aviation begins to strike. And on Monday, the strike of buses of buses and trams in dozens of cities of Germany, and the current strike of the workers of several German airports organized the trade union of the Verdi service sector.

The terrorist Salman Raduev was buried on Tuesday and the prison cemetery in the city of Solikamsk, Perm region. According to ITAR-TASS, the head of the Solikamsk Penitentiary Department, Vladimir Ermolaev, "more than three days have passed since his death, but none of the relatives of the terrorist requested to give his body.

In the Indian state, elephants, having drunk moonshine, trampled six people, including four children, Reuters reports. The incident occurred in the village of Tinsukia, which is located 550 km east of the administrative center of the state. Last Sunday, the herd of elephants came out of the forest and attacked the village barn, in which moonshine was stored.

Perm ufologists turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with questions about the official position of Russia regarding UFOs, ufological research and policies to declassify documents on this topic. These issues participants in the Russian Ufological Organization Rufors, based in Perm, were sent in the form of a appeal to Putin to the Organizing Committee for the preparation of a direct line with the President of the Russian Federation on December 19 , reports URFO.ru.

In the new cemetery of Maykop, criminals destroyed more than 50 tombstones. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Adygea, the vandals on the remote alleys of the cemetery in rage smashed everything that fell by the arm. The gang of adolescents managed to detain the crime scene. Minor criminals armed with sledgehammer and hammers tried to destroy the next tombstone.

The deployment of the national missile defense system (NPI) in the United States will begin in 2004, reports Washington Times , known for its connections in the American intelligence services. The publication reports that President George Bush and Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld will make an official announcement about this today. The States needed a year (after leaving the contract for missile defense) to make this decision.

The Air Force plane of the Philippines fell on Tuesday at sea in the area of ​​the Southern City of Zamboang. According to the command of the Philippine Air Force, one person went missing, 12 people who were on board a screw aircraft, including both pilots, were seriously injured, but were saved. The aircraft returned after a medical evacuation operation from the Tavi-Tawi archipelago islands.

A fire in the south of the capital in the warehouse of the shopping complex is extinguished. According to the capital’s law enforcement on Tuesday, the fire began at about 11:00 Moscow time on Novodanilovskaya Embankment in the warehouse of the shopping complex in house number 4. As a result of the fire, there was a collapse of the building of the shopping complex, behind which there was a warehouse of equipment of fuel and lubricants.

In Germany, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) officially appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office of Germany demanding the criminal prosecution of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on charges of "participating in the preparation of military aggression, which is prohibited by the Constitution of Germany." This was reported to reporters in Berlin Member of the board of PDS Wolfgang Herke.

The famous film "In Jazz only Girls" ("Some Like It Hot"), called the audience, the most funny film in the history of cinema, turned into a musical, put in the exact correspondence with the script of the famous film by Billy Wilder. In the play, as in the film, Tony Curtis, who is already 77 years old, plays again.

The Kaliningradavia Aviation Dispatching air traffic controllers suspended the protest and announced the continuation of the flight service. This was announced on Tuesday by the President of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Aviation Dispatchers of Russia Sergey Kovalev. Earlier, the Kaliningrad aircraft dispatchers announced their readiness to stop working on flight service from midnight on December 17.

Four thousand Iranian women will come next year to serve the Iranian police. This was announced by the representative of the department of public relations and propaganda for the law enforcement forces of the province of Yasvaj Hassan Kry. According to him, the process of teaching female personnel is coming to an end, and soon graduates of specialized educational institutions will become employees of various police sections.