The Russian government allocated more than one billion 400 million rubles for the restoration and development of the city of Beslan. This was reported with reference to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on Monday in Vladikavkaz at a meeting on the results of socio-economic development of North Ossetia, President of the republic Alexander Dzasokhov. The same support from the attack by the city will be provided with enterprises and funds, Dzasokhov noted, RIA Novosti reports.

In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro (translation on the website inopressa.ru ) the leader of the Israeli Labor Party ("Avoda") and ex-Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who will soon become a member of the Coalition Israeli Government , told why his party supports the plan of Ariel Sharon from the Gaza sector.

The World Convention of Atheists, in which delegates from Italy, Germany, Great Britain and France took part on the eve of Rome, reports Blagovest-info with reference to Zenit .

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein demanded to rename the college of lawyers, who intends to defend him at the process that was being preparing in Baghdad, to the “support group in defense of the president of Saddam Hussein, his comrades and all prisoners and imprisoned in Iraq.” He stated this at a meeting on Thursday with Iraqi lawyer Halil Ad-Dlimi Hussein, ITAR-TASS reports.

The famous cult director Emir Kusturitsa and his group The No Smoking Orchestra performed with the only concert in the Russian capital. The performance "Kusturica & the No smoking Orchestra" was held in the recreation center to them. Gorbunova. According to KP , as soon as Emir Kusturitsa appeared on the stage, as he immediately stated that he was “tieing” with filming films and performances on the stage. “That's it! Tired! Better I will be the sheep of the mouth in my village.

On New Year's holidays in Moscow, the duration of the work of city ground transport and the subway will be increased, Interfax reports. On the night of January 1 and on January 7, the metro will be opened until 2:00, city ground transport, the following from the metro and railway stations in the areas of mass residential development, will work until 3:00.

The European Court of Human Rights requested legal explanations from the Russian authorities for six points independent of each other regarding the appeal of Yukos to this court in April of this year, Interfax reports. "The European Court decided to send questions to the Russian authorities on December 14 - just before the company filed a bankruptcy statement to the Texas court, seeking protection from the sale of Yuganskneftegaz," the oil company notes.

In the Irkutsk city infectious diseases hospital, 28 students of the Technical University (IRGTU) who were poisoned last Friday at the university of university in a poor -quality sauce were hospitalized. The chief physician of the Irkutsk Center for the State Apel Epidemiological Supervision Nikolai Chubuk told Interfax that among the injured 11 citizens of Mongolia, 8 Vietnam. "All the victims are students of the preparatory faculty, they lived in the university’s dispensary.

The experience of the NC Yukos, who has been able to get from the American court in bankruptcy to accept its statements about restructuring from the American court, can cause many companies in the world to follow its example and file a similar statement to the American court, the Financial Times said. Yukos created an interesting precedent. American bankruptcy experts admitted FT that they were amazed at the Texas Southern District Court of Bankruptcy, which adopted the Yukos statement.

The issue of the return of the Orthodox churches to the ownership of the Russian Church will be stolen in the Strasbourg court if the state does not show goodwill to transfer the church of its property selected by the Bolsheviks. This was announced today by Interfax Lawyer Mikhail Voronin, who currently leads about 300 such cases. "Recently , the parishioners of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi had been shifted from the dead point.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) refused to provide permission from the Mexican football player to play for a men's club. This was reported by the Air Force television and radio corporation with reference to the official representative of the organization.

A terrible discovery was made by a careless British driver. Having parked his car next to his beloved pub, he suddenly saw that a mutilated human leg was stuck in his bumper. A few minutes before that, 23-year-old Peter Diarying in his car knocked a man on the highway. He did not stop and reported an accident to the police only after he saw his torn leg and realized that the license plate of his car remained at the scene, writes The Sun. Diaring drove the old Volvo car.

Germany plans to introduce restrictions on the entry of Russian Jews. Thus, a policy will be radically changed, which made it possible to create in Germany one of the largest and fast -growing Jewish communities in Europe, writes The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). New rules should enter into force in January 2006. Their initiators believe that the restrictions on the entry of Russian Jews will save money by Germany’s budget.

Russia convinced China to continue the purchase of Russian weapons under existing contracts. After a long break in cooperation, when experts said that this market was lost for Russia, “warming” suddenly came. According to Vedomosti , already in 2005 the Chinese can purchase the second batch of Su-30 fighters for their fleet and resume the order of Russian spare parts for the Su-27 licensed assembly. Thus, the pause in the Russian-Chinese military cooperation ended, experts believe.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope , Paul II, welcomed schoolchildren from the Ossetian city of Beslan, who were present during the Sunday Mass on St. Peter's Square, and congratulated them on Christmas Christ . At the end of the service, the Roman high priest traditionally welcomed from the window of his office in the Vatican Palace the believers and pilgrims gathered on the square of St. Peter.