In January 2008, Moscow will finish the construction of the highest building in Europe-the 89-storey 354-meter tower "A" of the Federation Commercial and Elite Complex, and by 2009 the construction of nine high-rise buildings should be completed. The competition for the best name of both towers of the complex has recently ended. The option "Fedya" and "walkie -talkie" did not resist the more serious "East" and "West".

The Federal Migration Service will have their own power units, with the help of which special operations will be carried out to identify facts of illegal migration. It is planned that this will happen in 2007, ITAR-TASS reports, referring to the words of the deputy director of the Federal Migration Service of Russia Vyacheslav Provavnin. If the FMS reveals violations, a fine of 700 thousand rubles per person will be charged for the use of the labor of “illegal immigrants” from entrepreneurs.

The Papal Nunius in the Russian Federation Archbishop Antonio Mennini hopes for a further improvement in Orthodox Catholic relations and the meeting of Benedict XVI with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II . “We hope for this.

Thousands of residents of Kaliningrad gathered last Sunday in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior at the celebrations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), the ruling bishop of the Smolensk and Kaliningrad diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev), Interfax reports.

On New Year's holidays, Russians are ready to spend the most in the world. This is stated in the study "Festive mood - 2006" conducted by the audit company Deloitte, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Deloitte conducts the study of consumer activity "Festive mood" annually, but Russia takes part in it for the first time.

The murder of the former commander of the Highlander Special Party, FSB Lieutenant Colonel Movladi Baysarov, became possible due to the fact that the FSB operational cover was removed from him after he decided to testify to the military prosecutor’s office about what was happening in Chechnya. Numerous witnesses of the incident refute the official version, according to which Baysarov "showed fierce resistance." The newspaper "Kommersant" writes about this on Monday.

A deputy of the St. Petersburg Parliament and a member of the United Russia party Igor Mikhailov, intends to provide the governor Valentin Matvienko with everything necessary for a comfortable existence after the expiration of her powers. Last week, the deputy submitted a bill to colleagues providing for a large number of benefits, privileges and social guarantees that the ex-governor of St. Petersburg should receive.

On Monday, in Moscow, a working meeting of the state secretary, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin with the president of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagaps, took place. The issues related to the implementation of the UN Security Council N1716 were discussed, and in particular emphasized the call to Tbilisi, the 1994 Moscow agreement on the ceasefire was emphasized in it.

The Pope Benedict XVI is convinced that believers are obliged to protect human life from the moment of conception until natural death. “Protection of human life at all its stages, from conception to natural death, protecting a family based on marriage and responsible for education, is the obligation of a believer in our time,” said Pontiff, speaking in the Vatican after negotiations with Italy President Georgio Napolitano.

The leading Brazilian model agencies will now demand from their fashion models a medical certificate confirming the lack of diseases such as anorexia or bulimia. The reason for this decision was two cases of death from anorexia recorded in Brazil last week.

The US Senate adopted the bill “Act of 2006 on the consolidation of freedom in NATO”, which refers to the support of Georgia’s entry into NATO members, Russian Newspaper reports. The document unanimously adopted by the Senate provides for the allocation of funds from the US federal budget in 2007 to assist the entry into NATO Candidates - Georgia, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia. Albania will receive $ 3.2 million, Croatia - $ 3 million, Macedonia - $ 3.6 million.

The Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Zurabov, does not exclude that they are trying to resign him using a corruption scandal in the funds subordinate to the Ministry of Health. “This decision, which it seems to me the easiest,” he said, commenting on the scandal around the federal fund of compulsory medical insurance (FFOMS).

The Russian Gandball players of the Russian national team became the owners of the World Cup. In the final match in Danish Orchus, the wards of Evgeny Trefilov in an intense struggle defeated the Romanian national team with a score of 29:28 (13:15). The Russians very successfully started the final meeting and by the 6th minute they had 4-0. However, then the Romanians came to their senses, won the first half, and throughout almost the entire match they owned the initiative.

On November 20, the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany announced that the case of a terrorist act on a passenger plane planned last summer, Interfax reports. The prosecutor’s statement says that several people came into contact with one of the airport service employees who had access to the security zone. They turned to this person with a request to deliver a bomb on board one of the aircraft in exchange for an unidentified fee. Terrorists planned to carry an explosive in a bag.

The Izmailovsky court of Moscow sentenced three accused in the case of an attack on the Minister of Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria Zaura Tutov for terms from one year to one year to six months in prison in a colony-settlement, Interfax reports. Stanislav Novohatsky, Boris Kolodin and Evgeny Konyshev were found guilty under Article 112 Part 2 of paragraph "E" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Intentional causing harm to health based on the motives of national hatred").