Sending the last echelon with the technique and property of the Tbilisi garrison of the group of Russian troops in Transcaucasia (GRVZ) is scheduled for Thursday at 18:00 Moscow time. This was stated to reporters by the commander of the North Caucasus Military District of the SKVO, Army General Alexander Baranov, RIA Novosti reports.

A group of 10 American congressmen will arrive on Friday to Cuba, Interfax reports from Havana. This is the largest delegation of US legislators, which will visit the island during the period after the victory of the revolution in 1959, the Cuban media note. The delegation includes both democrats and republicans. All of them are participants in the so -called "working group in Cuba." Their visit will last until Sunday.

The American doctor, known for his struggle for the legalization of euthanasia, Jack Kevorkyan, who is serving a long prison term for the murder of a terminally ill patient, will be ahead of schedule from imprisonment in June 2007. Such a decision was made on Wednesday by the Council on the Affairs of the Department of Punishment of the state of Michigan. The 78-year-old Kevorkyan is better known in the USA under the nickname Dr. Death.

The unexpected disease of the Democrat Senator Tim Johnson from South Dakota can question the majority of one vote, which the opposition administration of George Bush the party won in the intermediate elections to the upper house of the American parliament on November 7. "Senator Tim Johnson was taken to the University Hospital to them. George Washington with a suspicion of blow (probably a stroke)," the statement of his office said.

In the early morning on Thursday, on the platform of the Kursk station to the sounds of "Spring Jazz", representatives of the regional and city administration, students and teachers of the 45th school, as well as relatives and friends with flowers and gifts met the winners of the Eurovision Supervision-2006 contest-nine-year-old Masha and Nastya Tolmachevs . They arrived by train from Moscow with their mother Marina Vladimirovna, ITAR-TASS reports.

In relation to the military commissar of the Khabarovsk Territory, Major General Yevgeny Feoktistov, a criminal case has been opened, Interfax reports with reference to the assistant prosecutor of the Far Eastern Military District Svetlana Ustinova. According to the assistant to the commander in chief of the ground forces, Colonel Igor Konashenkov, a criminal case under Art. 160 h.

The results of the murder investigation of Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya and Russia's cooperation with Scotland Yard are of tremendous importance not only for the West, but also for Russia. This was stated by the leading expert at the Heritage Foundation Research Center Ariel Cohen. The interview that Cohen gave to the agency Washington Profile fully publishes Newsru Israel , clarifying that Cohen is a well -known specialist in foreign policy, security and international relations.

The State Secretary (Head of Government), Vatican, Cardinal Tarchizio Berton, expressed the day before the hope that the meeting between the pope of the Roman Benedict XVI and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II could take place "in reasonably short time." Thus, the Vatican Secretary of State commented on the Italian press that the Primate of the two churches can meet in Austria at the beginning of next year, ITAR-TASS reports.

Siemens reported that in seven years $ 556 million were spent on bribes. The corruption scandal in the company that accuses of having given large bribes to receive profitable contracts, is gaining momentum. Based on the results of the internal audit, Siemens said that the volume of bribery in the company is at least twice as much as the police counted, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. Corruption scandals have been haunting the company since the mid-1990s.

The government as a whole approved the bill on the creation of the so -called development bank on Thursday December 14. It is assumed that on the basis of Vnesheconombank, Roseximbank and the Russian Development Bank, a structure will be created that will support Russian companies abroad and in Russia. In particular, the bank will be lending to infrastructure and innovative projects, leasing, and issue guarantees for loans.

The head of the government of Livan Fuad al-Signor arrives on a official visit to Moscow on Thursday evening. According to Newsru Israel , the day before it received a message that he had already arrived in Moscow, but later it became known that the work visit of the Lebanese leader would begin in the Russian capital only on December 14.

The Federal Tax Service declared war on an unscrupulous rentier. Fiscal authorities officially stated: the main task for the next year is to raise an income tax on the profit of those who rent apartments to the residents, but do not share with the state. How many Muscovites will be touched by these fighting?

In relation to Moscow police officers who illegally trying to take a 20-year-old young man to the military registration and enlistment office from his own apartment, a criminal case may be instituted. Four law enforcement officers who beat the parents of the suspect in evading the young man’s service and almost strangled his 13-year-old brother, threatens up to 10 years in prison, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes on Thursday.

The diplomatic demarche of Russia in the UN Security Council, when the Russian Permanent Representative left informal consultations on the Iranian nuclear doward, received a sequel. The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused the United States with the departure from the "procedural principles" and the desire to use the UN for "Political PR". Recall, the United States on Tuesday unexpectedly proposed to consider the situation in violation of rights and freedoms in Belarus.

The author of the cartoons about Masyan Oleg Kuvaev released the last series of a popular animated film, in which the heroine loved by many dies. “It seems that this is a hundredth series. Perhaps it is the last,” the author of the famous character wrote in his Internet Devil. “Regrets are not accepted. Everything should be as it should.” Now Kuvaev refuses any interview and comments, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda .