The Tel Aviva prosecutor’s office charged bribes, a lender of documents and fraud of trust Michael Droer, who was at the post of Israeli consul in Moscow in the period 1995-2002, was responsible for the issuance of Israeli visas to Russian citizens, Newsru Israel reports with reference to the newspaper Ha'aretz .

The Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko expresses regrets that the schedule of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Kyiv does not have a point on a meeting with the leader of Bet. Putin will visit Ukraine on December 22 to participate in the first meeting of the interstate Ukrainian-Russian commission at the level of heads of state. "The President of the Russian Federation did not plan a meeting with me. And therefore, most likely, such a meeting will not take place," she said.

On December 18, the Stockholm court sentenced the case of a citizen of Sweden Jackie Arklev, who was accused of violating human rights in Bosnia. According to the Swedish TT news agency, Arklev served under the contract as a guard in the Croatian prisoner of prisoners of war during the war in Bosnia in 1993. According to the materials of the court, the accused beat and tortured prisoners - Bosnian Muslims, RIA Novosti reports. The court sentenced Arklev to eight years in prison.

The employee of the regional department of the FSB in the Chita region, Alexander Ovsyannikov, disappeared on December 14 in the Karymsky district. As the investigation found out, on this day, Captain Ovsyannikov, being in the performance of official duties, arrived in a personal car at the local forest receiver and demanded from three citizens documents for the forest they handed over. In response, citizens who were intoxicated began to beat him.

The new Pentagon head Robert Gates on Monday officially takes office. In this post, Gates will replace Donald Ramsfeld, in honor of which a parade was arranged on Friday near the walls of the Pentagon. Gates, so far as the President of the University of Texas University, A&M, last weekend he visited several ceremonies for the presentation of diplomas. He noted that he, like graduates, begins a new life.

The former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday was successfully operated on in one of the Cleveland clinics (USA), according to the website of the Italian publication La Repubblica with a Silka on the former president, a lifelong senator of the Italian Republic of Francesco Kossigu. “I gladly learned that the surgical operation performed by Berlusconi ended absolutely safely,” the publication quoted the words of Cossiga.

The striker of the Kazan "Rubin" Argentine Alejandro Dominges moved to the St. Petersburg Zenit. The Pitersky club Transfer of the Argentinean football player will cost 7 million euros - for this amount of Dominges, according to the contract, any team could be redeemed. According to Eurosport , in Zenit, Dominges will become one of the highest paid players. Its wages will be $ 2.3 million a year. Only the leader of the Russian national team Andrei Arshavin will receive more in the St.

In the Leningrad Region, the Gazelle crashed into a bus with a children's volleyball team. As a result of the incident, 1 teenager died, four more were hospitalized, the traffic police in St. Petersburg and the region said. The accident occurred at about 12:30 Moscow time on Monday on the 180-km of Kola highway. According to preliminary data, a PAZ bus with 15-year-old teenagers, traveling from the Lodeynoye Field towards Kirisha, was listed on a snowy highway, and the Gazelle crashed into it.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine refutes reports that babies were killed in the country to receive stem cells in order to subsequently sell them on the international market. Recently, the media has appeared that in Ukraine they could kill newborns in order to receive stem cells from their bodies.

The United States and South Korea, following Japan , rejected the requirements of the DPRK, which she put forward as a condition for abandoning her nuclear program. “We all agreed that this is unacceptable,” the head of the Japanese delegation Kenitiro Sasae told Japanese journalists after separate meetings with the American and South Korean colleagues in the framework of six -way negotiations that resumed today in Beijing, ITAR -TASS reports.

Iraqi militants released 17 employees of the humanitarian organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ), stolen the day before, reports Reuters . The fate of the remaining hostages is still unknown. The humanitarian organization announced that it closes its offices in Iraq in connection with the mass abduction of its employees.

The criminal case against the former head of the city administration of Pyatigorsk Igor Tarasov, who committed an accident that led to the death of five people, was discontinued immediately after the start of the process. On Monday, the Kochubeevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory satisfied the petition of the victims: “The criminal case was terminated for the reconciliation of the parties,” Interfax told in the office of the court.

Akrus-Real Estate Rieltor Company offers a new complex of services intended for apartment owners. "Flat service" is the performance of the functions of a management company for a single apartment. Literally everything that the owner needs is included in the service- from watering flowers and wet cleaning to control over timely payment of accounts.

The new world record in a jump with an elastic cable tied to the legs was set by New Zealande, Hey Jee Hickett, who is considered one of the founders of this extreme entertainment, known as Banji Jamping or Tarzanka. He jumped from a height of 233 meters from one of the largest towers in Asia in Chinese Aomen (Macau) and flew upside down 199 meters.

Several dozen militants of the Hamas Palestinian movement went to Iran to undergo training, similar to the one that the militants of the radical Lebanese group of Hizballah believe, Israeli special services believe. According to Israeli military intelligence, the Hamas movement, in addition to the struggle for power with Fath, is busy preparing for an armed clash with Israel. The militants are working intensively on the production and improvement of Kasam missiles.