At the beginning of 2007, the Moscow State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Western Port" will be powerful to create a multifunctional logistics complex of class A on its basis for servicing MMDC "Moscow City". As it became known to RBC Daily , the joint -stock company will be created by the mayor and LLC "Trading House" Shater, which runs the squares of the "Gostiny Dvor" and "Manege", and is also an authorized company of the Moscow Government for Hotel Construction.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II hopes that the friendship of the peoples of Russia and Georgia, which is now experienced for strength, will withstand all tests.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved on Monday the decision to dismantle army blocks that limit the movement of the Palestinian population on the western bank of the Jordan River, RIA Novosti reports. The Minister of Defense Amir Perez said on Monday at a meeting of the parliamentary commission on foreign affairs and defense, that in the near future 59 checkpoints on the west coast would be dismantled.

The new comedy "Night in the Museum" with Ben Stiller in the title role became the leader of the American Christmas rental. According to estimates for three days of sales, starting on Friday, the box office of the film adaptation of the 32-page children's book amounted to more than $ 30.8 million, Reuters reports. Leader of the last rental film Sony Corp. "In search of happiness" with the father and son of Smith in the lead roles came to the second place with $ 15 million.

Iran’s parliament adopted a bill obliging the country's government to reconsider relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This happened in connection with the adoption by the UN Security Council of a resolution on sanctions against Iran . 184 deputies voted for the new law, 12 spoke out against, 6 - abstained, Interfax reports with reference to the Iranian media. Now, for the entry into force, the adopted bill must approve the supervisory board of the Islamic Republic.

The tax inspectorate accused the audit company "Prisvoterkhaskupers Audit", which checked Yukos, in the assistance of tax evasion. Tax officials demand invalid the contract for the provision of Yukos in 2002 of audit services as "a transaction made in order to be contrary to the basis of law and order and morality." The lawsuit may turn into a criminal case with the cancellation of a license from one of the most solid audit companies.

On Monday, the Sakhalin Regional Court made a verdict in the case of the death of the border guard Vitaly Gamov. The defendants Alexei Britov, Sergey Malyutin and Alexei Anikin were sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony, ITAR-TASS reports. They are found guilty of arson of the general’s apartment, "entailing the death of a person by negligence." Such a verdict of jury, determining the degree of guilt of the defendants, issued on November 17.

The American military command in Iraq contains at least four high -ranking Iranian law enforcement officers, the website of the American newspaper The New York Times reports on sources in the American administration and the leadership of Iraq. According to the publication, the Iranian troops were captured last Thursday in Baghdad during the coalition forces of operations to search and destroy militants. In particular, the official representative of the National Security Council Gordon D.

In Irkutsk, about 800 people are evacuated as a result of a fire in a building of the State University. The fire occurred on Monday at 15:36 Moscow time in a 13-storey building of the hostel, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a source in the Office of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region. Feeling the smoke, the commandant reported the incident to the 01 service. Fire calculations immediately arrived at the place.

The US Department of Defense, when concluding transactions with the Department of Internal Affairs, made excessive expenses and re -expanded tens of millions of dollars. This was reported by The Washington Post , referring to the results of the audit verification of both departments. These documents were at the disposal of the influential publication.

Traces of cocaine are present at 94% of all banknotes in Spain. These are the results of the examination conducted in the Sailab Madrid research laboratory, Reuters reports. To study the presence of a drug in supermarkets, pharmacies, gymnastic halls and many other public places throughout the country, 100 banknotes of various advantages were selected, and only 6% of them did not find traces of cocaine. Spain is a world leader in the level of cocaine consumption among the population.

Yuri Belenkov was appointed head of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development, Interfax reports. As the government’s press service told reporters on Monday, the corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. Yuri Beleenkov was born on February 9, 1948 in Leningrad. Until recently, he was the director of the Myasnikov Cardiology Institute. In addition, Belenkov is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor.

In Russia, the number of dead on the roads is reduced. According to statistics, there were 4 thousand less people in the outgoing year in the outgoing year than in the past, Viktor Kiryanov, head of the Road Safety Department (DobDD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, said on Monday. He noted that over 11 months, more than 207 thousand traffic accidents occurred in the country, which is 1.5% more than in the same period last year.

The aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force delivered a bomb on Monday at Mogadisho International Airport, located in the center of the Somali capital. According to eyewitnesses, aircraft, presumably Russian production, flew at a low altitude above the capital and dropped at least two bombs to the country's main airport, which recently opened after an Islamic uprising in Mogadisho.

In Somalia on Monday, the fighting of the seventh day was activated. The government of neighboring Ethiopia on the eve officially declared war on the militants of the United Islamic Courts group (OIS), who controlled most of Somalia from the summer. Somali’s transition government, which had hungry in the south of the country, announced the closure of all borders.