On Thursday, the president of this unrecognized republic, Sergei Bagapsh, called the actual announcement of the war of Abkhazia, the appeal of the so -called "government of Abkhazia in exile" to the leadership of Georgia, Interfax reports. This government turned on Thursday to the country's leadership with a request to protect the Georgian population of the Galsky district of Abkhazia, which is supposedly oppressed by the Abkhazian authorities.

More than a hundred people were excluded from the list of disadvantages of Russia for the last six months, according to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The interdepartmental commission, recreated in April this year, from July to December 2006, considered 135 Russian appeals and removed temporary restrictions on the right to go abroad from 107 applicants, the report said.

Over the year of work, the Public Chamber conducted one law through the parliament and renewed another 15, but the deputies had never listened to its conclusions. Experts believe that in order to give weight to this department, the authorities enable social activists to successfully promote human rights topics popular among the people, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The public figures held the first plenary meeting in the Georgievsky hall of the Kremlin on January 22, 2005.

By the six months of the prison, conditionally, the deprivation of a driver’s license and a fine of 100 euros was sentenced today by the Strasbourg Court of the 32-year-old motorist from France, who last Saturday managed to enter the FIAT car into the hall of the city railway station in Strasbourg, Iar-Tass reports. The soft sentence is explained, possibly, by the fact that on the occasion of the Christmas, the judges were in a festive mood.

The execution of the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein will take place in the coming days, Iraqi government sources of the Mezharab newspaper al-Khayat said today. According to them, the death sentence may be announced on Friday, on the eve of the Muslim festival of the sacrifice of Eid al-Adha . On one of the squares in the well-guarded "green zone" in Baghdad, a gallows has already been built, on which Hussein and his associates must be hanged, ITAR-TASS reports.

Monuments will appear in Moscow by the legendary heroes of Arthur Conan-Dol to the detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Ethnographer, linguist and compiler of the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language”, Vladimir Dalya, as well as the architect Le Corbusier, who worked in Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet government in the 30s.

The viewers of Azerbaijan in six months lose the opportunity to watch two Russian television channels. Such a decision was made on Thursday at a meeting of the National Council for Broadcasting Azerbaijan. By the decision of the Council, from July 1, 2007, broadcasting will be terminated at the National Frequency of Russian TV channels "First" and "Russia", Interfax reports. Also, Azerbaijani viewers will lose two Turkish television channels.

The development of a new American strategy against Iraq is moving forward, but also requires additional consultations, the US president said on Thursday. George Bush is going to publish a new Iraq plan in early January 2007, CNN reports. The American president held a meeting of the National Security Council on this issue on Thursday at his ranch in Texas.

In Vladivostok, the Mitsubishi Delica minibus rolled over, which was driving a 16-year-old teenager. As a result of a traffic accident, 16 people were injured. According to the press service of the City Directorate of the traffic police, the accident occurred at 2:00 on Thursday by local time. The driver lost control on the road leading from the city to the Lazurnaya Bay. The minibus flew into the ditch and rolled over.

The first "Winter Surikovsky Art Festival" was opened in Krasnoyarsk. He is aimed at popularizing the Surikovsky heritage. Within the framework of the festival, more than 80 events are planned, in which more than 25 cultural institutions will be involved. The sites of the event will be museums, libraries, concert halls, theaters, musical and art schools of the city. The festival combined all the creative groups of the city and the region. All events will be held until January 14.

The Ministry of Economic Development introduced a draft resolution agreed by all relevant departments to the government on the creation of an oil exchange. The site should earn from April 1, 2007, and by July 1, 2007, 15% of all the oil consumption of the state -owned enterprises will have to be bought at the oil exchange. The proposal, at least at first, will also provide state -owned companies.

For Moscow on Thursday evening - three days before the New Year - a hurricane wind fell on a short time, accompanied by a strong thunderstorm, rain and wet snow. Bad weather led to difficulties in the movement of vehicles on some roads, even more complicating the already difficult road situation in the capital.

The Prosecutor General’s Office announced the connection of the co -owner of Group Menatep Leonid Nevzlin with the Litvinenko case to achieve his extradition, observers and the press believe. No wonder the new accusation against him coincided with a trip to the United States. However, they will not be given non -zero, and the media indicated by the media.

Venezuela intends to purchase nine diesel submarines to protect the exclusive economic zone, which in its area exceeds the continental territory of Venezuela. Among the suppliers under consideration Russia, Germany, Spain, Interfax reports. According to Venezuela’s Navy, Vice Admiral Armando Laguna, we are talking about “non-nuclear submarines designed to control our exclusive economic zone, which in its area exceeds the continental territory of Venezuela.

The ex-head of the NK Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev, perhaps, will meet the New Year in the Chita pre-trial detention center, Yuri Schmidt’s lawyer Khodorkovsky told Interfax on Thursday. Schmidt expressed the opinion that in the near future the prosecutor’s office would not charge Khodorkovsky. “Before the New Year, most likely, the charge will not be charged,” Schmidt said.