At Christmas near all Russian churches, churches and monasteries, enhanced police outfits will be on duty, ITAR-TASS reported today in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. "Prior to the start of the holiday services, religious institutions and the territory adjacent to them will be checked by dog ​​handlers with service dogs. Also near large temples, where a large number of believers will come, police officers with metal detectors will work," the agency’s interlocutor said.

President George Bush will change the generals responsible for the war in Iraq. According to Tony Snow, the defense minister Robert Gates recommended that the new head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces, in which Iraq and Afghanistan, Admiral William Fallon, was appointed to the new head of the Central Command of the Armed Forces. The latter currently leads the Pacific command.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Malika said his country could revise relations with those countries whose governments criticized the execution of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. According to Malika, the hanging of Saddam is the "internal business" of his country, and this action will help strengthen the unity of Iraq. The trial of the former leader was honest, he added.

Rescuers removed a woman and two children from the blockages of a residential building in the city of Tyrnyauz of the Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria, RIA Novosti said in the Southern Regional Center for the Russian Emergencies Ministry. They are currently providing medical care. “Information about people who can still remain under the rubble is specified,” the press service said, noting that relatives and familiar collapsed entrances are interviewed for this.

Russia is ready to transmit US data on air passengers, and to make changes to the laws for this, Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, who is currently on a working trip in the United States, said on Saturday.

Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine under the leadership of the head of the department of Nestor Shufrich are trying to cut the anchor in order to tow Odisk with toxic substances on board as far from the city as possible. According to Tatyana Ogarkova, an interfax agency, Tatyana Ogarkova, this is done in order to exclude the likelihood of a threat to the life of the townspeople on Saturday.

The third year in a row, the Russian team is inferior to the Canadian team in the final of the World Hockey Youth Championship, which ended in Sweden. In Lexand, the Russians lost to representatives of the country of maple leaf with a score of 2: 4 and again won Silver. In 2005-2006, Canadians also defeated Russians, which were part of Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeny Malkin.

At the stage of the Biathlon World Cup passing in the German Oberhof on Saturday, a race of 10 kilometers in men took place on Saturday. The strongest in this sprint discipline was Russian Nikolai Kruglov, who for 3.5 seconds ahead of the leader of the general standings of the German Michael Grais. The third place was taken by the Italian Renee Laurent Villermozh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Orthodox Christians on Christmas Christians, all Russian citizens who now celebrate this holiday. This was reported by the press service of the head of state. The congratulation, in particular, says: “I cordially congratulate you on Christmas Christ! This holiday brings bright joy and good expectations to the houses of millions of people, unites us all around traditional moral values, serves to strengthen moral principles and consent in society.

In Tbilisi, due to an accident that occurred on Saturday afternoon on a high-pressure gas pipeline on one of the streets in the Didube area, part of the districts was disabled from gas supply. As Interfax was told in the Tbilisi gas distribution company of KazTransgaz-Tbilisi JSC, a gas pipeline was damaged, which supplies natural gas most of the didaby and overseas regions of the Georgian capital.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Amending the Federal Law" On Amending the Federal Law "On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation" and on recognizing certain provisions of the Federal Law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation". This was announced today by the press service of the head of state. The document was adopted by the State Duma on December 22 and approved by the Federation Council on December 27, 2006.

About 15 people were killed and more than 50 were injured as a result of the attack of a suicide bomber, who exploded himself today in a passenger bus in the south of Sri Lanka. According to incoming messages, the terrorist attack was carried out in the town of Peralia, about 70 kilometers from the capital of the island state - Colombo. Over the past day, this is already the second such crime in Sri Lanka, where militants from the Tiger Liberation Tigers Tamil Ilama (Toti) were again activated.

The Belarusian customs drew up a protocol on an administrative offense against the head of the Russian company Transneft, Semen Weinstok in connection with the transportation of Russian oil and said that a telegram was sent to the place and time of consideration of this case in court.

Russian woman Dinara Safina became the winner of the tournament of the third category of the Women's Tennis Association in the Australian Gold Coast, whose prize fund was 175 thousand US dollars. In the final, the Russian woman sown under the second number won the famous ex-first racket of the world from Switzerland Martina Hingis with a score of 6: 3, 3: 6, 7: 5. This is the fifth championship title in the career of a 20-year-old Muscovite and the first victory in three meetings over Khingis.

On January 5, 2007, in the Moscow Patriarchal Working Residence, in Pure Lane, a record of the Christmas radio communication of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II took place. Then, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) answered questions from correspondents of leading Russian and foreign radio stations, as well as the largest information agencies.