The Central Council of the Plenum of the Agrarian Party of Russia supported the candidacy of First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the post of President of the Russian Federation. “In the current political situation, it seems advisable to maintain a stable course for the development of the state, so we propose to support the candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev.

Ensuring the self -sufficiency of the Afghan army is a key to the success of international forces in this country. This was stated today by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is on a brief visit to Afghanistan. After meeting with the country's President Hamid Karzai, he spoke to the French military contingent at his base in Kabul. "France, together with its allies, should continue to effort in order to achieve the self-sufficiency of the Afghan armed forces as soon as possible," Sarkozy said.

Since Manchester United and Arsenal have serious debts, and Liverpool is trying to receive bank loans to pay for the construction of a new stadium, the actions of the Russian billionaire mean that at the moment Chelsea is the only Premier League, which is free from external debts. To balance accounts, Abramovich writes off the extensive annual losses of Chelsea by providing an interest -free loan.

The Russian space cargo ship M-61, loaded with garbage and developed equipment, set sail from the International Space Station (ISS) and turned into a "space laboratory" for a month. "The team for the slide was given at 06:57 Moscow time. Three minutes later, Progress separated from the station, " Interfax was told in the flight control center (TsUP). "Progress M-61" has been in the ISS since August 5.

The Olympic champion and record holder of the world in Sixth Jest Elena Isinbaeva refused to be a banner from the Russian national team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. According to the athlete, she will not be able to attend the opening ceremony, which will take place on August 8, 2008, since she will not be in the capital of China. “I definitely won’t suffer a banner. Firstly, I will not be purely physically in the Olympic village: the opening will take place on August 8.

Moscow "Spartak", with whom Marseille will fight in the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup, is, according to the mentor of the French club Eric Gerets, the great team, the UEFA official website reports. “For me, there was a surprise that they (Spartak”) did not fall into the group stage of the Champions League. It would be a great achievement for us if we can overcome them.

In Tajikistan, the Snow avalanche took away the lives of 16 people, people remain under the rubble, they told Interfax on Saturday to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. “At 67 kilometer (north of Dushanbe) on the Dushanbe -Khujand highway on Friday late in the evening, an avalanche occurred, which claimed the lives of 16 people,” the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

By the beginning of winter vacations, the ADAC Autonomous Road Club presented a comparative table of car fuel prices in the ski cities of Europe. So, the most expensive gasoline was in Germany? There, the price per liter of gasoline of the Super (AI-95) brand is on average 1.38 euros, and per liter of diesel? 1.29 euros. On the second line of the table is Italy, where fuel prices are only a few cents behind German.

The mentor of Magnitogorsk Metallurg Fedor Canarekin was fired, in which the Ural team in 2007 won the gold medals of the Russian Hockey Championship. The decision to resign from the post of head coach Fedor Canareikin was made by the President of the club Viktor Rashnikov the day before late in the evening after Metallurg, having lost the "Neftekhimika" (1: 2), suffered a third defeat in a row in a Super League. The new head coach was appointed in the club system Valery Postnikov.

The coordinator of the defense movement Oleg Kozlovsky, who was forcibly drafted into the army, disappeared from the premises of the medical unit. “We received information from the unit that he was stolen from the premises of the medical unit tonight, where he was since yesterday after the hunger strike,” Marina Kozlovskaya told his mother.

The leader of BYUT, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko abandoned the presidential ambitions for the position of prime minister before appointing the head of government, said the People’s Deputy from the Bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" Roman Zvarich, RIA "Novosti" reports. In 2009, experts call Tymoshenko, current president Viktor Yushchenko, the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych in 2009.

Dutch goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar extended the contract with Manchester United for another season, having finished rumors about his future. And according to the rumors of Van der Sar, after Euro 2008, he was supposed to end his career-the 37-year-old goalkeeper for the next summer was just supposed to end with an old contract with the Manianian club. There were also conversations that Edwin, perhaps, would go to live his football age to his homeland.

According to the latest data, at least 50 people were injured in Pakistan as a result of a terrorist attack in the mosque, and about 100 people were injured, reports the Associated Press. On the eve of the suicide bomber, the explosive device in the mosque located in one of the villages in the Charsadd area, 40 km northeast of Peshavar, during the celebration of the Aide Festival, The mosque was also the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Pakistan Aftab Khan Sherpao, who was not injured.

Activists of the youth movement "We" abandoned the previously planned picket on the Square of the Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava in support of the correspondent of The New Times, Natalia Moral. This was done at the request of The New Times magazine, said Roman Dobrokhotov, the leader of the “We” movement. “Yesterday late in the evening, Evgenia Albats contacted me (deputy chief editor of the magazine).

A resident of the American state Wyoming Misty Johnson stabbed Sean's husband with a knife for the fact that he opened a Christmas gift too early, RIA Novosti reports with reference to local media. The woman was arrested, and her curious spouse was given the necessary medical assistance in the hospital. Johnson charged with aggravating circumstances, beating and domestic violence. Now she is exempted on bail of $ 7.5 thousand.