The young politician, the leader of the Youth Yabloko, Ilya Yashin, who unexpectedly proposed to replace Grigory Yavlinsky last week as the party chairman, it turns out, did not consult his colleagues. About this, as Interfax reports, the Youth Apple statement said.

The increase in real estate prices in the Moscow Region beats all records. Moreover, in 2007, an increase in the cost of housing in the new cottage villages in Novorizhsky, The Kaluga and Dmitrov directions amounted to 57 percent of the total volume, Timur Saifutdinov, director of Terra-Real Estate, said today.

The Kiev prosecutor's office completed the investigation of the criminal case instituted against the ex-Minister of Transport and the Communications of Nikolai Rudkovsky in the fact of the waste of funds in especially large sizes. According to the prosecutor of Kyiv, Evgeny Blazhivsky, the investigation collected enough evidence and the indicated case has a “judicial perspective”.

The new projects of the Iranian government in the nuclear sphere are again forced to suspect that the country's leadership is striving to create weapons of mass destruction. After the shipment of Russian fuel for nuclear power plants in the Bushera, Iran was convinced that he could with impunity to prohibited enrichment of uranium, and the probability of international sanctions is extremely low, writes The Economist (full text on the Inopressa website).

In Kamchatka, the lines that arose last weekend at gas stations were eliminated. The situation with the provision of consumers with gasoline was completely taken under control and stabilized, ITAR-TASS said in the administration of the region. At the same time, while the vacation of gasoline "in one hands" is limited, fuel is not released into cans and barrels. President of the Kamchatka Association of gas station owners Boris Dobhenetsky also stated that the situation is normalized.

Proton-M launch vehicle with three Glonass-M navigation satellites started from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 22:32 Moscow time. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the service and public relations of the space forces. Later, navigation satellites were successfully brought to near -Earth orbit. The devices, along with the accelerated block, separated from the third foot of the launch vehicle.

On December 25, the Constitutional Court recognized a number of pension legislation not contradicting the Constitution. We are talking about the provisions of the Federal Law "On Pension Insurance in the Russian Federation" as amended in 2004. This norm of legislation determines the circle of persons whose labor pension, in addition to the basic part, consists of insurance premiums paid by employers to finance the insurance and funded parts of the pension.

The Central Election Commission is confident that the Supreme Court will reject complaints of the candidates-nominates who were denied the participation of the presidential election. According to the member of the commission, Gennady Kolyushin, the dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and his "inadequate" comrades in misfortune have no chance, Interfax reports. In total, three politicians filed claims.

Despite the promises of the ligaments of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev , not to touch the Constitution , the intrigue around the future structure of power remains - the tandem of a strong prime minister with a weak president, built only on the “trust” of the first and “decency” of the second, looks very shaky.

The Los Angeles Times calls the “symptom of time” Youth Prochrevsky organizations in Russia, which were formed approximately in the spring of 2005, after producing “color” revolutions swept through the former Soviet bloc. A special vanity around Putin’s figure, writes an influential American newspaper, is both non -Soviet and ruthless capitalist. In his material, the journalist describes the two organizations - “ours” and “Russia young”.

At the Ostankino television center in Moscow, the Communists will hold a rally. The main requirement is to provide them to the leader Gennady Zyuganov an equal access to the body with other candidates. Supporters of the Communist Party have already expressed their dissatisfaction on this subject, but in connection with the parliamentary elections, Echo of Moscow reports.

Chinese sports observers are convinced that at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing the Chinese team will win the largest number of medals, leaving behind traditional leaders of previous Olympiads - the USA and Russia. The Sinhua agency on Tuesday spread a comment that gives a forecast of possible success of Chinese athletes at the Olympiad next year compared to the success of the Chinese team at 2004 in Athens, RIA Novosti reports.

The ERA Foundation has opened an exhibition "This is not food", prepared from the works of modern Moscow artists on a culinary theme. Creating this project, the curator Olga Lopukhova proceeded from the realities of the Moscow art scene, which is influenced by conceptualism, in which the culinary discourse was one of the important, and from the realities of Russian life in general.

From January 1, 2008, in Russia, in addition to increasing fines for violation of traffic rules, motorists will affect another amendment? Changes in the state standard will come into force, which relate to the purity of the license plates of the car.

As it became known to RBC Daily, VTB, which is already investing in a number of development projects in Russia, will now build housing in London, in the business area of ​​Hammersmith. Investments in the project will amount to 130 million pounds. According to experts, for this amount you can build a residential complex for 200 apartments with a total area of ​​50 thousand to 100 thousand square meters. m.