The Ukrainian capital Kyiv begins to freeze due to the disconnects of heat supply. Due to the huge debts of the city for gas and reducing the supply of fuel, Kyivenergo decided on Friday to completely stop the supply of hot water to the Kievans in order to maintain the minimum heat supply of the city, reports Newsru.ua . President Viktor Yushchenko, who demanded from the capital's authorities and the government, intervened in the situation to take urgent measures to solve problems.

A couple of years ago, the Russian state began to actively advertise the so -called "folk IPO", the primary placement of shares in the stock market of state companies as the Rosneft oil and gas giant and the two largest banks in the country - Sberbank and VTB. To be enriched, backed up by Putin’s promises and seemed to be favorably different from the random privatization of the 90s, hundreds of thousands of people responded, the newspaper writes.

The Italian state television channel RAI showed the film "Gorbataya Gora" of England Lee without a sexual scene and without a kiss of cowboys. The film was on the air late on Monday of December 8th. After that, the head of the Italian human rights gay organization Arcigay Aurelio Manko said that he would apply to the parliamentary commission observing the TV channel with a request to conduct an investigation, the OpenSpace.ru website reports.

On Friday at the meeting, the State Duma deputies in the first reading adopted amendments to the Law on Compulsory Auto Insurance (OSAGO), who allow insurance companies to refuse injured motorists to restore the commodity value of their cars after accidents. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . According to the bill, the loss of the product value of the vehicle is not an insured event, since it cannot be compensated by the restoration repairs after an accident.

Economists from the University of George Mason and the University of Western Virginia made a curious conclusion: the more the American state allocates money to eliminate the consequences of natural disasters - the higher the level of corruption in the injured region, reports Washington Profile . As part of the study, the impact on the level of corruption of funds allocated through the Federal Emergency Agency ( Fema ) was analyzed.

A resident of the Chinese city of Shanghai, who left his Chevrolet Captiva car at the roadside of the road before a pedestrian crossing, where the parking was prohibited, returning to the place, saw the car of the tow truck, which was preparing its jeep for loading. An employee of the evacuation service told the woman that she had violated the parking rules and he was forced to take the car to the parking lot.

More than a third of those who lost their work of Russians have already found a new place in just a week, the Romir research group found out during a survey conducted at the end of November 2008. Each tenth of the dismissed needed to search for a new job for more than a month. The remaining 32%that are in search will be more difficult - the average time for searching for work has already increased, state in recruitment agencies.

Some ministries and state institutions of Latvia can be liquidated due to the difficult economic situation in the country, the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Caspers Gerhardc said on Friday in an interview with the LNT channel. This was reported by the portal Banki.ru . Latvia is experiencing the strongest economic decline in the EU. The country's GDP in the third quarter of 2008, compared with the same period last year, fell by 4.6%.

On December 11, a list of nominees for the Golden Globe was announced in the United States - the second prize after the Oscar in the world in the world of cinema. In the number of nominations in 2008, the films “The Mysterious History of Benjamin Batton“ David Fincher, “Doubt” of Max Crack and Frost against Nixon, Ron Hovard, leads. Each picture claims the Golden Globe in five nominations, including the "Best Film of the Year", "Best Actor" and "Best Director", Kommersant reports.

"King of pop music" Michael Jackson is going to correct his financial situation, putting on personal belongings an auction. In particular, the gate of the famous Neverland estate and one white glove that first appeared in the 1983 clip Billie Jean will leave the hammer, Reuters reports. The auctionist Darren Julien said that a total of Jackson took 2000 lots among his personal belongings and an extensive art collection.

The Prime Minister of Ireland Brian Cowen confirmed at the end of the EU summit in Brussels on Friday that he was ready to hold a re-referendum in the country of ratification of the Lisbon Treaty , designed to replace the failed project of the Constitution of the European Union. Cowen explained that thanks to the agreement concluded on Friday during the EU summit in Brussels, he is ready to organize a referendum under the contract.

The head of the department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation for the Ingush city of Karabulak Akhmed Khashagulgov made an attempt. At about 5:10 p.m., Moskovsky at the time at the intersection of Dzhabagiyev and Oscanov streets, his service VAZ-2110 was undermined. Khashagulgov with fragmentation wounds and mine-explosive injuries was hospitalized.

In Sevastopol, Ukrainian police officers are completing a criminal investigation against a man who is suspected of raping children of both sexes, as well as the manufacture of pornography. For 8 years, the attacker corrupted adolescents, on which he earned well as a school photographer.

Next year, Russia is not waiting for a recession, but depression in the economy. Such an opinion on the air of the Echo Moskvy radio station was expressed by the head of the Institute for Globalization Problems Mikhail Delyagin, commenting on the statement of the deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Andrei Klepach that the growth of GDP according to the current year will be lower than the expected 6.8% .

The authorities of Peru freed two citizens of Russia and one citizen of Ukraine, detained on Tuesday at Lima International Airport for an attempt to illegally export the collection from more than 6 thousand individual insects. According to Oleg Vorobyov, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Lim, the detainees have already flown to Moscow.