Assistant to the President of Economic Policy Arkady Dvorkovich states that next year a budget deficit may occur. "The deficit next year is quite likely and will be compensated at the expense of the reserve fund accumulated in recent years," he said at the end of the meeting of the Council for the implementation of national projects.

The Moldavian businessman, who dressed a pig in the uniform of the prosecutor, and the donkey - in the form of a policeman, was sentenced to a fine, despite numerous protests against his arrest, reports the Air Force . Anatol Matasaru, found guilty of insulting the authorities, said that he would appeal to a court decision, obliging him to pay a fine of 200 lei (slightly less than $ 20).

The artist died at the 85th year of her life on Tuesday evening after a long illness. Valentina Kropyvnitskaya and her husband Oscar Rabin belonged to the Lianozovo School, which was founded by Evgeny Kropyvnytsky, an outstanding artist and poet, Valentina's father, the Moscow Komsomolets reports. Kropyvnitskaya was born in Moscow on February 16, 1924. I studied painting with my father and at the district art school.

In the Samara region, detectives are searching for a killer who dissects the victims and performs ritual actions with corpses. The maniac cuts the swastika on the bodies, and also throws separate parts of the corpse to the church. Law enforcement agencies believe that a sectarian or crazy.

In Russia, on the initiative of the ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of economists and public figures creates public anti-crisis initiative (OAI), the purpose of which will be the struggle with the consequences of the financial crisis in Russia.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich canceles a luxurious New Year's dinner for 60 friends at an elite American ski resort Aspen (Colorado). The evening party was supposed to take place on the very eve of the holiday in the Pinons restaurant, the DPMoney website with reference to The ASPEN TIMES newspaper reports. The meter -ender of the restaurant Frank Chok refused to inform the publication additional details of what happened. “No one really knows anything about this,” says Chok.

Georgia got involved in the war in South Ossetia due to the political mistakes of President Mikhail Saakashvili, the former constant representative of the country at the UN Irakli Alasania believes. The August conflict can be avoided, but the Georgian authorities made a lot of miscalculations, bringing the situation to an armed confrontation with Russia, Alassania said on Wednesday at a press conference in Tbilisi.

The Boka Huniors club became the winner of the Argentina Autumn Football Championship (Aperture), winning in a single-circle mini-tournament for three leaders of the championship who scored the same number of points. In the last game, the football players “Boks” with a minimum account lost to the “Tiger”, but bypassed rivals on the difference of clogged and missed balls.

One of the officially approved victims of the crisis? "Megafon"? She announced the acquisition of an office building in November for 2.4 billion rubles (about 78 million dollars), BFM.ru reports. Real estate analysts are surprised at the ability of a mobile operator to knock down the price for their new asset. In November, OJSC Megafon signed an agreement on the purchase of a 100% stake in CJSC Construction Company Absolut for 2 billion 418 million rubles, the operator said in a statement.

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, said that in his entire life they wanted to kill him four or five times, even at the time when he headed the Cocaleros movement - peasants engaged in the cultivation of Coca. According to the head of state at a meeting with foreign journalists, he did not want to make the public an expedition disclosed to the public with the aim of its physical elimination, ITAR-TASS reports.

Maxim Blunt , the Economic observer Newsru.com , appreciated the scale of the current economic crisis in the program "Special Opinion" on the Echo of Moscow Radio. The current situation was predictable, and although the forecasts for the future are terrible, much will depend on how much the government is ready for a new turn. About social programs The budget expenditures will be reduced, our observer predicts, with the exception of social programs and the salaries of state employees.

The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of the death of Russian citizens as a result of a car accident in Egypt under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence to two or more persons).

In the Moscow City Park, gasoline cars will be replaced by cars with hybrid engines, Leonid Bochin, head of the environmental management and environmental protection department, told reporters. "The mayor of Moscow, according to the results of the recent conference" Alternative types of fuel, "gave an order to replace the city park with hybrid cars and is now an active study of this issue," Bochin said.

In Kyrgyzstan, 11 leading opposition political parties and public organizations signed an agreement on the unit on the public movement on Wednesday. The Politburo will lead the new alliance, which includes the leaders of the forces represented in the movement. The National Council of the United People's Movement was also created, which entered three representatives from each party.

The municipal services of the American town of Enkeni, Iowa, where it had recently snowed, decided to apply a culinary seasoning on the roads. Now local highways smell of real garlic. The fact is that a mixture of ordinary salt was used as an anti-icing reagent, which is used to protect the roadway from icing, and garlic salt, which was borrowed from the manufacturer of the dry seasoning "Tons of Spice".