A detachment of warships of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, headed by the Grand Domestic Ship, Admiral Vinogradov, went into the Arabian Sea. The vessels joined the Baltic Fleet’s guard ship, which has been protecting the courts from the Somali Pirates passing through these waterquakes from October. According to RIA Novosti , a detachment of the warships of the Pacific Fleet also includes the rescue tugboat "Fotiy Krylov" and tankers "Boris Butoma" and "Pechenga".

Gas negotiations with the Russian side should be continued in the next day or two and completed until January 7, RBC-Ukraine reports with reference to the statement of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. “The parties have enough exchanged approaches, principles, conditions that it is important to take into account when the negotiation process is completed.

The solemn ceremony of taking office of the new governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh will be held on January 15. According to Interfax, the press secretary of the current governor of the Kirov region, Elena Andreeva, said on Friday, the inauguration of the new head of the region was scheduled for 12:00 and will also take place the drama theater of the city of Kirov.

Vits to store chastity before marriage mean little for American teenagers. Those who give such an oath begin to lead a sexual life later than most of their peers, but this is rather explained by their beliefs or religiosity. Before marriage, they have sex with the same degree of probability as those believers who did not give a vow. Such data was received by the Johns from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a result of a special study.

Russian diplomats have completed the evacuation of compatriots from the Gaza Strip, where massive bombing has been going on for a week, RIA Novosti correspondent with the Erem checkpoint, separating the gas sector from Israel. The border was crossed by 101 citizens of the Russian Federation and about 70 owners of passports of Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus, RIA Novosti reports.

The Ministry of Justice of Estonia refused to translate regulatory acts into Russian in 2009, explaining its decision by a deficiency of budget funds, Interfax reports. “Due to the reduction of the budget in 2008 and 2009, the ministry has no financial opportunities for translating texts,” the portal of the Estonian broadcasting of the press secretary of the department Diana Kimmus quotes.

On Friday, the authorities of Sri Lanka announced the seizure of the actual capital of the Tamil separatists, who have been fighting against the government army for 25 years. The civil war on the island continues, but the capture of the city of Kilinochci was at least an important symbolic victory of the government. Kilinochci is located 300 km north of the official capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo.

Ethiopia began the withdrawal of its military contingent from Somalia. “The implementation of the withdrawal plan for the troops began, but this is a long process that will take a lot of time,” the official representative of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Bereke Simon said on Friday in Addis Abib. Initially, it was announced that the military personnel of Ethiopia would leave Somalia by the end of December.

According to Palestinian sources, the Israeli armed forces made an air raid for 20 houses of activists of the Palestinian organization "Hamas". According to Newsru Israel with reference to Reuters, 12 people were injured as a result of the attack. The number of dead Palestinians during the operation approaches 450.

Five people died in a car accident in Udmurtia on Friday morning. "A message about the accident on the Yelabuga-Perm highway near the village of New Biya entered the unified rescue service of Udmurtia at 9:10 Moscow time. According to preliminary data, five people died," RIA Novosti reports with reference to the spokesman for the Volga Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to the interlocutor of the agency, two VAZ-2109 cars and Volkswagen cars collided in the accident.

The offensive of the new 2009 in Europe was marked not only by violent fun and congratulations. Law enforcement agencies and doctors on a festive night noted a sharp surge in violence and crime. For example, in France, hooligans burned more than 400 cars, and in Germany, unknown people carried out an exhibition from the museum. In many British cities on a festive night there were mass fights, shootings and other violations, writes the tabloid The Sun.

Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov supports the creation of the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market. This step will contribute to strengthening the control over the production and turnover of alcoholic beverages, Mironov said, commenting on the decision of the head of state Dmitry Medvedev on the creation of a service for regulating the alcohol market . “In Russia, a state monopoly on the production and turnover of alcohol products must be introduced.

Four people were killed and one suffered over the past day in eleven fires in the Perm Territory, the damage from which amounted to 495 thousand rubles, reports on Friday RIA Novosti with reference to an employee of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Perm Territory. "The main reason for the death and injury of people in fires is the careless handling of drunk fire," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Since January 1, the state testing cosmodrome of Baikonur of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is considered disbanded. From now on, the objects of the world's first space harbor will be under the jurisdiction of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Federal Space Center" Baikonur ", which is part of the structure of Roscosmos. However, "demilitarization", begun back in 2004, will be incomplete, the Vesti.ru website indicates.

The British intelligence agencies seized a samovar from the royal residence in the castle of Balmoral, presented back in the 1980s of the now deceased Royal Mother. The counterintelligence suspected that it can be hidden by a listening device, Inopressa reports with reference to The Press and Journal .