The European Union called on Russia and Ukraine to "resume" gas supplies to the EU countries in full. This is stated in the statement of the Czech Republic as chairman of the European Union widespread in Brussels. "It is urgent to find a decision of a commercial dispute between Russia and Ukraine and immediately resume the gas supply to the Member of the European Union in full," the statement emphasizes.

Employees of the customs posts of the sea ports of Vladivostok and finds, interrupting the festive rest in connection with the increased flow of cars from Japan to Russia, on Saturday began to design foreign cars, the representative of the press service of the Far Eastern Customs Administration (DVTU) told RIA Novosti . From January 12, 2009, the Decree of the Russian government on an increase in customs duties for cars and freight foreign cars was taken into force on December 10, 2008.

Two explosions thundered in the north of Kosovo, ethnically divided into two parts - Albanian and Serbian, wounds were received by seven fire service employees, reports on Saturday AFP. According to the local police, the first explosion occurred around noon on Friday near one of the cafes in the northern part of the city of Kosovsk-Minovitsa, several cars were damaged, while no one was injured. The second explosion thundered already on the night of Saturday.

Journalist Viktor Shenderovich commented on the "Echo of Moscow" that appeared today on the Internet information about his death. “Messages about my death are a criminal offense,” Schenderovich said.

Five people were killed and one was wounded as a result of an accident in the Uzhgin district of Udmurtia, RIA Novosti told by phone on Saturday a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies. According to him, the emergency occurred the day before on the 100th kilometer of the Elabuga-Perm highway.

The circumstances of the wounds of a contract of a contract are investigated in the Ingush Magas. "At 20:20 in the city of Magasa on Gorchkhanov Street, to protect the complex of buildings of parliament and the government of the republic, he received a firearm in the shoulder and hospitalized a soldier under the contract of military unit 3772 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation," Interfax was told in the law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia.

The metropolitan police launched an investigation against two Muscovites who scored a homeless dog in the North-East Administrative District of the city on Friday evening, two suspects were detained on Saturday, a representative of the SwaC Internal Affairs Directorate told RIA Novosti .

In the Bahamas, the eldest son of the famous American actor John Travolta died. The 16-year-old Jett Travolta was hospitalized on Friday at the Rand memorial hospital on Bolshaya Bagama Island. There, doctors confirmed the death of a teenager, reports ITAR-TASS. According to the representative of the Travolta family, Michael Ossi, on Friday in one of the hotels in the Bahamas, where the family was on vacation, 16-year-old Jet Travolta had a sudden attack. Travolta Jr.

The powers of 15 chapters of Russian regions expire in 2009, most future governors will be appointed already in a new order - the party will be selected by the candidates, which won the regional parliamentary elections. This bill, introduced by Dmitry Medvedev, the State Duma of the Russian Federation intends to consider in the spring session, RIA Novosti reports. In January, the heads of the Kirov region and Khakassia, Nikolai Shaklein and Alexei Lebed, will definitely lose their posts.

Aircraft of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation with Russian citizens who were evacuated from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the Moscow Domodedovo airport. "The first IL -62 plane landed at 06:40 Moscow time, the second - Yak -42 - at 6:52 Moscow time," ITAR -TASS told the representative of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. These specialists delivered 178 people to the Russian capital, 102 of whom are citizens of Russia.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ski on a slope near the ski complex of the Polyana Hotel near Sochi, ITAR-TASS reports. Medvedev came to the complex earlier than Putin, and by the premiere arrived he had already managed to go down the slope several times. The presence of the head of state did not cause problems for numerous vacationers - the slope did not close for general access, and people could ski next to the president.

The leader of the LDPR, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky compared the actions of the Ukrainian authorities in the "gas conflict" of Moscow and Kiev with the signs of Somali pirates, Interfax reports. “Like pirates, brazenly capture someone else's products,” Zhirinovsky said at a rally at the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow on Saturday, in which the parties and State Duma deputies from the LDPR took part in the Moscow branch, its press service reports.

RosUKRENERGO AG filed two lawsuits at the Stockholm Arbitration Institute of the Chamber of Commerce, the company says.

The escalation of violence in the gas sector is not provoked by Israel, but by the Palestinian radical group "Hamas", said US President George Bush. “The recent outbreak of violence was provoked by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group calling for the destruction of Israel, which is supported by Iran and Syria,” Bush said in a weekly radio picture, the text of which was published by the White House.

The Chairman of the State Council of Cuba Raul Castro said that he was ready to negotiate with the US President Barack Obama, who entered the post of President of the United States without intermediaries and on equal terms, reported on Saturday AFP. "The concession for the assignment. We are ready (negotiating), whenever they took place, no matter how (USA) they decided, without intermediaries, directly. But we are not in a hurry, we are not in a hopeless situation," said Raul Castro.