The Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (TSDU) of Russia does not intend to participate in the creation of a single spiritual and administrative Islamic structure.

While the fate of the Okhta Center is still in question, in St. Petersburg in the coming years dozens of smaller dominant in height, about 100 meters and higher, nevertheless also violating the high-altitude regulations of the city. However, after the scandal with the 403-meter skyscraper of Gazprom, the threshold of “high-altitude” sensitivity decreased among Petersburgers, and other skyscrapers now seem normal, writes dp.ru.

At the end of 2009, the best football player of the Russian Premier League, the 28-year-old Argentine Alejandro Dominges will continue his career in the Spanish Valencia, which is in third place in the Spanish League. The attacking midfielder, who had played two championship titles, UEFA Cup and Super Bowl of Europe in our country for six years in our country, had to fly to Valencia on the eve of the night, where the central match of the next Spanish example will be held, Sport-Express reports.

The Ministry of Energy is trying to solve the problems of AvtoVAZ with the help of oil workers - officials are asking them to employ the fired plant workers. AvtoVAZ takes about 12.5 thousand people for the staff. Half was promised to return in 2012, but there is no understanding of which vacancies can be proposed, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The newspaper was at the disposal of the deputy head of the Ministry of Energy Sergey Kudryashov, dated December 10.

The market of shares of the Russian Federation, under the end of trading on Friday, lost all optimism. According to Interfax , this was led by a chain of events. The dollar grew on strong statistics from the United States, which increased the likelihood of increasing the base interest rate of the Fed.

A letter signed by Joseph Stalin and the head of government, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov, was put up at the auction of the Sotheby's Action House in New York , RIA Novosti reports.

The Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense received a directive according to which the agency could limit public access to unexpected documents, reports Radio "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the military historian Mark Solonin. According to him, the ministry received the right to prevent researchers to documents containing negative information about Russian military personnel.

Five young American Muslims from Northern Virginia, detained on the eve of Pakistani special services in the province of Punjab, wanted to join the ranks of al-Qaeda for Jihad (Holy War) against American troops in Afghanistan. According to a representative of the local security service, students contacted a member of the radical Muslim group "Jaish-e-Mohammad" announced in the country and asked to undergo training in a training camp.

The French army decided to use the Mozilla Thunderbird Postal Client instead of Microsoft Outlook, Reuters said. Thunderbird and its Trustedbird modification, developed by the French together with Mozilla, have already been installed on 80 thousand computers of the Ministry of Defense, a similar decision was made in the Ministry of Finance, Internal Affairs and Culture. The selection of the military is reported that the security, reliability and open code of the program is due.

The Polish-American Treaty of the Status of the US troops on the territory of Poland Sofa (Status of Forces Agreement) was signed on Friday in Warsaw, reports

At the UN conference in Copenhagen, it will not be possible to develop a new agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, but a political agreement will be signed, the presidential adviser to climate, Alexander Bedritsky, at a press conference in Moscow on Friday. He noted at the same time that Russia considers the extension of the Kyoto Protocol to be pointless - a new document is needed.

The Russian police special forces are equipped with the best weapons of foreign production, including the famous Austrian Pistol GLOCK 17, Interfax reported on Friday in the Department of the rear of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. They explained that foreign products would not supplant Makarov pistols from Arsenal - they will remain in service with most ordinary police officers.

Unknown people stole the body of the former president of Cyprus Tasos Papadopoulos from the grave, who died of cancer exactly a year ago . This was reported on Friday by the state television of Cyprus Rick. The thieves penetrated the cemetery, opened the coffin and stole the remains of the president the day before the first anniversary of his death, television reports. As RIA Novosti reports, so far no one has taken responsibility for desecrating the grave.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the police are looking for a killer who made a daring escape from the court immediately after the sentence is announced. At the same time, the offender was missed and could not catch up with eight guards of the law. 19-year-old Mikhail Hook, who was found guilty of triple murder, committed from personal hostility based on homophobia, was put on the wanted list.

Two opposition candidates of Abkhazia Raul Hadjimba and Zaur Ardzinba on Friday - on the last day before the election - filed a statement to the Central Electoral Commission, indicating that during the campaign "an administrative resource" and violations are allowed, Interfax reports. In particular, they note a sharp “increase in the number of voters in the lists”, and also declare that in the hands of voters, “at least a day before the election,” there is “voting ballots.