Goods under their own brands (STM) of Russian retailers have not yet justified hopes for the boom of "private brands" (Private Label). Companies are forced to abandon unpopular products and display more promising to the market - for example, alcohol, Bfm.ru business portal writes. "Two -thirds of the respondents either do not buy such goods at all, or they are extremely rare.

Many Moscow car owners in the light of the coming colds were disappointed in their "non -freezes", who, despite the label "" up to -25 degrees "froze. “I don’t even remember where I bought it, it cost 100 rubles. It freezes like an ice on top,” says the driver. According to Vesti-Moscow , now the double-washroting merchants were practically not on the routes of the city. After all, poor -quality liquid in the cold turns to ice, it will be impossible to sell it.

The Minister of Defense of Pakistan Ahmad Mukhtar was not released abroad in connection with the resumption of judicial persecution against him, the decision of which was made last Wednesday. Prior to official comments there were rumors that a coup d'etat had occurred in Pakistan. According to ITAR-TASS, Ahmad Mukhtar was going to leave with a working trip to China in connection with the supply of a warship to Pakistan.

In Moscow, they are perplexed about the accusations of the British intelligence chief against Russia in connection with Iraq. “The statement, at least, is bewilderment, if not more,” the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko told reporters on Friday. “In Russia, we have a good saying:“ From the sick head to healthy, ”you know this very well, ” Interfax quotes the words of the diplomat.

The total number of unemployed in Russia, calculated according to the methodology of the International Labor Organization, in November increased by 5% compared to the previous month, amounted to 6.131 million people, which is 842 thousand more than during the period of the past year, the materials of Rosstat testify. Compared to October 2009, the indicator grew by 292 thousand. This was 8.1% of the total economically active population of the country compared to 7.7% in October.

Employees of the Moscow police detained a native of the Republic of Bashkiria, who are suspected of a series of rape. At least 11 girls were the victims of the attacker, captured at the next attack. The 27-year-old native of Bashkiria was detained in the north-west of Moscow, reports Prufu.ru . He also committed crimes in the north of the capital.

Several defendants in the criminal case on the smuggling of industrial goods of foreign proceedings on a large scale through the customs border of the Russian Federation in the period from 2004 to 2006 in the area of ​​activity of the Sochi Airport Customs, posted on Friday on the website of the SCP of the Russian Federation were put on the international wanted list.

Cold weather, which has been established in most of Russia, allowed the power engineers to set the record on December 16 a record of a maximum of power consumption - 148.7 GW, yesterday the System Operator said. This is higher than the indicators of a particularly cold winter of 2005-2006, when the average temperature of December-February was 2.3 degrees below the average-year-old. The record on January 23, 2006 in power consumption was 147.5 GW, the newspaper Kommersant writes.

Serbia next week will submit an official application for joining the European Union. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to Reuters. The agency, in turn, refers to an unnamed representative of the Serbian government.

The draft political declaration of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen will be submitted to the heads of delegations today at 08:00 local time (10:00 Moscow time). An agreement on this, according to AFP, was reached during an emergency meeting of the leaders of 28 countries participating in the conference that ended today late at night. Currently, their advisers are working on the text of the document.

Moscow authorities and traffic police officers are asking drivers to refrain from traveling around the city in private cars and prefer public transport on Sunday and Monday. These days, due to the expected snowfall, snow removal equipment will be out on the streets, press secretary of the city's Department of Housing, Communal Services and Public Improvement Marina Orlova told RIA Novosti . According to forecasters, snowfall will begin on Saturday evening and will continue for two days.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they proposed to create a public body that would monitor compliance by entrepreneurs with ethical norms. “I would suggest thinking to our entrepreneurial community, the public layers of our country to create a council or collegium that would evaluate the moral behavior of business.

The head of the disciplinary department of the European Football Union (UEFA) Peter Lichamer said that theoretically the World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada) may require a longer disqualification of CSKA defenders Alexei Berezutsky and Sergei Ignashevich. “I am glad that everything ended so successfully for the army,” the Sport TV channel quotes the “Sports” television channel. “However, it couldn’t be otherwise.

Major of the Russian police Alexei Dymovsky, who made the exposures of corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, had followers in Ukraine. The Kiev investigator, Major Vladimir Puchko, dismissed this summer, accuses the former authorities of demanding from subordinates to violate the law for the sake of profit.

On one of the streets of Los Angeles, an actress Anne Hathaway got into an accident-paparazzi rode on a bicycle crashed into him. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, AP reports. The incident occurred in Western Hollywood. The black Audi, in which Hathaway rode with her boyfriend, turned right, when a collision suddenly occurred. According to the Sheriff Administration, the cyclist turned out to be a photographer - he had a professional camera with him.