According to the results of 2009, the Russian budget deficit will be 6.3-6.4% of GDP, reported to President Dmitry Medvedev Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. "We will reach the updated level of deficit, which will be lower than we planned, at about 6.3 - 6.4 percent," Kudrin said.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Vladivostok took part in the launch ceremony of the new Sollers Automobile Plant and swept on one of the first cars that went off the assembly line of the enterprise. According to Interfax , Putin examined the assembly The Sollers - Far East Workshop, where several models that will be collected there were demonstrated - these are Ssangyong crossovers and UAZ Patriot. On one UAZ, Putin even drove along the workshop.

Mobile operators strengthen their own networks using temporary base stations, preparing for a significant increase in the load in the first hours of the New Year. In the period from midnight to two in the morning, the load on the “Big Three” network increases by two to three times, analysts say. According to their estimates, this year every minute of congratulations of subscribers will cost MTS, Vimpelkom and Megafon of $ 5 thousand, RBC Daily reports.

Moscow police officers detained a robber who specialized in thefts of expensive foreign cars. Near his house in the Fili-Davydkovo area, operatives found four cars without numbers: Toyota Corolla, Lexus, BMW X5 and Nissan SUV, writes gzt.ru. The offender was caught as a result of the investigation of the last case when the robber tried to sell the BMW used Muscovite. The buyer turned to the police, after they established that the car was stolen in the traffic police.

In St. Petersburg, two traffic police inspectors beat two women. For the behavior of their employees in the traffic police department, they were forced to make excuses, reports 100V . The Petersburger, who witnessed this emergency, took off what was happening on an amateur camera and brought to the traffic police department. They stated that the video was specifically mounted in such a way as to denigrate traffic inspectors.

The striker of the English football club Tottenham Peter Krach was in the field of interests of St. Petersburg Zenit, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Daily Mail. The new head coach of Zenit Luciano Spalletti would like to strengthen the team for the striker, and the candidacy of the tall Krouch approaches this role.

The orbital block as part of the Breeze-M Acupressure and the American communication satellite DirectV-12 successfully separated from the Proton-M launch vehicle, which started from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 03:22 Moscow time.

The Ministry of Defense of Estonia in response to the world in 2008, the economic crisis abolished additional portions of power for military service soldiers, reservists and officers tall above 190 cm, reports Fontanka.ru . Earlier, they were given increased portions, based on the energy value of at least 4300 kilocalories per person per day. The norm of daily nutrition for military personnel up to 190 centimeters was 3800 kilocalories, now it will spread to all.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a mild sentence was sentenced to a former policeman, who was found guilty of a custom -made murder of a businessman. Moreover, a senior lawyer acted as an intermediary. The law enforcement officer escaped with a relatively short term of punishment, since for the first time in the history of republican forensics he concluded a deal with justice, Tatar-Inform reports with reference to the press secretary of the Supreme Court of the Republic Natalia Losev.

The Rossion Q1 Supercar built by the Americans arrived in Italy, where he starred in a video that shows a novelty in all its glory. On Italian roads, Q1 rushes no worse than a native to the country of Ferrari. Supercar is built on the basis of the British NOble M400 car. In 2007, the head of Noble Automotive sold the business to his American dealer - 1G Racing. According to WorldCarfans , a 450-horsepower 3.5-liter bitupped V6 from Ford is installed under the hood of Rossion Q1.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, following the results of his working trip to the Far East, spoke about some innovations that the government prepared for the next year. The banking sector will be consolidated to work more efficiently, in particular the prime minister said. "We are going to do this gently, calmly, without taking anything away from anyone, creating the conditions for people to work more efficiently and with a greater degree of reliability," he said.

The authorities of the Perm Territory threw 35 million budget rubles for the construction of a mythical nuclear power plant - this fact was testified by the regional prosecutor's office, which conducted the audit on the proposal of the Control and Account Chamber. The regional administration financed engineering surveys and environmental research on the preparation of the construction of a Perm NPP, ITAR-TASS reports.

Last week, the Japanese car company Mitsubishi introduced the updated line of the Outlander SUV for the domestic market. Outlander in the Roadster configuration will receive restyled in front of the Lancer model, only with the presence of tuning hobby. Given the fact that the Japanese government reduces taxes on environmentally friendly machines, Mitsubishi decided to add modification with an economical 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine with a capacity of 148 hp to the Outlander line.

The head of the work on the creation of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, the physicist Abdul Kadir Khan claims that the DPRK with the help of Pakistan has built a Uranus enrichment plant. This means that in addition to the charges from Plutonium, North Korea is able to create weapons with uranium filling, writes Independent Gazeta with reference to the newspaper The Washington Post, which received at its disposal a report of the Pakistani scientist.

The director Igor Zaitsev began to work on the film about Russian hockey. He is supported by a member of the Federation Council, the former head of the Federal District and Legend of Russian Hockey Vyacheslav Fetisov, support for him to create such a film. When creating a film, hares intends to use the most modern tools for American filmmakers, “this will allow us to make a picture of a real“ big style ”, the director believes. The filming of the film will be held in Russia, Canada and the USA.