The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Sergei Shoigu demanded to strengthen fire safety measures during the preparation and conduct of New Year's holidays. Traditionally, these days in Russia the number of fires and people who died in them increases significantly. “On New Year's holidays, every day it dies three times more people than on ordinary days,” the head of the Ministry of Emergencies emphasized at a selector meeting in the ministry on Monday.

The Russian stock market has begun for a week with updating the annual peaks of the RTS and MICEX indices. According to Interfax , this happened against the backdrop of the positive dynamics of world stock platforms on statements by the head of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.

The German Deutsche Boerse AG (DB) stock exchange is negotiating an alliance with two leading exchanges - RTS and MMEVB, the Vedomosti newspaper writes with reference to Bloomberg. The alliance will allow you to combine listing and trade: Russian companies can be offered listing in two countries, which will help exchanges to conquer the market share of London and Hong Kong.

In the USA, a scandal is flared up, in the center of which there was a Barbie Video Girl doll. The reason for the scandal was the FBI official note, in which the employees of the Bureau in Sacramento unit expressed concern that a doll with a built -in camera can be used for filming children's pornography, reports the Rformer with reference to The Huffington Post .

The US presidential administration is going to make significant personnel permits in the country's embassies around the world in the coming months and withdraw diplomats, whose names and positions were named in WikiLeaks publications. This was reported by the American news portal Daily Beast with reference to a source in the Barack Obama administration.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking at the United Russia party interregional conference in Khabarovsk, discussed a number of issues on the ecology and protection of animals. Firstly, the prime minister spoke out in favor of tightening the punishment for poaching, suggesting a joke to give violators to eat tigers and leopards.

In the Novosibirsk region, an investigation of the next resonant case with the beating of parents of teachers in schools continues. As it turned out, the beatings of a 24-year-old primary school teacher were inflicted by a recidivist who was released 4 months ago. Previously, a similar crime was committed in St. Petersburg , however, a former policeman, a guard and a drug dealer beat a young woman-pedagogue there. Currently, a suspect in the beating of a teacher of school No.

The ex-president of the Russian Football Union (RFU), a member of the Russia-2018 Blade Committee Vyacheslav Koloskov told in an interview with the newspaper Sport-Express about which factors contributed to the victory of the Russian application for the 2018 World Cup. “Firstly, we caught the FIFA trend in time,” Koloskov said. “It consists in the fact that it is impossible to hold world championships in only five countries with developed infrastructure.

The Russian division of reactive volley artillery was deployed in the Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) area, an interfax told Interfax a source in the power structures of the Southern Federal District. "The Russian 4th military base deploying in the republic has a division of the Smerch RSO, which is a full -time unit of the connection (base)," the source explained.

The family of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky is afraid for his life and does not count on an acquittal in the second criminal case in his regard, the decision on which the court will announce on December 15. On the eve of this event, the interview of The Sunday Times was given the 19-year-old daughter of Khodorkovsky Anastasia, working as a Novaya Gazeta correspondent, and a 74-year-old mother of the disgraced businessman Marina. “Putin does not want my son to be released.

The tragic events in the village of Kushchevskaya in the Kuban - the "fruit" of modern culture, which imposes life on the basis of instincts to the Russians, says Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill .

The Russian businessman Roman Abramovich does not plan to build a sports stadium in the near Moscow Region worth about $ 1 billion in preparation for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, RIA Novosti told his spokeswoman John Mann. Earlier on Friday, the media reported that Abramovich plans to build in the Moscow region to the 2018 World Cup for more than 44 thousand seats for an amount of about $ 1 billion.

The production of new generation Ford Focus cars at the Russian Ford plant near St. Petersburg will begin in the third quarter of 2011. At the Ford plant in German Saarluis, the production of cars began on Monday, December 6, the American Auto Concert said in a statement. The assembly plant in German Saarluis will become the only Western European enterprise that collects the new Focus in bodies of all three types: a four -door sedan, a five -door hatchback and station wagon.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as the leader of the ruling party, took part in the United Russia Interregional Conference, dedicated to the problems of the Far Eastern Federal District. He acted as a moderator of a discussion that unfolded around the projects presented on the forum. The prime minister immediately associated the authors of initiatives with the governors and heads of federal ministries and departments.

The Moscow branch of the “right -handed” at the past conference changed its leadership, suspending the famous lawyer Igor Trunov. The latter is ready to challenge this decision in court, as the congress is not legitimate.