Georgian wine and mineral water, banned for imports to Russia since 2006, may return to the Russian market in 2012 if they fulfill all sanitary requirements, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. "Why not?" - answered the chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation to the corresponding question. Onishchenko met on Friday in Moscow with representatives of six Georgian companies who want to resume wine supply to the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

The spiritual department of Muslims of the European part of Russia (Dumer) extended the deadlines for the construction of the Cathedral Mosque complex in Moscow until December 31, 2013. The historical building of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque was demolished in early September this year. According to Dumer, the jurisdiction of which was the mosque, the building was demolished due to the partial collapse of the walls .

Russian Catholics are preparing for the Christmas of Christ , whose celebration will begin on the night of December 25: Christmas trees are installed in all Catholic churches and chapels of Russia, the routes with nurseries are arranged, in which the figures of the baby Jesus will solemnly entered the evening service on December 24. The center of celebrations in Moscow will be the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a press conference in Minsk, at which he spoke in a number of burning topics. One of them were mass protests. According to Interfax , Lukashenko called not to draw parallels between rallies on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on December 10, on December 19, 2010 in Minsk and events in Arab countries.

Alla Pugacheva and Maxim Galkin, about whose tomorrow's wedding the media wrote , have already signed in one of the Moscow registry offices. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the record in the Twitter microblog of the singer Nikolai Baskov. “Friends I am the first who will give a sensation to the country now !!!! My close friend married today !!! Hurray !!! Tomorrow we’ll get drunk !!!

TV presenter Tina Kandelaki promptly responded to the statement of her colleagues Mikhail Shaz and Tatyana Lazareva, who accused her of trying to configure the general authorities against colleagues supporting the opposition. Kandelaki introduced her version of what had happened, hinting at the same time that a career on STS and dissidentism are incompatible things (soon, however, these words disappeared from her explanations).

Ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was approved among persons speaking on December 24 at the rally "For Home Elections" on Academician Sakharov Avenue. This was reported in the blog of one of the leaders of the "Solidarity" movement Denis Bilunov. On the eve of the rally, Gorbachev stated that he was “delighted” with the position of Russians and believes that the people will not be able to “intimidate” again. “This will not pass.

Parisian officials could hardly convince Parisian officials to give permission to install the Christmas route in the capital of France. Although the route with the nurseries of the Baby of Christ was still placed at the Christmas bazaar, which opened on the eve of the holiday in the Champs Elysees, the fluctuations of the municipal authorities have interfered with this for a long time.

The Meridian communications satellite, the launch of which took place on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region), could not be taken to the calculated orbit, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the space industry. "According to preliminary data, at the stage of operation of the third stage of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle, a failure occurred. Thus, the satellite could not be taken to orbit," the agency’s interlocutor said.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a brutal double murder is being investigated. The victims of the criminal were a small girl and her mother, suffering from mental disorders. The woman often “talked with extraterrestrial objects”, as the husband at one time beat her head against the wall. Naked corpses of residents of Novorossiysk discovered the grandmother of the deceased girl on Thursday evening, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regional investigative department.

In Moscow, the latest preparations for the Saturday rally "For honest elections" on Academician Sakharov Avenue are actively participating in the process of bloggers and the media. The organizers strive to repeat the record of “peacefulness”, reached on December 10 in Bolotnaya Square , when, unlike the two previous shares - in clean ponds and on the triumphal square - there was only one detainee.

The rights to cartoons belonging to the United State Films (Goskollectia) will transfer to the Soyuzmultfilm creative and production association, and RIA Novosti is reorganized, with reference to the temporarily acting General Director of the organization Vasily Shilnikov. According to him, the transfer of rights to audiovisual works will lead to the fact that the income from the collection of the gold fund of animation will completely cross the studio.

The salary of the Tomi football players in 2011 is 230 million rubles, Yuri Stepanov, General Director of the Tomsk Club, told reporters on Friday. Tom, occupying the last place in the Premier League table of the 2011/12 season, has been experiencing serious financial problems for the last three years. In 2011, Tom received support from only one of many of her last year's sponsors and 350 million rubles of state guarantees from the budget of the Tomsk region.

The organizing committee of the protest rally on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow accepted at a meeting on Friday the event plan and announced a list of those who will perform on it, and in what order. The rating of the speakers was compiled by voting results. According to the plan, the rally should be opened by the performance of the television journalist Leonid Parfenov, but in the form of the video that he has already made, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said at a meeting of the rally.

Entrepreneur Keir Mazri launched a new service using 24 tuk -huts - three -wheel Motoriksh, common in Asia, reports Reuters. These vehicles will run around the city seven days a week, 150 stops were marked in their routes. “We started two days ago. At first, people did not believe their eyes,” Mazri said. “To begin with, we test the service in Paris, and if it works, we will go to the national and possibly international level,” Mazri said.