The Cabinet of Ministers of Egypt approved a bill that allows the use of army units to ensure the security of state institutions, Interfax reports with reference to the AL-AHRAM State newspaper. According to the bill, the military will be authorized to arrest citizens. The newspaper notes that the president of the country Muhammad Mursi will sign the law soon, but the exact date of its entry into force is not yet known.

A well -known prohibited drug Erythropoetin actually carries more minuses for athletes than pluses. As the study showed, the hormone does not affect physical indicators at all, although it is believed that it improves oxygen delivery to the muscles. It was for the use of erythropoietin that the American bike lover Lance Armstrong was recently disqualified and deprived of all titles .

The head of the upper house of the Tajik parliament, the mayor of Dushanbe Makhmadsaid Ubaidullaev ordered to establish the main New Year tree on the central square of the capital. Also, festive trees will decorate all children's and educational institutions of a millionth metropolis.

Thousands of demonstrators attacked a police cordon in the Chinese city of Dunsin (Guangsi-Chezhuan Autonomous Region) on the border with Vietnam. According to human rights activists, 100 people were “killed or wounded”, according to official figures, 9 people were injured, several police cars were burned. According to AFP, about 10 thousand people went to the protest against the brutal handling with the detainee whom the police are suspected of smuggling.

Member of the Public Chamber, Maxim Mishchenko, is forced to make excuses after publishing a resonant interview in Izvestia . The newspaper said that Mishchenko, a former State Duma deputies from United Russia, proposes to reduce budget expenditures on seriously ill patients for high -quality medicine for most Russians. A member of the OP in response claims that he was misunderstood. He claims that the words were pulled out of context and crossed, and also tells how they do in Izvestia.

The Egyptian intelligence agencies was arrested by Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad, who is considered one of the organizers of the September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi when four people were killed, including the US Ambassador. The arrest of Abu Ahmad, one of the leaders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, reports the American publication Wall Street Journal. The arrested is also suspected that he was working to create an al-Qaeda branch in Egypt, looking for allies among radical Islamists.

The leadership of the Russian hockey federation decided to appoint Alexei Yashin to the post of general manager of the Russian women's team, the FCR official website reports. The executive director of the Federation Valery Fesyuk noted that for starters, Yashin should get acquainted with the coaching staff, a calendar plan for the preparation of the national team. The new general manager will help both in sports training and for technical work.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is ready to start the proceedings on the complaint of one of the participants in the punk group Pussy Riot Ekaterina Samutsevich. According to Kommersant , representatives of the Secretariat of the Strasbourg Court contacted the Pussy Riot participants Irina Khrunova, confirmed the receipt of a preliminary complaint and requested additional information.

The ceremony of presenting the Korney Chukovsky Prize for 2012 was held as part of the sixth Moscow festival of children's literature in the Central House of Writers on Saturday, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Moscow Union Alexander Gerasimov.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation made an unexpected commentary on Saturday: apparently responded there to the words of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev about the morning search with the director Kostomarov, and said that comments about the need for morning searches "undermine the authority of law enforcement agencies." At the same time, however, the name of the prime minister was not mentioned, and later the message was completely deleted from the SK website.

Former Georgian high -ranking official Oleg Melnikov was detained in Kiev, reports Newsru.ua . Melnikov was looking for a resonant case about the beating of the police. He was put on the wanted list on December 6, after the Tbilisi City Court decided on his two -month preliminary imprisonment.

The Finnish Children's Protection Service made the final decision in the case of Anastasia Zavgorodny : she was deprived of custody of her four children, Pavel Astakhov, an authorized person of the Finnish guardianship, said on Twitter: “The decision of the Finnish guardianship: to seize all four children, depriving parental rights Anastasia and her husband Zaki Ahmed. Children to be transferred to the foster family.” Later Astakhov added: “This is an unprecedented decision and cynicism.

The day before, the second forum of Orthodox women completed the work dedicated to the topic "Sacrificial ministry of women to God, the Fatherland, the people." Patriarch Kirill took part in his work, who called for the participants to follow the traditional female ideal, which should resist the loss of traditional family values, the decline of morality, revive "national traditions of education and education ...

Japan on Saturday completely completed the deployment of self -defense forces in different regions of the country for the possible interception of the DPRK missile, the launch of which is scheduled for the period from December 10 to 22. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Japan Satoshi Morimoto.

kleomen “At the beginning of this year, a milestone was celebrated - on January 29, 1992, Yeltsin adopted and signed Decree No. 65 “on freedom of trade.” In a short period of time, hundreds of thousands of traders, whom people still habitually called speculators, spilled onto the city streets. Of course, there were also the remnants of the “old speculation” - when goods were bought in ordinary stores and immediately sold at a higher price due to shortages.