In Khabarovsk, facts of overstating drinking prices with trade organizations were identified, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press center of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory. According to the statement, these facts were identified during the audit conducted by the Committee on prices and tariffs of the regional government. 76 trading organizations were checked. Almost half of them revealed an overestimation of prices for drinking and mineralized water.

Russia may become a member of the WTO in early July 2006, said Andrei Kushnirenko, deputy director of the Department of Trade Directorate of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. In this case, according to him, from January 1, 2007, appropriate agreements on the protection of the Russian market, reached as part of negotiations on joining the WTO will come into force.

The militants of the Islamic Army in Iraq distributed a message about the execution of the American hostage Ronald Schulz. The militants say that they executed the hostage, because the US government did not satisfy the demands put forward, in particular, to pay compensation to Iraqis, who suffered from American military invasion of the country, and stop all military operations in the west of the country. The message was not confirmed by video recording or photography.

Today it became known that on November 17, deputies of the European Parliament sent from Strasbourg the ex-head of Menatepa Platon Lebedev, who was serving a sentence in the colony, congratulations on his birthday. The press center of Platon Lebedev published a letter in which the deputies expressed their regrets and assured that they would continue to follow his business with the closest attention and his subsequent steps in the legal field.

Today's "Kommersant" devoted the material to the completion of the RAO "UES" transactions for the acquisition of shares of "power machines" (cm). The head of the RAO "UES" Anatoly Chubais noted in connection with this that the purchase cost "was lower than the maximum set." Later, RAO specified the amount of $ 101.4 million - and reported that the KPMG was involved as an independent appraiser, which set the upper border of the market value of shares of $ 107 million.

For the third day, the North Korean border guards hold the Russian Terney Cargo ship, on board of which there are 14 of our sailors. The ship returned to Vladivostok with a cargo from the South Korean port of Pusan. On December 5, being in the Sea of ​​Japan, he fell into a storm. The height of the waves exceeded 3.5 meters, the wind speed - 20 meters per second. To save the ship and the crew, the captain decided to hide in more calm waters closer to the shore.

Fans of music around the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of the former Beatle John Lennon, BBC reports. The singer was killed by his Manhattan apartment on December 8, 1980. His killer Mark Chapman, who a few hours before, asked the star an autograph, is currently serving a lifelong opinion in one of the prisons of New York. In one of the recently published interviews, which instantly became a sensation, the Chapman said that he felt “obligated” to kill Lennon.

The reform of the RAO "UES of Russia" will end at the end of 2008, said the head of the Ministry of Industry of the Russian Federation Viktor Khristenko at a government meeting on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports.

Owners of more than 5% of addresses on the network are registered under false names. In a study conducted by the American State Government Accountability Office , it is argued that a huge number of sites owners register them, avoiding the presentation of truthful information about themselves, BBC Technology reports. According to the authors of the report, the main reason why the site owners hide information about themselves is the activities of spammers and hackers.

Israeli aircraft inflicted a missile blow to the car in which members of armed Palestinian formations were located, reports Ar . As a result, 1 Palestinian military was killed, another 10 people were injured. The deceased is one of the field commanders of the Palestinians Mahmud Arkan. The Israeli side officially stated that it was he who was the purpose of the operation, since he was responsible for several terrorist attacks in Israel.

In December, we focus on the industry serving the celebration of the New Year. This week, the Pragmatist of Culture publishes an amazing interview with the director of the production center engaged in the organization of internal corporate parties amazing in material and unexpected confessions. In this regard, we turned to our respondents with the following question: will the New Year's party take place in your company? For what purpose and in what genre will it be held?

Gazprombank appreciated the work of its directors higher than oil corporations and European and Russian banks. 13 members of the board received $ 21 million as a reward, the IFRS Bank reported in the first half of 2005. The bank sent $ 40.6 million, or 10% of net profit to bonuses. Seven out of nine places in the Council of Directors of Gazprombank are occupied by the leaders of Gazprom - including Alexei Miller, and his deputy Alexander Ananenkov, Andrei Kruglov and Alexander Medvedev.

Yesterday, a conflict around the Chechen branch of the party arose in United Russia. On Tuesday evening, the United Russia, the United Russia, dismissed the head of the Chechen branch of the State Duma deputy Franz Klintsevich, deciding to recommend the deputy head of the department, deputy of the State Duma of Ruslan Yamadayev for this post next week.

The Brazilian striker of CSKA Wagner Love in an interview with the Brazilian media once again confirmed that he did not think about returning to his homeland and intends to stay in CSKA. “Now I’m not going to return to Brazil. I have a valid contract with CSKA, and I intend to work out completely,” Gazeta.ru quotes his words. In addition, the football player Claudio Guadagno said that CSKA’s leadership offered Wagner Love to extend the contract until 2009.

Iraq closed the border with Syria and introduced a state of emergency for a period of one month in two Western provinces - Nineva and Anbar, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR -TASS. Prior to this, Iraq closed its borders only on the eve of the referendum on the draft Constitution on October 15, including with Syria. It is possible that now Baghdada took this step in connection with the approaching elections to the parliament scheduled for December 15.