In Russia, the maternity hospital from January 1, 2006 will receive five thousand rubles for every woman who gave birth, RIA Novosti reports. This is provided for by the program of generic certificates, today Galina Karelova, chairman of the Social Insurance Fund (FSS) of the Russian Federation. The program also provides for the allocation of two thousand rubles for women's consultations for every pregnant woman whom the consultation will “bring” to 30 weeks of pregnancy.

In Iraq, elections to the country's parliament will begin today, those who will not be able to come to polling stations on the day of the December 15th day will be attended, RBC reports. This category includes, in particular, patients of medical institutions, military personnel and prisoners. Within two days, December 13 and 14, about 1.5 million citizens of the country who are abroad will be able to take part in the elections of deputies of the Iraqi parliament.

The prosecutor of the South Kurilsky district, on the fact of shipwrecking fishing shuts of the RHS 23-24, initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under the article “Violation of the rules of traffic safety and the operation of water transport, entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons”, reports Duta.ru.

The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was handed over to a new report of the commission investigating the murder of former Prime Minister Lebanon Rafik Hariri, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Air Force. On Monday, he will be transferred to the UN Security Council, and on Tuesday the head of the commission Detlev Melis will present the conclusions of the investigation at the meeting of the Security Council.

Elena Neverdovskaya We, Russians, are sure that the whole world knows about our centuries -old history, about the Orthodox Rus', that he saved Europe from the Tatars, about Alexander I, that he won the war against Napoleon and whose troops fascinated Paris in 1814. Or, for example, that Pushkin is our everything. Not at all. The key concepts with which Russia is associated with relatively recent origin: Lenin, Stalin, Red Army, Kagbe, Gorbachov, Perestroika, Putin.

The first meeting of the elected parliament of the Chechen Republic will be held in Grozny on Monday. People's chosen ones will be awarded the deputy mandates of the parliament of the first convocation. To participate in the grand opening of the meeting, the arrival of guests, including the leadership of the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, is expected.

Part 1. How to tear a book into pieces? Several years ago, publishing houses began to appear in Moscow, producing luxurious tomes bound in leather, enclosed in velvet cases inlaid with precious stones. Such books come out in circulation from one to several dozen copies, are made by hand, and are scary to open. Maya Kucherskaya not only opened, but also tried to tear up one of the exclusive publications, right in the editorial office of the publishing house "Special Address".

In the open confrontation between the pro-Kremlin movement “our” and the Democratic Party, which almost ended in a fight, the Saturday visit of the ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov spilled out, the fresh Kommersant writes. And the Sunday meeting of Kasyanov with the public was completely disrupted: unknown people told the police that a bomb was laid in the Knowledge House.

Dmitry Orlov, General Director of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications, believes that the upcoming G8 summit in Russia, and the country's membership in the “eight” itself is in jeopardy. January 1, 2006 Russia should become a formal leader of the G8. The summit must be held in St. Petersburg and will be devoted to energy security, the topic, especially relevant not only for Russia, but also for Europe.

According to the EURID organization, registering domain names in the recently open .EU zone, the Sex.eu domain received the most applications for registration. The general rating is followed by the names of Hotel.eu, Travel.eu, Jobs.eu, Hotels.eu, Casino.eu, Poker.eu, Golf.eu, Business.eu and Music.eu, and Porn.eu turned out to be in the eleventh place, the Computer reports. During the first day (December 7), a total of 100,000 queries were received, and during the first twenty minutes - 45,000.

In the center of the Greek capital, a post office located next to the Ministry of Finance of the country was blown up, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Reuters. As a result of the explosion, damage was caused. Information about the victims has not yet been received. According to eyewitnesses, fragments of glass that opened during the explosion scattered within a radius of 50 meters.

The Minister of Fuel and Energy, Ivan Plachkov, departed to Moscow to conduct negotiations with the Minister of Industry and Energy of Russia Viktor Khristenko on the terms of supply and transit of Russian gas, the Ukrainian News Agency reports. President Viktor Yushchenko, as well as Prime Minister Yuri Yevanurov, expressed confidence that Ukraine and Russia will agree on the conditions for the supply of Russian gas and transit to Ukraine to Ukraine to Europe in 2006 by the end of this year.

The film company Paramount Pictures announced the purchase of the DreamWorks SKG film studio, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Associated Press. The amount of the transaction will be $ 1.6 billion. The statement by the head of Paramount Pictures Brade Gray says that buying DreamWorks "is a strategic goal to restore the leading role of Paramount in the film and entertainment industry." DreamWorks film studio was founded 11 years ago by Stephen Spielberg David Guffen.

The shooting of one of the main New Year's musical programs - “Songs of the Year” in the Kremlin were not without a scandal, writes “Moscow Komsomolets”. Alla Pugacheva is engaged in the organization of this musical event. For his sake, the singer refused to participate in competing programs-“Golden Gramophone” and “Old-New Songs of the Main”.

On the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater, the premiere of the opera Prokofiev "War and Peace" was held. In the repertoire of the theater, the production appeared on the initiative of Mstislav Rostropovich and was initially assumed that it was he who would conduct at the premiere. However, a few weeks before the release of the performance, the famous conductor refused to cooperate with the Great Theater (Alexander Vedernikov replaced it on an emergency).