Gender studies are included as a standard in the specialty “Social Work” and “Sociology”, these programs are at all universities in the country. This was stated on Tuesday by the director of the Samara Center for Gender Research by Lyudmila Popkov as part of the discussion of gender problems at the Panorama Center, the Polit.ru correspondent reports The coordinator of the programs of the Russian representative office of the Fund named after Heinrich Belle Lyudmila Kabanova.

The first Russian round-the-clock informational English-language television channel Russia Today resumed broadcasting, interrupted the day before due to attempts to hack his computer network, RIA Novosti reports. The Russia Today Channel began technical broadcasting in September 2005, and satellite - last Saturday. Through satellites, the channel broadcasts to North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. In Russia, the broadcast of the TV channel is available in the NTV-Plus package.

According to a study by Motorola , by order of Motorola, the British are more often than other Europeans use the Internet to acquire music, writes Guardian . The British spend an average of 75 pounds a month on the purchase of music in paid services such as iTunes , Napster , etc. This figure is approximately three times higher than similar indicators in geriainia, France and Italy.

The newspaper Vedomosti filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court of the RBC Information Systems for copyright violations. In response, RBC offered shareholders to buy a newspaper from them. This is the first time that the scandal about the violation of the copyright of one publication in relation to another develops publicly.

Firefighters, after a short break, resumed work on extinguishing fire on the oil storage near London. The break was associated with the threat of explosion of one of the containers, where, according to firefighters, there was extremely explosive fuel. Later it turned out that the tank stored not so dangerous aviation fuel. Now 150 firewalls are fighting with fire on the oil storage, RBC reports. About how many tanks with fuel are still continuing to burn is not reported.

The interdepartmental commission for protective measures in foreign trade and tariff-soiled policy on Tuesday decided to cancel the export fee to liquefied natural gas (LNG). This was announced by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia German Gref. According to him, the situation may enter into force on January 1, 2006 on an unlimited basis if the government approves it.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky was re-elected by the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia for a new four-year term. According to RIA Novosti, 87 delegates of the XVII Congress of the LDPR voted for the candidacy of Zhirinovsky.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** As part of the Russia-ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, President V. Putin held meetings with the Prime Minister of the State Council of China Wen Jeybao , President of the Philippines G. Araoo , Prime Minister Singapore Lee Xian Luna . At meetings with the leaders of Asian countries, issues of the development of trade and economic relations were discussed.

Harry Kasparov, in an interview with the “Independent Gazeta”, stated that the task of this opposition was to fight for power, and not to portray this struggle, which she still did safely. He noted that the ATP was and remained built into the state apparatus, the “apple” was not built, but his criticism was still limited.

“ Polit.ru ” offers readers to the joint project of the “window” weekly (an appendix to the newspaper Vesti, Tel Aviv) and the reviews “ Critical Mass ” (Moscow) - “The look of a free artist”. The book of articles by Mikhail Aizenberg (“Looking at the Free Artist”, 1997), to which the name of the project refers, described the aesthetic reality of the 1970s and early 1990s, its main characters, their strategies and poetics.

The 15 Chinese volunteers, who were vaccinated against AIDS on Saturday, did not find any negative relapses after 24 hours of observation. This was reported in the Center for the prevention and control of infectious diseases of the Guangsi-Juan Autonomous Region South China, where vaccination was held. This is the eighth and at the same time the last group of 49 volunteers at the age of 18-50, at which the first stage of testing the new AIDS vaccine is held.

"Cryptoanarchy: Cybergates and Pirate utopias" - a collection of articles dedicated to disputes around the legal aspects of the existence of the Internet was released by the Publishing House of Massachusetts Technological University in 2001. Only five years have passed, the book published in Russian at the publishing house " Ultra.

Gazprom will stop supplying gas to Ukraine on January 1, 2006, if a new contract for the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine has not been signed until this time. Reports RIA Novosti . The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said that no contract has been signed for the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine, nor a contract for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine. The validity of old contracts expires on December 31, 2005.

The Life newspaper continues to publish reports on the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the Chita colony. The Life issue of December 14, 2005 reports that the prisoners tried to make friends with the oligarch, but he reported this to the authorities. Prisoners from other detachments began to look for a way to see a celebrity. Among those who wanted to talk with the ex-head of Yukos was and looking along the colony named Sasha Buryat.

The security forces continue the attack on Moscow banks, writes " News Time ". Last week, MDM-Bank and Neftyanaya Bank were subjected to searches and checks; yesterday, investigators came to the marketing-bank and intersectoral industrial bank. The official version of what is happening is a large -scale struggle against money laundering. However, the security forces do not give any details of the operations.