The press service of the Russian Security Council denied reports of the allegedly held telephone conversation of the Secretary of Sat Igor Ivanov and his Iranian colleague Ali Laridzhani on the nuclear problem of Iran. “There was no such telephone conversation,” said Intrefax today in SB today. At the end of last week, Moscow handed over to Tehran a proposal to create a joint Russian-Iranian enterprise to enrich uranium in Russia.

For the first time in many years, more than 300 films will fight for the right to get an Oscar in the “Best picture of the year” nomination, Newsru reports. Compared to last year, the number of paintings increased by 16.5 % - in total, academics have to watch and evaluate 311 feature films. In addition, the number of full -length documentaries increased - 35 versus 15 in 2004. From Thursday, the Academy began to send voting ballots to its members and a “long list” of nominees.

Gazprom considers unacceptable the proposal of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko to freeze prices for Russian gas until January 10. This was stated by the press secretary of the head of the gas concern. “They want to freeze prices for ten days of January, then they will want another ten,” said Sergey Kupriyanov.

The VITA Center for the Protection of the Rights of Animal Exploration has disseminated information about the direction of two appeals-to the President of the Russian Kinological Federation, Alexander Inshakov and the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma of Lyubov Slisk. Appeals were undertaken due to the fact that in Moscow every day the number of fighting rocks thrown into the street of the dogs - Staffordshire terriers, pitolterers, bullyers, etc. is growing every day.

** Themes of the day ** Few central newspapers that have not yet gone for Christmas holidays are placed on materials on the summary of the results of the year. From the last news of the mass media, they talk about the last year’s last meeting on the eve of the government, at which the ministers approved the program of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation for the medium term (2006-2008).

Ukraine did not provide Russia with information about the volumes of deliveries of Gazav in 2006, the representative of Gazprom Sergey Kupriyanov told the Vesti program. About this writes " Gazeta.ru ". “So far, the most amazing, December 30, they still have not said, but how much gas they need to put next year,” Kupriyanov said. “They simply cannot name how much gas is needed,” he added.

Mikhail Fradkov signed an order on the award of government awards in the field of culture in 2005.

Today, unknown people glued a photocopy of the telephone message on the door of the houses in the west of Moscow marked “very urgently and important”. From this paper it follows that on December 31 , militant leaders plan to hold an armed action in Moscow, possibly with the participation of suicide bombers.

In China, the third case of the death of a person from bird flu was recorded, RIA Novosti reports. A 41-year-old resident of the city of Sanmin of the Southern Province of Fujian, by the name of Zhou, died on December 21. She fell ill on December 6, December 8 - was hospitalized with high temperature and symptoms of lung inflammation.

The Government of Moldova expects to achieve from Gazprom a reduction in gas price, which since 2006 has been determined at $ 160 per 1 thousand cubic meters. m. This was stated by the Minister of Economics and Trade of the Republic Valery Lazer to reporters in Chisinau. "We believe that it is too early to establish a market price for gas for Moldova, since we do not have a gas market that implies alternative deliveries," the minister said. About this writes " Gazeta.ru ".

In Moscow, "they did not receive a telegram of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko" with gas proposals, a source in the Kremlin said. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . The press service of the President of Ukraine published on Friday on the site a message states that Yushchenko sent a telegram to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to freeze the prices of Russian gas until January 10, when the Russian-Ukrainian gas negotiations were resumed.

The Chechnya Government Commission, to investigate the massive disease of schoolchildren in the Silkovsky district, confirmed the diagnosis of psychogenic pseudo -Asthematic syndrome he previously confirmed. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the commission believes that the cause of the disease was a strong psychological stress in connection with the military operations in the territory of Chechnya.

The fire service checks the information about the fire at the Bugovaya Metro station of the Tagansko-Kronospresnenskaya line, the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow reported on Friday on Friday. “At about 20.00, the city’s fire service received a message about a fire to the metro metro station“ Begovaya ”,” said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to him, several calculations have currently been left for the place, writes Gazeta.Ru .

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko said that his country will pay for gas with his own funds, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. Ukraine will be calculated by the “understandable, correctly, objectively formed price, and, including at the price of the transition period,” Yushchenko emphasized.

Vladimir Nardin Even the lack of large -scale events as the Olympic Games or the World Cup (Europe) on football did not free us from polar emotions. This can be said with confidence, if only because the 2005 year was rich in epoch-making events or events close to this. Olympics-2012 Despite the fact that the event 1 was the victory of the Moscow CSKA in the UEFA Cup, I would like to start the review from the 2012 Olympics, which the Russian capital claimed.