The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MECTR) calculated the dynamics of reducing consumer prices in the Russian Federation, according to which the growth of the index by 2010 will slow down to 6.5 percent from 8.0 percent in 2007, said the head of the Ministry of Gref in an interview with Vesti-24 channel. "We planned the pace of inflation not only for 2007, but also for the period until 2010.

By the Day of the Energy of RAO "UES of Russia" and "Rambler Internet Holding" created the Virtual Museum of Energy. Project address - www.elektromuzei.ru . Here are exhibits from museums of Russian energy companies, including rare archival photographs, cognitive videos about electricity and energy industry. And in the musical section - modern songs of power engineers and about energy.

The remains of the closest ally of Kolchak, Russian General Vladimir Oskarovich Kappel, who commanded the Eastern Front during the civil war, are being taken to Moscow from Beijing. The train with the coffin of Kappel will arrive at the Yaroslavl station, then the remains will be transported to the temple of the Archangel Mikhail, the heavenly patron saint of the Russian army. Then Kappel will be reburied on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery.

The State Duma adopted a decision on the completion of the work of the parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances of the attack in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, news agencies reported. It was also decided to abolish this commission. 333 deputies voted for the decision, 91 people spoke out against the closure of the commission. Since the Federation Council made a similar decision in the afternoon, this decision was final.

The Verkhovna Rada fired Vasily Drizhchany from the post of head of the Security Service of Ukraine. The deputies thanked Drizhny for his work. As the First Vice Speaker of the Parliament Adam Martynyuk noted, there were no complaints about him during his stay in this post. On December 14, the Verkhovna Rada did not give consent to the dismissal of Drizhny from the post of chairman of the SBU.

The St. Petersburg government will be resigned on Friday, reports Echo of Moscow. This is due to the entry into the post of governor Valentina Matvienko. The ceremony of taking office of the governor of St. Petersburg is very reminiscent of the inauguration of the president.

NASA suffered the landing of Shattla Discovery at a later time due to adverse weather conditions, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Johnson space center in Houston (Texas), where the flight management center is located. According to him, unstable weather conditions at the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral forced the leaders to cancel the first attempt to land the shuttle of Discovery. Three other possibilities are currently being considered to plant shuttle.

An explosion of a home-made explosive device occurred in a residential building in the southeast of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. The explosion thundered during the inspection by the policemen of the suspicious bank, on which the swastika was drawn, installed near the front door of one of the apartments. As a result of the explosion, a dog handler with a service dog who conducted an examination of the bank, as well as two police officers, were injured.

Senator Mezhevich is sure that the bill proving the creation of the “atomenergoprom” will be approved by the Council of People's Commissars. Member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentin Mezhevich is confident that the bill, which will create a state company of full cycle with the working name “Atomenergoprom” on the basis of the civilian unit of the nuclear industry, will be approved by the Council. He curled this on Friday.

The Peruvian court was charged to former President Alejandro Toledo of involvement in fraud with signatures in the late 1990s filed for the registration of his political party. This was announced on Thursday by the press secretary of the anti-corruption court of Peru, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to the AR. Toledo is accused of creating a criminal community to commit a crime and falsify documents. The court took a subscription from the ex-president of a wonness of leave from the country.

The European Commission approved a deal to acquire the Indian Tata Steel of the Anglo-Council of Steel Corus. As stated in the materials of the European Commission, this deal "will not impede effective competition in the countries of the eurozone." As reported, in early December, Tata Steel increased the amount of the Corus purchase supply by 10% - up to 5 pounds per share, which is equivalent to 4.7 billion pounds ($ 9.2 billion) for the entire company.

The launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle, planned for Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, was postponed to December 23, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Russian space forces. It is reported that the launch of the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with the Russian Meridian communication satellite was postponed for a day, to the backup time. The transfer of the launch occurred in connection with the failure of the software on the accelerated unit "Frigat".

Boris Dolgin The death of the current dictator is both joy and grief. Joy, because the worst, as you can hope, behind - in any case, for a while. Woe - because if only death was able to remove the dictator from power, then in the country everything healthy is crushed and cleared. That is, you should not wait for an immediate radical improvement.

Seven sculptures of Parthenon will be removed from the ancient Greek temple and moved to the new Acropolis Museum, AFP reports with reference to the restoration director Maria Ioannid. According to her, this should protect the monument of ancient culture from destruction caused by acid rains and erosion. Museum will be transferred to the Museum of Acropolis - rectangular relief slabs decorating the frieze of the temple. These are one of the few original sculptures remaining in the Parthenon.

Three previously stolen chess figures, which are of particular value, were returned to the grandmaster store Anatoly Karpov. According to Gazeta.Ru, the evaluative value of figures cut out of the mammoth tusk is about $ 5 thousand .. A few days after the theft, an unknown person called the store and invited its owners to look at the “interesting” figures that he had - according to the caller, the figures went through the long chain of past owners.