According to Medgadget , citing Science magazine, a research group led by Professor Jill F. Banfield from the University of California, Berkeley, found three new types of archebacteria. Found bacteria belong to the domain of archeas. Such bacteria are distinguished by a number of features, in particular, biochemistry, and often live in extreme conditions, for example, in hot springs. New archebacteria were very small, the size of a large virus.

The President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh states that in connection with the appeal of the so -called Government of Abkhazia in exile to the leadership of Georgia with a request to protect the Georgian population in the Galsky district of Abkhazia, the Abkhazia troops were brought into a state of increased combat readiness, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

Sergey Markedonov The events in the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia again forced to turn to Caucasian problems. In other way, these problems, despite all the brave reports on the “liquidation”, “detention”, “neutralization” of the next “bandhawar”, “leader of the terrorists”, “member of the radical group”, remains one of the leading in the Russian media. The first messages from Cherkessk on Monday December 25 were called a “ghost of Nalchik” to life.

In February 2007, a stake in Siberia Airlines (25.5%) will be put up for auction. Experts of the Vedomosti newspaper believe that securities may not find their buyer - the starting price is almost $ 110 million one and a half times higher than the market. Aeroflot was very interested in the Siberian blockpacet, but he had already managed to cool. The analyst of the Trust Bank Evgeny Shago believes that the Co -co -owner of Krasaire Boris Abramovich can purchase the package.

As a result of a traffic accident on the Rostov-on-Don-Don road, five people were killed today, including a small child, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax. The accident occurred two kilometers from the city of Mine. On the highway, the VAZ-2107 passenger car and the cargo "KAMAZ" collided, while the light car was brought, and it crashed into a truck. As a result of the collision, five people who were in the VAZ-2107 car, including a child, for about two to three years, died.

The question is where the children to lead children for the New Year are eternal. The winter holidays and ten -day vacation in Moscow turn into terrible torment when it turns out that in the multimillion -dollar city, as always, there is nowhere to go. In the cinema, it is even more fun - every second film on which you risk the leading of your child can be an animated porn drama or a bloody horror.

In Moscow, at the Maryino metro station, a man fell on the rails, RIA Novosti reports with reference to one of the metro departments. To extract the passenger, the station duty officer decided to remove the voltage from the contact rail of one of the paths. According to him, a person fell on the rails at about 18.00. Now the victim is raised to the platform, the movement of trains is completely restored. The victim is provided to medical care.

Vladimir Putin congratulated US President George Bush and the chairman of the PRC Happy New Year. The Kremlin’s press service said that the Russian President noted that last year they managed to jointly achieve success in a number of directions of Russian-American relations, including the completion of negotiations on the accession of Russia to the WTO.

Six months later, Azerbaijan viewers lose the opportunity to watch two Russian television channels. Such a decision was made today at a meeting of the National Council for Azerbaijan, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax. By the decision of the Council, from July 1, 2007, the broadcasting at the first -owned frequencies of Russian television channels "First" and "Russia" belonging to the Republic will be discontinued. Also, Azerbaijani viewers will lose two Turkish television channels.

Polit.ru sums up the results of 2006 in economics, politics, and culture. The editor-in-chief of the journal “World Economy and International Relations” of the IMEMO RAS, an expert at the Gorbachev Foundation, and Candidate of Historical Sciences, Andrei Ryabov, shared his thoughts on the political life of Russia in the past year. The interview was conducted by Ivan Grinko. What event in the political life of Russia in 2006 would you call the main one? It's pretty hard to say.

The Supreme Court of Argentina decided to return to the population the dollar deposits frozen during the economic crisis of 2001-2002, but in local currency, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the BBC. During the crisis, the government froze the dollar accounts of about 50 thousand people and then forcibly converted them into devalued peso. Without court decision, depositors receive the equivalent of their savings at the premarisial rate in Peso.

About three million Muslims will begin on Thursday the annual rite of pilgrimage to the shrines of Islam - Hajj. At the end of last week, more than 1.5 million pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia, including more than 10 thousand from Russia. Their route runs through Mecca, the Mina Valley, climbing Mount Arafat, where they will beg for forgiveness from Allah.

** Themes of the day ** For most central newspapers, a newcomer was a former adviser to the President of Russia, and now a senior researcher at the Cato A.Larionov Institute, who came to Moscow to offer "his vision of the outgoing year." His report, as usual, consisted of a dozen nominations, among which were the “result of the year”, “event of the year”, “law of the year”, “scam of the year” and others.

Former adviser to President Vladimir Putin on economic issues Andrei Illarionov, who traditionally summed up at a press conference in Moscow the economic and political results of the outgoing year. The ex-adviser of the head of state, and now the employee of the Cato Institute in Washington began with success and called the main result of 2006 the “technical exit from the 17-year economic crisis”.

Today, the acting head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Georgia, the temporary attorney in Russia in Georgia, Ivan Volynkin, was called into the Georgian Foreign Ministry today. He was awarded a note in which concern is expressed in connection with the events in the Galsky district of Abkhazia. Volynkin reported this by phone from Tbilisi, RIA Novosti reports.