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.

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.

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.

Dmitry Prigov With great delay, I visited Egypt. And he almost cried, again with an unkind word, removing Soviet power, which ruined a good sculptor in me. If at one time I had the opportunity to see all this ancient Egyptian (as, in turn, a collection of Etruscan sculpture in Rome), I would not have become a soldered avant -garde, but would have grown in a solid sculptor. Come on, I'm not talking about that. What is striking in Egypt?

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.

Yesterday, the first laureates of the Tretyakov Prize named after Tretyakov was in the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, RIA Novosti reports. At the ceremony, the atmosphere of family evenings of the Tretyakov family was recreated: the Tchaikovsky State Quartet and the Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense performed Tretyakov’s favorite works from the repertoire of Tchaikovsky and Glinka.

There was a precedent in world football, which is difficult to find analogues. The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) after the recalculation of the votes recognized her mistake and-as the news agencies transmit, called Zinedina Zidan the best football player in 2006. The initiator of the conversion of the vote was the environment of Zidan. Thus, a Frenchman of Algerian descent, who left a large sport with a scandal, is the best football player in the planet of 2006.

The plans of Norway in the field of natural resources were told by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Ga Gar. According to him, the Barents Sea should become the new oil and gas region of Europe. According to Reuters , the STAR expects that the sea resources will become more accessible thanks to the melting of ice and global warming, and Russian-Norwegian cooperation in the field of energy in the north will be mutually beneficial.