The authorities of the semi -autonon of the Somali Province Putland are going to forcefully free the ADIN vehicle captured by the pirates from Yemen, the Echo of Moscow reports. This decision of the authorities was announced by the state minister of the province of Ali Abdi Avara. On board the Adina are 507 tons of metal structures intended for the Yemen construction company Abu Talan. The crew consists of seven people - three Somalians, two Yemenis and two Panama citizens.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development expects that in 2009, at the price of oil of the Brent brand below $ 60 per barrel, the consolidated budget of Russia will be scarce, the Finmarket reports. “The critical level of oil price is $ 60 per barrel, below which the consolidated budget will become scarce. In the next year, Russia will come to a shortage of account of current operations next year, ”said the head of the EBRD software research department, Jeromin Cetelmayer.

Ukraine and Georgia will have to wait for an invitation to NATO for more than a year. This was stated by US Secretary of State Dan Fried on the eve of the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels on December 2-3, Reuters reports. “We need to give an honest forecast: in the coming years, proposals for NATO membership in the coming years will not receive these countries.

The deputies considered the question of the date of the upcoming elections of the mayor of the city of Tomsk, the Vesti reports on the Legal Committee of the Duma of Tomsk. The powers of the city governor of Alexander Makarov, who was elected for 5 years, expired in March 2009. Note that the elections should be appointed no earlier than 90 days and no later than 80 days before the voting day. That is, in the period from December 1 to 11.

Today, Aleksandrov Valentin Nikolaevich, a judge of the Supreme Arbitration Court, was appointed at the 235th Plenary meeting of the Federation Council. According to the correspondent "Polit.ru" Lev Finberg, the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federation Council Alexander Kotenkov, presented the candidacy.

Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation “On the control powers of the State Duma in relation to the Government of the Russian Federation” The Council of the Federation approved Wednesday at its 235th meeting. The State Duma approved the law on November 21, today it was supported by 142 senators, 1 was against.

The Law "On State Genomal Registration in the Russian Federation" approved the Council of the Federation without discussion at a plenary meeting on Wednesday, reports the Polit.ru correspondent Lev Fainberg. The document was adopted by the State Duma of 11/19/08, today it was supported by 135 senators, 1 abstained.

In Paris, at the Sotheby's auction on Wednesday, November 26 was sold for 553 thousand euros part of the Eiffel Tower of the screw staircase. This amount exceeded the preliminary assessment of experts by ten times, notes France Presse . The staircase connecting the second and third floors of the tower was built in 1889. In 1983, she was dismantled and began to be sold in parts at the auction. An element 270 cm high and weighing 750 kg was acquired by the buyer from the USA.

As a result of shooting opened by unknown in the city of Mumbai (former bombs), at least 13 people were killed, and another 50 were injured. It is reported by Reuters with reference to Indian television. According to the police, we are talking about a terrorist act, because reports of shooting came from at least seven different regions of the city, in particular, shooting occurred near Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels and near the railway station.

Russian tourists managed to leave the Bangkok airport besieged by demonstrators. According to the Russian consulate in Thailand, tourists were taken to another airport, from where they can fly to their homeland, Echo Moscow reports. In Thailand, the situation continues to aggravate. During the night at the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, four explosions thundered - more than a dozen people were injured, mainly demonstrators who took one of the terminals the day before by storm.

Today, a small group of skinheads and non -postalinists held a brief promotion at the office of Interros. “Russia for the Russians!”, “Oligarchs are enemies of the people!”, “Pay the salary of the Russian workers of Norilsk Nickel,” the five young men in bombers and Grinders skipped. Then they lit a fake, apparently personifying the torch marches of Nazi Germany of the 30s. Since the action lasted no more than 30 seconds, the Interros guard did not even try to respond.

As Polit.ru previously reported, the mayor of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karaev was killed by a sniper shot when he got into the car. This happened around 9:00 Moscow time, when the mayor left the house on Kalinin Street. With a severe wound, Karaev was hospitalized in the Republican Clinical Hospital. There he died in intensive care. "The situation with crime in North Ossetia is impressive.

Ivan Sukhov The news of the resignation of the President of the Russian Republic of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov, who caused dancing and joyful firing there, found me in Ankara, where I, as a “Caucasian” observer of the Moscow News Time, was sitting at a round table with experts from Turkey, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and South recognized by Russia this year of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announces the signing of an agreement with the World Bank to attract 3 billion hryvnias of a loan, Ukrainian Pravda reports. “Today, an agreement has been signed with the World Bank on attracting 3 billion hryvnias for covering a budget deficit,” Tymoshenko said at a government meeting on Wednesday. “This is the best loan that took the government to cover the budget deficit,” she added. According to her, the loan is taken under 5% per annum.

The liberal wing of United Russia the other day will be published by appeal to the government with the program of emergency measures to save the Russian middle class. “Now, when the just nuding middle class is under threat of complete destruction by the consequences of the global financial crisis, we demand, and we will seek from the state a radical revision of anti -crisis policy,” said Valery Fadeev, co -chair of the United Russia liberal Club of November 4.