The artists of the Mikhailovsky Theater asked for help from the President of Russia. The open collective letter, which they sent the other day to Dmitry Medvedev, was sent to them at several more important addresses of Moscow and St. Petersburg, reports Fontanka.ru .

Ukraine plans the “uniform distribution” of military units throughout the country, “taking into account the latest challenges that are in the world,” reassured the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, commenting on the news that in 2009 Ukraine will pull up troops to the Russian border, MIGNEWS reports.

The revenue of the Internet company Mail.ru from March 30 to September 30, 2008 increased by 42% to $ 33.1 million compared to the same period of 2007, Vedomosti write. The EBITDA index increased by 76% to $ 19.2 million, the NASPERS report said. The profitability of EBITDA Mail.ru increased over this period from 46.9% to 57.9%. According to the results of 2007, this indicator amounted to 64.5%-a record among Russian Internet companies.

Russia received deserved, writes The Newsweek . More recently, the balance of global power was shifted towards Russia, but the economic crisis laid the end to this.

The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (UKP) of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of the death of a baby in the city hospital of the city of Kropotkin in the Krasnodar Territory, a representative of the department said, Echo of Moscow reports. According to the investigation, the boy was born on November 6 of this year in the obstetric department of the Central City Hospital of the city of Kropotkin.

The heavy atomic missile cruiser Pyotr the Great will go to the fight against Somali pirates. The Russian ship in the near future may be relocated to the African horns area, Igor Digalo Igor Digalo said today. “This should happen after the joint Russian -Venesuel exercises,” the RSN quoted Dygalo. "Polit.ru" *** Luca Leiden - I, in essence, have never an aggressor, - Peter Abramych cruiser told us, Jew-both. - However, they called at five o’clock, come on, Sented to Mogadisho: Serving, bro.

In the capital of Afghanistan, a suicide bomber in a mined car hit a column of NATO troops. Four people died, more than ten were injured, reports Vesti.ru . Most of the dead are local residents, whether there are not yet reported among the victims of the military personnel of the coalition forces. Kabul police said that the explosion occurred opposite the state printing house, when the employees were in a hurry to work. The US Embassy is located in the same area.

Under the new law, the earned fees of Estonian officials will be calculated based on the average in the country not in 2008, as it was planned, but for 2007. The salaries of Latvian deputies in the new year will also remain at the previous level, they write “ New Izvestia ”. The President of Estonia published the law on freezing salaries to senior officials.

The Upper Chamber of the Czech Parliament (Senate) approved an agreement with the United States to create an American radar station in the republic and the status of American radar personnel. 49 out of 81 senators voted for the adoption of documents, the Vesti reports. The parties of the ruling coalition defend the country's participation in the global pro.

The former head of the bankrupt bank "Credittrast" Alexander Timofeev was arrested, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . Timofeev served as chairman of the board of Credittrast Bank until July 2004. He received this position two years before the bankruptcy of the bank, which, as it turned out, was intentional. As a result, depositors and organizations were injured, most of which have not yet received compensation for damage.

The responsibility of officials and entrepreneurs for violation of the rules of competition will be strengthened up to criminal. So Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Council for competitiveness ordered, Vedomosti write. Putin noted that public structures provide illegal advantages to individual companies “close” to them.

Yesterday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development submitted extracts from the “Report on the process of transition for 2008” regarding Russia and the CIS. By the “transition process”, the bank implies the development of countries with transition economies, but in this case it was possible to talk about the transition from violent growth to crisis, writes “ News Time ”.

The purpose of the attackers of the journalist Mikhail Beketov in the Khimkinsky district of Starobeva on November 13, according to the investigation, was a murder, the investigative committee at the prosecutor’s office said. Beketov was hospitalized with a closed head injury, a concussion, a fracture of the lower leg and multiple hematomas.

President of St. Petersburg Zenit Alexander Dyukov believes that Andrei Arshavin himself is involved in the fact that he cannot go to a foreign club. “It seems to me that there is a kind of misconception in this matter: they say, the player wants to leave, but the club does not let him go,” Dyukov quotes Sport -Express . “But we cannot let go of the football player - we can give in to another club the right to him for appropriate compensation.” Arshavin and I have a contract.

The Prime Minister of Japan Taro ASO was criticized by the public for an insulting remark to the elderly. He called them a “tax load”, which increases the amount of costs for medicine, reports Radio “ Mayak ”. “They are limping around and constantly going to the doctors,” the media give the media the phrase Taro ASO, which he said at a meeting with the ministers on economic policy on November 20. The prime minister had to apologize for his words.