A German citizen, driving a car with diplomatic numbers, shot down two students at a pedestrian crossing in Moscow, Vesti reports. According to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, yesterday at 00:10 opposite House 33 on the avenue of a Vernadsky citizen, born in 1977, working as a German teacher at a school at the German Embassy in Moscow, driving Porsche Cayenne with diplomatic numbers. pedestrian crossing.

In the duct of the Amur River in the Khabarovsk Territory, the Ministry of Emergencies extracted a minibus from the bodies of three residents of Amursk from the end of the ice, Vesti reports. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Khabarovsk Territory, on Saturday at 16:40 local time, a message was received in the dispatch service of the Amur district that a minibus with people had failed under the ice.

In the Moscow District Military Court, the first witnesses of the charges of the murder of the observer of Novaya Gazeta Anna Politkovskaya were interrogated. Today, the testimony gave a friend of one of the accused, Jabrail Makhmudov, and the friend of the second - Ibrahim Makhmudov, reports Vesti . During the meeting, witnesses said that they were not familiar with the wanted by Rustam Makhmudov, announced in the case and said that the brothers did not have a car in 2006.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to prevent the situation with non -payment of wages to employees of state -owned enterprises and commercial companies, Echo Moscow reports. “We went through this in the 90s and must do everything so that the problems of this order did not touch our citizens,” Medvedev said. "It is necessary to force managers and owners of enterprises to pay salaries to employees.

From December 1, the largest Russian bank, Sberbank, raised rates for individuals in rubles by 1.0 - 2.5 percentage points, RBC reports.

From December 1, the Bank of Russia increases the refinancing rate to 13%, which retains the rates of interbank lending at the maximum high level. The leadership of the Central Bank recognizes the fact of the ruble devaluation - on Friday the national currency course decreased by a “basket” by another 1%. For the population, this means even more expensive loans and a decrease in the purchasing power of salaries, especially when it comes to imports, the media write.

In Ukraine, an SMS-video is suspended about NATO. This was announced today at a briefing by the head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasily Kirilich, UNIAN reports. “The action is suspended with this operator. We are actively negotiating to hold this action with another operator, ”the minister said.

At the Sloboda Sloboda station, the woman committed suicide, rushing under the train, reports Lenta.ru with reference to Interfax. According to the representation of the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation in Tatarstan, this is the first case of the death of a person under the wheels of the Kazan subway train since the subway commissioning in 2005. The woman suddenly ran away and jumped from the platfor right under the train. This was recorded by surveillance cameras.

A resident of Chelyabinsk wrote a letter to the chairman of the Government of Russia Vladimir Putin asking him to return to the air of the VGTRK the program "Morning Gymnastics". It is reported by "New Region". The author of the idea, whose name is not called, gives statistics indicating an unhealthy lifestyle of fellow citizens, and emphasizes that legislative restrictions on the sale of alcohol and tobacco do not work.

The faction “Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense”, chaired by Viktor Yushchenko, will put forward the candidacy of Ivan Poyshch to the post of chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, UNIAN reports with reference to the statement of the People’s Deputy from the faction of Alexander Omelchenko. According to him, the candidacy of Poyshch for the post of speaker was supported by the majority of the deputies of the faction, as well as the President of Ukraine.

UFO lovers wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to publish secret documents about unidentified flying objects, writes The Daily Mail (full translation on Inopressa ).

Boris Dolgin The first winter week will be marked by the programs of the President of Russia regarding the judicial reform, the Prime Minister- on social issues (as part of a direct television and radio) and a new package of anti-crisis events, the US president on the composition of his team regarding foreign policy and security policy.

Georgia is not yet ready for deep integration with the EU. This was stated by the European Commissioner for external relations and the policy of the neighborhood Benit Ferrero-Waldner, answering the questions of Georgian journalists at a joint press conference with Georgian Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Vesti reports. “Georgia has a lot to do in terms of democratic reforms,” said the European Commissioner.

Former French Prime Minister accused the president of the country Nicolas Sarkozy of Open Intervention of Clearstream. “From the very beginning, I became a scapegoat,” said ex-Prime Minister Dominic de Wilpen in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien . Sent to the correctional court in the Clearstream case, the former Prime Minister leaves the shadows and, with the help of the press, attacks a person whom he considers guilty of all his problems - Nicolas Sarkozy.

Already in 2008, Russia will open the embassy in Brunei. The corresponding decree was signed by the Government Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to the message on the website of the Government of the Russian Federation.