In 2009, it is expected to increase the size of presidential grants by young scientists, this was reported on the website of StRF.ru. Two tranches of 600 thousand rubles will be credited to the candidates of sciences instead of the previous 150 thousand. For two years, two tranches will be accrued, and doctors of sciences will receive 1 million rubles two times for 250 thousand. Currently, a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation is being prepared, including these changes.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine transferred $ 268.7 million to the RosUKREnergo trader, said RosUKrenergo AG spokesman Andrey Knutov. At the same time, according to him, Naftogaz of Ukraine should pay $ 550 million before December 1, Finmarket reports. Thus, the amount payable by the new year is $ 3.057 billion (taking into account supplies for September-December).

Pirates off the coast of Somali attacked an American cruise airliner with more than a thousand people aboard. They fired at him, but they failed to capture the ship, the representative of the marine department said, the Associated Press reports. On the liner there were 656 passengers of different nationalities and 399 team members. He passed through the Gulf of Aden when the pirates attacked him. The owner of the ship Oceania Cruises Inc. He reported that it was the M/S Nautica liner.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia is preparing a list of corruptionly dangerous posts that must be taken under special control. This was announced by Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov in an interview with Rossiya Gazeta . “We are now working on such a register as part of a departmental anti -corruption program,” Konovalov said. The minister did not call specific posts that could be on the list, but noted that there are principles by which corruption -intensive areas will be determined.

Approximately 30% will be reduced by the number of military medicine structures as part of the formation of the "new appearance of the Russian army." This was announced to reporters by the head of the Main Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Major, Major, Vladimir Shappo. He noted that with a reduction in officer posts, the reduction will affect primarily those specialists who are not in demand in the field, that is, specialists of a narrow profile.

Russian tour operators admitted that the financial crisis influenced their activities, reports Echo of Moscow . As a result of the crisis, the demand for tourist services has sharply fell - a total of 30%, the president of the Russian Union of Travel industry Sergei Spilo said today. In addition, according to him, the events in Thailand - according to forecasts, negatively affected the tourism business, next year the influx of tourists will be reduced there by half.

The tendency to reduce prices for Moscow real estate acquired confident outlines in November, and in almost all market segments, writes the Analytical Center “Real Estate Indicators” . The experts of the Center believe that the reduction in prices in October-November of this year is not a temporary phenomenon and not a seasonal hitch, but only the beginning of a serious and prolonged correction of the real estate market in Moscow.

Unknown people stole the ex-prosecutor of the Kyiv region in Paris, Yuri Gaysinsky, demanded $ 20 million for him and released six days later without paying the ransom, France Press said. In this case, the Paris police detained two people: a driver who met Gaysinsky at the Paris airport, and a Ukrainian entrepreneur, with whom the ex-prosecutor arrived in Paris. According to the investigation, Gaisinsky accompanied his compatriot as an expert for signing a real estate transaction.

On December 3 at 19:00, the bookstore of the BILINGUA club will be presented by Alexander Milstein's new book "Serpentine". Alexander Milstein was born in Kharkov, graduated from the Mechanical and Mathematics Department of Kharkov University. In 1995, he moved to Munich. The first collection of stories - The School of Cybernetics was published in the original series in 2002, and recently his novel Pinoktiko was released in Kharkov.

On December 13, Spartakites plan to play in an English collection with a duplicate composition of Chelsea. On December 11, the red and white fly out for a weekly gathering in England, where they will prepare for the final match of the UEFA Cup Group Tournament against Tottenham, which will be held in London on December 18. As part of this training, the Spartakians plan to hold a control game on December 13 against the duplicate composition of Chelsea, ”the press service of Spartak informs.

The Bloody Mary cocktail, invented during the Great Depression, celebrated his 75th anniversary, reports Reuters . On December 1 in New York, he was declared the day of the Bloody Mary. Festive events were held at Times Square, in the framework of which residents of the city could order a cocktail at the price of 1933 - 99 cents.

We continue to publish the book of the famous Russian sociologist Valentina Fedorovna Chesnokova “The Language of Sociology”. In the OGA publishing house, she will be published in early 2009. Valentina Fedorovna is a consultant to the Public Opinion Foundation and the Institute of the National Model of Economics, it is a curator of research on FOM devoted to attitude to religion.

The outflow of deposits of individuals from the Russian banking system of Russia in October amounted to 6.1%, or 354.5 billion rubles. Such data are given by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the "review of the banking sector of the Russian Federation". As of November 1, 2008, there were 5 trillion 535.6 billion rubles in banks. deposits of individuals compared with 5 trillion 890.1 billion rubles. On October 1, 2008.

"The Communist Party continues to draw inspiration in the past," - the head of the Duma faction "Fair Russia" Nikolai Levichv is sure. He said this at a briefing for journalists on Tuesday, critically commenting on the results of the XIII Congress of the Party of Russian Communists, the correspondent of Polit.ru Lev Fainberg reports. N.

“As for Bush’s attempts to assign responsibility for the Iraqi plot for intelligence, this is nothing more than a well -known plot of transferring the problem with the sore head to a healthy one. It is obvious that the decision to attack Iraq was exclusively political. All versions regarding the weapons of mass defeat, regarding the support of terrorism, were no more than an occasion.