Conductors Valery Gergiev, Roman Balashov, singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky and violinist Yuri Bashmet are nominated for the prestigious Grammy Music Prize. This was announced at the Musical Oscar nominees of the nominees of the Nominee of the Musical Oscar, which was held in Los Angeles, the newspaper reports. These performers will not compete with each other, as the records made by them compete in different categories.

Omsk has very high tariffs for telephone services, a pensioner from Omsk is worried. “Everything can be transferred,” reassured the pensioner Putin. If the system is not financed, it will be completely unwell. We created the Housing and Public Utilities Foundation where we invested 240 billion rubles, and we do not take them anywhere from there, despite the difficulties of a financial nature.

Yesterday, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service (Gosnarkokontrol) of the Russian Federation Viktor Ivanov proposed a full record of drug addicts in Russia. Today, he believes, such accounting is unsystematic. The effectiveness of the treatment and prevention of drug addiction is directly related to the awareness of drug patients, he points out.

The government’s decision to increase the unified social tax (UST) from 2010 may be revised. Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Finance, Sergei Shatalov, admitted that in the spring of 2009 the authorities can consider the issue of transferring the deadlines for the enforcement of this decision related to the replacement of the USN for insurance premiums.

On the landing ship "Azov" of the Black Sea Fleet of the Navy of Russia, combat alarm was declared after the guests at the wedding in the Abkhazian city of New Athos were opened. This was reported on Monday by RIA Novosti.

In Norway, representatives of almost 100 countries signed an agreement on the ban on cassette bombs, reports BBCRUSSIAN . This weapon is a thin -walled bomb, equipped with aviation mines or small bombs of various purposes, which are scattered through an extensive territory. Such bombs do not always explode when hitting the ground, but then they cause the death and miserable citizens of civilians.

Today, doctors conducted an operation to extract bullets from the judge of the regional court of Samara Lyubov Drozdova, Vesti reports. The operation was carried out under local anesthesia and lasted no more than 10 minutes. Now the bullet is transferred to the investigating authorities. Recall, on November 25 , the chairman of the Samara Regional Court, Lyubov Drozdov, was seriously wounded in the stomach when she got into the official car, about to go to work.

Putin recalled that agreements with South Ossetia and Abkhazia were signed - this is the best guarantee that Russia is not going to leave this region and is ready to provide any assistance even in the IFC. Even in the federal budget, quite large funds are reserved for the restoration of South Ossetia, and they will be used.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation has been determined by universities, which will not extend to the enrollment of applicants following the results of a single state exam (exam). The list of universities that allowed entrance exams are allowed in 2009, in addition to the exam, will be approved in the near future by decree of the government, Kommersant writes. It included 24 educational institutions, although the application was submitted about 50.

Konstantin Sutyan: In the heading “Russian questions”, we ask smart people about the foundation ( beauty , lies , biography , etc.) today we continue the conversation about nationality - what is it, why, without it? I think that the oligarchs who withdraw money from national economies, the steering wheel with today's crisis, are not yet up to it. They would first deal with universal human, learn not to steal. Other people - out of solidarity with them? out of caution?

Some experts believe that the crisis in the global economy will decline in the 3-4 quarter of 2009, Putin said during a “direct line”. However, he noted, there are few of them. A larger number of experts believes that the rise will be indicated somewhere in the spring of 2010, the prime minister said.

Yesterday, the Russian authorities made the first official statements about the preparatory government measures to support citizens unable to pay on loans as a result of a deterioration in the financial situation due to the crisis, as well as banks, which because of this are facing a sharp increase in a mortgage delay, Kommersant writes.

The authorities are trying to limit the import of red meat and introduce seasonal restrictions to help domestic agronomists. But if necessary, it can help even more. This was the answer of Vladimir Putin to the question of the agronomist of the Maisky factory village Osinovo (Tatarstan). The agronomist complained that it was difficult to break into the stores in the stores, because all the shelves are littered with imported products.

Brickarms, which specializes in the creation of Lego toys modifications, released a toy figure of the leader of Al-Qaeda Ben Laden. It is reported by The Daily Telegraph . Toy Bin Laden worth 9.5 pounds, called Mr. White manufacturers, is armed with a gun, automatic, missile installation and grenades. The toy caused the indignation of religious and public figures, the publication reports.

The classmate Svetlana Bakhmina, who wrote a letter to the President of Russia with a request for mercy, received an answer. True, not from Dmitry Medvedev, but from the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The letter is not clear about what, and even with grammatical errors, reports Radio Echo of Moscow . The chief of prisons is responsible for letters with a request for human mercy addressed to the president. The Internet Gazeta Church.