Today, after the end of the Nightingale Trill program, the Silver Rain radio station Vladimir Solovyov and the director of Russian and Asian programs of the US defense information center Nikolai Zlobin were doused with paint. Zlobin himself reported this, on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “For a certain amount of time, a group of young people who are waiting for the end of Solovyov’s transfer and demonstrate their hostility has been gathered on the“ silver rain ”.

On the morning of Saturday, December 13, buses at the Conference of Solidarity went from the Dynamo metro. Everyone was very serious and mysterious. It seemed now they would ask: "You have a Slavic cabinet for sale?" - And they will take it to Ikeu. The dangers were in wait at every step: on Leningradsky Prospekt with the bus, Kung OMON GUVD caught up with the bus. “To us for sure? No ... turned left ... turned to the left.

The following text completes a series of small notes on one topic-the 1980s. The author was not going to “reinstall” this decade, to introduce fashion to him, or shamelessly indulge in nostalgia and lyrical memories, so common in the current era of “new sincereness”. No. A purely theoretical, historiosophical, ideological approach is equally alien to him.

The Polish newspaper Dziennik published a list of 20 largest tyrants of the planet. However, the journalists did not include Hitler. But they remembered that Stalin was guilty of about 50 million people in death, and go Amin and Saddam Hussein loved to be present when torture. In addition to Stalin, Mao Zedong was included in the list. As the newspaper notes, as a result of the implementation of its ideology, a “big jump” died OK. 65 million people.

The People’s Deputy of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko says that he cannot be the head of the faction of the Bloc “Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense” (NO-NS), since the minority is in it today, UNIAN reports.

Somali pirates, requiring $ 25 million ransom for the Saudi Sirius Star Saudi Super Tanker, are ready to free the ship within 72 hours, AFP reports with reference to the Saudi media. It is reported that the owners of the tanker agreed to pay a ransom, and within three days the ship and on board 25 crew members will be released.

South Korean President Lee Men Bak officially confirmed his intention to sacrifice almost all personal property to the poor, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . He stated this on Monday, December 15, in the next radio picture to the nation.

In the Moscow metro, they may return to the issue of introducing zonal fare, which has already risen several years ago, Vesti is reported. According to the head of the Moscow Metro Dmitry Gayev, taking into account the Moscow plan for the development of additional systems of high -speed extra -lubric vehicles and with the commissioning of the third transplant circuit, the prerequisites for a return to this issue will be created.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia proposed increasing import duties for dairy products, reports Echo of Moscow . “There is a overshooting of the domestic market for cheese, oil and milk milk,” said the head of the ministry Alexei Gordeev at a meeting of the support of the agro -industrial complex, which was held by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Gordeev asked to consider this issue until the end of 2008.

Investigator Mikhail Kalganov did not fulfill a promise to start on December 15 the return of the Memorial (St. Petersburg) to the most valuable materials on the history of Stalinist repressions and the social movement in our country, which were seized during the so-called “search” on December 4 . This and much more will become the topic of the appointed on Tuesday, December 16, the press conference "After the search: Facts and Comments".

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President D. Medvedev held a meeting with the leadership of his administration, during which a discussion of the preparation of a number of most important bills, in particular, the anti -corruption package, took place. D.

State Duma deputies are going to forbid banks to raise rates for loans already issued to individuals, even if this is provided for by an agreement with the borrower, the Kommersant newspaper writes. It should be noted that in connection with the crisis, Russian banks began to increase rates on loans already issued in order to reduce their losses. The solvency of Russian borrowers due to the crisis decreased.

Today, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the chairman of the Board of the Russian Railways, Alexander Zhukov, said the benefits for travel on long-distance and suburban trains for students and schoolchildren will be extended until May 15 of next year, reports RBC. Zhukov said that preferential passage is extended from January 1 to May 15, 2009. for both schoolchildren and students.

In Russia, the word "crisis" is safer to pronounce in a whisper, the correspondents of Reuters say. The authors recall that Evgeny Gontmamer in November noted in his newspaper column that the global financial crisis could cause unrest of the population, and the authorities recommended that the newspaper refrain from the spread of extremist sentiments, remind Denis Demkin and Christian Lowe.

A tourist bus turned over in Israel, as a result of which 50 people were injured, reports Associated Press. The bus fell into a ravine near the city of Eylat off the coast of the Red Sea. As a result of the accident, several people died, another 50 people were injured. According to reports, among passengers there were citizens of Russia, including from St. Petersburg. According to preliminary information, six people remain blocked in the destroyed bus.