Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili took first place in the survey "What Georgian politician more often deserves your anger?" The survey was conducted by the weekly “Quiris Paletra” (the palette of the week), 394 respondents took part in it, reports Novosti-Georgia . Saakashvili took first place, gaining 24.3% and ahead of the First Deputy Foreign Minister George Boker, which has 15.7%.

Former mayor of Saratov, Yuri Aksenenko, was charged with a bribe, 6 episodes of abuse of powers and 6 episodes of abuse of powers. This was reported in the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region, RBC reports. “The ex -mayor was questioned as the accused, but he did not give testimonies on the merits of the charge during the interrogation,” the department said.

The crisis in the steel industry and the collapse of the national Ukrainian currency will negatively affect international banks, today's Die Presse (full translation on Inopressa ) writes. Today, writes the publication, 60% of the domain furnaces in the country, which is the third exporter in the world, is without work. A year ago, old Soviet stoves produced up to 43 million tons of steel a year - and 80% went to export, the authors of the material added.

At the plenary session on December 24, it is supposed to consider the bill of the third reading on the addition of the article “Preservation of the right to early appointment of a labor pension” with the following categories of employees: rescuers in emergency rescue services (formations) of the Russian Emergencies Ministry; working in the positions of the State Fire Service, MPC institutions, in educational institutions for children and healthcare institutions, in theaters or theatrical and

The Federation Council today approved the Law “On Combating Corruption” - the basic in the package of legislative acts aimed at combating corruption, Vesti reports. The anti -corruption package, in addition to the basic law “On Combating Corruption”, includes amendments to 26 federal laws, including the Constitutional Law “On the Government of the Russian Federation”. In particular, the volume of information expanded annually by the head of government, his deputies and federal ministers expand.

For the construction of ground digital television networks in the framework of the federal program “Development of digital television and broadcasting in the Russian Federation for 2009-2015” will spend 60.2 billion rubles, Kommersant writes. The program has not yet been taken into account in the federal budget, so in 2009 it will be financed at the expense of its own and borrowed funds - companies that now provide analogue broadcasting.

On December 22, in Kiev, the monument was opened by Georgy Gongadze and journalists who died for freedom of speech, the independent newspaper reports. The monument was opened by the mayor of the capital of Ukraine Leonid Chernovetsky and the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine Alexander Moroz. Georgy Gongadze disappeared on September 16, 2000.

Nikolai Rozov System crisis in Russia - a challenge for the political regime There are three intelligible positions regarding the current socio-economic situation and further political prospects of Russia. The first one can be called a peppy official : there is no crisis in Russia, temporary difficulties in the stock market and in the financial sector are caused by foreign viruses of an unreliable and insidious falling American economy.

The Eurosport channel won the arbitration process of the “daughter” “Stream TV”, which was accused of illegally using its content, Writes Vedomosti. However, the court reduced the amount of compensation to Eurosport from 5 million rubles. up to 10,000 rubles, that is, 500 times. The Arbitration Court of the Novgorod Region satisfied the lawsuit of JSC "Eurosport" against the subsidiary of Stream TV "Maxim Engineering LLC.

In Bashkiria, social activists demand that the federal government restore the national-regional component in state educational standards. Last Saturday, they put a picket on the square in front of the Republican Telecenter in Ufa and promised to join forces with the Tatar defenders of the national-regional component. A month ago, President of Tataria Mintimer Shaimiev publicly made up the national component.

December 25, 2008, at 14-00 at the Institute of Modern Development, a round table “National Security of Information Technologies” will be held.

At least seven people were injured as a result of the aircraft from the runway at Denver Airport (Colorado), news agencies report. According to local authorities, the incident occurred on Saturday evening, when the plane of the Continente Eyrolins company accelerated for take -off. The plane could not climb into the air, got off the strip and caught fire. However, employees of ground firefighters of the airport quickly put out the flame.

Sberbank of Russia is ready to meet the Russians who have built up the crisis. We are talking about customers of the bank who previously took a loan and lost their jobs. As the chairman of the board of Sberbank German Gref said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Sberbank will provide the Russians who have lost their jobs, and installment plan to pay consumer loans. It is reported by " Lenta.ru " with reference to RIA "Novosti". Installment will be provided up to one year.

Oleg Deripaska in his first interview since the beginning of the global credit crisis said that he was selling shares of almost all his companies to pay off tremendous debts, writes The Wall Street Journal. Referring to sources close to Rusalu, the publication writes that negotiations are underway with both Western and Chinese investors who will receive part of the shares for participating in the debt of the company, which is $ 14 billion.

The Secretary General of the Spanish Government apparatus Bernardino Leon, who is endowed with the authority of negotiations on the possible purchase by the Russian company Lukoil in the Spanish oil and gas repsol, approves the acquisition of a maximum of 20% This was written by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, reports Finmarket . As previously reported, Lukoil is negotiating 29.9% Repsol (20% of SACYR and 9.9% with La Caixa and Caixa Catalunya).