The former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Vladimir Ponomarev was arrested in Khakassia. On Thursday, the court granted the petition of the investigator of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation for the Siberian Federal District on the imprisonment of Ponomarev under the custody, Vesti reports.

The Crimean prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the fact of an explosion in a residential building in Yevpatoria, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The case was opened under Article 196 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional or committed by negligence of the destruction of property. The prosecutor general does not exclude that, depending on the causes and circumstances of the tragedy, the criminal case may be re -qualified.

The decisive role of the President will remain in the governors, the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of the State Duma, assured the journalists. He said this today, answering the question of the fate of the presidential law to reform the Federation Council, our parliamentary correspondent Lev Finberg reports. The speaker recalled that Medvedev expressed the idea of ​​the law during the credit of the message to the Federal Assembly.

OJSC Atomenergomash (part of OJSC Atomenergoprom) as part of a contract with OJSC Energoatom OJSC in January 2009 will ship the reloading machine for the Rostov NPP power unit under construction. The cost of the contract is about 200 million rubles, the Department of Public Relations and the Media of OJSC Atomenergoprom reports. This overload machine meets the latest requirements of the operating organization (Energoatom concern).

The Federal Tariff Service (FST) decided to increase tariffs from January 1, 2009 for the service for the distribution of all -Russian television and radio programs by an average of 9%, Kommersant writes. Recall that yesterday the largest Russian television companies and radio broadcasters asked the Ministry of Communications and the federal tariff service not to increase their frequency rental fees until 2011.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** The State Council - Councils Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a joint meeting of the Council of People's Commissars and the State Council of the Russian Federation. The declared agenda is "On the policy of the Russian Federation in the space of the Commonwealth of Independent States." Airlines - holidays Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov will today hold a meeting on the state of passenger air transportation.

One Russian site invited its visitors to answer the question of who seems more attractive to them - Putin or Obama, Sinhua reports. The fact is that recently photographs of the newly elected president of the United States have appeared on the Internet, made during his summer vacation. Particular attention was paid to the photograph of Obama, who clearly demonstrated his excellent physical shape. 765 thousand people took part in the vote, and 65% of them believe that Putin is cooler.

The first batch of “electronic bracelets” was delivered to Russia, which will allow the convicts through the satellite, Vesti reports. In total, 220 sets of electronic devices were imported to Russia, 70 of them provide for control over the movement of a person through a satellite, the remaining 145 - through wired telephone communication or cellular communications. In the second case, controllers will be able to see if a person is at a certain time at home and when exactly he leaves the room.

The Accounts Chamber (SP) in 2009 will be checked by banks that allocate money from the budget to support the real sector. This was announced by the auditor of the Accounts Chamber Valery Goreglyu at the meeting "Prospects for the formation of a stable financial system of the Russian Federation", RBC reports. The bitterness also noted that a control system has been developed in the accounting room, which allows you to constantly monitor the situation using state support funds.

The bill on navigation systems will be the only document of the first reading that the State Duma will consider at the last meeting of the autumn session on Friday, our parliamentary correspondent Lev Finberg reports. According to the speaker Boris Gryzlov today, the work on the bill will continue at the first meetings in January.

The Moscow police detained two suspects in the attack on the musician of the Virtuoso Moscow Orchestra Denis Shulgin, Vesti reports. Detained-two 23-year-old visitors from Gorno-Altaysk. According to them, the attack for the robbery was spontaneous. From the detainees, the violin stolen from the musician was taken from the musician. The criminals hid an expensive tool in the bushes at the Slavyansky Boulevard metro station. There he was discovered by the operatives.

Today, the Lenin court of Vladivostok sentenced the former mayor of the regional center of Primorye Yuri Kopylov to three years in prison with a trial period of two years for abuse of official powers, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti.

Alexander Polivanov At the time of economic stability, people think much less about historical analogies than during crises. This is understandable: when the salary grows, when it quickly manages to jump from one position to another, when at the checkout in the store you focus only on how not to confuse credit cards - there is no time to think about history. At the same time, when everything turns upside down, history, on the contrary, is more relevant than ever.

The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized tax claims to one of the major mobile mobile operators for 2005-2006 in the amount of 0.98 billion rubles, the mobile television system said in a statement. Recall that in July of this year, the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia made a claim to MTS OJSC based on the results of the audit for 2005-2006 in the amount of 1.13 billion rubles. MTS disputed the claims in court.

On December 25, in the evening, the Tu-134 airline UTAIR made an emergency landing at Vnukovo Airport after a partial depressurization of the salon, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. "Board 65-780, which performed a flight from Syktyvkar to Moscow, landed at Vnukovo Airport in extraordinary mode due to partial depressurization of the salon," a source in Rosaeronavigation said. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, there were 56 people on board the aircraft.