At a joint press conference in Yerevan with Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Armenian President Serge Sargsyan announced the possible cancellation of the Armenian-Turkish protocols signed on October 10 in Zurich. Sargsyan emphasized that Türkiye is too delayed in pre -trial rating of the signed documents. The relevant government agencies have already been entrusted with amendments to the legislation on the signing, ratification and invalidation of international agreements invalid.

The American magazine Foreign Policy has published a list of the 100 most influential minds of our time. The list includes people whose ideas changed our world in 2009. It is headed by the head of the American Central Bank Ben Bernanke. There are no Russians on the list.

The UN conference participants to change the climate in Copenhagen moved to the phase of preparing the final version of its final document. The UN press secretary at a briefing in New York said that experts were trying to do as much work as possible before the arrival of the heads of delegation. On Tuesday, heads of state and governments will arrive in the capital of Denmark, the UN press center reports. More than 34 thousand people registered to participate in the conference.

On December 5, on the air of the program “Church and Peace”, the Archbishop of Volokolamsk Ilarion spoke about the difficulties that fell to the share of the Orthodox Serbs remaining in Kosovo.

Before the passions did not have time to subside around the tanned elections in Voskresensk near Moscow, as its inhabitants again had a reason for concern. The owner of the Resurrection Mineral Fertilizers (VMU) Dmitry Mazepin collected journalists last week and announced to them that he was stopping the plant from December 4.

President Dmitry Medvedev freed Boris Salmaksov from his post as deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of Russia. "Salmax reached retirement age, his contract expired, and he left the Wall of the UPP," the source of Interfax said in law enforcement agencies.

On December 9, the Moscow City Duma adopted two bills on lotteries and gambling, according to the Telecommunications Committee of the capital.

The Tuvinsky traffic cop, who shot the schoolboy at the end of October and wounded his companion, admitted to the interrogation that he had not done a warning shot and threw a toy pistol into the crime scene. This was reported by the press service of the UKP in Tuva. Earlier, he argued that the 11-grader sitting at the wheel of a car stopped by him was drunk and tried to get a pistol from his pocket, and he shot him, because he saw in his actions a threat to his life.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will take part on December 17-18 in a meeting of the heads of state and governments as part of the UN conference to change the climate held in Copenhagen. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. In total, representatives of 192 countries take part in the 15th conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention, as well as environmental and public organizations-about 15 thousand people.

Polit.ru, together with the OGA publishing house, continue the new project - Public Lectures Polit.ua in Kyiv. On December 16, 2009, a lecture of the famous geo -ecologist, candidate of geographical sciences, senior researcher at the Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geographical faculty of Moscow State University Expert Enop (United Nations Environment Programme, UN program on the environment) Nikolai Dronin will take place in Kiev. .

The control launch of the "maces", carefully preparing after a series of failures, again did not justify hopes. Until yesterday late in the evening, the officials of the Navy and the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering did not comment on the test and its results, today's “ Rossiyskaya Gazeta ” writes.

STS Media Holding and its former general director Alexander Rodnyansky will sign a settlement agreement until December 18. The amicable agreement implies that STS Media, who accused Rodnyansky of working on a competing national media group (REN TV and the Fifth Canal), will withdraw the claims filed. Recall that in early November, the holding filed two lawsuits against Rodnyansky - to the Supreme Court of the state of New York and the Chancellor Court of Delaware.

The guilty verdict against the former head of Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow, Mikhail Bulgakov, and the former head of the city Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergei Titenok has entered into force, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reported. Bulgakov was found guilty of receiving a large bribe, and Titenok was found guilty of organizing Bulgakov to receive a bribe.

The number of victims of the fire in the Perm Club "Lame Horse" increased to 131. 26-year-old Anton Kalenovsky died in the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Emergency Ambulance. Today it became known that at night, in the regional burn center Perm, 26-year-old Alexei Overin died. In the morning, information appeared that in the hospital to them. Burdenko stopped the heart of 54-year-old Igor Trush. At 6.50 in the morning at the Institute. Sklifosovsky died 30-year-old Anna Vorobyova.

The Ministry of Defense has removed the entire command of military unit 02511 in the village of Kamenka, where conscripts and contract soldiers were beaten in October. Ella Polyakova, chairman of the Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg, reported this to Gazeta.Ru. She could not name the names of the dismissed soldiers, because the order will appear in the “Soldiers' Mothers” only on Friday.