The Chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Alexei Ostrovsky at a meeting of the parliamentary assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus announced the unequal opportunities of candidates for the post of president of Belarus, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports. Alexey Ostrovsky said that all candidates for the president of Belarus, besides Lukashenko, say that they have no equal opportunities for speaking in the media, holding meetings with voters, etc.

At Baikonur on December 7, 2010, classes continued with the crew of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, aimed at maintaining fitness, as Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev said in his blog on the Roscosmos website. “Today the crew took part in a game of table tennis, spinning on a special vestibular chair and preventive massage on a special automatic massage table,” says Dmitry.

It is reliably known that the Russian principalities paid tribute to the Horde. But when exactly and which one is for the most part hidden from us and is unlikely to ever be fully clarified. It seems that at the beginning of the period of the yoke these payments were indeed of a significant nature, felt by the entire population of Rus'. In the future, the volumes of these payments - at least relative to the scale of the Russian economy as a whole - most likely decreased.

The director of the Golden Gramophone ceremony, Marina Yablokova, appealed to the court with a statement on the initiation of a criminal case against singer Philip Kirkorov for causing easy harm to health and insult. This was reported to the Russian agency of legal and judicial information ( RAPSI ) by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva.

The defenders of the Khimki forest promise to resume protesting if the construction of the Moscow -St. Petersburg highway will resume the previous project. This was announced in an interview with RSN by a member of the initiative group of defenders of the Khimkinsky forest Sergey Ageev.

Duties for Russian oil supplied to Belarus will be canceled. According to her, the entire regulatory framework has been signed - 17 documents within the framework of the Customs Union. Such a statement was made by the Minister of Economic Development of Russia Elvira Nabiullina, ITAR-TASS reports. Russia and Belarus agreed to reset the duties for oil, but to charge 100% of export duties for oil products.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) and the All -Russian Association of Fans (VOB) turned to the fans of Spartak with a request to behave within the framework of the law on the day of the funeral of their deceased comrade Yegor Sviridov.

The prosecutor's office of the Tula region took control of the investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the death of 8 people in an accident. It was established that today at 12 hours 50 minutes per 2 km of the Bogucharovo-Tula road, the Ford 222702 bus, heading from Moscow to Tula, drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with the oncoming car ZIL 450650, belonging to OJSC “Heavypromarmator” by Aleksina.

Today, on International Corruption Day, the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies and Initiatives, Transparency International Russia has published the results of the study "Barometer of World Corruption-2010". The sample in Russia amounted to 1,500 people. 29.7% of respondents believe that the level of corruption in Russia has increased significantly. 35.3% say that it remained the same. “A little increased” - 17.9% of the respondents answered.

The Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union approved the list of 33 best players in the 2010 season. This list includes the following players: Goalkeepers : Akinfeev (CSKA), Ryzhikov (Rubin), Dikan ("Spartak"/"Terek"); Right Defenders: Anyukov (Zenit), Parshivlyuk (Spartak), A. Berezutsky (CSKA); Right central defenders : V.

For a full-fledged investigation of the reasons for the Tu-154 disaster, a speech recorder is needed in the Domodeva, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The parametric and emergency recorders who were in the tail of the aircraft were seized on the day of the disaster, but they can neither confirm nor refute the current versions of the causes of the accident.

The Kirovsky District Court of the city of Irkutsk appointed Anna Shavenkova, who in December last year shot down two women on her car, one of whom died, an examination for sanity, Life News reports. Thus, the court granted the petition of Shavenkova lawyers. “During the accident, Anna hit her head against a pillow of safety,” defender Shavenkova Julia Beregova told the court today.

The Investigative Committee interrogated police officers who did not promptly prosecute the participants in the fight in which Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov died. Let us remind you that Yegor Sviridov was killed with a traumatic pistol in a fight with natives of the North Caucasus on Kronstadt Boulevard on the night of December 6. As the press service of the Investigative Committee reported, four people were severely beaten in the fight.

Courts will now be engaged in the prevention of corruption, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The Supreme Court gave relevant instructions to the lower authorities. Considering cases of corruption, the courts will now have to take measures to identify its causes. The conditions that contributed to the commission of corruption crimes should not be left without a judicial assessment, is emphasized in the decree of the Presidium of the Armed Forces.

Vladimir Putin suggested that French Prime Minister Francois Fiion repeat the concert for him to close the year of France in Russia, which the Prime Minister did not fall due to bad weather. It is reported by RBC. During the meeting of the prime ministers in Moscow, Fillon expressed regret about his passing the closing ceremony of France in Russia in the Bolshoi Theater.