A round table “Non-commercial music: vocation and profession” was held at the Moscow club “Bilingua”. It was attended by various representatives of the musical environment (mainly jazz) - both Russian and foreign. It was organized as part of the MuzEnergo festival with the support of Polit.ru.

Despite the economic disorder and the associated reduction in energy consumption, the sales of the Narynka of European natural gas remain the main source of income of Egorossian manufacturers. The main thing is because, unlike oil, for the transigree gas, there are no other external sales markets, except European ones, and it is almost impossible to add the same amount of gas inside Russia, and even by the pierce prices.

Ignat Mirgorodsky, who is considered a close associate of the famous Ural raider Pavel Fedulev, monopolized the communications of the “closed” city of Zarechny in the Middle Urals, the publication “century” writes about this. In April 2008, Pavel Fedulev was convicted by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court for the raider seizure of the largest Ural market complex - OJSC OPENSNABSBSBS - and the organization during the capture of the riots. The court sentenced him to nine years in prison.

Today, a telephone conversation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held. This was reported by the Kremlin press service.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was preoccupied with appointments in his administration, ITAR-TASS reports. Dmitry Bogopolsky was adopted to the post of deputy chairman of the Moscow Control Committee under a contract for 4 years. The other day, Sobyanin fired Vyacheslav Uryupin from this post, who also headed the regulation of investment contracts. In early December, the mayor appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Control Committee Ivan Aksenov. Now Moskontrol is headed by Yegor Polyakov.

In Kazakhstan, the ruling party “Nur Otan” (“Light of the Fatherland”), headed by Nazarbayev, supported the initiative to hold a referendum to extend the powers of the current president Nursultan Nazarbayev until 2020, Kazakhstan Today reports with reference to the statement of the party’s press service. According to the press service, on December 24, a large-scale reporting campaign of the Nur Otan party started throughout the country. The campaign will take place in several stages.

The next launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile "Bulava" will be held in the spring of 2011. This was announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Vladimir Vysotsky, ITAR-TASS reports. He added that the launch of the missile "in January - February will definitely not be." According to him, the “ice situation” does not allow launching.

On Monday, December 27, from 14.00 to 15.30, a costume picket will be organized at the Embassy of Belarus. The initiators of the picket are Novaya Gazeta journalists. They will perform in defense of Belarusian colleagues thrown into jail. There is reason to hope that the Russian colleagues of those who threw Belarusian journalists, politicians and public figures will not interfere with the picket - the picket is agreed with the Moscow authorities.

The backward colonel of the GRU Vladimir Kvachkov, who was finally recognized by the Supreme Court as innocent in the attempt on Anatoly Chubais, did not allow them to relax calmly. Last night, his apartment in house number 14 on the Berezhkovskaya embankment was searched by the FSB officers.

One of the results of the outgoing year is the failure of the fight against corruption. “Yes, there are few changes, but it’s good that they began to talk about this topic out loud.” Because a few years ago another opinion dominated: it is pointless to fight corruption for several reasons. Firstly, it is in all countries. Yes, we have many times more than, for example, in Western Europe. Secondly, corruption is a control method in our country.

The State Duma as a result of the discussion in the first reading approved the ratification of the Russian-American contract START-3. The document was entered on May 28 as president. Today in the first reading he was supported by 350 deputies, 58 was against it, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin is going to reconsider the personnel of the 20th the worst district departments for the quality of cleaning of courtyards and streets in the year. The mayor told about this at an operational meeting in the city administration. “According to the results of the year, the city will be summed up in the city. I ask for 20 managers that took first places from behind, to conduct personal trials and report to me the proposals on the staff, ”said Sobyanin.

The personality of a suicide bomber who blew up a car near the entrance to the central market of Vladikavkaz was established. As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee, the terrorist was a native of Nazran Magomet Malsagov, born in 1986. According to the investigation, Malsagov left the house on August 19, relatives and relatives about his whereabouts were not known.

Deputy Prime Ministers Igor Shuvalov and Alexander Zhukov, Chairman of the Central Bank Sergey Ignatiev presented the State Duma report to the Federal Government and the information of the Central Bank on the anti-crisis program for 9 months of 2010, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports. Igor Shuvalov announced the growth of the defense and chemical industries by more than 10%.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who today summarizes the results of the outgoing year, said that not a single government official, including the president, has the right to express his position for any criminal case before a court decision. “Neither the President, nor any other official in the public service, has the right to express his position on this case or in some other case until the sentencing-either the conviction or justifying,” Medvedev said.