Veronika Bode: Hello, dear listeners. Happy New Year to you! Today our topic is the results of the last year through the eyes of Russians. How did you remember the year? Who is called the "man of the year"? What is expected from the year of the coming? Our guest is the director of the analytical center of Yuri Levada Lev Gudkov. Lev Gudkov: Happy New Year! Veronika Bode: Our listeners on the forum on the Internet answered the question: what did you remember 2008?

Gazprom filed a lawsuit against Naftogaz of Ukraine to the International Arbitration Court in Stockholm, accusing him of non -compliance with transit obligations for gas supplies to Europe. According to the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved this decision. Earlier, Gazprom announced an increase in gas supplies to Europe bypassing Ukraine - through Belarus and Turkey. A number of European countries have announced a reduction in gas through Ukraine.

In the Ingush city of Karabulak, an explosion occurred in the house where the FSB officer family lives. No one was injured. According to Interfax in local law enforcement agencies, unknown people abandoned the bomb into the house. An investigation is underway.

Gazprom denied the statement of Naftogaz of Ukraine that the Russian concern does not have a gas transit contract through Ukraine to Europe. As stated in the conclusion of the Global Legal Organization of DLA Piper, the text of which was received by Interfax, a long-term contract on the volume and terms of transit for the period from 2003 to 2013 is valid between the parties.

In the north-west of Pakistan, five police officers and two civilians died today as a result of the explosion. 25 people were injured. It is assumed that the explosion in the center of the village of Dera-Ismail Khan at the border with Afghanistan was carried out by a suicide bomber. In this area, Pakistani government forces conduct surgery against the Taliban and militants associated with Al-Qaeda.

People's Artist of Russia Renat Ibragimov.

In Iceland, according to the latest public opinion poll, 66 percent of the population support the idea of joining the European Union. Such data were published by the Icelandic newspaper Morgunbladid. The other day, the country's Prime Minister Heir Horde proposed to hold a referendum on this issue. In October, due to the global financial crisis, the banking system of Iceland collapsed.

The United States blocked the adoption of the UN Security Council on events in the gas sector. The Deputy American Representative to the UN Alejandro Wolf said that it makes no sense to accept statements that the Hamas group is expertly ignored. A number of countries - Egypt, Sweden, Norway and others - criticized Israel, which began a terrestrial operation in gas. The UK and the Netherlands spoke out for an immediate truce, but noted that one cannot be guilty only on the Israeli side.

In the east of Indonesia, at least two people died as a result of a series of earthquakes. The magnitude of the underground shocks in the province of the Western Papua exceeded seven and a half, the US Geological Service reports. Five people were injured in the collapse of several floors of the hotel in the capital of the province - the city of Manokvari. The search for people under the rubble continues.

In Nepal, two people were killed and thirty more are considered missing - as a result of the incident on the Koshi River, almost five hundred kilometers southeast of the capital of the country of the city of Katmandu. According to the police, a small vessel, overflowed with passengers, crashed into the thicket of bamboo in a thick fog and turned upside down.

Naftogaz did not give an instruction to limit the pressure of gas for consumers of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the company Oleg Dubina. According to the Ukrainian side, the country has a reserve, it can raise about 180 million cubic meters of gas from storage facilities and even more so that all consumers are provided with fuel.

Service malfunctions with Russian fuel supply to European consumers can arise after 10-15 days "Frankfurter Algemayne Tsaitung": "During the Cold War, Moscow did not blackmail the class enemy with the help of the" key word of the outgoing week-"calendar"

Visiting Viktor Shenderovich-artistic director of the Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Alexander Titel

In the UK, on the eve of Christmas and New Year, the traditional discussion around the statistical data on the immoderate consumption of alcohol on holidays, and its influence on various spheres of British life, broke out. The British were amazed to learn that on Christmas days they drink 41 percent more alcoholic beverages than on any other days of the year.

The theme of gifts is the New Year. The founders and moderators Zafar Khashimov and Sergey Rublev tell about the community "give in vain".