Seven days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

In Moscow, the Central Clinical Hospital today will host a farewell ceremony with the famous Russian economist and politician Yegor Gaidar. Gaidar - one of the architects of the Russian economic reforms of the 1990s - suddenly died on December 16 at the age of 53. In the past, he held the positions of the Minister of Economics and Finance, Deputy Prime Minister, and acted as chairman of the Government of Russia. In recent years, Gaidar headed the Institute of Economics of the Transition period.

Dmitry Volchek: One of the most memorable personnel of this week is Silvio Berlusconi's bloodied face. On the attack on the Prime Minister of Italy, the correspondent of freedom Vsevolod Gnetius. Vsevolod Gnetius: After the attack on Silvio Berlusconi in the center of Milan, during a rally organized by his ruling party “The People of Freedom”, the Italian prime minister spent four days in the Clinic “San Raphael”, where he was performed a number of urgent operations.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili resigned from the post of governor of the region Imeret Mikhail Chogovadze in connection with the tragedy in Kutaisi. During the dismantling with the help of the dynamite of the Memorial of Glory, the woman and her eight -year -old daughter were killed nearby. The main prosecutor's office of Georgia opened a criminal case under an article on negligence, which led to grave consequences.

St. Petersburg, Mariinsky Palace - the official residence of the Legislative Assembly of the city On December 14, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg celebrated the 15th anniversary of their activities . On this occasion, solemn events were held in the Mariinsky Palace. The deputies were personally congratulated by the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov and Governor Valentina Matvienko . Telegrams were sent by Dmitry Medvedev , Vladimir Putin and Valery Zorkin .

In Ingushetia there was an explosion on the gas pipeline. There are no victims. Several thousand people - residents of the three settlements of the Malgobek district - were left without gas. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the explosion occurred for technical reasons - a crack formed on the pipe due to dilapidation. No traces of undermining at the scene were found. Recovery work is underway.

On Saturday, the Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the “revered” two of its predecessors-Pius XII, who headed the Roman Catholic Church during the Second World War, and John Paul II, who stood at the head of the church from 1978 to 2004. The decree published by the pontiff noted the "heroic virtues" of Pius XII and John Paul II, as well as the Polish priest Jerzy Popelushko, who was killed by the communist intelligence services of Poland in 1984.

Participants of the UN Criminal Climate Conference completed in Copenhagen came to the final agreement. The forum that lasted almost two weeks approved the final political declaration of the fight against global warming, the Radio Liberty correspondent in Scandinavia Sergey Dzhanyan reports. “The agreement has been reached between countries representing all the corners of the planet - these are small island states, European and African countries, China, Brazil, India, the USA.

Part of the Chechen refugees, which this week tried to illegally leave Poland, hold a protest rally in a refugee camp. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky, about 70 Chechen refugees occupied one of the premises in the Dembak refugee camp near Warsaw, demanding an apology from the President of Poland for a poor attitude to them from the Starna authorities, as well as the possibility of freely leave for France.

Elena Kashkarova : In Primorye, the price of dairy products is growing monthly. The liter of milk in December in the Nakhodka stores cost about 50 rubles. This is to blame for the new technical regulations for milk, experts say. And this indirectly admitted by the head of the Nadezhdka Certification Center Nadezhda Shadrina. Nadezhda Shadrina : They introduced the technical regulations untimely, because so it is difficult to survive enterprises, and they were forced to work in a new regulation.

Two people died in the Georgian city of Kutaisi in the explosion of the Glory Memorial. According to Radio Liberty, Georgy Kobaladze, the main prosecutor's office of Georgia opened a criminal case on the fact of negligence, which led to serious consequences.

Today, a decision was into force on the abolition of the visa regime with the European Union for citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. More than 10 million inhabitants of these countries now have the right to be on the territory of the states of the Schengen zone without a visa for 90 days. The decision to cancel the visas adopted by the European Union is considered as an important step towards the further rapprochement of the Balkan states with the EU.

Alevtina Dryagina : I just fought for medicines all these years. Only thanks to this I got something. Ekaterina Lushnikova : A long -term struggle for the right to receive drugs on preferential recipes is conducted by a pensioner Alevtina Dryagina. This right is granted to Alevtina Dryagina by Russian legislation as a disabled person of the second group, as well as as a person suffering from bronchial asthma, hypertension and other serious chronic diseases.

The human brain is trying to study for a long time Last week, a scientific session of the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held in Moscow. Its main theme was the development of neuronauska - the science of the brain. Academics agreed that the brain should be known to the whole world, taking an active part in international research projects.

A number of environmental organizations and several developing countries opposed the agreement to combat climate amendments approved at the UN Climate conference in Copenhagen. In particular, representatives of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and island state in the Pacific Ocean - Tuval, whose authorities are afraid that the rise in the level of the ocean can lead to irreversible consequences criticized the adopted document.