Inna Kulishova So, you have to cope with time and understand that the new years and new years come and go faster than we would like ... you will not have time to look around, but again dressing Christmas trees or hanging under the ceiling, hanging garlands. In Georgia, as usual, the most plentiful and best food is prepared for the holiday, which was part of the New Year rite (we will not forget that the New Year is also celebrated twice - a new and old rite).

Oleg Sysuev and Mikhail Sokolov in the Radio Liberty studio Mikhail Sokolov: In our Moscow studio, the first deputy. Chairman of Alfa-Bank Oleg Sysuev. We'll talk about the results of the year. And I remind you that our guest in the 90s was the mayor of Samara, the year was the deputy prime minister of the Russian government and the Minister of Labor and Social Development-it was difficult years, 1997-98.

Representatives of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas from the Gaza and Syria sector will discuss today in Damascus the issue of exchanging prisoners with Israel. We are talking about the conclusion of a transaction on the release of the prisoner Israeli Corporal Gida Shalit in exchange for a thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Negotiations on this issue have been going on for several months in Cairo through the mediation of Egypt and Germany.

Great Britain urged China to cancel the execution of the British subject sentenced to death. Akmal Sheikh was found guilty of drug smuggling. Sheikh’s defenders say that he has problems with the psyche, and they urge him to have mercy on him. According to human rights organizations, Europeans have not been executed in China since 1951.

The crew of the ST James Park captured by Somali pirates includes three Russian citizens. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the program on the support of sailors in East Africa, Andrew Mwangur, based in Kenya. According to him, on board the British tanker with chemicals, following from Spain to Thailand, there are 26 people - citizens of 9 countries. The ship was captured on Tuesday morning in the Gulf of Aden.

At the funeral of Sergey Magnitsky The Public Supervisory Commission for the Control of Human Rights in places of forced content concluded that a number of prosecutors, the leadership and medical staff of the Sailor Silence of the SIZO were involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky , who died on November 16. The conditions of detention in the investigative insulator in the report are called inhuman, comparable to torture.

The Georgian Air Air Airways airline will not be able to make direct flights from Tbilisi to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the coming days, a company representative told RIA-News. The agency is given by the head of the press service of the Georgian Airways Nino Giorgobiani, who stated that the company did not have time to prepare the charter flights planned earlier on December 29 and 30, but plans to make them in January.

In Kamchatka, an emergency landing was made by Mi-8 helicopter, owned by Koryak Airlines. There are no victims. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, a helicopter, on board of which there were three crew members, carried out a commercial flight. He was an invading land to land a few minutes after taking off. The crew requested the help of doctors. A group of rescuers and investigators flew to the scene.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sharply condemned the execution of the British subject of Akmal Sheikh in China, accused of drug smuggling. The British government announced that the Chinese authorities sent a total of 27 requests for the pardon of Sheikh, detained in China in 2007 with four kilograms of heroin. According to the British side, Sheikh suffered from a mental disorder and did not fully realize the consequences of his actions. Despite this, Akmal Sheikh was executed this morning.

Patriarch Kirill did not look like himself at the ceremony of presenting the diploma: they put a mantle and a square hat with a brush on him. Patriarch Kirill was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Russian Academy of the President of Russia (RAGS). Thus, the non -church status of the statesman Patriarch was recorded in a diploma. Cyril is not the first Patriarch, who became the honorary doctor of the Academy of Civil Service (RAGS). In 2003, this title was awarded to Alexy II.

The President of Russia signed the law on the regulation of trading activities. It provides, in particular, that the share of a separate trading company in the market of a particular region cannot exceed 25%. In addition, the government is given the right to establish - no more than 90 days - maximum permissible retail prices for individual socially significant products, if their growth will be 30% or more within 30 calendar days in a row in a row in a row in a row.

The final summing up of the day of the past, the prospects of the day of the coming, discussing hot topics with guests of the morning broadcast.

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In Novgorod, in the process of undermining in 2007, the Nevsky Express train, the prosecution representative demanded the sentence of the defendants by 13 and 11 years in prison in a maximum security colony. This was announced on Tuesday during the debate. In addition, the insurance company, which paid the victims, demanded to recover from the defendants - natives of Ingushetia Salambek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Hidriev - 63 million rubles. The court announced a break until January 11.