At Fiji, the leader of the putschists Frank Baynimaramaum announced that the army took control of the entire territory of the country. “At 18.00 local time, the army took power and controls the country,” the Reuters quoted the words of Baynimarama, who performed at a press conference in the city of Suva. Earlier, he repeatedly spoke threats with the overthrow of the Government of Ngaras, who had come to power this year, accusing him of corruption.

Two years later, when the Non-Fiction Fair will be to celebrate its tenth anniversary, it will be time to think about the emergence of a competitor. And, perhaps, to provoke its appearance. What the fair is turning into today is a model of standard bourgeois taste. Everything here is in place, everyone is present or could be present, everything is worthy and even cute.

The party of Sergei Mironov is a fair Russia ” - sometimes compared with the“ second foot ”.“ The second foot ”of what exactly - it depends on the political mood of the one who compares: the citizens who use the word“ society ”complimentary to the regime, they say about the“ second leg of the Kremlin ”.

From the editorial office . The Russian Journal by a series of materials, starting with this article, opens a discussion of the political results of the outgoing year. The Congress of United Russia on December 2 is completed by the event cycle of domestic-Russian policy-2006. However, December in the yard does not mean the end of the political season, which began in the fall of 2006 and will end in the spring of 2008. In this light, any "annual report" can be considered only intermediate.

The new Riga Theater has problems, as often happens in recent years with a culture that has been striving to get to Russia, arose at customs. This time, the line-hardware did not give the truck the opportunity to get to the festival in time.

The murder of Andrei Kozlov is actually disclosed Olga Ilyina The prosecutor general of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika said the case of the murder of the first deputy head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozlov was actually disclosed.

The State Duma on Wednesday plans in the first reading to adopt a bill on calculating fines in rubles, and not in the minimum wages, the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov told reporters on Tuesday. According to him, in the Code of Administrative Offenses, all fines are calculated in MROTS. While the minimum wage is 1 thousand 100 rubles, the penalty of the minimum wage is 100 rubles. The bill proposes to count all fines based on the amount of 100 rubles.

On December 2, the VII on the city of United Russia was held in Yekaterinburg. The opposition community managed to christen this event with a "black box." The document "Russia, which we choose", based on the concept of "sovereign democracy" has been adopted. Opposition equivalent: "Russia, which we pack." What did politics, political scientists and political strategists have expected from this congress?

Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych confirmed his position on the unwillingness of the Ukrainian state to carry out an action plan to join NATO, voiced by him in September in Brussels at a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission. “We told the truth in Brussels and confirmed it in Washington,” Yanukovych said during a meeting with US Secretary of State Condolisia Rice.

On December 1, the justice of the Sovetsky district Abakan issued a court decision, which many have already called a "threatening rune." She brought to administrative responsibility for "violation of the procedure for the manufacture or distribution of the products of the media" the owner of the site " New Focus ". In other words, she equated the site with the media. As a matter of fact, such a decision was quite predictable.

Doctors do not know the exact cause of Gaidar poisoning Alexander Leonidov Russian doctors came to the conclusion that Yegor Gaidar has signs of poisoning. True, while doctors do not undertake to say what kind of substance it is. On the eve of Gaidar was discharged from the hospital. It will continue to be treated, but already outpatiently. The former head of the Russian government went to the hospital after he suddenly became ill at a conference in Ireland on November 24.

2005 ended with the resignation of Andrei Illarionov , the real Enfant Terrist Kremlin, who actively criticizes not only Putin’s environment members, but also the president himself. This event, however, was not quite trivial, associated with the "cleaning" of the rows in the "Kremlin groups". It is significant that it "overlapped" on the general background of the "cooling" in the relations of Russia and the USA and the "warming" of relations between Russia and Europe.

NATO experts will discuss in Moscow the modernization of Russian weapons Vera Tumanova Representatives of the Russian military-industrial complex (OPC) and NATO will discuss in Moscow issues of modernizing the armament systems of Russian and Soviet production, in service with the armies of the member countries of the Alliance, RIA Novosti was told by the press service of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport.