Sporting helped Vladimir Fedotov spend the old year in peace Spartak saved the whole season in the last match. After the victory in Portugal over Sporting (3:1), a not very successful year for the “red-whites” turned into almost a triumphant one.

Why did the Soviet Union disappear?

The former general director of Mosenergo headed the energy complex of AvtoVAZ The general director of Mosenergo, Arkady Evstafiev, who was fired after last year's May power accident in Moscow, as Vremya Novostei learned, now works as the chairman of the energy committee on the board of directors of AvtoVAZ. This information was confirmed by the press secretary of the chairman of the board of directors of the car plant, Ivan Skrylnik. By the way, he added that Mr.

The bill on the introduction of financial guarantees for tour operator activities, currently being discussed by the State Duma, has provoked a split in the largest professional association in the industry - the Russian Union of Tourism Industry (RST). Several large PCT member companies have announced their desire to split off and form a new public organization.

The Moscow City Duma limited itself in the epistolary genre It seems that Moscow parliamentarians have decided to limit their overly curious colleagues, who often use the special status of a parliamentary inquiry to obtain prompt and private information about the work of government bodies and business.

In Russia there is no way to legalize the central depository The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Bank of Russia and the Federal Service for Financial Markets cannot yet agree on what the central depository should be. However, the FFMS expects to resolve disagreements at a special meeting of departments on December 13.

Gazprom is again under threat of a transit crisis Gazprom publicly admitted that it maintains preferential gas prices in 2007 for Armenia. Yerevan will continue to buy blue fuel at $110 per thousand cubic meters, press secretary of the head of Gazprom Sergei Kupriyanov said on Echo of Moscow. Moreover, under these conditions, deliveries will be made until January 1, 2009.

Olga Slavnikova received the prize for “novel of the year” Over the fifteen years of the existence of the Russian Booker Prize, I only twice confidently (still overcoming a small amount of doubt) named the name of the future laureate. It's not a matter of likes and dislikes at all. They ask not who you would reward (this is where everything is usually clear), but who will be rewarded .

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Islanders” – “Ottawa” – 2:4, “Toronto” – “Atlanta” – 2:5 – Vyach. Kozlov "A" (2+1), Kovalchuk "A" (1+1), "St. Louis" -- "Detroit" -- 1:5 -- Datsyuk "D" (1+1), "Calgary" -- "Carolina" -- 3:0, "Tampa Bay" -- "Buffalo" -- 1:4 - Kalinin (0+1), "Pittsburgh" -- "Florida" -- 2:3 -- Gonchar "P" (0+2) , "Minnesota" - "Chicago" - 3:2 (bullet) - Arkhipov "Ch" (0+1), "Colorado" - "Columbus" - 0: 3.

Kaliningrad officials were seized by a passion for composing local symbols In the westernmost Russian region, they decided to immortalize local leaders of all times. Portraits of 23 “first persons” of the Kaliningrad region will be painted.

The death of the Soviet Union came earlier than 15 years ago On December 7, 1991, important guests arrived at the Belarusian government residence “Viskuli” near Brest to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, who had been elected President of Ukraine a week before. The purpose of the meeting was to officially announce the death of the USSR.

New Russian action movie - the latest invention of local cinema Summing up the results of the last film year, everyone, not excluding your humble servant, spoke and wrote about the beginning of the era of Russian blockbusters. The tone was cautiously optimistic.

The Russian defense industry is ready to improve NATO weapons A round table on the topic “Modernization of weapons systems” was held at the head office of the federal state unitary enterprise Rosoboronexport. This is already the sixth such meeting, which in itself indicates the relevance of the problem. However, the composition of the participants also testifies to this.

Yesterday, an American soldier at a checkpoint at a US air base in Kyrgyzstan killed a citizen of this country, 46-year-old Alexander Ivanov. The sentry fired a pistol twice at Ivanov, who had worked for four years as a gas station driver for Aircraft Petroleum. It supplies fuel to civilian flights and has nothing to do with servicing American military aircraft. Ivanov was returning from a warehouse with fuel and had to stop at a checkpoint, get out of the cab and present the car for inspection.

Sberbank and VTB intend to collect more than $11 billion from investors Minister of Economic Development German Gref yesterday told how much money the two largest Russian state banks are going to attract from the market next year. The additional issue of Sberbank will amount to 198 billion rubles, and the initial public offering of VTB shares will be worth about 4 billion dollars. Thus, the volume of additional issues will be slightly less than market participants expected.