The number of people informing tax authorities in writing about violators of fiscal discipline is constantly growing Russians continue active correspondence with tax authorities. Often they are driven not by the desire to clarify their tax obligations and rights, but by the desire to inform fiscal officials about facts of tax evasion. They write about acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues and employers.

The sale of control over Rosbank to Societe Generale could provoke another scandal between Prokhorov and Potanin The French banking group Societe Generale will finally gain control of Rosbank . The foreign shareholder exercised its option to buy out 30% plus two shares of Rosbank for $1.7 billion. This is stated in the official statement of SG, published yesterday.

Chronicle of sporting events In the match of the ninth round of the ULEB Euroleague, CSKA basketball players won a difficult away victory over the Italian club Montepaschi (Siena) - 69:66. Three seconds before the siren about the end of regulation time, the hosts fouled Ramunas Siskauskas, who was recently recognized as the best athlete of Lithuania in 2007. At the time of the violation, the Baltic player was trying to take a throw from behind the six-meter line.

Zoran Gajic's World Team was knocked out of the CEV Cup in the 1/8 finals The confrontation between Iskra Odintsovo and the modest Polish club Wkret-Met Domex (Czestochowa) in the 1/8 finals of the CEV Cup ended in a sensation with a big minus sign for Russian fans.

The public is preparing for the appearance of a sequel to the famous film Late last night at the Eldar cinema there was a closed premiere of the film “The Irony of Fate. Continuation". The creators of the sequel to the famous Soviet film did not position this event as a premiere and called it “handing over the work to Eldar Ryazanov.” Tomorrow the second “Irony” will appear not only in all cinemas, but also in almost all the halls of the country.

Monday, December 24 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 23.30 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 "NATIONAL SECURITY AGENT". Series 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 30 Hacienda 15 . 20 Without complexes 16 . 20 Understand. Forgive 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "NEXT". TV series (S) 20 . 00 "TATYANA'S DAY". TV series (S) 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "PERSONAL LIFE OF DOCTOR SILIVANOVA". TV series (S) 22 .

A year ago, they reported from Ashgabat that Turkmenbashi died there at night. The news was stunning: Sapar Atayevich, as the Turkmen helmsman was easily called in his immediate circle, seemed to be able to convince everyone that he was eternal. It seemed that Ashgabat would begin to prepare for changes in Niyazov’s health in advance, as was the case in neighboring Azerbaijan.

The Zubkov government approved an action plan before the emergence of the Putin government The government will have to complete its first three-year plan next year. To do this, it is necessary to fulfill not only the 2008 action plan, but also everything, everything, everything that was not accomplished in the previous two years.

The Ryazan City Council sent documents to the court asking for the removal of the mayor of this city, Fyodor Provotorov, from office. The deputies motivated this decision by the poor state of the city economy, as well as by the fact that two criminal cases have been under investigation against the mayor since May of this year. One of them is under Art. 306-3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (knowingly false denunciation) - associated with falsification of evidence.

The fourth meeting of the Russian-Iranian intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation (MTC) ended yesterday in Tehran. Summing up the results of the meeting, Mikhail Dmitriev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, named air defense and radar systems as priorities.

CLUBS "Picnic". Central House of Artists , December 21 and 22, 19.00. Nike Borzov , “Concert” , December 21, 21.00. “Auction” , “XO” , December 21, 22.30. “And my friend the truck...” . “Chinese pilot Zhao Da”, December 21, 23.00. "The end of the film" . Mezzo Forte , December 22, 20.00. “The screams of Vidoplyasov” . “B2”, December 22, 23.00. "Aria" . CDK MAI , December 23, 20.00. "Alice", "Orgy of the Righteous" . “B1 Maximum”, December 23, 20.00. "Naive" . "Point", December 23, 20.00.

Spartak will receive an unpleasant opponent in the 1/16 of the UEFA Cup At today's draw for the 1/16 UEFA Cup, Spartak faces an unenviable fate. The vice-champions of Russia, having lost 1:2 to the middle peasant of the French championship “Toulouse” in the last match of the season, finished the group stage of the tournament in second place of the “E” quintet, and now, according to the regulations, the Muscovites will meet with one of the losers of the Champions League.

The echo of the international animation festival "Krok" was heard in Moscow The international animation festival “Krok”, which sailed on a ship in Ukrainian waters in October, came to Moscow with its “echo” and staged a large screening of the winners at the House of Cinema. Usually “Echo of Kroc” is a screening of winning films, but this time it was different, and there are at least two reasons for this.

Barclays accuses Bear Stearns of fraud British bank Barclays has filed a lawsuit against American investment company Bear Stearns in connection with the collapse of two of its hedge funds. In one of them, Barclays was the sole co-shareholder. The complaint alleges that Bear Stearns concealed negative financial information about the fund's funds backed by subprime mortgages. According to the British bank, these hedge funds were used to dump distressed assets .

Visa-free Europe expanded to nine countries Today, nine newcomers join the European Schengen visa-free area - Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Malta.