Manchester United in the World Cup final Manchester United and the winner of the Copa Libertadores, Liga Deportiva Universitaria from the capital of Ecuador, Quito, will play in the final of the World Cup among clubs. On the way to the final, the Ecuadorian “students” beat the strongest North American club “Pachuca” 2:0, “Manchester United” defeated the hosts of the tournament, the Japanese club “Gamba Osaka” - 5:3.

US President-elect Barack Obama continues to fill vacancies in his incoming administration. As the Washington Post reported, after Pentagon chief Robert Gates, the second Republican on the new president's team will be Secretary of Transportation, 63-year-old Ray LaHood. Since 1995, he has been a member of the US House of Representatives from the state of Illinois, where Barack Obama began his career. A descendant of Lebanese immigrants, Ray LaHood is known as a centrist and budget specialist.

Automakers and car owners took the dispute to the streets The domestic auto industry countered the spontaneous revolt of car owners, who expressed their disagreement with the increase in duties on foreign cars by blocking streets in a number of Russian cities and other accessible, but not always sanctioned actions, with organized rallies of the proletariat in support of government decisions.

The presidents of Russia and the United States will start with weapons Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with US President-elect Barack Obama shortly after his inauguration on January 20, 2009. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after a meeting in Moscow with American Republican Senator Richard Lugar.

Interview with the President of Kyrgyzstan caused a stir in Bishkek Yesterday a “bomb” was detonated in the information space of Kyrgyzstan. A complete surprise for the public opinion of the republic was the interview given by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to the hitherto unknown Internet portal “Free Press”, registered in Russia. The interview was published under the very loud headline “It’s time for the United States to leave Kyrgyzstan.” Mr.

Sergei Shutov is true to himself The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Ermolaevsky Lane) has opened an exhibition by Sergei Shutov “Necessary and Optional” - the first museum personalization of an artist who is as iconic as he is marginal.

About “E-mail” by Susanna Chernobrova “It is amazing that the most pragmatic object in the world - the computer - gave birth to the most fantastic phenomenon - e-mail. The letter arrives at the speed of a glance. You asked for "New Year's".

The trade mission in Cologne will remain in the Russian register The trade mission in Cologne “remains in the register of Russian real estate abroad,” Viktor Khrekov, press secretary of the Russian Presidential Administration, said yesterday. The day before, a plot of land with an area of ​​about 2.5 thousand square meters. m, on which the complex of buildings is located, went under the hammer by decision of the local Supreme Land Court.

The Big Three promises to shut down 59 factories in January. Leading US automakers - General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, which are unable to cope with the crisis on their own, have made a strong-willed decision to suspend or close production next month at 59 plants, Bloomberg reported. However, companies still have not given up hope of receiving federal assistance in the form of $14 billion in loans amid sales falling to the lowest level in 26 years. “No one is immune.

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The legal framework for early presidential elections may be ready before the end of the year Amendments to the Russian Constitution can be considered adopted. Yesterday, 16 regional parliaments at once approved the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev to increase the terms of office of the head of state and the State Duma from the current four years to six and five, respectively. Not a single regional parliament spoke out against it.

Russia and Nicaragua want to establish a large-scale economic partnership Russia's increasing rapprochement with the South American continent brought to Moscow a longtime ally of the Soviet authorities, and then the completely forgotten Russian President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega. However, even against the backdrop of other Latin American states that are ready to strengthen friendship with Russia, Nicaragua occupies a special place.

Three awards in one Viennese bottle In 1996, Austrian saxophonist Hans Koller received the first state prize in the history of Austria for achievements in the field of jazz. Koller was nominated by pianist and composer Matthias Rüegg, who in the mid-70s assembled the first and subsequently the world's most famous jazz band of the postmodern era - the Vienna Artorchestra.

Consultations on the Caucasus brought only gas Participants in the two-day international consultations on security and stability in the Caucasus, which ended yesterday at the Geneva Palace of Nations, were one step away from signing the first document. It was called the Border Incident Prevention Mechanism. But it was still not possible to come to an agreement, although the discussions went on without interruption from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon.

The Central Bank took advantage of the dollar's weakness On the Russian foreign exchange market, euro quotations yesterday exceeded 40 rubles for the first time in history. The official exchange rate of the Central Bank rose by 1.07 rubles to 39.77 rubles. per euro. Record results were again achieved thanks to a decrease in the value of the ruble against the bi-currency basket by approximately 1.5%.