Bush administration gives automakers emergency loans The largest American automakers - General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC - still managed to obtain government loans totaling $17.4 billion. After the aid package for automakers was blocked in the US Senate, the White House decided to use the right previously granted to it by legislators to distribute funds within the framework of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

NOMOS-Bank will pay off the depositors of the problem credit institution Depositors of Moscow Capital Bank will switch to services from NOMOS Bank. Along with its obligations to them, NOMOS Bank will receive several more regional branches, as well as part of the loan portfolio of Moscow Capital. This was announced on Friday by the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which is engaged in the rehabilitation of Moscow Capital.

Belarus is again asking for money and cheap gas, but not only from Russia At today's negotiations in Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev and Alexander Lukashenko are to discuss a contract for gas supplies to Belarus next year. The supply volumes are known; they will amount to 22.1 billion cubic meters. The question of price remains open. This topic has traditionally been problematic in bilateral relations - the cost of energy resources has repeatedly become the cause of conflicts between the allies.

Latvia will receive 7.5 billion euros in debt by changing the tax system and cutting civil servants Latvia will remain solvent. At the end of last week, EU countries and international financial organizations agreed to jointly provide the republic with an emergency loan in the amount of 7.5 billion euros.

Drivers again opposed new duties on foreign cars About three dozen people were detained - this is the official result of the “showdown” between the riot police and motorists who again took to the streets of Vladivostok last Sunday to protest against the increase in import duties on foreign cars. Beginning in the morning, numerous police units attempted to disperse the convoys in which the protesting car owners were trying to line up.

For two days, the weather in the north-west of the European territory of Russia will be formed under the influence of the atmospheric fronts of the North Atlantic cyclone. On Monday there is snow, sleet, heavy in places during the day, snowstorm with gusty winds (up to 15-18 m/sec). During the day the temperature will change little: -4...+1оС. On Tuesday, in the rear of the cyclone, it will be 0...-5°C at night and during the day, and it will snow at times.

Vacations as a reason to save money The upcoming New Year holidays will be an excellent opportunity for Russians to save money. As the results of sociological surveys published at the end of last week, conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) at the height of the financial crisis that gripped the country, show, the majority of our compatriots are not going to limit themselves in spending on a feast on one of the most beloved national holidays.

The Russian team won the home stage of the Eurotour The Russian hockey team, as expected, became the best at the Channel One Cup - the second stage of the Eurotour - and retained its leadership in the overall standings. Perhaps the advantage gained will be enough until the end of the tournament, since next year no one will allow Vyacheslav Bykov to take the best hockey players of the championship.

The informal CIS summit was held with a shortage of participants An informal - and even too much - summit of the CIS took place at the end of last week in the Kazakh resort of Borovoe.

HSBC loses top managers “A stay at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower is a life-changing experience,” says the prospectus for the luxury London hotel in Knightsbridge. The stay of a top manager of one of the largest banks in Europe - HSBC - was just such an event. Kristen Schnor, head of HSBC's insurance division and head of banking business development in the Middle East and Europe, was found hanged in one of the Jumeirah rooms.

Identification of Russian tourists who died in Israel has been completed The weekend passed under the sign of mourning in St. Petersburg. And not only for relatives of Russian tourists who died in Israel. Relatives on Saturday identified the bodies of 24 victims of a car accident in Eilat. Mainly for personal items. There are no unidentified people left. The first funeral took place yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow. On Saturday, a whole series of ceremonial events took place in St.

As a result of the explosion at the Fair on Prazhskaya, 14 people were injured Fourteen people, according to official data, were injured as a result of the explosion that occurred on Saturday afternoon at the market near the Prazhskaya metro station on Krasny Mayak Street. At first, the rescuers working at the scene of the emergency did not rule out that pyrotechnics could have exploded there, but experts still came to the conclusion that it was a homemade bomb that went off at the fair.

November 19 -- December 19, 2008 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development has unveiled a concept for the development of medicine until 2020 Last Friday, the Ministry of Health and Social Development submitted the Concept for the development of domestic healthcare until 2020 for approval to interested departments and the government.

They will try to challenge the liquidation of the Union of Right Forces in court Today, in the Tagansky Court of Moscow, preliminary hearings will begin on the claim of former member of the federal political council of the Union of Right Forces, Maria Gaidar, to cancel the decision of the party congress on self-liquidation. As Maria Gaidar told a Vremya Novostey correspondent, three points are disputed in the lawsuit. “This is, firstly, the legitimacy of regional conferences.