The UPC has collected evidence against the Georgian aggressors Yesterday in Moscow, RIA Novosti hosted a presentation of a new publication about the August war in South Ossetia. The book “Ossetian tragedy. White Book of Crimes against South Ossetia.

Russian tourists continue to die in the Middle East Another car accident that occurred on Monday evening in the Sinai Peninsula, nine days after the tragedy in Israel, when 24 Russian tourists were killed, claimed the lives of seven more Russians. 17 Russian citizens were injured.

Politicians and political scientists about the results of the year In Russia, the president and government changed in 2008. During the first half of the year, the country lived in an atmosphere of rapid economic growth and stability, but in the second half it was hit by a wave of global crisis. Vremya Novostei correspondents Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA and Natalya ROZHKOVA asked politicians and political scientists to sum up the main political results of this turbulent year.

Polish classic Krystian Lupa showed “Zarathustra” The classic and avant-garde artist of the Polish theater, Krystian Lupa, was invited to the third Meyerhold readings, representing “world-famous directors at the peak of their creative life.” At the Center. Meyerhold's four-hour play Zarathustra was shown twice. As in “The Seagull,” staged last season at the Alexandrinka Theater, Lupa here communicates almost directly with the cosmos.

For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to involve civilian scientists and students in the development of weapons The Ministry of Defense has opened another facet of the ongoing reform of the armed forces - for the first time in its history, it has established five annually allocated grants of 2 million rubles each.

Gazprom directors completed 2008 The Board of Directors of Gazprom, in the almost complete absence of government representatives, approved yesterday the basic principles of the financial strategy, approved the budget for next year, a new procedure for placing orders, and took into account a number of other issues.

CLUBS "Alice". CDC MAI , 20.00. Percussion ensemble of Mark Pekarsky. CC "Dom" , 20.00. "Juniper". New Year's presentation of the new mini-album. B2 , 20.00. CONCERTS Evening of classical music . B. Britten. Soloists M. Gali (tenor), O. Ryabets (soprano), A. Goribol (piano). Boys' Choir of the Academy of Choral Arts. Big Children's Choir named after. V. Popova. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin as part of the festival “December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter”, 19.00.

Non-parliamentary parties will not have an increased chance of participating in elections State Duma deputies recently voted for the abolition of the electoral deposit in the federal parliamentary elections. Changes to the laws “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights” and “On Elections of State Duma Deputies”, previously proposed by the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, were approved in the first reading.

"Bulava" flies every other time The test launch of the sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava on Tuesday ended in failure: after launching from the nuclear submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy from the White Sea, the missile self-destructed, exploding in the air, Interfax reported, citing a source in the military-industrial complex. According to the source, the first and second stages of the rocket operated normally, but a malfunction occurred during the operation of the third stage.

The German auto industry is counting on its strength While in different countries the authorities are taking emergency measures to save national automakers, in the European automobile “forge”, Germany, automakers, on the contrary, are trying to avoid such help. Manufacturers Mercedes and BMW intend to survive through their own competitiveness. This, however, does not mean that the crisis did not affect them.

The implementation of the United League project began with the Promotional Cup In the capital's universal sports complex CSKA, for three days, club teams from five countries competed for the main prize of a fundamentally new tournament - the VTB United League, created on the initiative of the Russian Basketball Federation and supported by our neighbors from Eastern Europe.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and pharmacy chains are surprised by the activity of the FAS The steady trend towards a reduction in the number of state and municipal pharmacies that has emerged in recent years has noticeably worsened the situation of Russian beneficiaries, especially those who live in remote cities and villages with a population of no more than 100 thousand people.

VTB-24 will not restructure private loans The head of VTB-24 bank, Mikhail Zadornov, invites borrowers to reduce their currency risks and convert dollar loans into ruble ones. In fact, this is the only measure of VTB-24 aimed at supporting private clients whose financial situation has worsened due to the crisis. Mr. Zadornov told reporters yesterday that VTB-24 does not yet plan to restructure problem loans or introduce deferments and installment plans for borrowers, as Sberbank intends to do.

Watch from December 25 on Moscow screens “Hipsters” (Russia, 2008, Valery Todorovsky). In 1955, the right student Mels (Anton Shagin - "Vise"), taking part in a Komsomol raid on a cultural park, meets the woman Polza (Oksana Akinshina - "Sisters", "Lilya Forever", "Wolfhound") and radically changes his views, completely surrendering to jazz and freedom in general.

80% of Moscow fell into the “reorganization zone” The capital authorities intend to take into account the experience of St. Petersburg and, in order to prevent the expansion of the existing protest movement at the expense of fighters for preserving the historical appearance of Moscow, they are going to submit an updated draft of the city’s general plan until 2025 to public hearings.