Schumacher signed a contract with Mercedes Grand Prix The seven-time winner of the World Cup in the Formula 1 class, 40-year-old German Michael Schumacher signed a contract with the new Mercedes Grand Prix team, which arose on the basis of the winner of the Brauna-2009 Cup. According to the contract, Schumacher for performances in the 2010 season will receive an amount of 7 million euros. Michael’s partner will be his compatriot Niko Rosberg.

The wealth of the airline is growing Siberia Aeroflot published a report on the physical volumes of transportation in January-November 2009 yesterday. A day earlier, the company revealed financial indicators of its activities for nine months of the current year according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS). The physical indicators of the company are comparable to last year's achievements, and financials differ for the worse.

The Queen's grandson spent the night under a bridge Prince William, second in line to the British throne, drew attention to himself and the problems of beggars by spending the night as a tramp. The other day it became known that the prince accepted an offer of cooperation from the charity Centrepoint and first met the dawn near garbage containers in one of the disadvantaged areas of the British capital.

Outlines for a plan for the modernization of Russia Today Dmitry Medvedev will sum up the development of Russia in 2009 on live television. Almost the key word in the political lexicon in the past year has been the word “modernization.” Russian scientists working in the United States, but constantly in contact with Russian authorities and the scientific community, talk about how our country can make a breakthrough to an innovative economy.

The best foreign films of 2009 By tradition, the final list of the best foreign films of the outgoing year is made up of films released in domestic cinemas from January to December (one-time festival screenings and releases directly to DVD are not taken into account). The year was, to put it mildly, unique, which is why the current roster consists of only eight films (by the way, it’s the eight films this year that comprises the hit parade of none other than Quentin Tarantino).

The head of the Bavarian Union of Sberkass became a victim of a financial coup The financial scandal, which has come out the other day around the Bayernlb state land bank in Bavaria , went into a new dimension. On Christmas Eve, Siegfried Nazer, a long -term president of the Union of Savings Cashcons of the Federal Land, having the status of a “free state”, voluntarily resolved the powers of Siegfried.

The most symptomatic translated hits of the past year Jonathan Coe. The circle is closed. Translation from English Elena Poletskaya. - M.: Phantom Press, 2009. Although Jonathan Coe himself claims that “The Closed Circle” is not at all a continuation of “The Crayfish Club”, they say, these are sister novels, it will still be difficult for a reader who has not read the first part of the dilogy in plot collisions the second.

In the next 24 hours, two cyclones will join forces in the center of Russia. One of them will come from the Gulf of Bothnia, the second - from Western Europe. In the sphere of influence of the new cyclone there will be snow, sleet, heavy in places, a blizzard is possible, wind with gusts of up to 15--20 m/s, the temperature will rise during the day to -5...+1oC. The average daily temperature will be almost 6 degrees higher than usual for these days in December.

The Constitutional Court supported Russian exporters The norms of the Tax Code are recognized as unconstitutional, which limit the right to apply the zero rate on value added tax rates. This decision was made yesterday by the Constitutional Court (CS), having considered the request of the Supreme Arbitration Court (you).

Fed's programs are no longer the main stimulating measure Infusion of the US financial authorities into the economy has been significantly reduced: since September this year, the amount of funds that the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and other agencies have been sent to the economy, reached an annual minimum, declining by 15%, to $ 8.2 trillion reported yesterday by Bloomberg.

The Supreme Court overturned the decision to arrest Platon Lebedev, but he will still be in prison The Presidium of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday resumed and, after a short consideration of newly discovered circumstances, again terminated the proceedings in the first criminal case of the former head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev, who, together with the disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was found guilty of it and is now serving an eight-year sentence.

Moscow proposed a constitutional solution to Minsk Economic integration of Russia and Belarus will lead to the signing of a union constitution, believes Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov. “We have created a single customs space. The Common Economic Space will be the next stage of integration. This should be followed by a constitutional decision, I mean a constitutional act,” the Vremya Novostei diplomat said yesterday at a press conference in Minsk.

The best players of our championship held a supermatch in Omsk In Omsk, the first “match of the stars” in the history of Russian female volleyball was held, dedicated to the memory of Valentina Oskolkova, who, as a player, became the winner of the first European Championship (1949) and headed the USSR national team at the “gold” world championship-1952. Yesterday, the "Stars of Russia" outplayed "Stars of the World" - 3: 0 (25:17, 25:21, 25:20).

Germans fight crisis with Christmas The stress of recent weeks in the cities and villages of Germany will finally give way to widespread peace. For Christians in the Western tradition celebrating Christmas Eve tonight, the coming two days of Christmas will be spent with family, family and closest friends.

Former forward CSKA is disqualified for two years The continental hockey league has another scandal. The disciplinary committee disqualified for two years the attacker of the "Avtomobilist" Alexei Simakov, who demanded the payment of salaries from CSKA through a civil court. After some time, they will certainly forgive him, but the athletes are now very scared. Alexei Simakov, an exacer of the "motorist", in the current off -season fell into a strange story.