"The matter is not that Russia treats the sovereign right of the Ukraine to choose the basic vectors of the policy in the field of safety coolly or warmly. It’s a matter for the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian elite to choose the form of the cooperation with these structures", - Ivanov said in Kiev. "A different matter is that consequences of these steps will negatively affect interaction of two countries", - minister added. According to him “this step, no matter whether we want it or not, will influence our relations", "RIA News" informs. At the same time Minister of Defence of the Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko noted that still he’s still an active supporter of a rate of the introduction into NATO.

On Tuesday in the evening at the airport of city Mirny a plane Tu-154 which flied from Moscow with 22 passengers and almost 9 tons of cargo onboard made emergency landing. At 8.51 p.m. of local time (4.51 p.m. of Moscow time) the dispatcher of the airport "Yakutsk" sent the message that vibration of one of engines of the plane Tu-154 was noticed. "As a result the engine was muffled and the flight was continued on two remained", - RIA "News" reported in the press-service of central administrative board of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Yakutia. It is already the third for last two weeks emergency landing of machines of the company “Tupolev", all three are connected with the breaks of engines.

It’s doubtless that Iran has already become the main winner in the events of 2001-2007 inthe Near and Middle East. During few years it will become into the rocket-nuclear empire – it’s also inevitable. On the other hand, the American guarantees of safety given to Turkey, countries of Arabian (Persian) Bay, Jordan after the coming refuge of the USA from Iraq and Afghanistan are seriously devaluated. In such conditions, as I’ve just seen by visiting capitals of the Saudi Arabia and Jordan, worry concerning their safety in the conditions of probable Iranian-Shiite expansion has been growing.

Tobacco companies have raised the prices for some marks of cigarettes up to 15-17 percent. The reason of it became transition to a new system of charging of tobacco excises. On the average increase of prices of marks BAT made up 7% while Philip Morris – 10%. Certainly, expected increase of prices is not comparable on its scale with tobacco crisis of August, 1990 when "unexpectedly" both Moscow tobacco factories ("Java" and "Ducat") were found closed for scheduled maintenance - usually they closed only one after having created a warehouse stock mainly from the Bulgarian cigarettes. Cigarettes rose sharply in price - 3 and more times, that was too expensive for the ordinary consumer. Crowds of smokers appeared on the streets, long lines ranked, people began to overturn tobacco boothes, set on them fire.

On Thursday the press-service of the president of Russia published the list of twelve instructions of Vladimir Putin addressed to the government, the State Office of Public Prosecutor, plenipotentiaries of the president in federal districts, to chapters of territorial subjects of the Russian Federations approved on the results of "Direct Line" with the president which took place in October, 25th. We shall remind that today is the 24th of November, 2 months passed. "Direct Line" was the fifth during less than 7 years of presidency. After all "care" of people turned out to be a bit strained as constipation and unnatural as jugs in porn films.  

New judicial trial on the case of the former prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi begins in Milan. He is accused of corruption and financial frauds in 1994-1999. It is a question of purchase by corporation "Mediaset” belonging to Berlusconi the rights to display the USAfilms on TV channels in Italy. According to the inquiry the transaction for the sum of almost 0,5 billion euro was accomplished by means of the offshore companies by-passing tax legislation of Italy. The president of Russia Vladimir Putin can be called true follower of Berlusconi. "Putinism" in Russiasurprisingly reminds "berlusconism" in Italyat its early stages but, as always in Russia, the Italian example here will receive improbable development. The country is larger and the presidential environment supervises, apparently, already everything including street toilets.