With Evropesykata Commission confirmed that the restoration of gas supplies in full is not a fact, and to define the situation as "unacceptable." Recall, at exactly 9:00 local time, from "Gazzprom" announced that restore gas transit through Ukraine. A few hours later on the Russian company noted that Ukraine has blocked tubes. Brussels also claim that they have a problem with access of observers in control centers in Moscow and Kiev. And the Ukrainian "Naftogaz" and Russian "Gazprom" does not give full access to the Euro experts dispatching stations and control rooms.

Charter on Strategic Partnership between the U.S. and Georgia does not provide for the deployment of U.S. military bases in the country, said President of the Georgian Parliament David Bakradze on the eve of signing the document. This advanced RBC. "The U.S. will continue to assist Georgia to enhance its defense capability, training, arming and training the Georgian army," Bakradze said. Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia said that the Charter also provides for cooperation in the economic sphere and the free trade agreement.

Russia and the EU agreed on the composition of the international monitoring commission to control the transit of gas to enter the first representatives of Ukraine and Russia. This was stated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said after talks on the crisis with his Czech counterpart Topolanek. The group includes representatives from Gazprom, Naftogaz, the Ministry of Energy of Russia and Ukraine, the European Commission, the gas companies in Europe, experts from international organizations and a group of Norwegian gas. The Bulgarian side is "Overgas".

Personal photographer of President Barack Obama's official photographer for the White House will be a 54-year veteran of American photojournalism, Pat Souza. This RIA Novosti reported with reference to the release of the National Photographic Association of the United States. For Souza will be the second "term" in the White House because he was the official photographer for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Souza met with Senator Barack Obama in 2005 while working in the "Chicago Tribune". He took a picture of Obama's work in U.

This crisis is unprecedented in the history of the gas market. Ttova said, quoted by RIA Novosti vice-president of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev. According to him, Russia The company is confident it will be able to handle the supply gas to Europe, regardless of the behavior of the Ukrainian leadership. This is an unprecedented irresponsibility of the state in whose territory they supply 80% of natural gas to Europe, Medvedev said Ukraine's behavior.

Bulgaria remains the most seriously affected by the Russian gas conflict, said the European Commission. From there, make sure you do everything necessary to help the country cope with the situation. Specific options will be looking at the end of this week, the European Commission is in constant contact with the Bulgarian authorities.

France is a revolutionary reform of the justice system with the liquidation of the Institute of the investigative judge, perhaps the most important part of it, the newspaper "Le Figaro". Powers of investigators will be sent to the prosecutor, whose powers will be, on the one hand, expanding on the other hand will be strengthened control measures of the Ministry of Justice.

President Danilo Turk, Slovenia intends in future to receive lower wages and at the same time to limit their visits to other countries, reports AFP. The purpose of the state chapter Balkan country is an example of his country at the time when the world is covered by the financial crisis in Europe and has been gaining considerable scandal gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine about marketing ", blue" fuel.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, quoted by the "new" transit, which will be released as soon as the work of independent monitoring in Ukraine. "What can I do now to get out quickly from the crisis? Immediately formed a monitoring mechanism and send observers to the Ukrainian entry and exit Russia for gas transit. Only when this mechanism will be created when people rise up and begin to work in the same hour, the gas come, "Putin said.

Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans very disappointed union. This study shows the sociological institute Forsa, cited "Deutsche Welle". 20 years ago, 71% of East Germans were expecting to improve their personal standards, today only 46% say that it happened. In the West the same figure is 40 per cent in 1989 was 59%.

Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Regions called on the president and the government must resign if they can not provide every household heating and gas, and the company - to work as usual, ITAR-TASS reported. The position of the largest Ukrainian opposition is expressed in the declaration, the text was circulated today. The Ukrainian people will receive from the "orange" government, worthy of a "gift" - the middle of winter, the state remained without gas, the party said in a statement.

Australia refused to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military base, so to meet the demand of U.S. officials. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gilard said that the decision is consistent with Australia's immigration policy and national security arguments. This is not the first time when the country rejected a similar request. Julia Gilard added that, despite several consecutive failures, Australia, remains open to such requests from the United States. Each case is assessed individually.

This will be the most important speech of his life - one that Obama will make a decision on January 20 after he was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president. Text of Obama's speech in the world is going now. He writes his material in its website, the radio "Deutsche Welle". The first historical manuscript speech the first black U.S. president is stored in a computer built by a young man who looks like an advanced student in the semester.