MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - A real estate agency director has been robbed of 1.4 million rubles ($47,650) in a traffic accident in central St. Petersburg, a police source in Russia's second largest city said on Wednesday. "Two persons

Hospital car parking charges are phased out in Scotland but there are no plans to scrap fees in England.

In compliance with an article of the law, the validity of the section 1, article 42, which envisioned that the NBU defines the refinancing policy itself, has been terminated.

Sergei Kuprianov, the spokesman for Gazprom, said this during the Moscow-London video link.

Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.

The wages at the state-financed organizations will be pegged in compliance with the law "On the indexation of the monetary income of citizens."

The 2008 state budget envisioned UAH 12 billion of state guarantees for Naftohaz Ukrainy.

The parliament endorsed the living wage of the same size valid as at December 2008.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.65-7.80 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then rose to 7.80-7.95 UAH/USD, and to 7.95-8.10 by the end of the trading.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the Ukrainian presidential press service.

Ukrzaliznytsia's press service did not specify the scheduled trains and the carrier railroads.

Allow us to assure you that we are determined to take decisive measures to secure the execution of the program, including the correction of the indexes of the budget, including those concerning the pension reform and the policies of the

We are saying the money for redemption of the debt has not come to the settlement account," he said.

The head of the Central Elections Commission complains the "parliamentary elections" in Belarus were recognised by the OSCE unfree and undemocratic.

This year has put many things in their places. Everyone has demonstrated what they are worth of, their abilities. Well-known Belarusians evaluate the results of this year in a different way, but still they agree that we are standing on

Play of BATE football club of Barysau in the UEFA Champions League can be considered a main positive event of 2008.

The ongoing crisis in Ukraine precludes talk of any achievements. The only positive that happened in 2008, Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn says, was reaching a very unstable peace in Verkhovna Rada and defusing very tense political confrontation. It gave Ukrainians some

The files of the case of the US citizen Emanuel Zeltser who is kept in the Belarusian prison are sent to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

SEVERODVINSK, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Sea trials of Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine have been postponed until spring 2009, a high-ranking Navy source said on Tuesday. (Russia launches new nuclear submarine - Image gallery) The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky

MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has invited U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to launch a joint effort to deal with global problems. In a seasonal message to Obama released by the Kremlin press service on Tuesday,