In Azerbaijan, a bus collided with the Russians with a "KamAZ": five injured

New traffic accident in which Russian citizens have suffered, been outside the country. A passenger bus with Russian pilgrims from Mecca in the night on Tuesday into the crash in Azerbaijan. As a result of the incident, five people injured.

"Ikarus" collided with a truck KamAZ on the Rostov-Baku highway near the village of Zeynalabdin Taghiyev (20 km from Baku), as a result of various injuries were five pilgrims from Dagestan.

All the victims are placed in hospitals, they provide the necessary assistance with reference to the channel ANS Press.

Obezdnom accident happened on the road, located on the repair.

This is the third accident abroad over the past two weeks, which hit the Russian tourists. At last week's road accident occurred in Egypt. On 22 December a group of tourists back to Sharm el-Sheikh, a tour to Jerusalem. The disaster occurred 10 kilometers from Dahab on the road linking the resort of Dahab to Sharm el-Sheikh. According to preliminary reports, a bus driver, who survived the accident, much more than speed. In conditions of poor visibility on a mountain trail, and night because raged at this time in the Sinai sand storm that led to the tragedy. As a result of the death of six Russians and one citizen of Ukraine, another 17 were Russians.

Less than a week earlier, on Dec. 16, Russian citizens caught in a traffic accident in southern Israel. At 60 km from the resort city of Eilat in southern Israel fell into the abyss of a tourist bus in which a group of tour operators and tourists from St. Petersburg. The disaster has claimed the lives of 24 Russians, 25 people were injured.

Big Crash at Russian Intersection

Vladimir Putin last year gave George W. Bush samovar and a collection of sonnets

Copper and brass samovar two-collection "English sonnet XVI-XIX centuries," the Moscow publishing house "Rainbow" was U.S. President George W. Bush as a gift from his former Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their meeting in Kennebankporte held in July last year. This is evidenced by the regular list given to the leadership of the U.S. administration presents the 2007 calendar year.

It was prepared by the protocol department of the U.S. State Department and published in the so-called Federal Register - the official compilation of documents the U.S. government news agency.

As is clear from this list, First Lady of USA Lore Bush, Putin at the same summit in the written Kennebankporte handed oil painting, which show field flowers.

According to archival documents of American Foreign Minister, exchanged gifts, not only the political leaders of Russia and the United States. Previous Chief of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Army General Yuri Baluyevsky presented in November 2006, then-chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (KNSH) U.S. Armed Forces, General Peter Pace automatic 9 mm.

A former Russian Navy Vladimir Masorin in August last year gave the Chief of Staff of the Navy, the current head of KNSH, Admiral Michael Mallenu statuette of St. George, spear the dragon. His wife Masorin presented with a box for jewelry and a bracelet.

Perhaps the most expensive of those on the list of gifts were presented U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Do their Arab monarchs. King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud handed the boss of U.S. diplomacy in July 2007, set decoration, comprising necklace, earrings, bracelet and ring of rubies and diamonds worth 165 thousand dollars.

Jordan's King Abdullah II gave Rice a similar set of decorations, just inlaid with diamonds and emeralds. His department appreciation for the State Department protocol in 147 thousand dollars.

UN Security Council held a meeting on the situation with the pirates in Somalia and adopted a resolution

The last meeting of the UN Security Council on Somalia was aimed "at strengthening the international legal framework for states and organizations that are off the coast of the country are trying to counter the sea robbery." This was announced on Tuesday evening, Russian news conference in New York, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Approval of the members of the UN Security Council resolution "focuses on the positive response to a request from the Government of Somalia, which ... has offered to carry out operations against pirates, not only in the territorial waters of the state, but also on land and airspace," he said news agency.

"The question is not easy, because we want very much to avoid any language that would create ambiguity and to leave the field for abuse, or any free interpretation, but eventually agreed upon and adopted by consensus text (the resolution) eliminates such possibilities," - noted Minister.

Extremely important, according to Lavrov, is that "control over the whole operation remains in the hands of the UN Security Council." "He will continue to identify additional steps that will be required, and will monitor it, it will present mandate" - the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Given that the mandate approved by 12 months, one year we will have an opportunity to assess how effective were these efforts, "he added.

The resolution continued the head of Russian diplomacy, "also rightly raised the question of coordination of actions of all those who, at the request of the Government of Somalia is involved in operations to combat piracy and sea robbery."

"Russia - one of those states. We have already taken steps to ensure safety of navigation in the area in coordination with other parties, in particular from the European Union", - stressed Lavrov. In doing so, the Minister expressed the view that "additional measures for more consistent, more coordinated actions will benefit all of this work."

However, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry did not respond to the question of how exactly the territory of Somalia will be fighting pirates. "This is not discussed," - he said.

"A week ago, had requested the Government of Somalia that in addition to operations in the territorial waters of the State, was made possible action on land and airspace," - he said.

"I understand that this is simply a task that was, which was approved in principle by the UN Security Council", - said the minister. Mechanism for the realization of these shares if they are required to be determined in close contact and consultation with the Government of Somalia "- Lavrov stressed.

Oil settled at the point of 44 dollars per barrel due to the reduction of supply, OPEC

Oil is stable near 44 dollars on Tuesday after a six-reversed the downward trend on Monday because the stock markets and news of the reduction of supplies from Saudi Arabia, passes Reuters.

The market is also waiting for the OPEC summit to be held on 17 December, and which is expected to be decided on a further reduction of production to support prices, reached last week, four-year minimum.

By 8 am Moscow time January futures on the American light oil rose 18 cents to 43.89 dollars per barrel. Futures on the same sorts of Brent oil added 2 cents to 43.44 dollars per barrel.

"There is some buying interest by positive news from the U.S. - and this is facilitating the rally - said Mark Pervan of ANZ Bank. - But it may be short, since we are waiting for new negative economic data, which may delete prices."

Efforts to Washington to finalize the plan of salvation problematic American bit comforted investors, and supported global stock and commodity markets.

The Japanese Nikkei index rose by 0.5% in early trading on Tuesday, followed by Wall Street.

Prices also supported hopes for a new agreement to reduce output of OPEC, which likely will be adopted at the summit of the cartel.

OPEC has already agreed to reduce production by about 2 million barrels a day to keep prices from declining, and its members call for a new reduction at a meeting in Algiers.

The largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, which is called the "fair price" for oil 75 dollars per barrel, would increase the reduction of supply in some Asian and European customers in December and January in order to limit the rapid decline in prices.

"What can raise prices in the short term - so the decision of OPEC to next Wednesday - said Pervan. - In anticipation of the summit marked a weak buying interest."

The oil cartel will seriously fight for something that does not allow prices to fall below 40 dollars a barrel, despite the fact that in the short-term forecasts show lower prices - said the representative of the management company BlackRock.

Chart: Oil price NZ dollars

Hirsch: Should we reform the law on the end of life?

After months of controversy skillfully fomented by the Association for the right to die with dignity, will be officially made public Wednesday, the evaluation report of the law on patients' rights and end of life. The time for idle controversy must end.

The consultation, conducted in full transparency and with a desire to allow everyone to express their positions, now urges us to implement the Law of 22 April 2005, to translate the principles into the practices of care and provide the means necessary for a finally fit for human and social realities of the end of life. Failing that, other models will be promoted, such as Belgium, which, in a few years, a commonplace practice of euthanasia to apply to persons affected by Alzheimer's disease or psychiatric illnesses, even operating room to remove the organs for medical or scientific ...

A few days of the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the claim by some of euthanasia to end "lives unworthy of being lived," causing our values and our attitudes surprises. In defiance of the lessons of history and battles for the sick and their relatives to be recognized in their desire to finally be able to live their life in society without discrimination, this of ultimate freedom, affirmed in the appeal the death medically administered, violates the very foundations of democracy. It gives us all innocence in the excesses of an obvious barbarism.

We can not tolerate the rhetoric of some fine minds that proclaim as a victory of moral urgency decriminalize euthanasia, without spending the less attention to those more vulnerable than others, who find such arguments as an insult, a sham, the unbearable event of a rejection which revokes their very humanity. The propagandists current medically assisted suicide very exceptional commitment which, in recent years to better recognize the right of sick or disabled people, their aspirations for a quality of existence, to a position in society and to respectful care, adapted, attentive to their profound choices, their real needs. They reinforce the logic of indifference, the renunciation or abandonment and thus the relegation of our patients at the margins of the city, in a state of insecurity and chronic vagrancy, at home or in institutions as experienced places of segregation. The early issuance of a life so unworthy of their life seems preferable to the daily experience of a covert, anonymous, undifferentiated euthanasia society.

We must resist the figures imposed a culture of death with dignity, rethink and re solidarity essential to a society worth living until its conclusion. It is argued that the existence, dignity and rights of sick or disabled people are better than the discussions attempting indecent organize the management of the death of the most vulnerable among us: those for whom our obligations to the contrary are the strongest. We must give a public expression for reflection on the meaning of life, the value of fighting for life led by the sick and their relatives to preserve human existence, the meaning of a story man , Despite what the threat.

I call for a mobilization ethics: it concerns the foundations of democratic life and seeking a dynamic of shared responsibility, a commitment to those and those waiting for our society other responses that the final solution of an assisted death.

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