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In December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol, stated, " Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists abroad ," while in August 2010, Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said that it " is one of the best structured criminal organisations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation.
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Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.
On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.
In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.
In December 2009, the growth of tourism, with consequences for both the ecology and the safety of the travellers in its great and remote wilderness, was noted at a conference in New Zealand by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty.
This production transferred to Broadway on December 13, 2009, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt.
The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.
The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.
Lieutenant general Yurij Viktorovich Zhadobin is the Minister of Defense since December 4, 2009.
On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.
Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )
On December 1, 2006, Selig announced that he would be retiring as commissioner of baseball upon the expiration of his contract in 2009.
It was granted planning permission in December 2009 and is expected for completion by 2013.
Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.
The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.
The next congressional elections are scheduled for December 2009.
$ 4. 647 billion ( 31 December 2009 est.
In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus.
In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.
May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.
She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.
Talks of past December collapses resurfaced, and another collapse in 2009 seemed validated.
On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins ; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20 – 16.
On December 10, 2009 the RingTales produced animations were made available as a calendar application for mobile devices.
December and Timur
* 17 December – Timur defeats the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, which had been weakened after 4 years of civil war.
* Prologue to Orango ( orchestration by Gerard McBurney ), Ryan McKinny ( Veselchak, bass-baritone ), Jordan Bisch ( Voice from the Crowd / Bass, bass ), Michael Fabiano ( Zoologist, tenor ), Eugene Brancoveanu ( Orango, baritone ), Yulia Van Doren ( Susanna, soprano ), Timur Bekbosunov ( Paul Mash, tenor ), Los Angeles Master Chorale ( Grant Gershon, Music Director ), Los Angeles Philharmonic ( December 2, 2011 )
The lowest point for the dynasty however came in 1398, when Turco-Mongol invader, Timur ( Tamerlane ) defeated four armies of the Sultanate on December 15, 1398.
Mormeck fought tough Uzbek heavyweight and WBA # 7 Timur Ibragimov ( 30-3-1, 16 KO ) on 2 December 2010, at Halle Carpentier, Paris.
December and head
On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.
The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.
On 3 December 2009 Captain Moussa Dadis Camara suffered a head wound in an attempted assassination in Conakry led by his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, who is known as Toumba.
On 7 December, the head of the Ottoman fleet Tahir Bey was replaced by Ramiz Naman Bey, the leader of the hawkish faction among the officer corps.
From June 1848 until December 1848 General Cavaignac became head of the executive of the Provisional Government.
The Popular Party's head, Xhafer Ypi, formed a government in December 1921 with Fan S. Noli as foreign minister and Ahmed Bey Zogu as internal affairs minister, but Noli resigned soon after Zogu resorted to repression in an attempt to disarm the lowland Albanians despite the fact that bearing arms was a traditional custom.
On 2 December 2004, Aigars Kalvītis became the new Prime Minister and thus head of the government.
The government lasted only until 5 December 2007, when Kalvitis resigned due to his continuous and unsuccessful attempts to dismiss Aleksejs Loskutovs, the head of KNAB, the State Anti-Corruption Agency, after Loskutov's had investigated shadowy matters of the PM's party.
After the season Steckel was fired, and on December 18, 1984, Bud Grant was rehired as the head coach of the Vikings.
On 7 December, a baby was born with a fleece, which enveloped it from its head to its knees, leaving only its face, arms and lower part of its legs free.
On 23 December 2007, an agreement was made for the monarchy to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
In December 2008, Ahad Olma, head of the PLFP's military wing at the time of the assassination, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in instigating and planning the assassination.
An army of the emir managed to recapture it in 799 but Louis, at the head of an army, crossed the Pyrenees and besieged the city for two years until the city finally capitulated on December 28, 801.
The secretary of state for Foreign and Political Affairs ( Antonella Mularoni, since 3 December 2008 ) has assumed many of the prerogatives of a prime minister or head of government.
Alternatively, accounts by Carminantonio Iannaccone ( as a researched and written about by The Washington Post ) establish the creation of tiramisu by him on 24 December 1969 in Via Sottotreviso while he was head chef at Treviso, near Venice.
In December 2010, a Uruguayan, Major General Gloodtdofsky, was appointed Chief Military Observer and head of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan.
During December 1972, the UN General Assembly unanimously elected Maurice Strong to head UNEP.
However, they ended up going 7 – 6, and on December 4, 2000, Norv Turner was fired as head coach.
* December 6 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1863 )
* November 3 – December 18 – The English Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.
* On December 24, 1954, the American blues musician Johnny Ace killed himself in Texas after a gun he pointed at his own head discharged.
In December, as Prezan became the Chief of the General Staff, Antonescu, who was by now a major, was named the head of operations, being involved in the defense of Moldavia.
* December 1: Muhammad Saleh Muhammad al-Arja, 12, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by Israeli sniper fire to his head near the Rafah boder crossing.
* December 5: Ramzi Adel Muhammad Bayatnah, 15, of Abu Qash, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration near the Ayosh Junction.
* December 7: Zuhair Mustafa Ali al-Hattab, 17, of Gaza City, died of head wounds sustained Nov. 20 from IDF gunfire during a demonstration near the Karni checkpoint.
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