UN Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed the Russian president with a corresponding request. In January 2005, an agreement was signed in Sudan to end the civil war that had lasted 21 years. But in the Darfur province in the west of the country, an armed conflict is still ongoing, killing tens of thousands of people. The UN Security Council has repeatedly threatened Sudan with sanctions, demanding that the militants be disarmed.

The former head of YUKOS, serving a sentence in a general regime colony in the Chita region, received his first penalty. According to lawyer Yuri Shmidt, the machine on which Khodorkovsky sewed mittens broke down, after which the prisoner went to look for a mechanic and received a penalty for leaving his place of work without permission. Now the court can reject the request to transfer to a light regime of detention.

Russian sailors, released from custody on December 14, were unable to fly out of Nigeria today. Customs officers did not allow them to board the plane, which was supposed to fly to London and then to Moscow, explaining this by the lack of necessary documents.

In society M&M. "Master and Margarita" in a television retelling December 21, 2005 Elena Afanasyeva Share 58.6, rating 29.7! This is rating data - an indicator of how the viewers watched the first two episodes shown last Monday on the TV channel "Russia" of the series Vladimir Bortko "Master and Margarita" .

I ask the first few lines of this text in the form of short expressive shouts of absolutely abnormitative content. Introduced? I just read the first lane of the newspaper Izvestia of the Udmurt Republic, from hopelessness and lack of sleep I took from the Stewardess on the Izhevsk-Moscow plane. Newspaper of December 20.

In the regions Everything is valid - reasonable December 21, 2005 Alexander Cherkasov Last Sunday, the audience of Channel One was able to appreciate the Megablockbaster “Personal Room”, which went to the film distribution last year.

In the State Duma, where the faction of the party in power has long been famous for luring away representatives of other political forces, an unexpected precedent occurred. Member of the State Duma Committee on Defense Nikolai Bezborodov decided to move from the United Russia faction to the Rodina faction, led by Vice Speaker Sergei Baburin. Colleagues did not dissuade the deputy and granted his request.

Parliamentarians acted, of course, strictly in accordance with the law. “We, first of all, must insure the life and health of the deputy,” said the editor of the project, deputy Alexander Krutov, at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma on Wednesday.

There are two cities of federal significance in Russia - Moscow and St. Petersburg. But deputies do not rule out that after consultation with the regions, the list of settlements in which gambling activities will be prohibited may be expanded. This measure is in line with global practice in this area, according to which gambling establishments are located outside residential areas.