On December 2, electricity was cut off at the Moscow Cinema Museum. According to Naum Kleiman, director of the Museum of Cinema, this decision was made by the management of the Cinema Center, in whose building the museum is located. According to Kleiman, the property dispute is in court, but the state, having given the Museum of Cinema the status of a state museum, does not interfere in the conflict.

Amnesty International strongly condemns any attempt to return internally displaced persons to Chechnya until the authorities can guarantee their safety. This is stated in the press release of the human rights organization. Amnesty International issued an appeal after the plans of the Russian authorities to close the camps for Chechen refugees in Ingushetia by the end of January 2003 became known.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has completed an internal internal investigation into the causes of the crash of the Russian Tu-154 aircraft, shot down on October 4, 2001 by a Ukrainian missile over the Black Sea during the exercises of the Ukrainian air defense forces. This, according to RIA Novosti, was announced on Monday at a press conference in Kyiv by Ukrainian Defense Minister Volodymyr Shkidchenko.

In the Arkhangelsk region, 150 kilometers west of Arkhangelsk, in the area of ​​the Onega Bay of the White Sea, four fishermen were carried away on an ice floe. About this on Monday RIA Novosti reported in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. Currently, in search of fishermen carried away on an ice floe, a MI-8 helicopter takes off into the open sea, the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted.

On Monday morning, UN inspectors began to inspect the Karama military plant in Baghdad's Waziriya district. Immediately after the arrival of experts, the entrances and exits from the complex were blocked. According to one of the Iraqi engineers, who was stopped at the entrance to the closed area, there has been no recent work on the production of weapons on the territory of the plant. The territory of "Karama" is surrounded by a high fence with barbed wire.

According to the first unofficial results of Sunday's elections in Slovenia, Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek became the president of this country. According to RIA Novosti, referring to the results of the processed voting data, Drnovshek is in the lead with 55 percent of the vote. For the chief prosecutor of the republic, Barbara Bresigar, 44 percent of voters cast their votes. Approximately 52 percent of citizens with the right to vote took part in the elections.

Last weekend in the forest near the highway Nizhny Tagil - Kushva, an unknown girl of 3-4 years old was found, who identified herself as Dasha. The girl was in a construction trailer on the territory of the shift camp in the area of ​​the 149th kilometer of the highway, RIA Novosti reports. The child was sent to the hospital. Police officers are conducting activities to search for the relatives of the girl.

Former Belarusian Ambassador to Japan Pyotr Kravchenko said that he "is not going to apply for political asylum and intends to return to his homeland" in connection with the end of his business trip.

Early Monday morning, a passenger bus crashed in the state of Chiapas, southern Mexico. The car lost control and fell off a steep 200-meter cliff, AP reports. As a result, 19 people died and 23 were injured. Most of the passengers were schoolteachers who planned to stage a protest against the underfunding of education in the city of Palenque.

The Israeli military opened fire in the Jenin market. In response, a Palestinian sniper also opened fire. According to Ha'aretz, citing eyewitnesses, a teenager died as a result, and 16 more Palestinians were injured. The incident happened during the curfew. According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces, which was broadcast by Israel Radio, a cartridge clip was found on the murdered teenager.

A powerful eruption of Mount Etna occurs during these hours in Sicily. According to ITAR-TASS, from the northern crater, located at an altitude of 2750 meters above sea level, fountains of liquid magma rise to a height of 300-400 meters. Black clouds of gases and ash are erupting from the southern crater. The runway of the Catania airport is covered with ash. The airport is closed. The eruption has already caused severe damage to agriculture and tourism in Sicily.

On December 11, a congress of the peoples of Chechnya will be held in Grozny, RIA Novosti reports. The organizing committee for the forum was headed by the first deputy head of the administration of the republic, Taus Dzhabrailov. The committee included representatives of political organizations, as well as prominent public and religious figures, who came up with the initiative to hold a congress of the peoples of Chechnya.

Scientists who are developing a new antimalarial vaccine are satisfied with the first results of their work. The drug is effective at least for a certain category of patients. Trials of the new drug are now starting in the Gambia, Kenya and the UK to see if it is possible to expand the scope of the vaccine, reports the BBC. Today, more than 300 million people in the world are infected with malaria every year, with the disease claiming more than a million lives each year.

The rockets used in Mombasa to fire on an Israeli Arkia passenger plane are related to last year's incident in Prague. According to the British Telegraph, in November 2001, unknown terrorists tried to shoot down the plane of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In both the Prague and Mombasa incidents, Strela MANPADS were used, produced at one of the factories in the vicinity of Moscow in May 1974.

26-year-old doctor of the Republican Hospital in Chisinau Ruslan Chekati and 21-year-old Roman Popushoi were detained by the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova on suspicion of involvement in trafficking in human organs. Both were accused of recruiting and sending a 21-year-old boy to Turkey to sell a kidney, RIA Novosti was told at the Moldavian Interior Ministry.