The police of the Vake-Saburtalo district of Tbilisi confirmed the information that on the night from Sunday to Monday, an explosive device was planted in the entrance of the house where Eduard Shevardnadze's daughter lives with her family. According to Rosbalt, the department notes that the bomb has nothing to do with Shevardnadze's daughter.

The procedure for entry into and exit from Russia of Georgian citizens living in Adzharia will be temporarily simplified from December 9, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. As noted in the Foreign Ministry, this decision was made "taking into account the line of the Russian Federation on the gradual easing of the visa regime with the Republic of Georgia, and also taking into account the humanitarian aspect of this problem."

Explosion A police officer blew up a grenade at a disco in the Varzi-Chikchi sanatorium in Udmurtia, RIA Novosti reports. 16 children were injured. As the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation specify the information department, the policeman blew up the grenade "from hooligan motives." The age of the victims is from 8 to 15 years. “There are no threats to teenagers,” the Ministry of Emergencies noted.

In the capital, during the parliamentary elections, crime fell by half, the official representative of the Moscow police department, police lieutenant colonel Yevgeny Gildeev, told RIA Novosti. "Over the past 24 hours, 204 crimes were registered in the Russian capital, which is a record low for our metropolis," he said. In particular, only six anonymous reports of allegedly planted bombs were recorded in Moscow on Sunday.

The election results increase the uncertainty of the situation around Yukos, Sibneft and RAO UES of Russia. This opinion was expressed to RBC by Alexei Kazakov, Senior Analyst at IBG NIKoil. In particular, the analyst points to the fact that opponents of Anatoly Chubais, chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia, whose shares are the most liquid stock on the Russian market, have strengthened their positions in the new Duma.

Luzhkov was dissatisfied with the fact that the right did not get into the Duma, reports Interfax. As a result of the fact that the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko did not overcome the five percent barrier, "we have got an unbalanced system in the lower house of the Russian parliament," Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said Monday at a press conference at the Moscow City Electoral Committee.

Zyuganov. Photo from the site xfilesrus.narod.ru The Russian communists, who had lost almost half of the electorate over the past four years, called the first results of the parliamentary elections "Fars" and spoke about the "crisis of democracy" and the upcoming redistribution of property, reports Reuters. “You have an alliance of a thievesous oligarchy, corrupt bureaucracy and Zhirinov region.

SPS logo from the site www.sps.ru On Monday, the deputy head of the Parliamentary faction of the ATP in the State Duma of the 3rd convocation, Alexander Barannikov, said that even at the stage of forming a party list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma from the Union of Right Forces, all its members included in this list wrote a statement of voluntary resignation from leading posts if the party does not overcome a 5 % barrier.

Asteroid burner. From the site neo.jpl.nasa.gov Scientists from the United States and the Czech Republic for the first time managed to register a barely noticeable, but theoretically very important force of illiteration origin, acting on all celestial bodies in the solar system. To do this, with the help of a gigantic space radio -radio -radio -player for a number of years, it was extremely subtle measurements of the orbital path of one of the near -Earth asteroids.

In Kazakhstan, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Taraz (south of the country). As a result, the pilot died, and three passengers were taken to the hospital in serious condition. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Regional Department for Emergency Situations, Colonel Kuban Sadyrov. The helicopter, owned by the private company Tien Shan, fell, caught on the lightning rod of a high-voltage tower.

Dmitry Rogozin considers the deputy chairman of the Rodina bloc to be the best candidate for the post of chairman of the State Duma, Alexander Zhukov, RIA Novosti reports.

The Electoral Commission of the Chechen Republic published the preliminary results of voting on federal lists and elections in a single-mandate district. Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, chairman of the Chechen electoral committee, told RIA Novosti that as of 10:00 Moscow time, 57.7% of the ballots had been processed. "According to the results of voting in the federal district, the United Russia party is in the lead, which won 75.1% of the vote. The SPS is in second place with 5.93%.

It will be easier for the Russian government to carry out economic reforms, including unpopular ones, through the new State Duma, said Andrei Sharonov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development. It is reported by Reuters. United Russia is a formal ally of the government. We are counting on serious support from United Russia, Sharonov said.

Boris Gryzlov. Photo from the site www.vip.lenta.ru Boris Gryzlov will be the speaker of the Duma. So believes the secretary of the General Council of United Russia Valery Bogomolov. Arriving in the CEC and going out to the journalists, he stated that Boris Glyzlov was a "consolidating and arranging figure as a speaker of the new Duma," Gazeta.ru reports.

One of the leading Russian investment banks, Troika Dialog, may change owners again, writes Vedomosti . Its three shareholders - Alexander Mamut, a member of the RSPP bureau, Valentin Zavadnikov, a member of the Federation Council, and Andrei Rappoport, deputy chairman of the board of RAO UES of Russia, are negotiating the sale of their shares in the company to another group of shareholders, headed by President Ruben Vardanyan. The Troika Dialog group of companies was founded in 1991.