In the United States, a trial has begun over a nurse who confessed to investigators in the murder of 30 to 40 of his patients. According to the AP, all those killed were seriously ill in the last stages of the disease. 43-year-old Charles Cullen confessed that he injected them with a lethal injection to end the torment. Thus, he "helped" the sick since 1987 in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The leaders of the Union of Right Forces, who have remained in their posts, intend to actively engage in unification with Yabloko, reports the results of the party's political council held on Monday. the Gazeta newspaper "The results of the last elections to the State Duma showed that the fragmentation of democratic liberal parties is the main reason for our defeat in the elections," the document adopted by the political council says.

The militants entered Dagestan from Chechnya, Mukhu Aliyev, chairman of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, told Interfax. "According to the stories of local residents, the militants spoke to them in Russian, and among themselves in Chechen," said the speaker of the Dagestan parliament. He completely ruled out the possibility that a group of militants could penetrate Dagestan from the territory of Georgia.

Paul McCartney gave his wife Heather Mills and daughter Beatrice a song for Christmas, Actustar reports. Actually, this is not about a new song, but about a new orchestration of the little-known Beatles song "Mother and Child". McCartney overdubbed an old recording with harp and violins.

A 15-year-old teenager suspected of extortion was detained by officers of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The teenager demanded that 120 thousand dollars be transferred to the current account, otherwise threatening to blow up one of the metro stations in St. Petersburg. As Rosbalt was told in the press service of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the region, a letter with a threat arrived on December 12 at the email address of the Vesti - St.

The owner of the coffin business, German Sterligov, became the first self-nominated candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Moscow City Court, during the trial on the case of explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, significant contradictions were revealed between the testimony of the defendant Adam Dekkushev, which he gave during the preliminary investigation and in court. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Tuesday after the end of a closed hearing in court by lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the interests of several families affected by the terrorist attacks.

The Communist Party sent an official appeal to the Central Election Commission regarding violations during the elections to the State Duma, Ekho Moskvy reports. According to Sergei Potapov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who heads the control group for parallel vote counting, a note sent by the communists to the Central Election Commission claims that the correct vote count revealed gross falsification of the election results.

Russian citizen Nikolai Tess was found guilty by a Latvian court of drawing up paperwork for the deportation of 42 "kulak" families to remote regions of the USSR. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to ITAR-TASS. As an extenuating circumstance, the court took into account the age and state of health of the former Chekist: he is 82 years old and has the first group of disability. Nikolai Tess was sentenced to two years of probation.

Boris Berezovsky. Boris Berezovsky decided to challenge the results of elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This is stated in the press release of the London office of Berezovsky, the text of which is at the disposal of the editorial office of the Grani.ru.

President Vladimir Putin signed the federal law "On Amendments and Additions to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation", adopted by the State Duma on November 21 and approved by the Federation Council on November 26, 2003, RBC was told in the press service of the head of state.

A Canadian farmer who is accused of murdering 15 prostitutes could soon be charged with the murder of 7 more, according to the Canadian Press. Unofficially, Robert Picton is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of 6 dozen moths. He allegedly buried their bodies at his pig farm, or fed them to pigs. He was first implicated in the killings when DNA samples collected from the farm were found to contain the DNA of missing prostitutes.

told Kommersant Sources in the government of Bashkiria that the resignations of the prosecutor of the republic, Florida Baikov, and his first deputy, Vladimir Korostylev, are directly related to the election of the president of the republic. Baykov resigned "of his own free will", and his first deputy was relieved of his post due to the fact that they "made mistakes" and "failed to ensure the observance of the law during the election campaign," he explained. O.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov expressed his concern over the verdict handed down on Tuesday by a Latvian court to former Chekist Nikolai Tess, who took part in the deportation of kulaks. "Russia is deeply concerned about how the Latvian legislation is being applied - selectively and to please a political order," the deputy minister said in this connection on the air of the Mayak radio station.

The Moscow prosecutor's office handed over to the relatives of the bodies of five victims of a terrorist attack near the National Hotel in the center of the capital a week ago. "All forensic medical examinations have been completed, the identities of the dead have been established, in connection with which the bodies have been handed over to relatives," an official representative of the Moscow prosecutor's office told Interfax.