Valentin Danilov. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The initiative group "General Action" made a statement in connection with the arrest of physicist Valentin Danilov.

The Dalai Lama did not apply for a Russian visa. According to Reuters. This was stated by the spokesman for the government of Tibet in exile, Thubten Samphel. At the same time, Sampkhel noted, the Dalai Lama "would be glad to visit the Republic of Kalmykia." According to a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan government, the Dalai Lama "does not want to embarrass any government." Samphel confirmed that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov did indeed ask the Tibetan leader to meet with the Kalmyk Buddhists.

Mordechai Vanun. Photo by ar The Israeli police again arrested the nuclear physicist Mordechai Vanun, the Air Force reports. He was detained on suspicion of transferring secret information. In 1986, Vanuna gave an interview to Sunday Times, in which he published secret data on the work of the Israeli nuclear center in Dimon. Soon after, he was abducted by Israeli intelligence in Italy and convicted. In April of this year, he was released, having stayed behind bars of 18 years.

Fire. Photo from the site www.newsru.com According to the latest data, during a fire in a hostel in the city of Kyzyl, 25 people were killed on the night of November 9 to 10, RIA Novosti reports. Work at the scene lasted the whole last night and still go. When analyzing the burned ruins of a grocery building of the hostel, 25 corpses and about two dozen different fragments of human bodies were found to date.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree regulating the structure and "list of positions of the highest commanding staff" in this department. The number of generals in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not only not decrease, but will grow significantly, Kommersant writes on Thursday. In accordance with this decree, the police department received 437 general's rates.

Radio Liberty According to the plan proposed by the consultant of the Washington Council of the management of radio broadcasting, Paul Marshal, the Russian Service of Radio "Liberty" should be reformed. According to Marshalek, the editorial office of the Russian Service of Freedom should be transferred from Prague to Moscow.

On Thursday morning, a bus crashed on the Irkutsk-Bratsk highway, 45 km from the city of Tulun. There were 25 passengers in the Ikarus cabin. As a result of the accident, two residents of Bratsk, aged 55 and 66, were injured. They were taken to the central district hospital with moderate injuries, Gazeta.ru reports. It is reported that the driver lost control of the corner, and the bus slid into a ditch.

Placks by Yasir Arafat. Photo by Canadian Press The administration of the Paris hospital "Persia", where the 75-year-old Palestinian leader Jasir Arafat has been treated since the end of October, officially announced his death, reports Reuters. Death was recorded at 05.30 Moscow time on November 11, 2004, said Christian Estritis, the attending physician of the Palestinian leader.

Profitable reserves of Russian gold will be exhausted in 2011. This statement was made by the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, speaking on Thursday at a meeting of the Russian government, RBC reports. The Cabinet of Ministers is considering a long-term program for studying the subsoil and reproducing the mineral resource base of Russia for 2005-2010.

Federals. Photo from the site www.chechenpress.com On Thursday, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled an acquittal against officers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, accused of the murder of three civilians of Chechnya. RIA Novosti was reported in court. The criminal case was sent for a new consideration to the North Caucasus Military Court from the stage of the preliminary investigation.

On Thursday, a group of victims of the storming of the Dubrovka Theater Center and lawyer Karinna Moskalenko received access to previously secret orders from the Moscow prosecutor's office justifying the execution of militants on the spot, the use of gas and the actions of the Medina authorities. The lawyers and the victims have been trying to get their hands on these decisions for a year and a half, according to a message received by Graney.Ru.

Vladimir Putin and Boris Gryzlov. Photo by ar To participate in the farewell ceremony with the deceased leader of the Palestinian Autonomy Yasir Arafat, the Russian delegation led by the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov is sent to Cairo, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the PA representative office in Russia. The delegation includes the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexander Saltanov and the head of the CCI Evgeny Primakov.

A rally in defense of veterinarians. Photo from the site www.psdp.ru The Presidium of the Moscow City Court canceled the decision of the cassation board of the city court on the abolition of the sentence to Vetrich Alexander Duki. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the lawyer of the veterinarian Yevgeny Chernousov. With the protest of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office turned to the decision of the cassation board.

Alexander Veshnyakov. Photo from the site www.radiorus.ru The head of the Russian Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, said that the slow work of his Ukrainian colleagues is associated with the "costs of democracy", RIA Novosti reports.

A Muscovite filed a lawsuit with the Butyrsky Court of Moscow to recover 100 thousand rubles from McDonald's for a burn from coffee spilled from a cup. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Thursday by lawyer Maxim Dombrovitsky, representing the interests of the plaintiff. According to the lawyer, his client Olga Kuznetsova wants compensation for first and second degree burns from spilled coffee. Kuznetsova demands to reimburse her for the cost of treatment in the amount of 500 rubles.