Written off submarines. Photo from the site www.tusovkavlad.ru The Commission of the General Staff of the Russian Navy completed the work on the study of the circumstances of the emergency on one of the atomic submarines of the Pacific Fleet (TOF). This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax. As a result of the emergency, as previously reported, the 19-year-old SHI Dmitry Koval died.

Sukha Arafat. Photo by ar France handed over to the widow of Yasir Arafat the history of his illness. As the Air Force reports with reference to the words of Sukhi Arafat, she will study the document and then decide whether it should be released. Officials of the Palestinian autonomy requested a medical history in connection with numerous rumors regarding the causes of the death of the Palestinian leader. According to French laws, doctors are not required to disclose the cause of death.

Yuganskneftegaz. Photo from the official site "Yukos" The Menatep group, the main shareholder of the Yukos NK, began litigation against the Russian Federation as part of the energy charter. According to Gazeta.ru, the managing director of the group Tim Ozborn stated on Saturday. According to him, which is quoted by the oil information agency, Menatep began a proceedings after an announcement of the Yuganskneftegaz competition.

In Pakistan, a bus crash killed 21 people and injured about 20. According to Reuters, citing representatives of the Pakistani police, the crash occurred near the city of Chichawatni in the province of Punjab. The bus, in which the participants of the wedding ceremony were traveling, lost control, broke through the bridge fence and fell into a cliff.

Blizzard. Photo from the ORT website A storm warning was announced on the territory of St. Petersburg, Karelia, Novgorod and Leningrad regions. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the North-West Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. According to the forecast of the North-West Interregional Territorial Administration of Roshydrometenthenter, on Sunday, November 21 in St.

At least 18 people were killed and 52 injured when three buses collided on a densely foggy road in central Iran. This was reported by the country's state television on Saturday, according to Reuters. The buses drove one after the other and collided when two of them simultaneously tried to overtake the front one, the report said, citing police sources. The accident occurred on the road between the cities of Isfahan and Golpayegan.

Missiles. Photo from the site www.7news.ru The United States imposed new sanctions against a state -owned company in Russia - for illegal trade in military technology. This was reported by Radio "Freedom". In July, the United States imposed some secret sanctions against this company, the name of which was not reported. Now it is known - this is the federal research and production complex "Altai". Secret sanctions were lifted against him, new - public ones were introduced instead.

Putin and Bush at a meeting in Santiago. Photo by ar On Santiago on Saturday, the APEC summit was opened. According to RIA Novosti, the meeting in the Congress Center Espasio Resko is held under the motto. Representatives of 21 states participate in the summit. Previously, the Russian delegation that was extinguished by Vladimir Putin held a number of bilateral meetings. In particular, at the Hayat Hotel he met with US President George Bush.

Written off submarines. Photo from the site www.tusovkavlad.ru The military prosecutor’s office opened and is investigating a criminal case, initiated by the death of the sailor on the submarine standing by the pier in Kamchatka. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the press secretary of the troops and forces in the north-east of Russia Georgy Romanovich.

Bagapsha supporters. Photo by ITAR-TASS A meeting of the Council of Elders of the Unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, which began on Saturday in the morning, was unexpectedly torn. According to ITAR -TASS, the reason was the sudden arrival of about a hundred elderly people - supporters of Sergei Bagapsha at today's meeting.

Street mess in Santiago. Frame NTV The Chilean police were forced to use tear gas and a water cannon to disperse the demonstration of the anti -globalists, which takes place on Friday in Santiago and was timed to conduct the APEC summit. It is reported by the Air Force. About 20 people from several hundred participants in the protest rally were arrested: a few hours before Piece in Santiago Putin and Bush, the demonstration turned into a street battle.

Cloning. Illustration from the site http://rcc.ru The American initiative on the ban on the cloning of the human embryo, including for scientific purposes, was rejected by the UN on Friday evening. Instead, as AFP reports, the UN General Assembly Committee adopted a compromise declaration against a human cloning that will not impose such severe obligations. According to sources in the organization, the debate on the American initiative may take place in February.

A representative of the main headquarters of the Estonian Defense Forces said on Saturday that Russian aircraft violated Estonian airspace twice the day before. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. According to the representative of the headquarters, "last Friday at 18.14, the Russian An-26 transport aircraft, flying according to the flight plan, entered the Estonian airspace in the vicinity of the island of Windloo for a minute without permission.

A protest rally against the transfer of the Kuril Islands of Japan. Frame NTV On Saturday, thousands of residents of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk went to the central square of the city to protect the inviolability of the Kuril Islands. As NTV reports, both the Communists and the Social Democrats came with their slogans. On some posters, inscriptions in Russian, in others - in English. The calls to the authorities sound to prevent the possible transfer of the Russian territory of Japan.

Capital airports operate on Saturday with restrictions, in the so-called "actual weather" mode. This, according to Interfax, was reported by a representative of the Russian aviation authorities. According to the aviation authorities, to date, 23 flights headed for Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports have left for alternate airfields due to poor visibility. Visibility in the area of ​​Moscow airports is currently about 600 meters.