Victor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Photo from umoloda.kiev.ua Spokesman Viktor Yushchenko Irina Gerashchenko denied information about the negotiations of the opposition candidate with Leonid Kuchma. Earlier, according to Gazeta.ru, the headquarters of Yushchenko said that negotiations are already underway from 9.00 (10.00 Moscow time). “We are surprised that Kuchma through the press said that he was ready for negotiations,” Gerashchenko said.

Victor Yushchenko. Photo by ar The presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko said that he was ready to re -vote in the second round of the presidential election. He hopes that this will become the basis for the peaceful settlement of civil conflict, RIA Novosti reports. “We are ready to cross the second round,” Yushchenko announced, speaking on Wednesday on the Maidan of Nezalevniy in Kyiv.

Miriam Evikova, an employee of the Czech "Organization for Assistance to Refugees", a citizen of Slovakia, who was abducted on June 1 in the North Caucasus, has been released, Gazeta.ru reports citing Interfax. "She is alive, is in a satisfactory condition," - said a source in the power structures of the Southern Federal District.

Kiev "Dynamo" in his field took the Italian "Roma". The quality of the game was significantly affected by heavy snowfall, which did not stop for 90 minutes. However, the people of Kiev managed to show better football and won with a score of 2:0. Throughout the first half, the hosts owned the initiative, but failed to benefit from it. For the first forty-five minutes, not a single shot was made on target - neither by Dynamo nor by Roma players.

On November 24, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine issued an official report on the detention of two Russian citizens who were allegedly hired for $250,000 to "stage an assassination attempt on Viktor Yushchenko." It is reported by Kommersant. From-ua.com transmits the details of the incident.

Peter Simonenko. Photo from Newsru.com The Communist Party of Ukraine called on Wednesday to recognize the presidential elections invalid and transfer the full power of the Verkhovna Rada. This was stated by the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Peter Simonenko, reports Ukrainian Pravda. "Given the mass facts of falsifications, I consider it necessary to recognize the presidential elections of 2004 invalid.

State Duma deputies at a meeting on Wednesday adopted a statement "On the situation in Ukraine," RBC reports. 423 deputies voted for the statement, there were no votes against, six deputies abstained.

Victor Yushchenko in the Verkhovna Rada. Photo AP The head of the Supreme Council of Justice (all) of Ukraine, Nikolai Shelest, recommended that the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko appeal to the Supreme Court to achieve invalid voting results in a number of polling stations during the presidential election. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax.

Leonid Kuchma. Photo from the site www.ukraine.ru Closer to midnight, Leonid Kuchma called on political forces to sit down at the negotiating table. It was at this time that his statement was extended. "I turn to all political forces in Ukraine - immediately sit down at the negotiating table, to attract the most authoritative people from different regions of the state to this process," the first national state channel said.

The Russian side demanded that the Lvov authorities take measures to ensure the security of the Russian Consulate General and Russian employees in connection with the "sharp aggravation of the situation around the Russian Consulate General." This is stated in the message of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, sent to RIA Novosti.

Alexander Moroz. Photo from the site www.tovarish.com.ua The leader of the Ukrainian Socialist Party, Alexander Moroz, suggested that the CIKs be excluded when summing up the elections of the voting results in those areas in which representatives of the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko were excluded from the commissions. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax.

As a result of the release of chromium-containing dust, the city of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, was polluted. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the release occurred at the Russian Chrome enterprise. According to Leonid Nagovitsyn, the chief specialist of the municipal department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the emergency occurred after the air filters failed at the enterprise.

Over the past three months, employees of the internal security department of the Chechen Interior Ministry have detained 46 police officers on suspicion of complicity with militants. This, according to Gazeta.Ru, was reported by acting. Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic, Militia Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Alkhanov. “Criminal cases have been initiated against some of them, others have been dismissed from the bodies for negative reasons.

Yulia Tymoshenko communicates with special forces. Photo AP On the morning on Wednesday, the current President Leonid Kuchma will negotiate with the opposition on the transfer of power. About this, the leader of the Coalition "The Power of the People" Yulia Tymoshenko reported on Wednesday the crowd of her supporters, picket the Presidential Administration on Bankova Street.

In the North Caucasus, three border guards fell under an avalanche. According to RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of the North Caucasus regional border guard FSB, two of them died. Soldiers on a tractor were clearing snow from a mountain road at the site of the Nazran border detachment.