Counting votes in the parliamentary elections in Chechnya. Frame '' Vesti '' from the site www.newsru.com In Grozny, the official results of the Chechnya Parliament held last Sunday were declared. This was announced to Interfax by the chairman of the election commission of Chechnya Ismail Baikhanov. According to the protocols, the United Russia faction becomes the most numerous in the Chechnya parliament.

Anti -fascist rally. Photo from the site www.communist.ru In St. Petersburg on Saturday, an anti -fascist rally of memory of the murdered student of St. Petersburg University Timur Kacharava took place. As the Echo of Moscow reports, about three hundred people took part in the action.

Fragment of the cover of the book of Paul Williams '' al-Qaida. Brotherhood of Terror '' Al-Qaeda threatens to conduct terrorist attacks on a number of Western countries and Russia, Echo Moscow reports with reference to the Dutch newspaper Telegraf. According to the publication, the order to move on to active actions in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Australia and Japan comes from the Abu Musab As-Suri arrested in November in Pakistan.

Pushkin Square: Police in anticipation of manifestants. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru In connection with the upcoming elections to the Moscow City Duma, the metropolitan police were transferred to an enhanced version of the service, Echo of Moscow reports. Law enforcement agencies strengthened the patrolling of the streets, especially adjacent to election points.

Plymouth Horizon. Photo from the site www.robskorner.org On December 5, 1977, a significant event occurred in the United States - the public presented the first American small class car with the front wheel drive - Plymouth Horizon. Only four years after the 1973 oil crisis, the American automotive industry was able to establish the production of an economical front -wheel drive machine. It was at this time that the Japanese firmly settled in the US market.

Boris Grebenshchikov. Photo from the site www.rockanet.ru In Moscow, for the first time in 20 years, the concert of the Aquarium group and Boris Grebenshchikov was canceled, RIA Novosti reports. “I have not seen this since the 80s,” Grebenshchikov said. According to him, the concert was supposed to take place in the House of Culture of the Moscow Aviation Institute, which often holds similar concerts. However, the leadership of the MAI recreation center canceled the performance.

Pavel Ivlev. Photo from Newsru.com The Basmanny District Court of Moscow issued the Prosecutor General’s Office to arrest the Moscow lawyer Pavel Ivlev, who previously worked at Yukos, living in New York. This is written on Saturday "Kommersant". The prosecutor's office presented the partner of Alm Feldmans Bureau in absentia of embezzlement and laundering in an organized group of almost $ 14 billion.

Pre -election agitation. Photos of faces In Moscow, two inhabitants of the capital were detained for illegal campaigning, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, two men were engaged in illegal stirring of campaign information on the facades of city buildings. In relation to the detainees, an administrative case was opened. Materials against Yuri Zangin and Hikolai Burdov are preparing to send to court.

Alexander Barkashov. Photo from the site www.rnebarkashov.ru A criminal case has been opened against the leader of RNE Alexander Barkashov under the article “Hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy,” RIA Novosti reports. According to the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region, Barkashov organized an attack on the RUBOP employee of the Moscow Region Main Directorate.

I riots in France. Photo by ar 62 percent of Russians consider it possible to repeat French events in Moscow and other large cities of Russia. This is evidenced by the results of the survey conducted by the VTsIom. About a quarter of respondents (24 percent) do not believe in the possibility of such riots in Russian cities. Muscovites and Petersburgers are more pessimistic, among them the share of those who allow the probability of repeating French events in Russian cities is 79 percent.

Bird flu virus In two regions of Crimea - Sovetskoye and Nizhnyansky - a bird flu virus was discovered. As Interfax reports, the press service of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy reported on Saturday. In particular, the DNA of the flu of the Bird of the N5 subtype in poultry - chickens and geese in the village of Nekrasovka and the village of urban type of Sovetsky district, as well as in the villages of Izobilnoye and Emelyanovka of the Nizhnyursky district.

Kamchatka. Photo from the site Kamchatka.ru In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the first preliminary assessments of the damage caused to the city by a cyclone that came to the south of Kamchatka on December 1 were made. As ITAR-TASS reports, it is at least 25 million rubles. This was announced by the First Deputy Head of the city administration Nikolai Pegin. He emphasized that this amount can increase significantly.

Osama Bin Laden. Grani.ru collage The Pakistani security forces almost captured the leader of al-Qaida Osamu Ben Laden. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Hurriet Turkish newspaper, the President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf said. “We focused on the efforts in the same area, and, expressed in intelligence terminology, we are very close to the goal. Now we are trying to find out whether Ben Laden or not,” the Pakistani leader said in an interview with the newspaper.

Alexander Barkashov and his supporters. Photo from the site www.rnebarkashov.ru In the suburbs, during a special operation between police officers and supporters of the radical nationalist organization "Russian National Unity", a fight occurred, Interfax reports. As a source in law enforcement agencies, last night in the village of Sentsi Podolsky district, said the employees of the UBOP of the Moscow Region as part of the criminal case investigation.

The hunger strike of employees of the Biryusinsky plant. Frame NTV The workers of the Biryusinsky hydrolysis plant held a protest on the Baikal federal highway, demanding to pay off salary debts that have reached 18 million rubles. As RIA Novosti reports, about 60 people took part in the action, which continued for two hours in a 30-degree frost. According to the Biryusinsk administration, the workers did not interfere with the movement of cars on the highway.