Alexander Veshnyakov. Photo from the site www.old.msk.ru The Chairman of the CEC Alexander Veshnyakov sharply criticized the work of the Moscow City Writer in the elections that took place in the capital on December 4.

Dry cargo. Photo from the site www.gallery.ncv.ru The detained Russian Terney Drowning Agriculture in the near future may leave the DPRK territorial waters, Mikhail Trojan, Deputy Director of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Saturday.

Margarita Simonyan is the editor -in -chief of Russia Today. Photo by ar The first Russian round -the -clock informational English -language canal of Russia Today began a satellite round -the -clock broadcast on Saturday. "We are aired at four in the afternoon, RIA Novosti told the editor -in -chief of the television channel Margarita Simonyan.

Khabarovsk, Amur. Frame NTV In the Khabarovsk Territory on Saturday, a ban on fishing in the Amur and Liman of the River was introduced on Saturday. The resolution of the governor Viktor Ishaev also provides for a restriction of the turnover of fish products, ITAR-TASS reports. The ban on fishing will act "before the completion of all works on the assessment of the influence of chemical pollution of the Amur water on the consumer properties of fish," the resolution says.

Alexey Ivchenko. Photo from his personal site Alexei Ivchenko, was dismissed from the post of First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine - the head of the board of the Naftogaz National Joint Stock Company. This is stated in the presidential decree, which is published on the website of Viktor Yushchenko. The reason for the dismissal of Ivchenko in the document is the liquidation of the position.

A rally on the Lubyanka '' Marsh of the Disagreements '' on October 30, 2005. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru In Moscow and other cities of Russia on Saturday, the action "Marsh of the Non -Long", dedicated to the Day of the Russian Constitution, was held. About 40 people gathered on the square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station, Echo Moscow reports.

Kyrgyz police. Photo from the Air Force website The capture of the building "Pyramid" in Kyrgyzstan was stopped. According to RIA Novosti, the attackers left as soon as the deputy of the Kyrgyz parliament Kabai Karabekov, who headed the urgently created protection committee of the Pyramid, and the human rights activist Tursunbek Akun, arrived in the building.

Shamil Basaev and militants. Photo from the website of the Ministry of Defense In Chechnya, the Saudovets Abu Omar As-Seyf, whom the FSB called the "official representative of" al-Qaida "in Chechnya" was killed. As AFP reports, the message about this appeared on one of the Internet sites.

Hospital. Photo from the site 1001.vdv.ru A powerful explosion thundered in the SHYAULAIAN REPARTMENT in the north of Lithuania on Saturday. According to the duty unit of the City Commissariat of the Police, the explosion occurred in the utility basements of the surgical department. As Interfax reports, no one was injured. Patients are evacuated. The premises of the surgical department are smoky, de -energized, and elevators do not work.

Mstislav Rostropovich. Photo of 'Kommersant' On the new scene of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace” took place, the release of which was threatened two weeks ago due to the demarche of her initiator Mstislav Rostropovich. Initially, the Bolshoi Theater planned to prepare this production for the opening of the main building after the repair. However, Rostropovich asked not to postpone so for a long time, and the theater went to meet him.

Mohammed El Baradei and Yukiya Amano at the presentation of Nobel Prizes. Photo by ar In Oslo and Stockholm on Saturday, Nobel Prizes are awarded. In the capital of Norway, the Mira Prize was awarded to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed El Baradei and the chairman of the Council of Management of Yuki Amano, Reuters reports.

Robert Shekeli. Photo from the site www.locusmag.com The famous science fiction writer Robert Shekeli died on Friday, December 9, 2005. He was 77 years old. He died in Vassar Hospital at the UKOKIPSI, New York. The death of the writer is reported on his website . The place and time of the funeral will be declared until the political. In recent months, Shekeli was seriously ill.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru In the public campaign at the monument to Pushkin in Moscow, dedicated to the Day of Human Rights, about 30 people took part, the Echo of Moscow reports. Exactly at 19.00, the participants in the action removed hats and noted a minute of silence a difficult situation with human rights, which, in their opinion, has now developed in Russia.

Shekeli On the morning of December 9, Robert Shekeli died.

Congress building. Photo from the site www.morganangel.com A resolution has been submitted to the US Congress demanding that the Russian government withdraw or change the bill on public organizations. The authors of the document are the head of the International Committee of the Lower Chamber, Republican Henry Hyde and Democrat Tom Lantos, RIA Novosti was told on Saturday in the Secretariat of the House of Congress.