Smarts The SMARTS SCOM operator, conducting the struggle against unfriendly absorption with the Sigma group, chose the St. Petersburg lawyer Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners as a legal partner. This is written on Tuesday "Kommersant". One of the founders of the bureau is the professor of the Department of Civil Law of the Yurfak SPbSU Nikolay Egorov - a classmate and friend of Vladimir Putin.

Susanna Dudieva is the head of the Beslan Mother Committee. Photo by ar The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, at the request of the victims, will arrange a confrontation of the operational headquarters, created during the capture of the school in Beslan. It is reported by RIA "Novosti".

Firefighters. Photos of faces Three people died and two were injured as a result of an explosion in two garage complexes in the south of Moscow. This was reported on Tuesday Prime-Tass with reference to the fire service of the capital. The signal of the incident in the garage complex on Proletarsky Prospekt, 21, entered the “01” remote control at about 13.40 Moscow time. Light complexes are located from each other at a distance of up to 300 meters. The causes of the incident are clarified.

A plane crashed off the coast of Miami. Amateur shooting, ar A plane crashed off the coast of Miami, on board of which there were 20 people. As AR reports, the disaster occurred near the city of Miami Beach. Hydroplan belonged to Chalk's Ocean Airways. He fell into the water on Monday at about 23.00 Moscow time. According to eyewitnesses, the plane exploded in the air. Currently, rescuers have already found 19 bodies of the dead.

Police. Photos of faces In the suburbs, an attack was made on a commercial bus, in which 17 passengers were traveling - Vietnam citizens. This was reported to Interfax on Tuesday by a source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region. The incident occurred on the 86th kilometer of the Volga federal highway in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the region.

Children in the hospital. Photo from the site www.nr2.ru In Chechnya, in connection with a mysterious disease of children, all schools of the Silkovsky district were closed for two days. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." As the head of the administration of the Silkovsky district, Hussein Nukhaev, suggested, the incident is associated with the use of a gas poisoning substance. However, it has not yet been possible to determine the type of this substance.

Having analyzed the data received from several devices installed at the American Cassini interplanetary station ( Cassini ), scientists were able to identify the source of the most remote and sparse ring of Saturn. Recent observations showed that tiny particles of frozen water are stuck into space from the South Pole of the Saturnian Enzeladus satellite ( Encladus ). The source of geological activity on the Enzelad is still a secret.

The National Bolsheviks welcome the liberation of the Decembrists ''. Photos of faces Thirty activists of the National Bolshevik Party were arrested for the capture of the Nikulinsky court and taken to the police department, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the NBP.

Application "al-Qaida". Photo Reuters The Spanish intelligence services among the detained activists of Al-Qaeda discovered a native of Belarus, NTV reports. The operation under the code name "Soyuz" began simultaneously in three Spanish districts. More than a hundred police officers and Spanish intelligence officers take part in it. On the first day, 16 people were arrested-all of them, according to the authorities, are active participants in the Al-Qaida movement.

Tu-154. Photo from the site www.regnum.ru In the Norilsk airport "Alykel" (Krasnoyarsk Territory), the landing passenger aircraft Tu-154 moved from the runway and shot down several lighting lights. According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday in the Office for Civil Defense and Emergencies of Norilsk, the incident occurred the day before, none of the passengers and crew members were injured. It is assumed that the cause of the incident could be a lateral wind.

Joseph Stalin. Grani.ru collage On December 21, a monument to Stalin will be opened in the district center of North Ossetia, Interfax reports. "The opening of the monument is timed to the birthday of Stalin, to which in Ossetia there was always a special attitude in Ossetia, because Ossetians consider him their fellow tribesman on his father - the poor shoemaker Vissarion Dzhugashvili (Dzugaev)," said the representative of the regional department of the Communist Party.

A gas pipeline. Photo from the site www.itartass.ur.ru Georgia will buy Russian gas at a price of $ 110 per thousand cubic meters. As RIA Novosti Sovets, this was stated by Prime Minister of the Republic Zurab Nogaidel after negotiations with the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom OJSC Alexander Ryazanov. Prior to this, the price of gas for Georgia was $ 68 per thousand cubic meters. In 2005, Georgia acquired 1.3 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia.

Tatyana Mitkova. Photo from the site www.kinoart.ru Tatyana Mitkova can leave the post of chief editor of the NTV information programs in early 2006, reports Echo of Moscow. A source close to Gazprom-Media claims that Mitkova made an offer to switch to another job. He did not specify where exactly.

One of the schoolgirls poisoned in Chechnya. Frame NTV Over the past day, 13 more children entered the Republican Children's Hospital in Grozny with signs of poisoning, four of them are in serious condition. This was reported on Tuesday RIA Novosti in the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia.

Folk combatants. Photos of faces From the beginning of 2006, the city headquarters of student operational detachments will begin to work in Moscow, which “on a voluntary basis” will help the police. This is written on Tuesday "Kommersant". As the publication notes, in this way the Moscow authorities are going to restore the institute of combatants. It is planned to collect at least 10 thousand volunteers in student operational detachments.