The exploded bus in Togliatti. Photo from RIA Novosti website The explosion of a passenger bus in Togliatti was not a terrorist attack. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced in the FSB department in the Samara region. Any details are not yet given. As a result of the explosion, 8 people died, 54 were injured. Until recently, the main version remained that the CHIMIK Vakhrushev student, who was transporting Nitroglycerin, could blow up the bus.

Police. Photo from the site 'Novaya Gazeta' The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs begins to check the video posted on the website of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, on the frames of which the elderly drunk woman was beaten by an employee of law enforcement agencies taken to one of the departments of the metropolitan police, Interfax reports. "We intend to deal with this situation as soon as possible.

Baku. Photo from the site baku.ru The editor -in -chief of the opposition Azerbaijani newspaper Azadlyg ("Freedom") Ganimati Zahid stopped a weekly hunger strike, Interfax reports with reference to the newspaper Azer Akhmedov newspaper. Akhmedov informed the agency that Zahid stopped starving at the request of human rights activists, friends and colleagues who created a working group to protect the interests of the journalist.

Mi-2 helicopter. Photo from the site mi-helicopter.ru The Mi-2 helicopter crashed in the Ryazan region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Central Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. "The incident occurred at 15.20 in the Ryazan district near the village of Dyadkovo. For the so far the reason, the helicopter fell between the Oka River and the Lake. The pilot was seriously injured and is now in intensive care," the source said.

Empty red square. Photo from the site moscow.co.ru A resident of Chuvashia tried to burn himself on Red Square in Moscow, protesting against a court decision, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

A man with a gun. Photo from the site Veeer.com The criminals who had armed resistance to police in the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow surrendered. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the information management of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate. According to the information tested at the last moment, the attackers were armed with a machine gun and fired.

Shakhters. Frame NTV The Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donetsk region is evacuated due to the threat of the explosion, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the state industrial surgery of Ukraine. According to the interlocutor of the agency, all the miners are withdrawn from the mine. The technical council is assembled, which will solve the issue of installing a special explosion -proof jump at the site of the emergency site.

Football ball. Photo from Soccerteacher.net In Kutaisi, one of the most famous Georgian football coaches - Timur Nadiradze, Interfax reports with reference to a source in Georgian law enforcement agencies. According to the source, Nadiradze, his wife, the eldest son and pregnant daughter -in -law were found dead in his apartment in Kutaisi on Friday evening.

Loss in the Duma elections, in which the Union of Right Forces won only 0.96 percent of the vote, threatens the party with bankruptcy. According to Kommersant on Saturday, the party has already sold its central office on Malaya Andronyevskaya Street, and right-wing leaders are selling their property to help the party. According to sources in the party, the central party office of the Union of Right Forces at 15 Malaya Andronievskaya Street was sold back in the fall.

Fishermen on an ice floe. Frame of Channel One In the Novgorod region, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies on Lake Ilmen saved ten fishermen who found themselves on an ice floe torn from the shore, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies. "Information about fishermen located on the ice floe torn from the shore near the village of Peschanoy on the northwestern coast of Ilmen was received at about 10.00 Moscow time," the source said.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The meeting on the nomination of Vladimir Bukovsky will be held at the Museum and Public Center named after Sakharov on Sunday, December 16. This was reported on the official website of the initiative group for the nomination of Bukovsky. Earlier it was planned to hold a meeting in the Korolevsky cinema hall in the Ostankino television center.

Gennady Zyuganov. Photo from the site Politics.pravda.ru The congress of the Communist Party nominated Gennady Zyuganov as a presidential candidate. According to Interfax, 215 out of 218 congress delegates voted for the candidacy of Zyuganov. The election of the candidate was held on a non -alternative basis. During the congress, Gennady Zyuganov presented his election program.

Gas burner. Photo from News.by The price of Russian gas for Belarus in the first quarter of 2008 will be $ 119 per thousand cubic meters. According to RIA Novosti, a high -ranking source in Gazprom told about this. According to him, Gazprom itself purchases a large amount of gas, including for the needs of the CIS countries, in Central Asian states.

Avalanche. Photo from the site http://all-photo.ru Two snow avalanches, which went on the Transkavkaz highway in North Ossetia in the northern portal area, blocked a dozen cars following South Ossetia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic. "According to preliminary information, two avalanches were blocked in the northern portal of the Transkavkaz highway of about 10 cars. They have about 60 people," the source said.

Gennady Zyuganov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Communists do not intend to abandon their deputy mandates and recognize the results of the Duma elections. According to Echo of Moscow, this was announced at the Congress of the Communist Party in the suburbs on Saturday. As the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Ivan Melnikov said during his speech, there were no equal conditions in the elections, they were not honest.