15:26 // 14.11.2007 The Supervisory Board of the State Corporation Olympstroy held the first meeting today and adopted the main regulations of its work, approved the vast majority of members of the board and "gave the start of a large all -Russian construction site." The Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak according to the results of the meeting of the Council told reporters about this, as ITAR-TASS reports today.

The process began in the case of attempted on Valentin Matvienko The first meeting in the case of attempted attempted governor of St. Petersburg, Valentin Matvienko, took place yesterday in the St. Petersburg City Court. During the meeting, the defense side appealed to the court with the petitions. As the lawyer of the defendant Timur Saidgareev Vladislav Lapinsky told the newspaper correspondent, in one of them they insist on the consideration of the jury college.

20:16 // 14.11.2007 A new warship built at the Northern shipyard of St. Petersburg with the glorious name "Steregovy" will soon replenish the composition of the Russian Navy.

14:37 // 11/14/2007 The Russian government allocates 164 billion rubles for the implementation of a new federal targeted fire safety program designed for 5 years. According to ITAR-TASS , the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu at a joint meeting of the board of the Ministry and the Volga Federal District, which is dedicated to protecting the population and territories from threats of technogenic, natural nature and terrorist acts, said.

18:21 // 11.11.2007 Laureates of the highest public award-premium named after Alexander Nevsky are announced today in Moscow. This year, 16 people - cultural figures, governors, military leaders and economists were noted, ITAR -TASS reports with reference to the President of the Russian Union of non -governmental organizations "Fatherland" Alexander Volovik.

At the hearing in the case of the death of Princess of Wales, the doctor-anesthesiologist Daniel Airo spoke in court why the doctors of the Pitie-Salpetriere Paris hospital, where Diana was delivered after a car accident, stopped trying to save her. Airo described in detail the moment when the doctors realized that they had lost the battle for the life of Princess of Wales.

16:04 // 14.11.2007 The Sverdlovsk regional court at a meeting on Wednesday postponed the consideration of the cassation appeal of the former FSB officer of the Russian Federation Mikhail Trepashkin on his transfer to a colony of general regime until November 15. Trepashkin for the disclosure of state secrets was sentenced to four years in prison with serving a sentence in a penal colony. “The meeting is postponed until tomorrow,” said Tatyana Podenko, presiding in the hearing.

15:07 // 11/14/2007 In Germany, the largest strike on railways in its history began, which today paralyzes freight transportation, and on Thursday will spread to local, regional and passenger trains of long-distance, ITAR-TASS reports. The decision on the beginning of the strike lasting 62 hours was made the day before by the trade union of the engineers of the GDL locomotives, who achieved 34 thousand members for the administration of Deutche Ban to a significant increase in wages.

14:29 // 11.11.2007 Parents of the British girl, who disappeared in Portugal more than six months ago, do not recognize the details of the investigation of her disappearance, the representative of Kate and Jerry McCannov Clarens Mitchell said. It was reported by RIA Novosti . Makkenna expected to access classified information in the Madel case due to the fact that from this week in Portugal, access to investigative documents for private individuals, including official suspects, was simplified.

18:34 // 14.11.2007 Vitaly Kaloev, who was serving a sentence in Switzerland, returned to North Ossetia today. At the airport, he was met by about a thousand relatives, acquaintances and ordinary residents of Ossetia, who came to express their support to him and waited for the aircraft that flew out of Moscow late for more than four hours.

In Russia, a race of social and economic forecasts with the approach of elections to the State Duma and the presidential campaign in the expert community is gaining momentum is gaining momentum for the possibility of jumping to the foot of the outgoing forecast train. The impulse was given to this process by President Vladimir Putin.

The President of Venezuela will deal with the economic reports of the Spanish companies, the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that he intends to revise relations between his country and Spain - first of all, we are talking about economic ties.

13:58 // 11.11.2007 The explosion of domestic gas occurred on Wednesday in the apartment of a nine -story residential building in the center of Saratov, on Chernyshevsky Street, RIA Novosti told the operational duty regional rescue service.

16:29 // 11.11.2007 A quarter of Russian sellers of cigarettes overestimate their cost and sell goods to minors, ITAR-TASS in Rospotrebnadzor according to the results of the latest checks. The total volume of tobacco products, which was sold with violations of the rules of sale, amounted to 1.1 million packs in the amount of 20 million rubles in three months. 90% of non -fulfillment of legislation falls on individual entrepreneurs.

13:05 // 14.11.2007 In the Kerch Strait, in the Krasnodar Territory, work was completed on pumping out oil products from the Volgonft-123 damaged during the storm, Tatyana Kobzarenko, head of the press service of the regional administration of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, told RIA Novosti . Weather conditions allowed to safely complete the pumping, she said.