A journalist from the publication “World of Novostey” was injured during today’s actions of nationalists dedicated to the Day of National Unity. According to the Interfax agency, a group of young people beat up a journalist in the center of Moscow. The nationalists first insulted the woman and then struck her several times. The police subsequently detained the attackers. The condition of the injured journalist has not yet been reported.

Russian Railways acquires a blocking stake in Transmashholding, the largest company in the transport engineering industry. , President of Russian Railways OJSC, said on Saturday As Vladimir Yakunin , the deal to acquire a stake in Transmashholding will be completed in the near future.

The Vatican has begun studying reports of a second miracle allegedly performed by the previous Pope John Paul II. If the pontiff's participation in curing a resident of southern Italy from throat cancer is confirmed, then, as The Times writes on November 4, the road to the canonization of the Pope will be open. Archbishop Gerardo Pierro said that he personally has no doubt that the cure was due to the prayers of the patient's wife addressed to John Paul II.

The British Ministry of Defense has lifted the ban on journalists from the news organization ITV News, which provides news to the UK's largest private television channel ITV, from being in hot spots. ITV News management has guaranteed that information will be presented impartially and without distortion, ministry officials said on Friday. According to France Presse , both sides of the conflict would like to close this issue for discussion in the media.

Four Russians were wounded in the Iraqi city of Basra, representatives of the Russian Embassy in Iraq reported. According to RIA Novosti , on Friday evening at about 20.00 local time, the positions of British troops in Basra were shelled. One of the mines hit the territory of the Najibiya thermal power plant, which is being restored by Russian power engineers under a contract. An agency source at the diplomatic mission said that four specialists were slightly injured.

Moscow authorities have issued permission to hold six rallies dedicated to National Unity Day. On November 4th, communists, liberal democrats, supporters of the National Revival Party, Christian Revival and representatives of right-wing forces will hold rallies in the capital, RIA Novosti reports , citing a source in the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate. From 11 a.m.

The US military has canceled the deployment to Iraq of 32-year-old Sergeant Santos Cardona, convicted of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, Reuters reported on Friday. After a call from a reporter who found out details about Cardona’s new appointment and spread the news to the media, the Pentagon decided not to put Cardona and his colleagues at risk. The military could not answer the question of why the command of the unit where the sergeant serves initially planned to return him to Iraq.

Duma on the cadastre After the adoption of the law on a unified cadastre, it will become easier for officials to collect taxes On November 3, 2006, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on a unified cadastre of real estate. After the law comes into force, registering both land plots and the real estate located on them will become much easier: out of the eight registration procedures that need to be done now, only one will remain.

Six Arab countries have announced their intention to begin creating their own nuclear energy, The Times newspaper writes on November 4. Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia have informed the IAEA of this intention and asked for assistance in this matter.

A fight between anti-fascists and nationalists took place in St. Petersburg, reports the online publication Fontanka.Ru . In the center of St. Petersburg, the publication's correspondent reports from the scene, at about 12:30 on Saturday, at the intersection of Liteiny and Nevsky Prospekts, a fight between anti-fascists and nationalists occurred. The police tried to prevent a clash between anti-fascists who were on Nevsky and nationalists moving along Liteiny.

Two Russians working in Iraq were killed as a result of a rocket attack on a power plant located in Basra. As a spokesman for the command of the British military contingent in Iraq said on Saturday morning, the target of the rocket attack was a military base of British troops. However, he said, the rocket exploded on the territory of the power plant. In addition to two Russian specialists working at the power plant, an Iraqi citizen also became a victim of the shelling, AFP reports .

At noon, a rally of the Narodnaya Volya party began at the monument to Tolstoy on Devichye Pole, which was joined by participants of the banned “Russian March” from the DPNI party, as well as activists of a number of other nationalist persuasions. According to a Lenta.Ru correspondent, about 500 people gathered at the rally. Half an hour after the start of the rally, the number of protesters increased to 1,000 people.

Moscow law enforcement agencies clarified information that appeared earlier on the Russian March website about the detention of State Duma deputy, one of the organizers of the March, Nikolai Kuryanovich . According to a REGNUM news agency source , the detention was unofficial. The police claim that Kuryanovich behaved rudely towards them, and they were forced to explain to him “the inadmissibility of such behavior.” After an explanation, the deputy was released.

As a result of an explosion on an oil pipeline near one of Kuwait's oil refineries, the operation of the refinery was partially stopped, Reuters reports, citing a representative of the state oil company of Kuwait. According to him, the incident occurred on the afternoon of November 4 near the village of Shuaiba, south of Kuwait. According to preliminary data, the cause of the explosion was a technical malfunction.

The “Russian March” in Irkutsk took place without violating public order, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk Region. Participants of the action walked along the central streets of the city and held a rally on the banks of the Angara River, at the monument to Alexander the Third. According to the organizers of the event, about 300 people took part in it. The police give their figures - 150 participants.