In the Serpukhov near Moscow, three people died as a result of a fire, sources in the Center of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region reported on Tuesday. Last Monday, at about 2:10 am on the remote control of the fire department of the Serpukhov district, a message was received that on the 2nd Moscow street there was a fire of a private house. By the arrival of the first fire engines, the flame covered half -pink, only two hours later the firefighters managed to cope with the fire.

The State Duma deputy, the former Russian Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergei Kovalev criticized the Russian politics carried out in Chechnya. In an interview with Berliner Zeitung , the translation of the article publishes Inopressa.ru , Kovalev said that it was necessary to start negotiations between the Government of the Russian Federation and legal power in Chechnya, with the President of the Maskhadov and Chechen parliament.

The struggle between the "basic element" and "Ilm Palp" for forest plants begins again. The Presidium of the Kemerovo Regional Court abolished two court decisions, which laid the foundation for the conflict of business entities "around control over two forestry plants - Kotlass and Bratsk. Recall the background of the conflict. Since the end of last year, the structure of Siberian aluminum (renamed the "basic element") began to be interested in woodworking enterprises.

In the USA, intermediate elections to Congress - the country's parliament begin on Tuesday. For votes of voters, candidates for congressmen and senators from two main rival parties - republican and democratic are fighting, reports Reuters. Elections to the highest legislative body should end with the re -election of the entire House of Representatives (435 congressmen) and thirds of the Senate (34 out of 100 senators) from various states.

A new nuclear submarine "Kursk" will soon appear as part of the combat forces of the Northern Fleet. With a petition for the assignment of this name, one of the license plates was made by sailors of the squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Alexander Smelykov. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, Smelkov said today that the issue of assigning to another license plate of the Kostroma named after Kostroma, with whom, as well as with Kursk, good relations have long been established for submariners.

On November 5, the International Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne will consider the appeal of the Russian skier of Larisa Lazutina to the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the disqualification of the athlete after a 30-kilometer Olympic race in Salt Lake City. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio station by the athlete's lawyer Anatoly Kucheren.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin is sure that next year oil prices will be stable. The cost of Russian Urals, despite the possibility of changing the regime in Iraq, will not fall next year lower than the average price of 21.50 dollars per barrel, which will allow Moscow to fulfill the budget and serve debts, he said in an interview with Wall Street Journal .

The course of the development of events in the 21st century largely depends on whether it will be possible to prevent a new section of the world This thesis is contained in an article by a professional Arabist, academician Evgeny Primakov in today's issue of Izvestia , ITAR-TASS reports. The article by Primakov, the newspaper continues a series of publications dedicated to the "Islamic threat", begun after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

Nokia at a press conference in Munich introduced seven new mobile devices. Among the innovations, the phone is highlighted - the game console, which should bring the Finnish company to the new market. It is called Nokia N-Gage. The Finns in marketing models have a pure of the fact that a large number of games will be written for N-Gage, IXBT notes.

Fans of extreme winter sports, first of all, snowboarding and skiing, will be able to try their hand at the new sports center, which will open in the Moscow region of Novopedelkino. According to the city hall, by December of this year, a ski descent will open here. In addition, two tracks for snowboarding, a bicycle track, an autodrome, as well as a stadium for two thousand spectator seats will also be built over the next year.

The leading football clubs in Europe are preparing to adopt a new code that allows you to take control of the salaries of players, who in recent years have been growing at astronomical speed. According to club owners, this measure will prevent the financial crisis caused by partly falling income from television contracts. The adoption of the Code will be discussed on Tuesday in Brussels by representatives of the largest European teams that are part of the so-called G-14 group.

In Khabarovsk, on Tuesday night, secondary school number 17, located in the Krasnoflotsky district of the city, burned down on Tuesday. According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Khabarovsk Territory, the firefighters who arrived on call could not extinguish the building. A corpse of an elderly woman with knife wounds was found at the fire site. In the Department of Internal Affairs, they do not exclude that it was a deliberate arson.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the identity of a local resident was identified, who distributed on the Internet the statements of terrorists who held more than 700 hostages in the theater center in Moscow on October 23-26, the Office of the Federal Security Service for the Nizhny Novgorod Region said on Tuesday.

In the south-east of Moscow, the unknown robbed the exchange point of exchange. According to RIA Novosti on Tuesday in the metropolitan police department, a man entered the round -the -clock exchange point located in the house number 96 on Lublinskaya Street, last night, under the pretext of buying dollars. Seeing that the cashier in the room was alone, without protection, the attacker threatened her with physical reprisal and took 160 thousand rubles from the cash desk.

By 2007, the Bank of Russia is ready to abandon the practice of currency regulation. This provides for a new edition of the bill on foreign exchange regulation. Which, according to Vedomosti , has become much more liberal. Representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank decided to abandon a number of restrictions present in the previous version of the project.