Nine years later, the pupil of the Resurrection Hockey School Sergey Berezin returned to Russia, where he will continue his career in the Moscow CSKA. As the sports director of the KSKA KSKA Kirill Fastovsky said in an interview with ITAR-TASS, today a contract has been concluded with the 32-year-old left-hand striker before the end of the season. And Berezin has already conducted the first training with the second army team.

The campaign for the election of the President of Russia. Elections, in accordance with the legislation and the constitution, will be held on March 14. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the upcoming elections "a serious domestic political event in 2004." The election campaign will last 3 months and 3 days. Elections will be held under the new Federal Law "On the Elections of the President of the Russian Federation", which entered into force on January 16, 2003.

Sentenced to 20 years in prison for participating in the arson of the sorceress cafe Anatoly Gavrilenko was found on the eve of hanged in his cell. According to the prosecutor's office of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Gavrilenko was discovered in the solitary confinement of the Zizomolsk-on-Amur pre-trial detention center on laces from his own sneakers. Next to him lay a suicide note in which he said goodbye to relatives.

The head coach of the Russian hockey team, Viktor Tikhonov, on Thursday, announced a list of players who will prepare for the third stage of the European -hocketing - the Baltic Cup. When setting the composition of the Russian national team, its coach was guided, first of all, by the club principle. In addition, the fact that several health problems called up in the national team have also taken into account.

Yesterday, in the headquarters of the International Hockey Federation, negotiations were underway all day, which, in addition to discussing issues of a technical nature relating to the World Cup 2004, was considered the Zherdev case.

On December 11, Andrei Makarevich turns 50 years old. Back at school, Andrei Makarevich tried himself as a musician and vocalist. In those days, the Beatles group was an idol of youth and therefore created in 1969 to them with friends the team "Time Machine" performed songs written in English.

The process on the organizers of the orgy, in which several hundred Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes participated, will begin on Friday in the city of Zhuhai in southern China, AFP reports with reference to the Sinhua agency. In total, 14 people, including a woman named E Syan, are accused of "organized prostitution", the semi -official Chinese agency said.

The last star rain of the outgoing year can be observed in the peaks of its activity, which will be at night from 12 to 13 and from December 13 to 14. At this time, in the sky above Moscow, you can see the Tauride meteor stream.

In the city of Moden in northern Italy, an explosion thundered near the city synagogue. According to the British company Skynews , a car exploded, the driver of which is allegedly Jordan - died. According to other sources, he was a Palestinian, while unemployed and suffered from a spiritual ailment. The police reported that the man set fire to himself in the car. Liquid propane was used as fuel in it, so the car exploded when the police tried to put out the suicide.

Two senior officers of the Australian police who were dressed in hoodies of Ku-Klux Clan activists and made indecent gestures were shot by the automatic road radar camera. This was announced on Thursday by a source in the Australian police, AFP reports. In August 2001, in the southern environs of the city of Peret, police officers traveled a car that drove at a speed of over 130 km/h along the highway, where the maximum speed is limited to 60 km/h.

Four books about Harry Potter with the autographs of the author Joan - Rowling, the writer's father sold Sotheby's auction, helping out almost 90 thousand dollars.

Fifteen people died and thirty were wounded on Thursday in a car accident in Egypt. A regular bus and a truck collided in the forehead, transporting 500 liquefied gas cylinders. The collision occurred on the highway passing through the desert, about halfway between Cairo and the oasis of Baharia, located 400 km southwest of the Egyptian capital, Reuters reports.

Famous American military photographer James Nakhtwei was wounded with a grenade explosion in Baghdad. As the French media reported with reference to information from Baghdad, Nakhwei and reporter Mikhael Vaiskff, working for the Time American magazine, were injured at a time when they accompanied the American military patrol. According to the doctor of the military hospital in Baghdad, Nakhtvy was wounded by fragments in the abdomen and legs and is still unconscious.

On Thursday evening, an explosion thundered in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. According to Skynews , Kamikazze undermined himself near the base of the 82nd landing division. According to preliminary data, among the American troops there are wounded as a result of the explosion. The representative of the US Army said: "There is evidence that this could be the attack of Kamikadze. There are victims among the military composition of the 82nd landing division.

Children who have one or both parents died as a result of a terrorist attack from the National Hotel will receive compensation payments from the Moscow government monthly. “Their size will amount to 1.5 thousand rubles monthly,” ITAR -TASS said in the capital's city hall. According to the order of the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov, the benefits will be paid to children until they reach the age of 18, and in case of their studies in daytime higher educational institutions - up to 23 years.