In Moscow, the first line of the "light" metro in the city, which connected the southwest of the capital with remote areas of North and South Butovo, opened. Today, five stations opened their doors in front of the passengers - Starokachalovskaya Street, Skobelevskaya Street, Admiral Ushakov Boulevard, Gorchakova Street and Bunin Alley. A 10.8 km line starts from the end station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line "Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard" and ends on Ostafyevskaya Street.

The retired FSB lieutenant colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who was under court on charges of disclosing state secrets, handed over to the will of a detailed description of torture that he was subjected to. This was announced by the Echo of Moscow by the head of the Civil Freedom Fund Alexander Goldfarb.

The main Santa Claus arrived on Saturday from Veliky Ustyug to Moscow. On Tverskaya Square, a festive festival at the meeting of Santa Claus unfolded. Coming to the square, mummers were entertained, attracting to round dances, preventing Muscovites from freezing.

The Central Electoral Commission intends to pay special attention to the compilation of voter lists in various regions for the presidential election. This was stated on Saturday to journalists, Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Alexander Veshnyakov. "During the election of deputies of the State Duma on December 7, some mismatch of the voter lists with the actual number of voters was revealed," said Veshnyakov.

The acting President of Georgia Nino Burjanadze said that "the militants did not penetrate into Dagestan through the territory of Georgia," Interfax reports. As Nino Burjanadze said to reporters after a meeting on Saturday with the head of the border department Valery Chkheidze, this is also known in Moscow, where the charges against Georgia recently sounded that the militants allegedly use its territory to move to Chechnya. I.O.

An attempt to contact the Beagle-2 space laboratory on Mars using a radio telescope located in England near Manchester, did not lead to success, reports AFP. This was the fourth attempt to get in touch with the Beagle-2 module. The European Interplanetary Station Mars-Express was launched on July 2 from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Soyuz Russian Rocket Rocket with the Frigate Higher Block. The Beagle-2 automatic scientific module was separated from the station on December 19.

Residents of a number of districts of the Chechen Republic on Saturday will picket the entrance to the territory of the Complex of the administrative buildings of Chechnya in Grozny. This was announced by "Interfax" by the phone by a source in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya. In particular, several dozen women blocked the gates at the entrance to the Chechnya administration, demanding to establish the whereabouts of their native armed persons recently relatives and friends.

The terrorists planned to strike a Vatican on Catholic Christmas, said the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Italy Silvio Berlusconi.

Atlanta striker Dani Hitley first appeared in front of the press since the terrible tragedy that happened on the eve of the regular championship. We recall that Ferrari Hitley lost control and he, along with Dan Snyder, got into an autocatastrophe. The result of this was Hitley's injury and the death of Snider. At a press conference, Hitley said that he would never forget the sniper, and still considers himself guilty of his death. “I will always think about it.

Arbitration in the case of the former player of CSKA Nikolai Zherdev will be held in January. For this month he was postponed due to Christmas holidays. The Russian side on arbitration will be represented by the vice president of CSKA Valery Gushchin. According to the head of the Russian Hockey Federation, Alexander Steblin, in an interview with Sport-Express , all the documents necessary for arbitration were sent to the IIHF. "Now the court cannot be avoided.

Firefighters working on extinguishing in a residential building in the center of St. Petersburg are not yet able to completely eliminate the fire that arose at night, however, according to them, the fire was localized. As Interfax was told in the press center of the UGPS of the St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the level of the complexity of the fire by 11:30 Moscow time was reduced from the highest number 5 to the first-bi.

The first victim of seasonal influenza is registered in Nizhny Novgorod: a child aged 10 months has died this week due to the so-called post-hypoxic coma from a complicated viral infection. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today at the National Influenza Center for the World Health Organization in St. Petersburg.

Four Bulgarian soldiers were killed and 37 other representatives of multinational forces were injured on Saturday as a result of a series of explosions in the Iraqi city of Karbel (110 km south of Baghdad), RIA Novosti reports.

The best football player of the world, Frenchman Zinedin Zidan said that he would like to end his career in the Spanish Real Madrid. According to him, he is going to hang boots on a nail at the end of the current contract with Real Madrid, that is, in 2005. "Now it is not very likely that I will change the club, and it is unlikely that I will play football for many years," Zidan said in an interview with Marca . Zidan also thinks about the completion of performances for the French national team.

Iranian President Mohammad Hatam called the country's population to universal mobilization to assist the victims of the earthquake and eliminate the consequences of the elements. The presidential order was published on Saturday. "It is necessary to take urgent measures to supply the necessary equipment, food, medicines, drugs, as well as all the most necessary," added Hatam. He called the earthquake of a national disaster in the Southeast Iranian city of BAM.