In the building of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, located in the center of Yekaterinburg, a fire occurred on Monday during the day. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of the region, the fire began at 12:19 Moscow time on Lenin Street in house number 19, where the Central Internal Affairs Directorate is located. The fire was assigned an increased - the third - the number of complexity.

In St. Petersburg, foreign students requested the city authorities to allocate transport for safe movement to them. According to the deputy head of the Department of the Interuniversity Student Town Vladimir Haumov, the request for the provision of buses that would run between dormitories and universities was expressed by foreign students during the last expanded meeting of representatives of the prosecutor's office and police with students, Interfax reports.

The first district court of Vilnius found the ex-president of Lithuania, Rolandas Paxas, who was permanently residing in Lithuania, Russian entrepreneur Yuri Borisov . A fine of 10 thousand litas (about 2900 euros) was assigned as a measure of punishment Borisov. Yuri Borisov and his lawyer Adomas Lutvinskas informed RIA Novosti that they intend to appeal this sentence in the higher district court of Vilnius.

The potential buyer of Yuganskneftegaz received the first public guarantees of recognition by the state of rights to purchased property. The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, announced that his department still requires the correction of violations of licensing agreements committed by this company, but it is ready to "agree on the deadlines" with its new owner.

On Monday, cold weather will remain in the capital, the Moscow Region and the Moscow Region reported. According to weather forecasts, in the afternoon in the city there will be slight snow. “The air temperature will be minus 6-8 degrees,” said the Hydrometeorological Bureau. On Tuesday night, precipitation is not expected, and the air temperature will be minus 11-13 degrees in the city and 10-15 degrees below zero-in the region.

According to the results of the processing of 75.24% of the protocols of election commissions, Viktor Yanukovych leads from 48.65% of the vote in the elections of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko gained 47.72% of the vote . According to official data from the CEC, 10 million 266 thousand 490 people voted for Yanukovych, for Yushchenko - 9 million 965 thousand 885. - Elections in Ukraine.

Yasir Arafat "died as a result of poisoning." This was stated on Sunday in Damascus the new leader of the movement for the liberation of Palestine "Fath" Faruk Kaddumi (Abu Lutf).

The emissar Aslana Maskhadova - Ahmed Zakaev did not request an entry visa to Belgium. This was announced on Monday by the press secretary of the Minister of Emembly Affairs of Belgium Laurent Pannels. “In any case, I do not have such information,” he said. Panneles confirmed that Zakaev, who was given a political asylum in the UK in 2003, was not allowed by visa -free entry into the countries of the European Union, participants in the Schengen agreement, RIA Novosti reports.

A copy of the medical dossier of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat was transmitted on Monday by the French military doctors his nephew, Naser Al-Kidwe, who represents the Palestinian administration to the UN. Immediately after receiving the dossier, Nasser al-Kid told reporters that, according to French doctors, Yasir Arafat was not poisoned. The dossier does not contain an accurate diagnosis of the disease, which led to the death of Arafat, Al-Kidva emphasized.

On Tuesday in Brussels, negotiations should be held on a peaceful settlement in Chechnya - between a delegation of the Union of Committee of Soldiers' Mothers (SCSMR) and the Chechen emissary Ahmed Zakayev. However, the meeting is threatened by the breakdown: the Belgian authorities refuse to guarantee the inviolability of Zakaev and inhibit the issuance of a VIZ of the SCSMR delegation, writes "Independent Gazeta" . Both sides are sure that the meeting should take place in Brussels.

The snow storm hit the southern regions of California. The mountains in the south of the state are covered with snow, a few centimeters of snow fell even in the desert. On Sunday, a 60-centimeter layer of snow fell asleep in the South California mountains. Due to heavy snowfall, several highways were closed. “This happens once in 10 years, but if it happens, then to the whole coil. This is very bad.

On Monday, the funeral of three businessmen killed in Cherkessk on the night of October 11 took place at the Cherkessk cemetery. The funeral of the deputy of the People’s Assembly of Karachay-Cherkessia Rasul Bogatyrev, entrepreneurs Magomed Baychorov and Zamir Khapaeva passed. In the morning, their bodies were delivered from Rostov, where a genetic examination was carried out.

On Monday, the 2nd Moscow competition of the violin named after Paganini officially opened in the capital. At the Moscow State Conservatory, a draw of participants in the review took place. As it became known, the qualifying tour of the Moscow Paganini Violini competition will open on November 23 in the small hall of the capital's conservatory Chinese violinist Lu Si. Another 15 violinists will perform in the qualifying round - from the UK, Kazakhstan, Korea, Ukraine and Russia.

A citizen of Ukraine, on whom on the night of last Sunday a robbery was committed in the city of Shcherbinka near Moscow, shot his cheeks to one of the attackers According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, a 29-year-old citizen of Ukraine, temporarily living in the suburbs, turned to the police and said that about one in the morning three unknown people penetrated his apartment and, threatening him and his comrade with a gun, abducted a thousand rubles.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stopped the activities in Moscow of an organized criminal group of profit due to illegal reimbursement of value added tax.