President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma is sure that in connection with the crisis situation after the second round of the presidential election in the country, an economic decline will be observed. Those who should work are protesting.

Russia and Venezuela completed bilateral negotiations as part of the Russian Federation’s entry into the World Trade Organization. The protocol on the completion of bilateral negotiations on the access to the market of goods and services as part of the accession of Russia to the WTO was signed in the Kremlin in the presence of the presidents of the two countries. Venezuela became the 11th country with which Russia completely completed bilateral negotiations in the framework of joining the WTO.

The Parliament of Abkhazia recognized Sergei Bagapsha as the winner of the presidential election, adopting a corresponding resolution.

National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine. Taras Shevchenko, Kiev Young Theater and Kiev State Theater of Young Spectators on Lipki, announced their support from the leader of the Bloc of our Ukraine Bloc, Viktor Yushchenko. Theaters refused to give performances in protest against the falsification of the results of the presidential election.

The striker of the Petersburg Zenit and the Russian national team Alexander Kerzhakov was named the best football player in 2004, according to the traditional survey of the Football-Revue weekly, in which 16 main coaches of the Premier League teams took part. During the vote, Kerzhakov was ahead of the partners in the national team from the Moscow Lokomotiv - striker Dmitry Sychev and midfielder Dmitry Loskov.

In Petrozavodsk, a judicial sentence was sentenced to the famous Karelian healer Vera Pendonen, who practiced "non -traditional methods of treatment" and appropriating the money of his customers. Dozens of residents of Karelia and the Leningrad Region suffered from the actions of the fraudster. Having examined the case file, the Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced the faith of Pendonen to two years in prison under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma will soon meet with the leader of the opposition Viktor Yushchenko. This was reported in the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state. In addition, Kuchma intends to meet on Friday with the representative of the European Union Javier Solana, the OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubish, Lithuania President Valdas Adamkus.

In Ingushetia, when trying to detain the militant, three employees of the FSB of Russia were injured. This was announced on Friday by a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic. "On the eve of Nazran, the employees of the FSB Office for Ingushetia took measures to detain members of illegal armed groups (NVF), who were in a private house on Niyazi Street.

The defense of Ildar Bicharov, who was convicted of giving a bribe to an employee of the traffic police, filed a cassation appeal to the Moscow City Court. This was announced by the lawyer of the motorist Mikhail Marov, reports ITAR-TASS.

Canada welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine to postpone the official publication of the results of the presidential election before considering complaints from the opposition. This was announced on Thursday by the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Ann McLellan at the end of the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. “We are satisfied that this issue is now under consideration by the court,” said Mcelllan.

On Wednesday, November 24, the author of the novels "Hotel", "Airport", the world famous writer Arthur Haley, died in the Bahamas of the islands. He was 84 years old. Haley, who took characters for his works from everyday life and subjected them to extraordinary tests, died in a dream in his house in the city of Liford on the island of New Providence. This was announced on Thursday by the wife of the writer Sheil. According to her, doctors believe that Haley had a stroke.

The foreign press on Friday continues to comment on the situation with the elections of the President of Ukraine. The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal writes that now anyone who watched the gutting of the Russian oil company Yukos should be saturated with sarcasm. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on the oligarchs at home. However, now he silently supports them in Ukraine.

At the Chinese school, eight people died at the hands of an unknown criminal, four were seriously injured. According to Xinhua, on Friday morning, an attacker, armed with a knife, burst into a secondary school in the city of Zhucjou Province Henan. He killed eight people and seriously wounded four, and then disappeared. The police conduct his search and finds out the reasons for the tragedy. Earlier in China, similar crimes occurred.

About 50 thousand supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, mainly men, gathered in front of the Kiev station square in Kyiv in front of the Central Railway Station. As announced from the stage arranged near the station, now the head of the headquarters of the candidate Sergey Tigipko should arrive at them, Korrespondent.net reports. The participants in the action were also told that Yanukovych called them and asked to wait for the team.

Egypt and other Arab countries are threatened with a new invasion of locusts, writes Al-Ahram Egyptian newspaper on Friday. According to forecasts of the Ministry of Agriculture of the country based on satellite pictures, new giant flocks of locusts rush east and north of Egypt and further to other Middle Eastern countries up to India. Oases in the west of Egypt, its Mediterranean coast, Sinai and the Red Sea coast will be subjected to a new invasion.