Under the rubble in the Chinese coal mine there are 166 people. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Sinhua agency. The explosion of gas at the coal mine in the province of Sheanxi occurred at 7:10 am local time. According to the latest data, at that moment there were 293 workers in the mine. 127 Shakhters managed to get to the surface. 41 people were hospitalized. Most of the saved people at the time of the explosion was next to the exit from the mine.

The accident in the gas station in the Voskresensky district of the Moscow Region occurred for technological reasons, RIA Novomskoye was told in the Moscow Emergencies Ministry. "There were no signs of a terrorist attack or sabotage at the gust of the gas pipeline. The exact cause of the accident, which most likely occurred due to the wear of the equipment, will establish a special commission," said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies.

On Sunday, the Moscow CSKA at home defeated the St. Petersburg Dynamo with a score of 86:78 and regained his sole leadership in the Russian Basketball Championship. CSKA has the most effective Holden (17 points), Papalukas and David Andersen (15 each), and for Dynamo - Veremeenko and Ashkrasbich (18 each). Like the Khimki near Moscow a week ago, the St. Petersburg were worthy of resistance to the army.

State Duma deputies fought in a chess tournament with German parliamentarians. The delegation of Russian legislators for the first time in history took part in the traditional chess tournament of the German political elite "Politicians play chess", which took place in Berlin on Saturday. “We really liked the benevolent atmosphere of the tournament.

The action of civil disobedience in Independence Square in Kyiv, as well as near administrative buildings, will continue, despite the decision of the parliament on invalidating the second round of the presidential elections. This was stated by parliament deputy Nikolai Tomenko, who is a confidant of presidential candidate from the opposition Viktor Yushchenko.

In Romania on Sunday, presidential and parliamentary elections are held. There are more than 18 million voters in the country. The highest post in the state will dispute 12 candidates, RIA Novosti reports. The most real applicants for this position are the current Prime Minister Adrian Nasase, who heads the ruling Social Democratic Party, as well as the mayor of Bucharest Trajan Bashesku.

The Ukrainian opposition nominated an ultimatum to the President of the country Leonid Kuchme.

On Sunday evening, Moscow time, Prime Minister of Ukraine and candidate for president of the country Viktor Yanukovych gave an interview with the Echo of the Week program RTVI. "Echo of the Week" : Hello, Victor Fedorovich! Welcome to the live channel air. Victor Yanukovych : Hello! "Echo of the Week" : as a direct participant in events, tell me, is it possible to say, according to the results of Friday negotiations , that a way out of the crisis has been found?

A group of deputies of the Ukrainian Parliament from the opposition bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine" requires an immediate convocation of a meeting of the inter -parliamentary commission on cooperation between the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Verkhovna Rada. This was announced today by the press service of the headquarters of Yushchenko, ITAR-TASS reports.

Today, Switzerland citizens in a nationwide referendum will answer from the field of bioethics today: to allow or not experiments with the cells of human embryos. It is supposed to make legal clarity into a confusing problem, ITAR-TASS reports. Experiments with embryos in Switzerland are prohibited. However, the law does not prohibit the study of their cells.

The presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko said that if the authorities applied force to withdraw from the crisis around the presidential election, he will stop negotiations, RIA Novosti reports. “If we know about the preparation of some option of a power decision, we immediately leave negotiations and urge the nation to the street to defend our rights,” Yushchenko said in Independence Square in Kyiv.

Russian Evgeny Plushenko won the sixth stage of the Grand Prix on figure skating, which is held these days at the Luzhniki Sports Palace in Moscow. On Saturday, the Russian received a record assessment in this tournament for the execution of an arbitrary program - 158.50 points. In total, after a short program that the skater skated the day before, and the arbitrary Plushenko scored 233.45 points, which allowed him to defeat a significant margin from his opponents.

The leadership of the main postal service of Spain fired the director of the Department of Philatelia Segundo Mesado for an incorrect statement about women. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to Europa Press, Mesado was fired after a performance on the occasion of the presentation of the brand released on the 500th anniversary of the death of the Spanish Queen Isabella Catholic.

At the nationwide referendum held today, the Swiss spoke out against the ban on experiments with the cells of human embryos. In support of the bill allowing such experiments in the interests of the development of medicine, more than 66 percent of citizens voted, ITAR-TASS reports. The referendum clarified a complex legal and ethical problem that caused acute disputes. Experiments with human embryos in Switzerland are prohibited. However, the study of their stem cells is not forbidden.

The United States welcome the development of events in Ukraine in the last two days. As ITAR-TASS explained in the press service of the US State Department, this assessment applies to the meeting between both candidates for the president of Ukraine, which was on November 26 "under European mediation", as well as on Saturday decisions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.