The holder of the Russian Cup "Terek" from Grozny, who will come to the Russian Premier League for the first time next season, is going to view a number of eminent football players, including representatives of Italy and Brazil, Sport-Express said on Wednesday.

Two years after the emergence of public accusations against the UN peacekeepers in the Congo in sexual crimes against the refugees of Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General finally admitted that this was so. “I am really shocked by these accusations,” Annan told reporters last week. About this writes The Wall Street Journal in the material, the translation of which is published by Inopressa.ru .

In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the Mariinsky Theater will present the first premiere of the theater season-the opera of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov "Tsarist Bride". The performance is a joint production of the theater and the Diaghilev festival (Holland). The European premiere of the new stage version of the "royal bride" took place on December 10 in the Dutch city of Groningen.

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov said that Russia needs to declare its priority for the Vodka trademark, Interfax reports. “The main problem is currently the return of Russia to use the name“ vodka ”. It is not protected by anything, any manufacturer can name the vodka the drink produced. And this is ours, sovereign,” Luzhkov said at the opening ceremony of the History of National drinks in former medium -sized Red Squares. Luzhkov assured that the city authorities would fight falsified liquids.

The team of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych appealed to the CEC of Ukraine the results of the second vote of the second round of the presidential elections in all 225 electoral districts. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" by the head of the press service of the Central Election Commission Zoya Sharikova. According to her, the official representative of Yanukovych in the Central Election Commission of Nestor Shufrich addressed the CEC with a complaint to the CEC.

The most radical Israeli settlers who do not want to leave their homes as part of a plan of demarcation with Palestinian autonomy , declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives for their own roof over their heads. In this regard, they threatened to commit an act of mass suicide in protest by adopting potassium cyanide, writes the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

The withdrawal of the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent from Iraq will be completed before the end of 2005, says Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Kuzmuk. “In 2005, we plan to reduce our contingent by one battalion.

Rescuers continue to calculate the number of foreigners who died as a result of an earthquake and tsunami in South Asia. In total, according to the latest data, about 125,000 people died as a result of the tsunami. In Thailand alone, according to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom of South Sangpatum, over 700 foreign tourists died. In total, at the time of the beginning of the tsunami, 10,100 foreigners were at the resorts of South Thailand.

Police officers of the Nazran district of Ingushetia, together with the mobile detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on Wednesday in the morning, entered into a clash with a group of unknown in the village of Surhahi, located 12-15 km from Nazran. This was announced on Wednesday by a source in the police department of the Nazran district. "According to preliminary information, the shootout began at about 7:50 Moscow time," said the ROVD employee.

The meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is canceled in Wednesday morning. This was reported in the press service of the government. The press service has not yet reported other details. Supporters of Viktor Yushchenko in the early morning blocked the building of the Government of Ukraine. There are about 300 people in the picket, blocking the main and spare entrances to the building, where the government meeting was planned under Wednesday led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Three Russians were killed in an autocatastrophe in Egypt. The summary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs says that in the area of ​​Uyun Musa on Tuesday near a car tunnel connecting the Sinai Peninsula with the mainland, the family of Russian tourists Lyminykh died-45-year-old Konstantin, 35-year-old Elena and their son 14-year-old Nikita. On the night of Monday, on Tuesday, they left Sharm Esh-Sheikh on an excursion to Cairo on a minibus they hired.

Three metropolitan policemen and paramedic of the ambulance substation were injured in an accident due to the fault of a drunken policeman. Last night, on Victory Square in Moscow, an employee of the Patruna-Poston Service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Western District of the capital on a personal car of Volvo crashed into a Zhiguli car.

The designer of the information systems Paola Mayo, together with friends, helped in rescue work. While helicopters chirped over her head, she suddenly realized that there was not enough information, but, which is very important, she had the Internet, says The Guardian .

Over the past hours, ten Russians relaxing in Thailand during a natural disaster have been discovered alive and healthy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. "In the last hours, while in Moscow there was night, ten citizens of Russia themselves informed the Russian Embassy in Thailand about themselves," the embassy employee said. He noted that no data on new tragic cases have been received among Russians, Interfax reports.

In the United Arab Emirates, snow fell on Wednesday night, a local news agency reports to you. Precipitation uncharacteristic for the UAE fell in the mountains and foothills in the emirate of Ras-al-Hima. The air temperature here fell below zero degrees. Many areas are covered with snow, especially the high snow cover was recorded by the country's weather service 25 kilometers north of the city of Ras El-Haim.