Nikolai Davydenko triumphantly started at the final tennis tournament Masters Cup, which is held this week in Shanghai. On Tuesday, a Russian, speaking in the Golden Group, in the match of the first round with a score of 6: 4, 6: 2, forced to surrender the American Andre Agassi, spending only 1 hour and 15 minutes on the implementation of this task. Davydenko completely outplayed Agassi, who spent his first match since the defeat from Roger Federer in the US Open finals two months ago.

A series of explosions occurred at a chemical plant in the North-Eastern Chinese Province of Jilin. As of Monday morning, as a result of an emergency, one person died, five are missing and about 70 were injured, reports Xinhua. The first explosion occurred at one of the country's largest chemical enterprises on Sunday at about 14:15 local time (9:15 in Moscow), he initiated several more explosions, a fire began at the factory.

Israel intends to simplify the visa regime with Russia in the very near future. According to Irina Tyurina, spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST), the Minister of Tourism of Israel Avraham Hirson (Israel) was announced about this to the participants of the Russian-Israeli tourist forum.

In 2005, 31 warning was made about the dangerous condensation of space objects with the International Space Station (ISS). Such data were cited by the commander of the space forces (KV) of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin at a meeting of the Military Council dedicated to the summary of the results of the 2005 academic year and setting tasks for the 2006 academic year. This was announced by Interfax on Monday the head of the press service of the KV Alexei Kuznetsov.

The war against the Palace Square in St. Petersburg of international festivals and overseas type concerts, and in particular, against the European Cinema Festival "Golden Angel", headed by director Andrei Konchalovsky and planned on Palace Square in the second half of July 2006, continues. Earlier, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and other representatives of the intelligentsia spoke sharply against the project.

When, during the Second World War, American soldiers arrived in Europe, their hiking backpacks were stuffed with the Juicy Fruit chewing elastic band. The soldiers of the future will carry a new generation chewing gum with them.

In the next five years, about $ 1 billion will be allocated from the consolidated budget to combat HIV/AIDS. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development Vladimir Starodubov at a presentation on Monday in Moscow of the Unisef global campaign "Unit for children. Unit against AIDS." "About a billion dollars will be allocated from the federal budget, the budgets of the constituent entities of the Federation, from the funds raised, in particular, the global fund.

Jews remember that the Russian people saved Europe from fascism, said the rabbi of Paris Mordechai Cohen. “We, Jews, know how much we owe the Russian people for that feat, for the fact that 60 years ago they saved our people during the Second World War,” M. Cohen said last Sunday at a meeting with journalists after the opening of the Congress of the Rabbisi of Europe at the Moscow Jewish Community Center in Maryina Roshchi.

It's no secret that regular communication with officials on duty can affect the psyche. According to statistics, because of the skirmishes, every third Muscovite, due to communication with officials, communal services and police officers, becomes a potential client of the psychotherapist. On Saturday, in the Moscow Service of Psychological Assistance, they taught the methods of non -conflict communication with representatives of city services.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, a group of young criminals who hunted homeless people was detained. According to the information department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, adolescents began to commit crimes from the beginning of autumn.

In recent years, according to experts, thousands of girls are illegally import from Eastern Europe to the UK, they are beating, raped and forced to sexual slavery. Prostitutes are brought to Britain from Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Albania, Russia and from Ukraine.

The President of Indonesia said on Monday that 7 people had already died in the country from "bird flu". This data exceeds the information of the World Health Organization, the Reuters agency notes. Previously, the WHO declared 5 dead in Indonesia from the "bird flu". “Of the 11 patients“ bird flu ”7 have already died,” said Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a press conference after a government meeting, where the problem of “bird flu” was discussed.

In St. Petersburg, the famous actor Nikolai Trofimov was spent on the last journey. According to RIA Novosti in the Big Drama Theater, where the actor served for more than forty years, a civilian memorial service was held on Monday morning in the theater.

In Patagonia (Chile, Argentina), scientists discovered the fossilized remains of a crocodile, which lived 140 million years ago and looked like Godzilla. Scientists christened the find named the famous monster from the Japanese film for a characteristic mouth and teeth, BBC reports. American and Argentinean experts who made the discovery believe that the crocodile discovered was a ferocious predator and ate other major marine inhabitants.

Information on the alleged details of the Iranian nuclear program appeared on the eve of the vote on November 24 regarding the transfer of the Iranian dossier to the UN SB can be aimed at creating a negative atmosphere against the Islamic Republic.