In Naberezhnye Chelny, the final composition of the Russian Kamaz-Master team was determined, which will take part in the Lisbon-Dakar 2006 supermarathon authorities. The six-time winner of the transcontinental automate rheat of the Kamaz-Master team includes three crews on the KamAZ-4911 Extreme truck.

Last night, Russian hockey players were again noticeable characters in the NHL games: Ilya Kovalchuk (Atlanta), Pavel Vorobyov (Chicago) and Nikolai Zherdev (Columbus) were able to throw two goals into the opponent’s gates. Atlanta at the home "Filips Arena" took Chicago.

In the near future, payments to young mothers for the birth of children and for their care will be increased. The Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov reported this to the President of the Russian Federation. The minister said that on December 14, the Federation Council will consider the budget of state non -budget funds for 2006. “There is no reason to believe that the decision will not be supported,” Zurabov believes.

The official Tbilisi is preparing to use force to resolve the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, said Colonel Anatoly Barankevich, Minister of Defense of the Unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia. “The fact that the issue of joining the accession of South Ossetia to Georgia is currently undergoing a power route is now, is obvious to everyone in our republic,” Barankevich said in an interview with an independent newspaper , published on Monday.

In Japan, four people committed group suicide. All the dead met on the Internet. According to the main police department of the country, on Monday not far from one of the houses in the Hyogo Prefecture in the west of the Honseyu Main Island in a parked minibus, the bodies of three men 39, 27 and 23 years old and women 33 were discovered. All of them were poisoned by carbon monoxide.

The head of the International Commission for the Investigation of the Murder of the former Prime Minister Lebanon Rafik Hariri, German lawyer Detlev Mehlis handed over a report on the results of her work to the UN Secretary General Cofi Annan. This document will be submitted on Monday to the UN Security Council. In the previous report, the commission came to the conclusion about the likely involvement of high -ranking employees of the Lebanese and Syrian special services in this crime.

In the Suleiman-Stalsky district of Dagestan, unknown criminals killed the director of the high school of the village of Ashagastal-Camaria, his wife and son. According to the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, the corpses of the 54-year-old director of the school Asker Askerov and his 50-year-old wife with gunshot wounds were discovered on the sidelines of the Hereikhanov state farm road.

Alexey Ivchenko was again appointed head of the Naftogaz Ukrainian National Joint Stock Company. This is determined by the appropriate resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers. On December 9, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko fired Ivchenko with his decree from the post of First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine - Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz Ukraine in connection with the liquidation of the position.

Many Muscovites whose apartments were injured in the explosion on the morning of December 7 will have to celebrate the New Year among the collapsed walls or in the hotel. Already the sixth day at the entrance of the house N6 on Godovikov Street is an emergency technique - repairmen and builders continue to demolish the ceilings damaged by the explosion.

The judges of the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday decided to interrupt the process of Slobodan Milosevich for six weeks to provide additional rest to the defendant. Miloshevich complains about fatigue, heart problems, high pressure, severe headaches and ears. At the same time, the judges refused to consider the request of the ex-president of Yugoslavia to allow him to go to a physical examination to Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.

The police and prosecutor's office of one of the largest cities in Siberia - Irkutsk - falsify criminal cases. Officers of the operational-search unit and investigators of the prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region for particularly important matters literally “knock out” the confession in the murders. The newspaper Version writes about the technology of the Irkutsk conveyor to disclose especially serious crimes.

Patriarch Serbian Pavel is treated at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, where he was delivered on Thursday after a fall in his cell, the Serbian media reports, Interfax-religion reports. Later, the result of a medical consultation was made public, according to which the Patriarch damaged his right thigh. There is a crack of bone tissue, but surgical intervention is not required, and recovery is normal. On Friday, members of the Bishop Synod visited the head of the Primate.

In the first three numbers of 2006, October magazine will publish a new novel by the famous writer Vasily Aksenov, Moscow-KVA-KVA. This was announced by the author himself in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti . “The place of action, as it is clear from the name itself, Moscow,” said Aksenov. “The time of action of 1952, the last year of Stalin’s life. In one of the famous high -rise buildings in the capital, a love triangle is tied ...

Firefighters will continue to extinguish the burning oil storage of Total and Texaco in the Harsteadshire County 40 km north of London. Representatives of the Government authorities noted that it would take several days to eliminate the fire. According to Whitley, companies and organizations that worked in the area of ​​the explosion will be able to return to work no earlier than a few days later, and maybe weeks.

The Moscow region expects a relatively clear frosty day. According to Roshydromet, on Monday afternoon in the capital, the thermometer column will drop to minus 5-7, but due to the high moisture content in the air, the Muscovites will seem that there are at least 12-14 frost on the street. In the area where the real winter reigns on the first day, up to 4-9 degrees below zero. The December sun will appear. There will be ice on the roads, in some places light snow will pass.