Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili would have received the head of state in the election if they were held on the nearly Sunday, 15.9% of the vote. These are the results of the Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and the Social Reality of the survey, published on Thursday in Georgian newspapers. Recall that in the last presidential election in January 2004, Saakashvili supported 96.25% of voters.

In Nepal, the military mistakenly shot a group of local residents returning after the holiday. At least 12 people died, reports on Thursday Ar. Around midnight near the city of Bhakatpur, the military accepted the local residents returning from the festival home for Maoist militants and opened fire to defeat. According to eyewitnesses, at least 12 people died. The Nepali military itself has not yet commented on this incident, RIA Novosti reports.

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg announced the disclosure of the murder of Antifascist student Timur Kacharava. "The murder of the student of the philological faculty of Timur Kacharava and the attempt to kill the student of the philological faculty of Maxim Zgibay, we consider it disclosed," said Sergei Zaitsev prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev on Thursday. As it became known, five people were arrested as part of the case.

In Moscow, on Thursday, the third stage of European -hockey tour - the Rosno Cup, which will be the last at the official level of the forces in February next year by the Winter Olympiad, starts. The traditional December tournament will take place for the 38th time, and for the first time in recent years it will be held at the Luzhniki Sports Palace, and not in a small sports arena.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov invited the government to decide on the introduction of a rigid punishment of cars for not fastened seat belts. On Thursday, at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation, Zhukov noted that the draft federal target traffic safety program for the period until 2012 provides for the allocation of significant funds, while there is an opportunity to make a number of simple but rather effective decisions, Interfax reports.

The Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Perez believes that Europe and the USA must act as a united front to repulse the new attacks of the Iranian President Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad on Israel. He stated this on Wednesday in Strasbourg during the session of the European Parliament. “Only by taking a firm position, it will be possible to avoid military actions,” Peres said.

Israel made a decision on Thursday to postpone the start of transport communication between the gas sector and the western coast of the Jordan River for an indefinite period. This was reported by the Israeli state radio. It was initially planned that the first convoys will begin movement between the two parts of the Palestinian autonomy on Thursday.

The company RBC distributed an open letter on Thursday, which reports that it is at a loss to "hype raised around the lawsuit of the Vedomosti newspaper on copyright violations ." According to the company, this lawsuit is only a "reason for organizing large-scale PR events." "Unfortunately, on Wednesday, RBC did not have the opportunity to comment on this document simply because it was not at our disposal.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA won the next match at the preliminary stage of the Euroleague. In the seventh round, the wards of the Italian specialist Ettore Messina confidently beat the outsider group C - the partisan team from Serbia and Montenegro - with a score of 89:58 (20:15, 20:12, 33:13, 16:18). From the first minutes of the match, the Moscow army team operated on their parquet very actively and the team of 30 points managed to achieve by the end of the third period.

The wedding of George Michael and his long -time partner Kenny Goss will allegedly take place in June 2006 - they will connect themselves to the bonds in accordance with the new law on same -sex marriage unions adopted in early December in the UK. The singer currently in Tokyo on Thursday noted that the exact date of their marriage has not yet been established, reports AFP. Earlier, George Michael said that the wedding will take place at the beginning of next year.

The US administration is preparing a campaign to improve the image of the country through foreign media. It is estimated at $ 300 million, the Ministry of Defense said. The purpose of this propaganda campaign is to “supply foreign media with accurate and truthful information with a certain degree of transparency,” said Pentagon’s press secretary Lawrence Dirit, Interfax reports.

On Wednesday, in four groups , the group round of the UEFA Cup in football ended . The Russian Club "Zenit" from St. Petersburg and the Ukrainian "Shakhtar" from Donetsk, missing the matches of the last round, took second places in their groups. Thus, as RIA Novosti informs, their rivals in the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup will become teams that have moved to this tournament from the Champions League.

On the eve of the championship fight in Berlin against American John Ruise, St. Petersburg boxer Nikolai Valuev received a blessing from the Orthodox priest. Recently, the athlete visited the Church of Alexander Nevsky in Potsdam, which almost brought the parishioners to the state of the knockdown, but the rector of the temple, Archpriest Anatoly Kolyada, struck struck, says Interfax-religion about today's publication in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper .

The Union of Orthodox citizens intends to achieve the resignation of the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko because of his "anti -church policy".

The French government has carried out the largest transaction for the privatization of state property over the past decades. For 14.8 billion euros, a control package of shares in two companies has been sold, which owns road highways in the southwest and southeast of the country. According to ITAR-TASS, the proceeds will go mainly to the reduction in the public debt of France, which reached a giant amount of 1.1 trillion euros.