The United States intends to reduce the military presence in Iraq in 2006, said the head of the American military department, Donald Ramsfeld.

An increasingly fierce character takes on riots in the center of Hong Kong. Hundreds of anti-Globalists are trying to break through to the conference center from different sides, where the Forum of the World Trade Organization takes place. Several groups of demonstrators with flags and drums managed to storm the cordon and metal barriers and close to the Hong Kong Center for conferences and exhibitions. The police used grenades with tear gas.

Five people were injured in Moscow as a result of an accident at the construction site. As Interfax was told in the Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, at about 16:10 at a construction site in the area of ​​the area of ​​the Kievsky station, where a large shopping center is being built, a construction cradle was cut off, in which five workers were located. All of them were injured. One of the builders received serious injuries.

The midfielder of Menhengladbach Borussia Egon Polyansky refused to play for the Polish team. The 19-year-old native of the Polish city of Sosnovets made a choice in favor of the German national team and dreams of playing for the Germans at the 2006 World Cup. Pavel Janas came to see Polyansky’s game. After the match of Borussia and Ganover, Yanas met with the egon, but received a refusal to play for the Polish national team from the young football player, RTR-sport.ru reports.

The Russian goalkeeper of Chicago Nikolai Khabibulin became the main creator of the victory of the team in the match with St. Louis. Nikolai reflected 32 throws and did not allow himself to score a bullet. As a result, the Khabibulin club defeated "musicians" with a score of 5: 1. After the second period, the Saint-Luis hockey players had an advantage in shots-23: 9, but lost with a score of 1: 3. “It is obvious that we did not apply as many shots as we would like,” said Mark Bell.

The congress of the Democratic Party of Russia, at which the leader of the party is planned to elect the ex-Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov, at the last moment was transferred from the "October" hall of the House of Unions to one of the buildings of the Izmailovo hotel complex. “At night in the building where the congress was to be held, unknown people appeared who pretend to be as delegates of the congress.

The holder of the 2005 chess Cup, which ended in Khanty-Mansiysk, became a grandmaster from Armenia Levon Aronyan. In the final match, he outplayed the ex-champion of the world Fide Ruslan Ponomarev (Ukraine). Two classic parties of the fight ended in a draw, and in fast parties the Armenian grandmaster was stronger - 2: 0. The final account of the match is 3: 1 in favor of Aronyan.

The Vedomosti newspaper positively reacted to the statements adopted on the eve of the three leading Russian information agencies - ITAR -TASS, Interfax and RIA Novosti in connection with the problem of protecting intellectual property.

Participants in the Izmailovo conference of the Democratic Party of Russia announced ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov as their informal leader. They invited him to begin the creation of a new democratic party. He called the bifurcation of the party today arbitrariness. The legal procedure for the election of the party leader was impossible due to the lack of the necessary quorum at the event.

The Russian hockey team, which won the Finland team with a score of 2: 0, becomes ahead of schedule, becomes the owner of the Rosno Cup and practically secures himself in the final matches of Eurotour. The first period passed with a noticeable advantage of the Russian team, which often played in the numerical majority and could have abandoned repeatedly.

The Palestinian National Administration risks losing their financial assistance and other United States support if the Hamas extremist group will be allowed to participate in the parliamentary elections, which should take place in autonomy in January 2006. Such a warning is contained in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives of the US Congress.

The Republican Party of Russia was revived and entered into the stage of quick rise. This statement was made on Saturday at the 14th extraordinary congress of the party in Moscow, its leader Vladimir Ryzhkov, RIA Novosti reports. "The main organizational result of 2005 can be considered that the Republican Party of Russia was revived and entered the stage of a quick rise," said, opening the congress, Ryzhkov.

The remnants of the Mi-24 helicopter were found near the village of Verbata in the Mountain Lozhbin in the forest in the south of Chechnya, Interfax was told on Saturday in the Vedensky District Department of Internal Affairs. "A visual inspection indicates that the helicopter has burned and exploded," said the representative of the police department. He also said that the board number of the combat vehicle was not found.

The Mi-24 helicopter, whose remains were discovered in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, in a mountainous area, was shot down in 2000, Alexander Drobyshevsky, head of the press service of the Russian Air Force, said on Saturday, the head of the press service of the Russian Air Force. “Then two crew members were killed. The crew was extracted and buried from the scene of the helicopter disaster,” he said.

The number of wild birds that fell from the "bird flu" in the Kazymyak district of the Astrakhan region continues to grow. As ITAR-TASS reported in the Southern Regional Center for the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation over the past day by special search units here, another 12 fallen swans were discovered here. The total number of dead wild birds reached 560. All of them are burned. The first signal of the death of migratory birds in the Volga delta was received on November 17.