Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Amending the Federal Law" On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation "and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation," the press service of the head of state said on Wednesday. The relevant changes were adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on November 17 and approved by the Federation Council on November 24, 2006.

Law enforcement agencies are sealing documents in the Central Office of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (PFR). The work is carried out by employees of the Investigative Committee of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. "The seizure of documents on paper and electronic media is carried out.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they call the deceased with the family as a result of a fire in the Tver region of the priest Andrei Nikolaev Martyr. “Here we are probably talking about the intention to kill him. Father Andrei - Martyr, a fighter for the truth of Christ.

In the Kremlin, on Wednesday, a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the leaders of all the main political parties operating in Russia, Interfax reports.

The Senate Committee on the Armed Forces of the US Congress Armed Forces unanimously recommended to approve the candidacy of the former CIA director Robert Gates for the post of head of the Pentagon, ITAR-TASS reports. The public hearings held on Tuesday lasted five hours, and then the senators questioned 63-year-old Gates behind closed doors for several hours.

In the north-east of Moscow, the Press of the Charitable Children's Fund was robbed, and about 1 million rubles were stolen for a total of about 1 million rubles. According to RIA Novosti in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the crime was committed on agricultural street. The attackers, hacking the gates of the hangar, stole the property of the Murzik.ru children's charitable foundation.

Residents of Transnistria can officially receive citizenship of two or more foreign states - the corresponding amendments to the legislation adopted the parliament of an unrecognized republic on Wednesday. The author of the amendments, deputy Andrei Sipchenko said that the ability to have foreign citizenship on a legal basis is especially relevant in the conditions of Transnistria, which was not recognized by the international community, as well as the growth of labor migration.

Six people received various injuries as a result of a mass fight of fans in Belgrade before the match of the Basketball Cup of Uleb between the Serbian club "Croven Zvezda" and the Greek PAOK. A few minutes before the start of the game, the arena was literally defeated by fans. Faded fans pulled plastic chairs with the root and fired at each other with firewood.

In the Perm region in the village of Zvezdny, a serviceman who carried the guard service was shot from a machine gun, the tragedy occurred on December 4, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the commander of a colonel, Alexander Tsatsalko. The shot soldier was a native of the Voronezh region and in his units served on a contractual basis. According to the Interfax agency, the military prosecutor's office is currently investigating the causes of suicide.

According to unofficial data, the fact of the poisoning of Polonia-210 entrepreneurs Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun is confirmed. Moreover, we are talking about the damage to the gastric tract. And this indicates that they were also tried to poison them, or they ate or drank something from what the ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned. Thus, the Russian prosecutor’s office may begin its own investigation on the fact of poisoning its citizens, writes the Moscow Komsomolets .

On Wednesday, Western media are discussing the investigation by Scotland-Jard of the death of a former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. He died in London on November 23 from poisoning with a radioactive substance. Newspapers believe that the Russian authorities make it difficult to investigate the case and even go on blackmail.

Informant in London of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, Italian Mario Skramella was discharged from the University College hospital, reports Interfax with reference to BBC . Skramella was in the hospital under observation after traces of Polonia-210 were found in his body. This radioactive substance was allegedly poisoned by Litvinenko.

The President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov believes: despite the loss of the Russian grandmaster, the computer program Deep Fritz, to unequivocally declare that the machine is stronger than a person is not yet. Ilyumzhinov expressed this opinion on Wednesday in a telephone interview with RIA Novosti.

The leader of the youth team of FC Dynamo (Kyiv) Dmitry Lamzin ejected from the balcony of his apartment, which is located on the eighth floor, and died a few hours later in intensive care. The funeral of a 16-year-old football player took place on Wednesday, the UNIAN agency reports. According to the acquaintances of the girls - Alina Latysheva and Julia Tolkacheva, supposedly, who saw how this happened, after the fall, Dmitry Lamzin was not only alive, but also in consciousness.

The competition commission for the selection of the constituent entities of the Federation for the creation of special economic zones of the tourist-recreational type was not able to choose from seven applicants and decided to develop everything at once, the Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref said on Wednesday on December 6.