In the hospital, on Monday, another injured during a fire in the Moscow narcological hospital number 17 died, Interfax was told in law enforcement agencies. According to law enforcement agencies, a 25-year-old woman who was in extremely serious condition died. Thus, the number of victims of the fire reached 46 people, 9 victims remain in hospitals.

At a referendum in Nagorno -Karabakh, 98.58% of voters voted for the first constitution of an unrecognized republic. The preliminary results of the vote held on Sunday were announced in Stepanakert by the chairman of the Central Commission on referendum Sergey Nasibyan. 0.7% of the vote was filed against the constitution project. The turnout amounted to 87.02%, the chairman of the commission said.

The updated draft resolution of the UN Security Council for Iran was built on Russian proposals. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in Moscow after a meeting of the Council of Heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Monday, a meeting of members of the Board of Trustees of the Perm Basketball Club Ural Greet and the team’s coaching staff took place. By mutual agreement of the parties, the contracts of the head coach of the team of Lithuanian Rimas Kurtinaitis and the senior coach, his compatriot Romualdas Petronis, were terminated. According to the press service of the Ural team , Sergey Zozulin was appointed acting head coach.

The authorities of Great Britain warned citizens about possible terrorist attacks in the country during the Christmas holidays.

The Fiji military, who made a military coup in this small island state on December 5, intend to recruit members of the new cabinet of ministers in newspapers, BBC reports. Appeal to the applicants for ministerial posts was published the other day in the local newspaper The Fiji Times . The corresponding announcement of the recruitment of government officials of the highest rank appeared in the section of advertisements.

Moskhordum deputies panen to adopt a law tightening the norms of maintenance and breeding of dogs in Moscow, said the chairman of the Duma Vladimir Platonov on Monday at deputy hearings as part of a joint meeting of commissions on security, legislation and environmental policy. It is proposed to increase penalties for violation of existing rules for the maintenance of dogs, and, in addition, prohibit the sale of dogs in stores and markets, Interfax reports.

Investigators of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia with the participation of colleagues from Scotland Yard conducted an interrogation of one of the main witnesses in the Litvinenko case, entrepreneur Andrei Lugovoi. The interrogation of Lugovoi businessman lasted more than three hours, reports ITAR-TASS. “I testified exclusively as a witness, the meeting itself lasted more than three hours,” said Lugovoi.

Foreign Ministers of 25 countries of the European Union in Brussels cannot reach a compromise on the problem of continuing negotiations on Turkey's entry into the EU. “The positions of the community countries differ very strongly,” the EU representative said. According to him, which is cited by ITAR-TASS, there are fears that it will not be possible to achieve a mutually acceptable solution on the problem of continuing or freezing negotiations with Turkey.

In the scandal around the hunt of the King of Spain Juan Carlos I in the Vologda region, and therefore, in this area of ​​serious economic damage, the media is guilty, the authorities of Vologda -Golochins say. According to Interfax, the Governor of the Vologda Oblast Vyacheslav Pozgalev was made by such statements. The authorities intend to sue all the media who have distributed information about the bear Mitrofan, allegedly killed by Juan Carlos.

The broadcasting of the private Azerbaijani ANS television channel and ANS CM radio stations resume from December 12 at 12 o’clock in the afternoon (local time). This was stated by the head of the National Council of Azerbaijan on television and radio (NSTR) Nushirvan Maharramov at a press conference on Monday to Baku, Interfax reports.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad made a speech at Tehran University, but his speech was interrupted by students. The audience began to shout insults against the President of Iran, in particular, Ahmadi of Nezhad was called a "corrupt liar." Some went further and began to chant "Death to the Dictator!", NEWSRU Israel reports. ITAR-TASS, citing BBC, indicates that a group of students threw the head of the Iranian state with firecrackers during his speech at Tehran University Amir Kabir.

The divorce of the British musician, one of the participants in the legendary group The Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, promised to become extremely scandalous. According to the British newspaper News of the World on Monday, under this agreement, the chamber will receive 120 million pounds from the famous musician and executor ($ 235 million), ITAR-TASS reports.

Within the framework of his last investigation, which Alexander Litvinenko fed before his death, he claimed that he had disclosed the FSB conspiracy, which had the goal of requisitioning millions of pounds from wealthy Russians who left for London and other Western capitals, the newspaper The Times claims. (Full text on the website inopressa.ru .) Most of them worked for the Yukos oil company, the newspaper claims.

The sexual scandal paralyzed the political life of Poland and led to the fact that the government, awaiting the results of the test of paternity, is now going through difficult times and fights for survival. About this writes the British edition of The Independent . The last crisis, reminds the publication, affected the "nationalist government" of the country.