In Switzerland, at the 81st year of his life, the famous choreographer Maurice Bezhar died, the spokeswoman for his ballet troupe reported from Lausanne, ITAR-TASS reports. On November 16, he was urgently hospitalized . The choreographer was to undergo a course of treatment due to problems with the heart and kidneys. Recently, the choreographer has been forced to devote less time to art because of health problems. For the past two decades, Bezhar was the head of the Lausanne Ballet of Bezhar.

In yesterday’s speech , President Vladimir Putin almost openly called opponents before the whole “Luzhniks” of supporters: these are those who “some 10 years ago controlled the key positions in the Federal Assembly and the government, who held high positions in the 1990s.” The Deputy Chairman of the ATP, a member of the RAO EES, Leonid Gozman, believes that Putin essentially called two enemies - the Communist Party and ATP.

The South Korean Ministry of Association reported the resumption of a cargo railway message interrupted in 1951 between the DPRK and South Korea. Seoul and Pyongyang agreed that commodity trains would cross the intercorean border daily from December 11, ITAR-TASS reports. A general agreement on a regular cargo report by rail between the Munsan stations in South Korea and Pondon in the DPRK was reached at a meeting of the heads of government of two Korean states a week ago.

The Moscow City Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted in the first reading a new edition of the Law "On Land Use in the city of Moscow". Oleg Ryzhkov, First Deputy Head of the Department of Land Resources of the Capital, said at a meeting that the document has been prepared in connection with amendments to federal legislation that have occurred from the moment of adoption in May 2003 of the Law on land use and development in Moscow, Interfax-Realism reports.

At a meeting of the Central Election Commission on Thursday, the issue of participation of the party of the right -wing forces in the parliamentary elections on December 2 will be resolved, the participation of the party may be challenged in the Supreme Court. The reason will be the campaign television videos of the “right”, in which the leader of the party Nikita Belykh calls the elections a referendum not “in trust in President Putin”, but “returning to the Soviet Union”.

In the village of Oktyabrsky, Vaninsky district of the Khabarovsk Territory, on Thursday night, a fire destroyed 36 houses, 57 people were left without shelter, one person died. The fire arose in the territory of military warehouses of one of the parts of the Pacific Fleet at 01:35 local time. Due to the strong wind, the fire spread to residential buildings. In addition to private houses, 16 more buildings burned, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the administration of the Vaninsky district.

The German Mercedes Automobile Concert reported that he was recalling more than 5,000 of his C-Class of the 2008 model year. This is due to the problem of seat belts in the rear seat of the cabin. According to the US National Safety Service on roads, the new belts in Mercedes C-class machines under certain circumstances cannot properly fix some old models of special children's car seats. Due to this statement, Mercedes will have to replace them.

The prosecutor's office of the Khabarovsk Territory protested the order of the regional administration of the Federal Migration Service, according to which officials were ordered from November 29 to December 1, 2007 (three days before the day of voting in the State Duma elections), not to accept a statement from registration from citizens.

The arrested deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergey Storchak does not recognize the suspicions of the prosecutor's office in a criminal plan in order to steal $ 43 million from the state budget. "Storchak said that he did not make any fraud," the lawyer of Storchak Alexander Petrov told Interfax . According to him, the deputy minister was questioned as a suspect after the detention, where the father said, about his innocence.

In order to collect the most difficult motorcycle in the world to German enthusiasts from the "motorcycle forge" in the town of Tsillo in the land of Saxony-Anchal, 5,000 workers were needed. This event encouraged to introduce a new section "The Heavier Motorcycle in the World" into the Guinness Book of Records. The certificate for the record is already ready, because on November 23, this severe motorcycle will be shown on German television in the program dedicated to Giness's records.

The position of the delegations of the European Union states, abstained during the vote in the UN under the project of a resolution directed against the revival of modern forms of racism, is a manifestation of double standards.

Three Russian divers disappeared on Wednesday in Egypt, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Diving Agency "ABC Safari". According to these data, after the immersion of the Elphinstone reef, three Russian divers from Barnaul did not return to the ship. The missing Vladimir Bukhmiller, Sergey Gurba and Natalya Doronina planned to dive in advance to a depth of 90 meters. This was told by the fourth participant in the immersion, who was aware of these plans, but who did not dive deeply.

As the leading British newspapers, the Loss of England, perceived the national tragedy, the last qualifying match of the European Championship in 2008, thanks to which the Russians reached the final part of the tournament instead of the founders of football. For the first time since 1984, the England team has remained overboard of the continental championship.

The construction of new offices in the center of the Russian capital is already limited - the territories in the business center "Moscow City" are allocated for them, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters today. At the same time, housing and cultural facilities in the city center will be built, Luzhkov noted. It is reported by ITAR-TASS.

More than 300 inhabitants of the Primorsky village of Poset are left without heat supply for the third day due to an accident at the Khasansky pumping station, a representative of the Primhteploenergo regional enterprise said. "The accident at the pumping station supplies to the boiler room" Porta Dead Dead Estate "occurred on Tuesday morning, but so far the heat supply has not been restored," the press service spokesman told RIA Novosti .