The monitoring of the press conducted by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation showed that during the election campaign, no party did not dominate the media on others, the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov said on Friday to international observers. Those, in turn, was silent, after meeting with the head of the CEC to settle in the Russian regions, they will express their assessments of the election process on December 3, Interfax reports.

In the Italian city of Palermo, a member of the mafia clan of Nostra was arrested 48-year-old Michele Katalano. It is noteworthy that the gangster was captured during the viewing of the television series dedicated to the legendary boss Cossa Nostra Toto Riin. This was reported on Friday by Italian law enforcement agencies.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called the last statement of the leader of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Organization, Usama Ben Laden. "Usama Ben Laden is responsible for the death of thousands of Afghans and for a lot that happened in our country at the end of the Cold War," Karzai said. He added that Ben Laden "does not have the right to comment on what is happening in Afghanistan," and "it is he who is to blame for the poor reputation of Muslims around the world," Newsru Israel reports.

The Kremlin legalizes its business interests: the co-owner and president of the little-known industrial and financial group of Finance, Oleg Schwartzman, said that he was in the interests of the deputy head of the presidential administration Igor Sechin and controls the assets for $ 3.2 billion.

The head of Yakutia, Vyacheslav Shtyrov, is confident that the republic in 2007 will remain one of the most calm regions of Russia with regard to crime. And so that criminal elements from other regions of the country do not come to the region, he intends to organize a checkpoint on the boundaries of the subject of the Federation, Interfax reports. "In terms of crime, Yakutia and today occupies the last places in the Far Eastern District and in Russia as a whole.

On Thursday, during a visit to Canada, the chairman of the Russian government, Viktor Zubkov, discussed the most important issues of bilateral relations with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In particular, the conversation came to Russian claims to the Arctic shelf, and the heads of government spoke about the prospects for cooperation in the development of the disputed water area.

This was announced today at the first forum "Market of the Russian Real Estate" General Director of Penny Lane Sochi, Sergei Nikitin. He explained that the company was faced with this problem in July of this year, when for the construction of a "candle" (high -rise object), it was necessary to buy the land. He explained that nine acres were previously bought at a price of about 20 thousand dollars, and one additional - for 1 million.

In the American state of Kansas, the police found the body of an 18-year-old girl who led the underground life of a pornstar. However, the police believe that the murder of a student is not connected with her second life on the Internet. The corpse of the girl was discovered 85 kilometers from the city of El Drado. Presumably, the body belongs to the 18-year-old student from Kansas Emily Sander, who disappeared at the end of last week, reports factnews with reference to AP.

One of the two preserved manuscripts of the greatest work of Mozart was found in a private collection in the UK. This is the original note of Sinfonia Concertante (concert symphony Mi-Bemol Major for violin and Alta with an orchestra (KV 364), a masterpiece of 1779, which elevated Mozart to the status of the greatest musicians of the world. The sheet will be sold at the Sotheby's on December 4, this The composer who has been on sale over the past decades.

In anticipation of the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which will be held on the next Sunday, and the presidential elections scheduled for March 2008, the authorities are doing more and more active efforts to limit citizens access to any "opposition" information. According to the New Region , television and radio broadcasts in Russian villages and villages, in which the point of view on what is happening in the country is expressed.

Currently, the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) is completing the preparation of a response to a letter to 138 Muslim leaders , sent in October the heads of leading Christian faiths, the priest Georgy Roshchin, an employee of the MPC MP, told the Interfax agency.

A new study destroyed the reputation of the Swedes as very restrained people: they are ready to hug with everyone except their boss. According to the tabloid factnews with reference to the AR, 90% of Sweden residents hug someone at least once a week. The main lovers of hugs are women aged 30-44 years, the study submitted by the Swedish unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The survey conducted on November 5-8 was attended by 1036 people.

The head coach of the Grozny football club "Terek" , who won the right to perform in the Russian Premier League in the next season, was 52-year-old Leonid Nazarenko. This specialist will take the place of the resigned Vaita Talgaev. Nazarenko’s last place of work was the Krasnodar Kuban, which he headed in July 2006.

NVIDIA will present in February 2008 the GEFORCE 9 graphic processors, Digitimes reports with reference to video cards manufacturers. First, the top model D9E will appear on the market. And in the middle of the year, younger models based on the D9P chip will be released. New chips will support the PCI Express 2.0, DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 bus. D9E will be made using 65-nm technology, and D9P-55-nm.

The murder of the first head of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Sergei Kirov, on December 1, 1934 in Smolny, which served as a reason for starting in the country of mass repressions, whose peak came in 1937, was not political - the director of the St. Petersburg museum Tatyana Sukharnikov, which became the first researcher of the criminal case "On the villainous murders of a comrade S.M. Kirova ".