The first secretary of the French Socialist Party of France was chosen today by the mayor of the city Lill Martin Obri. Thus, the woman for the first time in the history of the country headed the party of French socialists. Obri won with an extremely insignificant advantage, having received 50.02 percent of the votes of the activists of the Socialist Party participating in the elections, ITAR-TASS reports.

The man and his two -year -old son died on Saturday as a result of a fire in a private house in Samara. According to the Interfax agency in the Ministry of Emergencies in the Samara Region, a message about a fire in a private house on ul. Novosovetskaya was received on the on -duty remote control at 5:30 local time. During the extinguishing of fire, firefighters were discovered by the bodies of two dead, including a child. A woman was evacuated from a burning house.

The newspaper Vedomosti warned about the need to strictly comply with the law on countering extremism. The reason for this was the article by the head of the Center for Social Policy of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences Evgeny Gontmamer, which appeared in one of the issues of the publication.

Moscow is ready for a constructive dialogue with the Barack Obama administration, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “They are ready for a constructive dialogue with Washington on the widest range of issues affecting the national interests of Russia and the USA,” he said in an interview with the Peruvian newspaper El Comersio, answering the question of Moscow’s expectations from the new US administration.

The regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, who came to power in Georgia in November 2003 as a result of the "Revolution of Roses", led the state to the threshold of the next coup. This opinion of RIA Novosti was expressed by the State Duma deputy, director of the CIS Institute of countries Konstantin Zatulin. On November twenty -third, 2008 will be five years old “Rose Revolution”, as a result of which Saakashvili came to power in Georgia.

The US Navy missile cruiser Barry arrived today in the Georgian port of Batumi. A ceremony of the meeting of members of the command and crew of the cruiser, organized by the city authorities and representatives of the country's coast guard, took place on the embankment. A concert with the participation of local dance and folklore groups was held right on the embankment. "The cruiser arrived in Georgia on a friendly visit," Barry commanders told reporters.

The Yabloko party called on the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin to resign. The corresponding statement of the party was adopted at a meeting of her bureau on Friday, the press service of Yabloko reports on Saturday. On November 9, Zorkin said on the air of the Russia TV channel that an increase in the term of powers of the president and State Duma deputies will not change the foundations of the Russian Constitution.

About 2 thousand vehicles with the lights of the nearby headlights proceeded today along the streets of Barnaul as a sign of support for the motorists of Vladivostok, protesting against increasing customs duties for invioled imported cars imported into Russia. The protest picket, which gathered hundreds of participants, then took place on the central square of Barnaul - the Square of the Soviets. The collection of signatures was organized here.

Events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 will be held on Saturday in Kyiv. The participation of the leaders of a number of countries, in particular, the presidents of Georgia and Latvia, Mikhail Saakashvili and Valdis Zatlers, are expected, RIA Novosti reports.

A heavy snowfall some time ago went over Moscow and its immediate environs. According to weather forecasters of the metropolitan hydrometer, the snow will continue for several more hours, after which it will change in rain and continue until the morning of Sunday. Experts note that now in the city the plus temperature, which varies in different areas from 0.3 degrees to 1 degree above zero. “During the upcoming night, frosts are not expected,” they assured in the meteoro.

The Executive Director of the European Branch of the Professional Tennisian Association (ATP), Andy Anson will leave this post in January 2009 in order to head the organizational committee for the nomination of the application of England for the 2018 football championship.

Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia over the past year have "earned" more than $ 150 million dollars. That was so much ransom paid for the court captured by the pirates. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenya Moses Vangul said at a press conference in Nyrobi, at present, pirate attacks are becoming increasingly daring. For 11 months, more than 90 ships visited the pirates, CNN reports.

The President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov claims that in the Chechen Republic, all citizens, regardless of the provision, are obliged to comply with the law. "The law is written for everyone, everything should be equal to it. Everyone should be responsible for their actions, regardless of past merits, titles and regalia.

On the Saturday, the leading sports publication of Europe , La Gazzetta Dello Sport has published an extensive interview with the leader of the St. Petersburg Zenit and the Russian national team Andrei Arshavin. We can say that this is a historical event for our football, since so far not a single player of the Russian Premier League has been honored with such an honor, - pays attention to Sportbox.ru .

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, speaking to the Ukrainian people on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, called on the fraternal Russian people to condemn the crimes of Stalinism. On November 22, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the great hunger of the 1930s, whose victims of which were up to 10 million people throughout the former USSR. Ukraine believes that it was the genocide of the Ukrainian people and is trying to convince the world community of this.