Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik became the winner of the chess memorial Mikhail Tal, which ended in Moscow. In the party of the final round, Kramnik was a leader with an advantage of 0.5 points, playing with black figures, divided glasses with the Ukrainian Vasily Ivanchuk. Another competitor of the Russian Indian Vishvanatan Anand with white lost quite unexpectedly Levon Aronyan from Armenia.

The Russian athlete Ingova became the winner of the prestigious female international marathon in Yokohama, leaving behind the Olympic champion and silver medalist Beijing. Abitova, specializing in a distance of 10,000 m, was able to escape the separation from the main group at a 30-kilometer mark and no longer let competitors. As a result, Inga showed the result of 2 hours 27 minutes 18 seconds.

The leaders of the APEC countries agreed to stimulate the economy until the process of its restoration acquires a clearly expressed stable nature, the declaration adopted according to the results of the APEC summit. The document notes that the energetic measures taken to achieve the goal - to overcome the recession within 18 months - created the basis for economic recovery, but it has not yet been based on a solid foundation.

The head of the Orthodox Church of Serbia Patriarch Pavel died on Sunday morning in the Belgrade hospital at the 96th year of his life, reports the Air Force . The 95-year-old Patriarch was sent to Belgrade’s military hospital two years ago due to a number of hearts and light problems. The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Paul was respected as a theologist and linguist, also known for personal modesty.

In Ingushetia, on the fact of shelling the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a criminal case has been instituted. At the same time, they tried to undermine the motorcade of the investigative-operational group who had gone to the scene, the website of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation reports on Sunday.

The cousin of Saddam Hussein - Ali Hassan al -Majid, is better known under the nickname "Chemical Ali", executed at the end of 2009, RIA Novosti told the Iraqi government. "The Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri Al-Malika advocates to execute the chemical Ali and other leaders of the leaders of the former Iraqi regime at the end of December," said the source that asked not to name his name. Al-Majid, who currently turned 68 years old, was sentenced to death three times.

US President Barack Obama claims that the “rebooting” of relations with Russia worked. "President Medvedev is frank, thoughtful and constructive in the approach to Russian -American relations," Obama said during a joint statement with Medvedev at the end of negotiations on the fields of the APEC summit. “The Reload button worked,” said the US President.

Municipal elections - the first since the proclamation of independence (February 17, 2008) - will be held today in Kosovo. For the first time, the authorities of this remaining international control of the republic received the right to independently organize the entire electoral process. Voting will take place in 36 of 38 communities - the main units of the administrative -territorial division of Kosovo.

Law enforcement agencies are suspected of arson of a disco bar in Naberezhnye Chelny, followed by a fire, which claimed the lives of two people, another 27 people were injured, repeatedly convicted by a resident of a city suffering from addiction to drugs, said RIA Novosti, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Tatarstan, Eduard Abdullin. A message about the fire in the disco bar "Atmosphere" was received at 08:29 Moscow time.

The auction of the confiscated personal belongings of the fraudster of the century Bernard Madoff and his wife Ruth helped out almost $ 1 million, according to the auction website held on Saturday by the Federal Agency for the Penfersion of the United States This is the first auction of things withdrawn from three Madoff estates, to which about 200 items were exhibited - from furs and diamonds to socks with a monogram and a dog bowl.

Eduard Limonov, arrested for 10 days for organizing a “rally of disagreements”, will support the pre -trial detention center, one of the leaders of “solidarity” Boris Nemtsov and human rights activist Lev Ponomarev will support. “On Monday, a series of single pickets at the pre -trial detention center will begin, where Limonov is located. It will be on Simferopol Boulevard, house 2,” Olga Shorina, a spokeswoman for solidarity, told Interfax .

Iran will soon be able to create an advanced missile defense system if Russia does not impose the Air Defense system Islamic Republic, reports Reuters with reference to Alaiddin Boruherdi - the head of the Iranian Parliament Committee and the foreign policy of the Iranian Political Policy. "Iran is not the country that will stop before the refusal of cooperation between other countries.

Two people died, 23 were hospitalized as a result of a fire in a disco bar in Naberezhnye Chelny. This was announced today by Corr. ITAR-TASS Head of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in Tatarstan Andrei Rodygin. The emergency occurred this morning, the fire report was received by a single dispatch service at 08:30 Moscow time. The fire was extinguished for 20 minutes, the ceiling was burned and the internal sheathing in the room on an area of ​​10 square meters.

The emergency regime was introduced in the Zavolzhsky district of Ulyanovsk, where ammunition exploded on the military arsenal on Friday, the regional governor Sergei Morozov said at a meeting on Sunday. The explosions began on the southern outskirts of Ulyanovsk at about 15:40 Moscow time on Friday, November 13, as a result of a fire in an ammunition warehouse in a military unit along Akademika Pavlov Street. Two people were killed, eight are hospitalized.

The former defender of Manchester United and the French national team Laurent Blanc is called as one of Alex Ferguson’s most likely successors as the head coach of the Red Devils. Currently, the Blanc is a similar post in Bordeaux. “The search for the successor of Ferguson is the most difficult task since Matt Basby’s departure,” the Daily Mirror publication quotes the source in the Manchester club. “It is not only about how to achieve victories with the club. We are important to be preserved.