In hospitals in the Tver region, less than 50 passengers remains affected in the Nevsky Express accident. This was the governor of the region Dmitry Zelenin told reporters at the place of the tragedy. In total, 71 passengers were hospitalized. Zelenin said that two people were operated on. Their state of health and "other hospitalized passengers are out of danger. Everything necessary for their treatment in the Tver region is," he said.

The former senator from St. Petersburg, who recently worked as the head of the state -owned company Russian Roads, Sergey Tarasov, according to preliminary data, died during the collapse of the Nevsky Express in the Tver region, Interfax informed a source in the northern capital. “We have such information,” the agency’s interlocutor said, evading a more detailed comment.

According to preliminary data, 30 people were killed in the collapse of the Nevsky Express, the Prosecutor General’s Office said at 11:00 Moscow time. Rescuers begin at the place of tragedy to cut the spanned wagon of the Nevsky Express to find out if there are the dead in it. Officials who are at the scene of the accident are difficult to say - when the movement of trains at the site of the emergency can be restored. In search of the dead and the wounded, dog handlers are involved.

According to the press service of the October Railway, 30 injured as a result of the collapse of the Nevsky Express train were sent to Bologoe, Aleshin and Borovichi. Another 20 victims by train were sent to the corner, Interfax reports. "The victims were delivered to the corner of the Sapsan train, after which we will leave the seriously wounded in the Uglov district hospital and the Okulovsk Central District Hospital. Light -wounded will proceed to the medical institutions of St.

The forensic examination and identification of the bodies of the Nevsky Express died as a result of the crash of the Nevsky Express train will be held in Tver, the press secretary of the Governor of the Tver Region Zhanna Lyapunova said on Saturday . “In this regard, the Governor of the Tver region Dmitry Zelenin set the task of providing the relatives of the dead and injured in the train crash. The region is ready to help them with transport and allocate places in hotels,” Lyapunova noted.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill expressed his condolences in connection with the crash on the eve of the evening of the Nevsky Express train, which resulted in numerous human victims. “I deeply grieve in connection with the collapse of the“ Nevsky Express ”. Cleaves of the families of disaster. I pray for the repose of tragically dead people, about the speedy recovery of all the wounded and the spiritual strengthening of those who lost their family and relatives on this night.

The chairman of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, left the place of accident of the Nevsky Express train in the Tver region. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the UK. "To coordinate the work of investigative -operational groups, the chairman of the SCP Alexander Bastrykin left for the disaster," said the representative of the Investigative Committee.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez expressed decisive support on Friday to create a Palestinian state with the capital in Jerusalem. At the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, he welcomed the head of the Palestinian National Administration (PNU) of Mahmoud Abbas, who was in Venezuela on the first official visit in history, ITAR-TASS reports.

The most likely rival of the applicant for IBF in heavyweight, Alexander Povetkin in a duel scheduled for December 5, is American Leo Nolan. The 37-year-old Nolan began his professional career back in 1992, but he soon fell behind bars and did not go to the ring for almost eight years. He managed to return to boxing only in 2001, and since then he managed to spend 23 fights and win a couple of insignificant regional titles.

The head of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin believes that the current undermining of the Nevsky Express train resembles the events of three years ago, RIA Novosti reports. "Blot occurred according to a scheme that very reminiscent (incident) of three years ago," Yakunin said during a selector meeting in the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of an emergency. "The unidentified device that was put into effect unknown persons worked," he added.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, together with his wife and children on Saturday morning, laid flowers to the memorial sign to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in the center of Kyiv on Mikhailovskaya Square, the press service of the Ukrainian president reports. Ukraine on Saturday celebrates the next anniversary of the Holodomor, which in the country is considered the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Human rights activists said that the nationalist group Combat 18, which took responsibility for the undermining of the "Nevsky Express", still exists. “These people really exist,” the Deputy Director of the Analytical Center “Owl” Galina Kozhevnikova told Interfax on Saturday. According to her, Combat 18 as a grouping of skinheads arose in Europe, and since the 90s there are people in Russia who call themselves its activists. "This is a very old brand.

At the scene of the Nevsky Express high -speed train, elements of an explosive device were discovered on the border of the Tver and Novgorod regions, the official representative of the SCP of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin said at about 15:00 Moscow time. “Indeed, we are talking about a terrorist attack,” he said.

Henesse, who worked for 30 years as a Bavaria general manager, became the new president of the Munich football club, Reuters reports. Heness, which became the German champion in 1972 in 1972, and in 1974 the world champion, was elected president following the results of the annual meeting in Munich. Ex-President Franz Beckenbauer, who led as a Bundestim coach to the victory at the World Cup, now holds the position of honorary president.

The appeal in the case of Russian biathletes, the Olympic champion Albina Akhatova and the world champion Ekaterina Yuryeva to the decision of the arbitration sports court in Lausanne (CAS), which on November 12, made a decision to leave two -year disqualification for doping , can be filed before December 11, 2009. This was the agency "All Sport" was stated by Horge Ibarrol, a partner of Libra Law, who represented the interests of Yuryeva and Akhatova at the hearing in CAS.