Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed gratitude to the executive committee of FIFA, as well as its head Joseph Blatter for the decision to grant Russia the right to hold the World Cup in 2018 , the Kremlin press service said. The British press about Putin's accusations of relations with the mafia: he was also given the world championship The elections of the owners of the World Cup 2018 and 2022 were held in Zurich on December 2.

Snowfall and a strong snowstorm hit the Magadan region, rescuers warn about the danger of departure from settlements and the probability of snow avalanches.

The pre -election programs of opposition candidates for the presidency of Belarus are the same and not serious, said the first deputy head of the presidential administration Natalya Petkevich. “In fact, all election programs are the same and built on the same principle: first everything that was, then it is promised absolutely everything that is possible.

The second aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry flew to Israel to extinguish forest fires, the Interfax Ministry of Information reported on Sunday. "At 12:10 Moscow time from the Moscow Domodedovo Airport, the second Bi-200 AMFIBII plane flew to Israel, which will extinguish fires in the Israeli city of Haifa," the Ministry of Emergencies noted. Two IL-76 aircraft, the Be-200 Aircraft and the Mi-26 helicopter already arrived in Israel.

The ex-first racket of the world Marat Safin commented on the pair of the Davis Cup final between the teams of Serbia and France for the official radio of this tournament, reports Soviet Sport . Interestingly, in a neighboring cabin with Marat, the Fabris Santoro Fabrice commented on the French radio. The Frenchman reminded the Russian about the final match of 2002, in which the national teams of France and Russia met. Then the French won the pair of the foal meeting .

The Russian biathletist Olga Zaitseva became the best among the Russians in the persecution race at the first stage of the World Cup in the Swedish Estersund. Zaitseva, starting the eighth on Sunday , completed the 10-kilometer race of the sixth with two misses and the lag behind the leader 2 minutes 10.2 seconds.

Memory measures on the occasion of the anniversary of the tragedy in the Perm nightclub "Lame Horse", a fire in which 156 people took the lives, take place in Perm. On Sunday night near the building where the club used to be, relatives and friends of the dead gathered, as well as victims during a fire. Most of the audience are young people, the correspondent of the Interfax agency from the scene of the event said. According to the Perm administration, about 500 people gathered in total.

As of 10:00 Moscow time, in total, in the inpatient treatment in Moscow medical institutions there are 36 victims as a result of the Tu-154 plane crash. Such information is posted on the official website of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. Three people are in serious condition, 29 people are in a state of moderate severity, and four in satisfactory condition.

Australia authorities said that they began an investigation against Australian Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, which published a secret correspondence of the American diplomatic department. The purpose of the investigation is to establish whether Australian laws have violated Assange and whether it can be brought to judicial liability in his homeland.

Two activists of the Yabloko party were detained by the police during the procession in Krasnodar in defense of the Utrish natural park, the party leadership claims. “We are holding a march in defense of the park where the state residence is being built. The procession was agreed with the authorities and about 100 people took part in it.

At least nine people were detained on Saturday and Sunday in Greece on suspicion of terrorism, the Athenian News Agency reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. The police officially does not officially call the number of detainees, referring to the fact that the operation of the anti -terrorism service has not yet been completed, RIA Novosti reports. The arrests began on Saturday evening.

The scandalous cyber-atac on the American search server Google, which occurred in December 2009, was organized by a representative of the Chinese government, stated in the American diplomatic dispatches published on the website of the British newspaper Guardian .

On Sunday, Palestinian human rights organizations accused the rival Palestinian movements - Fath and Hamas of activating the arrests and judicial persecution of supporters of two movements on the western bank of the Jordan River and in the gas sector. According to human rights activists, torture and illegal methods of interrogations against detainees in prisons in the western coast and in Gaza are used, RIA Novosti reports.

The US Congress Senate does not have enough time until the end of the year to ratify a new agreement with Russia on START. Confidence in this was expressed today, speaking on the air of the CBS television company, an influential Republican Senator John Kail. He is one of the main opponents of the new agreement, and many of his colleagues-one-partyists say that they will focus on this position, ITAR-TASS reports. "I think the contract will not be accepted now.

Experts still have not been able to find a speech on-board self-recorder of the Tu-154 aircraft of Dagestan Airlines, whose accident occurred the day before at the Domodedovo airport. "The on -board recorder of sound information - it is also a speech on -board self -record - has not yet been discovered," Interfax told on Sunday evening a source close to the commission to investigate the aviation accident.