The investigating authorities of Russia opened a criminal case on the fact of an attempt on a deputy from the LDPR party Andrei Lugovoi, Interfax reports. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation confirmed that it is associated with the death of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. In London, it is Lugovoi that is suspected of poisoning the defector and over the past few years achieves his extradition from Russia. "This is a new criminal case.

Two legendary American football veteran - 73 -year -old Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosk - staged a fight during the evening of the Canadian football league in Vancouver. During the awards ceremony, one of them presented to another flower. The elderly athlete took this as an insult, a crime ensued, which grew into a fight. One of the veterans of football even launched a crutch, and the second tried to fight back a microphone.

The former employee of the Khitrovo London Airport, who became a victim of persecution of Muslim colleagues, pursuing her on a religious basis, opened the case against its former employers. As the British The Daily Mail notes, this process promises to become a milestone in the country's judicial practice. This was reported on Wednesday by the "Blagove-Info" with reference to the portal "Orthodoxy.ru" .

Members of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation called on compatriots to take part in the elections and vote based on the interests of the people. "On December 4, 2011, the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation will be held, and in March of the next year - the election of the president of the country.

Moscow policemen detained two car firewoods, said Valery Buzovkin, a representative of the press group of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. "At about 2:00 to the police, patrolling the Chertanovo Central District, the passerby turned and said that he had become a witness arson parked at D.48 on Chertanovskaya Street of a car “VAZ -2107,” Buzovkin told Interfax on Wednesday.

The decision of the tennis player Maria Kirilenko to choose as a place for training after the end of the Washington suburb Arlington gave rise to a wave of rumors that the 24th racket of the world was meeting with the star striker "Washington Capitals" and the Russian national hockey team Alexander Ovechkin.

In South Ossetia, the Supreme Court of which the day before canceled the results of the second round of elections, the opposition candidate Alla Gioeva declared herself the elected president and announced the formation of the State Council, which included 10 people from her headquarters. As she herself reported on Wednesday morning , Interfax , all this is contained in her appeal to the people and authorities of the republic.

The shares of the ALROSA Diamond Company are valued at the MICEX by 40% - up to 54.6 rubles against the backdrop of great interest in them from investors on the second day of trading at this trading platform, RIA Novosti reports.

The company "Cinema without borders" Sam Klebanova is going to organize an Internet cinema, in which the author's cinema will be demonstrated. The project is still under discussion, so neither its budget nor the cost of viewing are called, reports OpenSpace . The head of the “Cinema without Borders” Sam Klebanov said in an interview with Marker that the rental of arthouse cinema in Russia is not only a much less profitable lesson than the rental of commercial films, but also much more complex.

The Governor of the Omsk Region Leonid Polezhaev publicly stated that he was ready to defeat the United Russia party in his region. But he warned the residents of the region in advance that the protest voting would not lead to anything good - the region could lose money, as it happened once, writes New Gazeta . On November 29, Leonid Polezhaev performed on the air show "Governor's Hour." It does not exclude the failure of United Russia in the elections to the State Duma, at least in its region.

The European Union (EU) enters the critical 10-day period, during which it is necessary to complete the work on the program of a comprehensive response to the debt crisis in the eurozone and stabilization of a single European currency. Such an application on Wednesday in Brussels was made by the EU Commissioner for Economics and Monetary Policy Ollie REN, RBC reports.

India President Praitibha Devysingh Patil sent to the Russian Vaishnavov - followers of the Society of Consciousness of Krishna, congratulations on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of this spiritual movement in Russia. "Over the past few decades, ISKKON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness. - Approx. Ed.

In Moscow, at the 62nd year, after a serious illness, a journalist and TV presenter Lev Bruni died, Echo Moscow reports. Lev Bruni was born in Moscow in a family of artists in 1950, was a descendant of one of the founders of the Russian classical school of painting in the mid -19th century Fedor Bruni. In 1975, he took part in the Nonconformists exhibition at VDNH, ITAR-TASS reports. After graduation, he worked at the Kuskovo Museum-Estate, then a night watchman.

In the Ukrainian capital, a well -known journalist, an employee of the weekly "2000" Vitaly Rosvadovsky, was killed in his own house. At the same time, it became known about the murder of the director of the Lugansk "television and radio company KTK" by Sergey Loboda, reports "Profi-NUS" .

Former soloists of the Bolshoi Theater Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev will first reach the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater, where they are now working, at the end of the annual competition of graduates of the choreographic schools of Russia "Grand Prix of the Mikhailovsky Theater", which is opened on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports. The competition will be held for the third time and will last two days. The gala concert for its completion is scheduled for Thursday, December 1.