In the Gulf of Poland, for unknown reasons, the anchored fishing vessel Teriberka, owned by Marine Service JSC, capsized and sank. This happened on Monday at around 20:00. Eight of the nine crew members who were on the ship at the time of the disaster were rescued. The fate of the latter is unknown. According to official sources, he is considered missing. As we were told by the State Committee for Emergency Situations, most likely he died while remaining in one of the premises of the ship.

HISTORICAL FACT What words are needed for this photo? December, fifteenth, morning, death. And the repentant genuflection of a man who had nothing to repent of before Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. The poet Vladimir Kornilov (remember: “Evenings in Sakharov’s kitchen...”) is for us all. Then, in the eighty-ninth, at night, a great tragedy of our society occurred. The support collapsed - moral, spiritual, ethical (whatever you want to call it, it’s not the name that matters).

Will Zhirinovsky's victory have a real impact on the course of the political process in Russia? From a formal point of view, no. Zhirinovsky is not able to bring the country to heel in accordance with his public statements. Firstly, he did not receive and is unlikely to receive a stable majority of votes in the State Duma. After all, half of the State Duma is elected according to the usual majoritarian system.

Yesterday at 7.40 am, the head of the press center of the Black Sea Fleet, Andrei Lazebnikov, was shot dead. The ambulance that arrived 20 minutes later pronounced death from a gunshot. Within a month in Crimea, under unclear circumstances, the leader of the national movement of the Crimean Tatars Yuri Asmanov, the chairman of the Union in Support of the Republic, People's Deputy of Ukraine Yakov Apter, and now Andrei Lazebnikov died.

The laureates of the Russian State Prizes in the field of literature and art of 1993 have been named Among the contenders for the ten-million dollar award were E. Popov (with the book “The Beauty of Life”), G. Friedlander and the team of the academic publication of the Complete Works of F. M. Dostoevsky, the group of authors (headed by I. Vinogradsky) of pavilion No.

Yuriy SHATYRENKO Last Monday, by order of the Council of Ministers - the Government of the Russian Federation, Yuriy Shatyrenko was relieved of his post as Deputy Minister of Labor of Russia. By another order of the Council of Ministers, he was appointed chairman of the Russian Social Insurance Fund. Yuri Shatyrenko is known for the fact that in early December of this year he headed a working group to consider the demands of the Independent Trade Union of Miners to the Russian government.

The Central Election Commission is under siege. In accordance with statements distributed by the commission before the elections, any citizen can report any facts of violation of the “Electoral Regulations” - and they will be considered. Messengers from all over can leave the package at the security post of the building on Novy Arbat. Yesterday, a NEG correspondent witnessed an attempt to break through the security cordon carried out by a certain Mrs.

NEWS CONTROL GROUP 1 Sensational theft of radioactive rods in the Northern Fleet Uranium rods used as fuel on nuclear submarines, stolen from the technical equipment base of the Northern Fleet (the loss was discovered by a VOKhR gunner on November 27, see “NEG”, N 58), have not yet been discovered. But several suspects of involvement in this theft have been detained. Their number and details of detention are not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.

On Tuesday, at 10 a.m., an An-2 plane crashed while taking off from an airfield in the village of Vorogovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Having fallen onto the airfield, the plane caught fire. The crew managed to leave the car, only the aircraft commander, who was the last to get out, was injured. He was taken to the hospital with a leg injury.

Leonid Kravchuk believes that final conclusions about Russia can be drawn after the first decision of the elected body is made. “For now we treat this as election platforms of political forces, but I cannot say that I have no anxiety. And not for Ukraine itself, but for Russia. The concept of a great indivisible Russia evokes a thirst for revenge and can lead to irreversible cataclysms,” the President of Ukraine noted.

Does Gerashchenko’s right hand know what money his left hand is changing? After weaving through the quiet Arbat streets and alleys, we stopped the car near an old Moscow house. The massive armored door in the semi-basement was opened by a guard in the uniform of a police captain. In a room filled with modern office furniture and computers, a young man in glasses was already waiting for us - obviously the owner of the office himself, with whom we had previously agreed to meet by phone.

AFTER THE ELECTION The column is led by political commentator "NEG" Vladimir LEPEKHIN In Russia, two categories of people have always been more represented in power than others: demons and dunces. Goonies, as a rule, were always in power before being overthrown by demons. At the same time, the demons very soon turned into dunces (power corrupted) and, accordingly, they were then overthrown by new demons.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, the conductor of the 7th car of the Baku-Moscow train contacted the duty department at the Tula railway station. He reported that on the Moscow-Tula section, three robbers (including a woman) attacked the carriage and, threatening to kill them, they robbed three passengers and the conductor himself. After some time they were found on the train.

On December 13, Time Machine fans gathered to celebrate Andrei Makarevich’s anniversary No matter how sad it is, the whales of domestic rock and roll, one after another, are crossing the forty-year mark.

The tragedy took place in the Moscow region, near the city of Sergiev Posad. A regular bus of the Dmitrov convoy collided head-on with a truck crane of a military unit in the city of Fryazino. 9 people died and 9 were hospitalized with injuries.