The individuals of four of the six dead were established as a result of the explosion at the National Hotel . These are Sergey Kashtanov, Ivan Anisinkin, Igor Akimov and northern North Ossetia Inga Gezoev. At the same time, it became known that the Mersedes-320, considered at first as the source of the explosion, belongs to the hotel itself, reports Interfax.

From the editorial office. Among other results of the parliamentary elections 2003 are the insufficient effectiveness of civil control over the actions of the authorities during the elections. The fault of this is not only the frank impudence of the election commission in the prevention of the real process of collecting and processing primary information , but also the frivolous attitude of the candidates and their headquarters to the observation process.

The Georgian Ambassador to Russia Zurab Abashidze is called in Tbilisi for consultations. According to the Georgian side, "the call of the ambassador is due to the fact that Russia has unilaterally simplified visa regime with Adjaria without prior consistency with official Tbilisi," Interfax reports. Earlier, the Georgian Foreign Ministry expressed a categorical protest in connection with the introduction of Russia unilaterally simplified visa regime with Adjaria.

Once again, Alexei Pichugin was left in custody: the Moscow City Court left the decision of the Basmanny Court on November 12, which extended the maintenance of the head of one of the Yukos Security Service under the custody until February 19. The cassation appeal of the lawyer Pichugina Tatyana Akimtseva was rejected, RIA Novosti reports. Alexey Pichugin has been in jail for six months - from June 19.

Mikhail Velizhev , Maya Lavrinovich Today, Polit.ru publishes the text of the article by Mikhail Velizhev and Maya Lavrinovich “Susaninsky myth”: the formation of the canon, dedicated to criticism of sources and analysis of the history of the myth of Ivan Susanin and recently published in the “ new literary review ” No. 63. 1 "Susaninsky history", appearing in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Exclusively in legal acts, at the very beginning of the XIX century. I gained its literary hypostasis.

Yesterday at 10:53 a powerful explosion occurred in the center of Moscow opposite the National Hotel. The explosion occurred next to a Mercedes 320 parked at the hotel. According to updated data, six people were killed and 13 were injured. Most of the victims were young people who at that moment were passing near the National restaurant and heading to the metro. The power of the explosive device was 5 kg in TNT equivalent; it was stuffed with nails, screws and scraps of metal.

Now one of the most important political issues is how great the violations that influenced the results of the elections were. Without such an assessment, it is difficult to understand what exactly the citizens of Russia said by their vote. And this, in turn, is interesting, because the voice of the people is the voice of God.

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In the center of Moscow, a car was blown up by a car near the National Hotel on Mokhovaya Street. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. As RIA Novosti reports, 5 people died, there are wounded. Data on the wounded disperses: according to the information of “ Echo of Moscow ”, 10 people were injured, “ Gazeta.ru ” three. In the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital confirmed information about the explosion on Tverskaya Street, house No. 1.

The opening of trading in the Russian stock market showed that investors were not ready to see the new composition of the Duma without right -wing parties - the quotes began to fall, the expert of the BCS company Maxim Shein began to fall in the Russian market. The leaders were the papers of RAO. The new composition of the Duma can raise the issue of leaving Chubais from RAO "UES", which today caused the drops of quotations of shares of this issuer more than 2%.

The price of the January futures contracts for WTI brand on the New York commodity exchange (NYMEX) on Monday increased by 4.5% - to $ 32.10 per barrel, which is $ 1.37 higher than the values ​​of previous trades, Bloomberg reports. This morning, the quotation decreased by $ 0.21 - to $ 31.89 per barrel. Oil is getting more expensive because the consumption of fuel increases in the United States-due to snow storms and cooling in the northeast of the country.

The well -known researcher of the political processes of Russia V. Poblovsky, commenting on the “Polit.ru” elections to the State Duma, said that falsification of the results has occurred, but so far there is no data that it has been more than its usual level - 3-4% in some of the parties.

Based on the results of the counting of 97.87% of the ballots, a picture of the results of the parliamentary elections is as follows: United Russia gained 37.1%, Communist Party - 12.7%, LDPR - 11.6%, Block "Rodina" - 9.1%. The rest of the parties did not overcome the 5 percent barrier necessary for passing to the Duma. Recall that in addition to parliamentary elections, individual regions chose the heads of local administrations.

The “Zhiguli car” with two police officers was fired on the eve of about 7 in the morning Moscow time near the building of the local hospital. The Ministry of Internal Affairs returned to their unit after serving the polling station, ”said RIA Novosti, representative of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred in the district center of Shali, two police officers were injured - they were hospitalized.

Former US Vice-President Albert Gore announced today that he supports the candidacy of the ex-governor of Vermont Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential election from the Democratic Party. According to the mountain, Dean is the only Democrats who gave a faithful political assessment of the Iraqi war from the very beginning, RIA Novosti reports.