According to preliminary data, five people died as a result of the explosion of a mined car near one of the hospitals in Baghdad, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to N'ARETZ. According to representatives of the Baghdad police, a mined car exploded near a medical institution, which was driven by a suicide bomber. There was no information about the individuals of the dead.

Two American troops died as a result of a mortar shelling of the US base in the Mosul region, Reuters reports with reference to sources in the American command. According to them, one of them died right away, the other died of wounds in the hospital. The details of the incident have not yet been reported. Meanwhile, four battalions of the American Marines began an attack on the city of El Falluj, which has been under the control of Shiite rebels for six months.

92% of voters intend to participate in the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine, which will be held on November 21, correspondent.net reports. These data were obtained by the Ukrainian Institute of Social Research and the Center “Social Monitoring” during a survey conducted from November 1 to 3 in all regions of Ukraine. More than two thousand respondents were interviewed by sociologists.

The rate of economic growth in Russia in 2004 will decrease from 7.3% (2003) to 6.9%. Such a forecast is contained in the annual report of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which analyzes the state of economies of 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS states. According to the experts of the EBRD, the greatest economic growth will be observed in the CIS countries - in 2004 it should reach 7.4%.

The Russia-ES summit may take place before the end of the year in The Hague, the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on relations with the EU Sergey Yastrzhembsky said at a press conference in Moscow. “We are now expecting to discuss the possible period of conducting the summit until the end of the year on diplomatic channels. This summit will be held in The Hague, ”said Yastrzhembsky.

Participants in the rally in Cherkessk captured the first floor of the government of the republic’s government and broke into the office of the Presidential Cherkessia, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic said. The building is currently blocked by the forces of the district police station, raised by alarm. The second floor of the government building is held by OMON employees.

Representatives of the Palestinian leadership arrived on Monday evening to Paris in order to personally check the information about the health status of Yasir Arafat, RIA Novosti reports with reference to France-Info radio. A private aircraft, who arrived from Aman, landed at Le-Bourg Airport at about 22 hours in Parisian time (24.00 Moscow time).

The Slovak authorities intend to return 49 percent of the shares of the TRANSPETROL pipeline company sold two years ago, the Yukos NK, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. The Minister of Economy of Slovakia Pavil Rusco on Monday said that a letter with a proposal to negotiate the purchase of shares of the company has already been sent to the Government of the Russian Federation.

From the mine to Karachay-Cherkessia, where the bodies of seven missing inhabitants of the republic were found , five charred bodies were raised to the surface, RBC reports. The dead are the shareholders of the Circassian Chemical Plant, including the deputy of the Republican Parliament Rasul Bogatyrev. The mountain mine, located in the area of ​​the village of Kumysh, was taken under guard. The operation to extract bodies will continue today.

The election headquarters of the presidential candidates of the current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko continue to negotiate about the possibility of conducting election debate, UNIAN reports. The headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych continues to insist that Yushchenko apologize for the public insulting statements admitted to the Prime Minister.

On November 13, at noon, Agwan Lobsan Tenjin Gyatzo, better known as the Dalai Lama XIV, will arrive in Elista, said Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Kalmykia. This is written by "New News." Since the mid-90s, the spiritual leader of the Buddhists, the Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World could not visit Russia even with transit. Now, it seems, he again becomes with us a “person of the grata”, albeit within one single small republic.

Sociological studies of recent times indicate a high degree of uncertainty in the reaction of society to the "post -Beslan" reforms of the authorities, a certain bewilderment can also be seen by the naked eye. Polit.ru publishes an interview with the most famous Russian sociologist, head of the analytical center of his own name (former VTsIOM) Yuri Levada about public opinion and social situation in Russia in the fall of 2004. We talked to Vitaly Leibin and Dmitry Iskovich .

The election headquarters of the presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych initiated the work of the open telephone line, with the help of which you can ask a question to the current Prime Minister or his competitor in the second round of elections to Viktor Yushchenko, reports Forum . This was stated today by the head of the staff Sergey Tigipko. He noted that the headquarters plans to process a significant number of calls.

Today in Berlin there are celebrations on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. The celebrations will be attended by the mayor of ex-Chancellor Helmut Kol, at which the unification of Germany took place. The wall was built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic with the active participation of the Soviet Union in 1961. According to the official position of the GDR, it was designed to prevent a possible attack by the capitalist West.

The number of rebels who died as a result of an attack on police plots in the Iraqi city of Baakub reached 45 people. In addition, at least 32 wounded hospitals entered the city hospitals, RBC reports with reference to Reuters. Earlier , 25 killed Iraqi police were reported. According to police, today the militants attacked three police sites in Baacuba, which is located 65 km northeast of the Iraqi capital. The rebels also damaged the main bridge of the city.