Vladimir Putin announced yesterday immediately three federal channels about the possibility of returning the leaders of the regions to the management of the country through the presence in the Federation Council. At the first stage, exclusively with their participation, "issues of war and peace, the presence of Russian troops abroad, and the approval of the budget will be resolved." The current work will be carried out by senators working on an ongoing basis.

** November 22, Monday ** The main events: The State Duma will host parliamentary hearings and a meeting of the public youth chamber at the State Duma on the topic "Problems of youth and ways of their legislative regulation" organized by the State Duma Committee on Women, Family and Youth. In the parliamentary meeting of the Union of Russia and Belarus, a briefing will be given on topical issues of building a union state.

**Unexplained** President Vladimir Putin last week continued to surprise the Russian and international public with bold reform initiatives. This time, at a meeting with representatives of three leading television channels, he decided to explain why it is better to elect governors not by direct voting, but by regional legislative assemblies, and for what purpose Russia is moving to a proportional system for electing State Duma deputies.

Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko opposed the possible introduction of dual citizenship with Russia, RIA Novosti reports. The presidential candidate from the opposition announced such a statement at today's press conference. “I am negative about this issue. Neither in fact nor in form he does not meet state interests, ”said Yushchenko. In his opinion, the project will not be approved by the Verkhovna Rada.

Yukos chief lawyer Dmitry Gololobov was put on the international wanted list. This was announced on the air "Echo of Moscow" by the representative of the Prosecutor General Natalya Veshnyakova. Meanwhile, in Yukos they say that Dmitir Gololobov is on a business trip. In turn, Natalya Veshnyakova said that the chief lawyer of Yukos was called for interrogation on October 9, but he did not appear and left Russia.

The Provisional Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to investigate the circumstances of the poisoning of a candidate for the post of president of Ukraine, People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko approved the final report. It was signed by 8 deputies, which makes up the majority of the members of the commission, LIGA Businessinform reports.

According to the Bosnian press, a few months ago, Russian secret services threw a group of Serbian terrorists into Chechnya, led by Raiko Kusich. The Hague Tribunal is looking for a Kusich for participating in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims.

The UN again turned to the militants who stole three of its employees in Afghanistan, with an appeal to free the captives. At the same time, it is still not clear in the hands of which group are hostages. The Afghan authorities do not believe that UN employees are held by members of the Taliban group of the Muslim Army that have broken off from the Taliban movement, despite the statements of the latter.

The only innovation of President Putin, proposed during yesterday’s interview with three federal channels, was the proposal to return the regional parliaments to the Federation Council of Governors and Speakers - “To solve nationwide tasks” like the declaration of war, the use of troops abroad and approving the budget.

Aeroflot-Russian Airlines OJSC, as part of the Western Park Park program, received two Airbus A-321 passenger aircraft, a representative of the airline said. The first A-321 aircraft arrived at the Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday evening, the second on Friday morning. Thus, Aeroflot to date has already received 19 foreign aircraft, including two Boeing-767-300er, nine A-319, six A-320, two A-321 and at the same time disabled 19 liners, including nine A-310-300 and ten Boeing-737-400.

The international commercial television and radio company (ICTV) appealed to the presidential candidate from the opposition Viktor Yushchenko with a request to stop disseminating false information about the company's activities and not to put pressure on it and its employees, the Interfax-Ukraine agency reports. The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the shareholder of ICTV Viktor Pinchuk made a similar statement with a similar statement.

The return of governors to the Federation Council is able to consider a large concession to the Kremlin regional elites, writes “Independent Gazeta”. The concession is not entirely planned (no accident in the speech of September 13, no hints were contained in this) and, probably, forced. As you know, the electoral reform caused rigid resistance from the regions. For the most part, non -public, but in some places and open. Demars of Tatarstan, Bashkiria and Chuvashia could not go unnoticed.

Universal elections in Iraq should take place as planned. Otherwise, the entire schedule of Iraqi settlement will be torn off, in an interview with RIA Novosti, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Yuri Fedotov, who takes part in the work of the 59th session of the UN General Assembly.

The Iraqi extremist group "Jaish Ansar al-Sunna" (army of followers of Sunnah) made threats to everyone who is going to take part in the elections outlined for January next year, reports "Gazeta.Ru" with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the Al-Juzira channel, the group posted on the Internet, on its website, a statement in which she indicated that she would make attacks on everyone who put forward their candidates or intends to vote.

“The American addiction to the high-calorie fast food took new terrible proportions, putting on the form of the most huge and high-calorie hamburger that has ever appeared in the country, which is already suffering from obesity,” writes the English newspaper Daily Telegraph in the material, which is published by Inopressa.ru today.