The United States turned to the current President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchme with an appeal to prevent the collapse of the country due to the crisis around the elections of the new head of the Ukrainian state, Reuters reports. This was announced on Monday by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to reporters in Washington.

From today, the Ukrainian opposition has begun “tough” blocking of state authorities, except for the Verkhovna Rada. This applies, first of all, the administration of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers. This was stated by People's Deputy, a member of the our Ukraine faction Nikolai Tomenko, speaking to the protesters in Independence Square in Kiev, Prua reports.

The Catar satellite television channel Al-Jazira transferred on Monday the broadcast of video recording excerpts with the appeal of Ayman Az-Zawakhiri, one of the leaders of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Organization and the nearest comrade-in-arms of Ben Laden, RIA Novosti reports. The most important now from the point of view of AZ-Zawakhiri are the ways that have chosen the United States for themselves in handling Muslims.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych calls on Viktor Yushchenko together to refuse to participate in possible new presidential elections, if the president’s past elections are recognized as invalid, Prua reports. “Well, if when checking ... violations in court will be proved, I propose to hold the next elections in Ukraine and offer Viktor Andreevich Yushchenko, I say officially that neither he nor I go to the polls,” Yanukovych said.

Today, the Supreme Court of Ukraine will continue to decide the fate of the second round of elections of the president of the country, and the Verkhovna Rada will consider the issue of the resignation of the government, headed by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The possibility of resignation of the government became the reason that the opposition delayed the ultimatum to President Kuchma for a day.

The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case on the fact of an encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Ukrainian News reported. The press service of the department states that in a number of Ukrainian media the information is extended that individual representatives of the authorities and other persons in their public speeches announced the need to separate the southeastern regions of the state from Ukraine.

On November 25, in the Bilingual Club of the All -Russian coalition “For the Democratic Alternative Service” and the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, a public discussion was held on the topic “The abolition of deferrals from the army - the threat of security of Russia”.

The leak of the contents of the Deutsche Bank report containing recommendations to Gazprom on the acquisition, in addition to Yuganskneftegaz, of other large Russian oil companies: Surgutnefegaz and Sibneft, is not accidental. Bringing the share of the country's oil production by its largest gas company to 40% (the article "Gazprom: 2 days before nationalization" erroneously indicated a third) means the integration of Gazprom into the vertical of power.

The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yevgeny Primakov, on Tuesday, testified to the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) of Slobodan Miloshevich, reported by RIA Novosti . The day before, he met with the ex-president of the Festival in the Hague Prison of the UN. He noted that being the head of the foreign intelligence service, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the chairman of the government, he was a witness to many events in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Today, the Kremlin will begin the VI All -Russian Congress of Judges, which will have to resolve the issue of the judicial system in Russia, determine which niche should occupy the Supreme Court in the vertical vertical under construction, writes the Russian Newspaper.

The growth of the Russian economy has slowed down due to the reaction of economic entities to state policy, said Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of the UES of Russia. He stated this in an interview with Newsweek magazine, published in the last issue of the publication. "Nevertheless, they see: there is a concentration of resources in the state, and not in economic entities," he said.

The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Evgeny Primakov, who was passing in the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) against Slobodan Milosevich will be the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti said.

In Portugal, almost three tons of cocaine were seized as a result of surgery in the city of Faro, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Reuters. According to the police on Tuesday, during the night raids on one of the warehouses and in a truck with Dutch numbers, 100 packages with a high -quality drug weighing 2 tons of 2 t 963 kg were discovered. Three Dutch and Spaniard were also arrested.

The Council of the Ukrainian city Sumy was recognized as president of the country Viktor Yushchenko, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. At an extraordinary session of the City Council, 38 out of 75 deputies voted for such a decision. In addition, the Sumy City Council expressed distrust of the head of the CEC Sergei Kivalov.

The governor of the Kamchatka region Mikhail Mashkovtsev on Tuesday was forcibly delivered to the police to the regional prosecutor's office, RIA Novosti reported. The order on the drive of Mashkovtsev was issued to employees of the first territorial police department on November 22 in connection with the non -compliance by the Governor of the schedule of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case instituted against him.