Russia introduces restrictions on the import of poultry products from Ukraine in connection with the danger of bird flu, RIA Novosti reports.

Today, December 5, the famous Russian literary critic, one of the founders of the Moscow Semiotic School and the first laureate of the Solzhenitsyn Prize, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Toporov, died. Vladimir Nikolaevich Toporov was born in 1928 in Moscow. In 1951 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Author of the dictionary "Prussian language". Since 1990 - Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the results of processing, almost 37% of the ballots, the United Russia party, which received 46.7% of the votes percent, the Echo of Moscow reports in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The Communist Party occupies the second place - approximately 16.9%, followed by the "Yabloko" - 10.8 percent. The LDPR does not overcome the necessary barrier - it gained 8.13 percent of the vote, the rest of the parties have even fewer parties.

“In any case, any effort leaves some trace in any case, said“ Polit.ru ”by a member of the Presidium of the Political Council of the Opposition Kazakh Party Alga (DEVK).” - and the more our efforts will be in terms of the fact that we will prove that we actually have a non -democratic development vector, regardless of whether this will be after the elections, the more they will be noticeable. The more the pile of the president’s words will be visible.

"Pragmatist of culture" on Polit.ru publishes an article by Leonid Klein, dedicated to how a modern restaurant business uses Russian classical literature as a brand: “ The directory of modern Moscow restaurants can be confused with the literature textbook. What names are not here:“ Evenings on the Farm ”,“ Taras Bulba ”“ Seagull ”,“ Left ”,“ Alexander Blok ”,“ Maxim Gorky ”,“ Esenin ”,“ Scarlet Flower ”,“ Pushkin ”“ Shtolts ”...“ Oblomovs ”even two.

Mikhail Fradkov informed the President of the Russian Federation on the upcoming negotiations with members of the European Commission in Brussels, reported by RIA Novosti . Fradkov said that the agreement on this meeting was reached at the Russia-Es summit in London.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, an emergency regime was lifted , introduced on December second in connection with the booster cyclone that raged over the peninsula, RIA Novosti reports. Work on the elimination of the consequences of the elements continues. Social sphere objects affected by huts of hurricane winds work in normal mode. According to preliminary data, the damage from the elements exceeded 57 million rubles, but this figure can increase significantly.

In the past presidential elections in Kazakhstan, only minor technical violations were recorded, a group of international independent observers from the Ukrainian parliament said on Monday, RIA Novosti reports. “We recorded only minor technical violations - queues at polling stations.

**President of the Russian Federation and his administration** At a meeting with members of the government, President V. Putin demanded that the government continue to closely monitor the monetization of benefits. V. Putin also demanded that the government take all necessary measures to allocate 15 billion rubles for military housing in 2006. * * * Prime Minister M.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova heads a list of the most 100 rich athletes of the country. According to the magazine "Finance", the athlete’s brand “every year is increasingly moving in the market. Not only the clever managers of her sports agency, but also fans and businessmen of all stripes contribute to this. Fans of the talent of the Russian tennis players created a realton for mobile phones, in which they compiled moans published by Maria Sharapova on the court.

Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz today gave the army to attack the militants of the Palestinian group "Islamic Jihad", who previously took responsibility for the attack in Natany, whose victims were five people, writes "Gazeta.ru" with reference to the Reuters agency. Mofaz, according to sources in Israeli security services, ordered to conduct raids against militants and eliminate them, as well as tighten the restriction on the movement of Palestinians on the occupied West Coast.

“TSEKH” No. 5 brought a positive attitude: in modern Russian dance there are healthy processes that are experienced by any living organism of 14 years of age. Since its official birth in Russia (1991), modern dance has lived an eccentric, full of tossing life. She was distinguished by bodily freedom, unbridled savagery and bottomless stupidity.

On December 5, 2005, the Information and Analytical Center for the Study of Social and Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University held an on-line conference on the topic “Political results of the presidential elections in Kazakhstan.” The on-line conference is opened by Alexey Vlasov, Deputy Head of the Department of History of Near Abroad Countries of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

The film of the Austrian director Michael Hankee "Little" is called the best European film of 2005. He received this and four more awards at the ceremony of presenting the prizes of European cinema, which was held in the Berlin Hall of Arena in Treptov Park, the Kommersant newspaper writes. "Hannah Shigula, the star of Fassbinder, sang songs on the stage dedicated to the deceased director, who would have turned 60 if he had not died at 37.

The final decision on the fate of the introduction of a domain for pornographic sites - .xxx - again postponed, reports BBC . The idea to introduce a special domain for network porn content first appeared in 2001 and was discussed for quite some time in various public groups.