Today, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed an order to hold repeated elections to Milli Majlis (Parliament) for 10 constituencies on May 13, 2006, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. The results of the parliamentary elections held on November 6 of this year in these 10 districts were canceled by the Central Election Commission and the Constitutional Court due to the violations identified during the electoral process.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived on Saturday with a four-day visit to Malaysia to participate in a dialogue at the Forum of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN). On Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Lavrov will take part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the ASEAN member countries, which will become the final stage of preparing the Russia-ASEAN summit on December 13.

Russian human rights defenders will celebrate the International Human Rights Day in the Bashkir city of Blagoveshchensk, where a year ago, as a result of a police operation, hundreds of local residents were injured. Gazeta.ru communes with reference to Radio Liberty.

The conference of the Kursk branch of the Democratic Party of Russia, which the ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov came to, began two hours later than planned, Gazeta.ru, citing Interfax. “About a thousand supporters of the Democratic Party gathered in Kursk’s House. Mikhail Kasyanov was supposed to speak at the conference, but before the conference began the building, hundreds of young people who did not hide the fact that they were representatives of the“ ours.

In Moscow, in connection with the construction of an above-ground pedestrian crossing on the Enthusiasts highway, the traffic on December 10-11 will be limited by traffic, Echo Moscow reports. The movement will be completely closed from 00:00 to 05:00 on December 11 on the site of the enthusiasts highway between the third transport ring and the area of ​​the Rogozhskaya outpost.

The Palestinian National Administration criticized the statement of the head of the political bureaus of Hamas Khaleda Mashaal on the refusal to extend the agreement on the termination of anti -Israeli armed shares for the next year, RIA Novosti reports. “This is an unacceptable statement beyond the scope of national unity,” the official Palestinian source said. He also expressed concerns about possible attempts to disrupt the electoral process in autonomy.

In the west of Moscow, on the street Groznyskaya, 18, warehouse premises are burning, RIA Novosti will go on. Fire arose in one of the premises of the building, where, in addition to warehouse, repair shops are located, in addition to warehouse. In one of the rooms there may be gas cylinders. The fire extinguished 10 main calculations.

Relatives of the Palestinians, who died in 2002 as a result of the Israeli air raid, sued the former head of the Israeli intelligence service, Gazeta.Ru reports. In the New York court, a lawsuit of wine for applying a airstrike, as a result of which one of the leaders of the Palestinian group of Hamas died, is assigned to the former director of the Shin Beth intelligence service Avi Dichter.

A resolution was submitted to the US Congress demanding that the Russian government revoke the bill on non -governmental organizations or seriously change it, RIA Novosti reports. The authors of this resolution are the Chairman of the Committee on International Relations Congressman-Republican Henry Hayd and a member of the management of the Committee of the Congressman-Democrat Tom Lantos.

As a result of shelling from the ship of the Israeli naval forces that patrolled the coast of the Gaza Sector, a 27-year-old Palestinian was killed, Palestinian officials said. The incident occurred early on Saturday morning next to the border between the Gaza sector and Egypt, RIA Novosti reports. According to the agency, there was another man with the murdered, whose future fate is unknown.

The plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Ishakov took part in the Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which was held in Mecca (Saudi Arabia).

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohammed El Baradei appealed to the world community to be calm in the discussion of Iran’s nuclear program and continue the diplomatic dialogue with Tehran . In his opinion, all parties should sit down at one table, discuss the current conflict and find a solution.

In connection with the suspicion of bird flu, in the Ibaraki prefecture, 19 thousand chickens will be destroyed north of Tokyo, RIA Novosti reports. According to information from the local administration, poultry tests showed the presence of antibodies produced by the body of birds to protect the H5N2 influenza virus. The virus itself has not yet been found. In total, about 2.1 million poultry heads were destroyed in this area from behind bird flu.

A fire in Moscow along Grodnskaya Street, 18 liquidated, reports Echo of Moscow . The fire area was 100 square meters, there were no injured. During the extinguishing of a fire, three gas cylinders were carried out from the building. A fire on Grodnskaya Street arose in a house where repair shops and storage facilities are located. 10 fire brigades went to extinguish the fire.

The radical group "Hizballa" accused Israel of attempting to life of one of its leaders. Such a statement was published shortly after the reports that Hussein Assaf was committed on Hizball’s military commander. "We accuse the Zionist enemy of planning and organizing this attack," the statement said.