There are no indigenous contradictions between Syria and Lebanon, said Foreign Minister of Syria Faruk Sharaa. “There are no indigenous contradictions between the peoples of Syria and Lebanon. They are one nation. The campaigns directed against our country are mainly organized from abroad,” he said, speaking at a press conference in Cairo.

Palestinian militants on Tuesday launched three rockets of Kassam through the territory of Israel. There were no reports of victims and destruction. One of the missiles fell next to the city of Ashkelon, the second - in the west of the Negev deserts near the village of Dele. The third missile exploded at the Israeli military base in the north of the Gaza Strip, writes Gazeta.ru .

“I suspect that the Russian translation of Miles Davis’s Autobiography is a third shorter than the English one, if, of course, the curse words were removed from it,” says Kirill Moshkov, editor of the Jazz in Russia portal. Perhaps the Russian translation (more about it below) is really “combed.” But even from this it is clear that Davis - one of the three most famous jazz trumpeters along with Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie - was adapted for more than just embouchure.

Today, the delegation of OJSC Gazprom, led by Deputy Chairman of the Board of Alexander Ryazanov, will visit the capital of Georgia Tbilisi on a working visit, RIA Novosti reports. The plans of the delegation of the meeting with the Prime Minister of Georgia Zuraba Nogaidi and the head of the energy department by Nika Gilauri. The parties will be clarified by the details of the new agreement on the supply of Russian gas to Georgos Gazhgazprom in the negotiations of the parties.

The owner of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Marat Helman, the Embassy of the Palestinian Autonomy in Moscow accused that an insulting caricature of Yasir Arafat was posted in his gallery, Newsru reports. In a letter directed by the embassy, ​​Helman was protested due to the fact that, as part of the exhibition "Psycho -Darwinism", a portrait of a monkey in the Arabic Kufi, a tunic with a patch in the form of Islamic symbols and a breast sign, resembled a Nazi one, was exhibited.

Prime Minister Yuri Yehanurov states that in the case of viewing the supply and transit of gas between Gazprom and Neftegaz, Ukraine reserves the right to appeal to the Stockholm Arbitration Court. He stated this at a press conference on Tuesday, Ukrainian Pravda reports. “We have a contract and all solutions, if there are problems, are solved in the Stockholm court. So far, there are no written appeals about the breakdown of the contract.

The Minister of Defense of Russia fired from the military service of the General of the Moscow Military District, who used the soldier in the construction of the cottage. The head of the educational work department, Major General Yevgeny Veselov sent three soldiers from the district ensemble of songs and dances for the construction of a house in the Moscow Region. Whether it was a dacha Veselov, it is not reported, notes Lenta.Ru .

The United Arab Emirates awarded the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a prize of one million dollars for environmental protection. Reuters reports.

In Moscow, a traffic accident with the participation of six cars occurred at the road from the Tagansky tunnel. The driver of one of the cars sharply braked, as a result of which six cars collided with each other and received minor damage, RIA Novosti reports. As a result of the accident, movement is difficult on the outside of the garden ring from the Paveletsky station to the embankment of the Yauza River.

Former US Minister of Trade and a close friend of President Bush Donald Evans rejected the proposal to head the board of directors of Rosneft. Evans referred to employment, which, according to him, would not allow him to pay due attention to work in a Russian state company. President Vladimir Putin announced the possibility of Evans to Rosneft during the visit of the former American minister to Russia two weeks ago.

Today, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow will continue the consideration of a civil lawsuit against the director of the central house V. Bychkov and the artist and curator of the Russia-2 exhibition M.

From today in the capital, trading in live Christmas trees will begin, RIA Novosti reports. According to the city administration, this year there will be no more than 30 Christmas markets in each of the ten administrative districts of the capital. In the center of Moscow, 29 Christmas bazaars will open. Three Christmas markets will open on New Arbat and on Mira Avenue. On the other streets - one at a time. In the Southeast Administrative District, there will be more bazaars - 34.

Sergey Eisenstein 80 years ago at the Bolshoi Theater, the premiere of the film "Babric" Potemkin, the second film work of Sergei Eisenstein, today in the ten best films "All Time and Peoples" took place. “Polit.ru” publishes the work “How I became a director”, in which Eisenstein made an attempt to tell about those events that became significant for him, determining the nature of all his subsequent work. It was a very long time. About thirty years ago. But I remember very clearly how it was.

** Themes of the day ** From the federal level, the central media commented on the traditional meeting on Mondays of President V. Putin with members of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the press, the Russian authorities in a month and a half coped with the order of the head of state to restrain tariffs for housing and communal services in order to reduce the rate of inflation .

Natalia Ivanova The biggest success of the year I consider the data of the FOM survey: 22% of buyers of books give preference to modern literature, modern authors ( Izvestia , 12/16/2005). If I do not confuse anything, in the past years (the Levada Center survey), the number of buyers of this book products did not exceed 6%. True, this success is overshadowed by the news of the bad: only a third of Russians (“Izvestia”, ibid.) Buys works of fiction. The remaining two -thirds?