The US administration considers it important to preserve the ambassador to John Bolton UN at his current post, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the White House Tony Snow. “John Bolton was incredibly effective as a representative of the UN. It is very important to save him there, and we continue to support him, ”Snow said, answering the question of journalists. President George Bush nominated Bolton to re -statement in the Senate last week.

Today, as a result of an explosion of household gas in a private residential building in the city of Pervouralsk, the Sverdlovsk region suffered four people, RBC reports. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region, the emergency occurred in the afternoon. In a residential building, for unknown reasons, an explosion occurred, but the fire did not occur. The victims received burns of 1-2 degrees.

Rosprirodnadzor sent information to the Federal Agency for Water Resources about violations of the conditions of 19 licenses for water use issued by Sakhalin Energy (Sakhalin-2 project operator), and a request for their review. The corresponding letter was signed today by the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol.

You must admit that there was a lot of noise and talk about the Russian march on November 4, but the morning event on the girl’s field ended, rather, a zilch . We came there - if you averaged estimates of different observers - thousands of one and a half people. In addition, there were shares parallel to action - on the "Day of National Unity" this was not observed even among professional patriots, which took the holiday to heart.

The transportation of passengers from Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Hayhe, located on the right bank of the Amur, is limited due to a complex ice situation on the river, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. As the representative of the carrier company Vladimir Sushkov said on Tuesday, ice throats arise on the Amur, which complicates the movement of air pillings on which tourists are transported at this time of year.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Japan at today's meeting decided to ban the export of luxury items to the DPRK. The list of prohibited goods includes 24 items. Among them are cars, watches, alcohol, cigarettes, jewelry, perfumes and caviar, RBC reports. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Taro ASO, this ban was introduced in accordance with the requirements of the UN Security Council resolution, which was adopted in response to the DPRK on October 9, 2006. Nuclear tests.

At the nuclear power plant in Sweden, a fire occurred tonight. As a result, the work of one of the four reactors was stopped. There are no threats of leakage of radioactive substances, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the nuclear power plant, there are no victims and victims. The incident occurred at the station under the city of Ringhales on a transformer outside the reactor zone around midnight in local time. The fire did not spread to the zone occupied by the reactor.

Georgia compared Moscow’s actions against Georgians with persecutions that Jews in Germany were subjected to in the 1930s, Reuters reports. “Russia demonstrates absolutely unacceptable behavior, following the policy of ethnic purges and resorting to Xenophobic rhetoric,” the Georgian State Secretary for Euro-Atlantic Integration George Baramidze said at a press conference in Brussels. “Their actions are very similar to Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” Baramidze said.

On November 19, the naval forces of China and the United States will conduct joint exercises for the development of rescue operations at sea. Such a statement was made by the commander of the US Pacific Fleet Admiral Gary Rowhed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Sinhua. Rowhed is currently in Beijing. According to him, the exercises will be held near the coast of the PRC. The first phase of the exercises was held in September 2006 off the coast of the United States.

Roman Abramovich passed a two -week course of treatment in the best private clinic of Austria. According to her employees, the oligarch complained about stress and nervous overstrain and asked him to make a cardiogram. According to the Austrian magazine News, Abramovich flew to the city of Innsbruck (not far from it is the Lancerkhof clinic) on the personal Boeing on October 30. He took off a whole wing where he settled with numerous guards and assistants, hiring a team of 30 neuropathologists.

The trial of the “Sovcomflot” with its former leader in the British court revealed the facts of corruption in the state -owned company, the Vedomosti reports. Moreover, Igor Borisenko, deputy leader of the shipping company Igor Borisenko, is also involved in the disadvantageous transactions and receiving bribes and the current first deputy leader of the shipping company. “Otkomflot” is the largest shipping company in Russia, 100% state.

In Baghdad, unknown people stole about 25 scientists and over 100 employees of the Research Institute under the Iraq ministry, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. The Iraq Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that armed people drove up to the Research Institute of Research Institute in the center of the Iraqi capital in several cars and broke into the institute. On the abductors there was a form of employees of the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs. In total, up to 150 people are stolen.

The Governor of Chukotka and the owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich at the end of October took place a two -week course of treatment in one of the best private clinics in Austria Lancerkhof, reports Echo of Moscow. The billionaire complained of nervous overstrain and stress. 30 specialists were engaged in the treatment of Abramovich, and the cost of medical services, according to some information, amounted to more than a million euros.

The Catherine Cathedral exploded in 1939 in Tsarskoye Selo will be restored, reports Lenta.ru with reference to Interfax. At the initiative of the arrival of the Sofia Cathedral, he will be restored to the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the Tsarskoye village and the 170th anniversary of the consecration of the old cathedral, in 2010. And after three weeks, on the day of the Great Martyr Catherine, December 7, the first stone will be laid in the foundation of the cathedral.

In the city of Angarsk, the Irkutsk region, an illegal oil refining plant exploded. This was announced today in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, RIA Novosti reports. As a result of the explosion, a fire began, as a result of which two were injured. With extensive IIOs, they were hospitalized in the hospital. One of them is a 25 -year -old resident of the village of Maisk in intensive care. On the fact of the incident, the city prosecutor's office opened a criminal case.