Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory will be the last this year and the last held in winter. No more “Decembrists” are expected in Russia. The outcome of the election seems predictable to many. At least, the election commission of the Perm region is already ready to predict their results with almost 100% accuracy. According to the EC, the United Russia party will win.

The Prime Minister Livan Fuad al-Signor made an appeal to the nation, in which he expressed confidence that Hizball’s radical group would not be able to overthrow the current government with the help of street protests, RBC reports. According to him, "we will not allow a coup d'etat against democracy in Lebanon." Signora also urged citizens not to succumb to the provocations of extremists. “The days are waiting for us when the fate of Lebanon and his future will be decided.

The Government of Estonia yesterday sent to the final approval of the parliament of the amendment to the Personal Regulation. Thanks to the altitia developed by the Ministry of Justice, the use of Soviet and Nazi symbols will be punished with a fine of up to $ 4.2 thousand or imprisonment for up to three years, Kommersant writes today.

“Polit.ru” publishes chapters of the short story “The Little Girl from the Metropol” from the new book of the same name by the famous playwright and prose writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ( Petrushevskaya L. The Little Girl from the Metropol. St. Petersburg: Amphora , 2006. 464 pp. ).

** Themes of the day ** From the federal level, the central media drew attention to yesterday's fleeting visit to the Prime Minister of Ukraine V. Yanukovych , who flew to Moscow for several hours in order to meet his colleague M. Fradkov and President V. Putin and discuss the details of the coming of the head of the Russian state to Kiev on December 22.

The American government became known about the preparation of the al-Qaeda terrorist grouping on the US stock exchanges. The danger is also threatened by Internet sites on which online trades are going on. According to Reuters , the US National Security agency does not have confirmation of an impending threat, which should be expected all of December, but the department proposed to observe the “maximum caution”.

The artistic works and personal belongings of one of the founders of the Pink Floyd group Sid Barrett were sold at an auction in his hometown of Cambridge, the newspaper The Independent writes. The result of sales is more than £ 121 thousand ($ 237 thousand), which will go to the Fund for Assistance to local young artists.

Polit.ru publishes an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin the scientific community dedicated to the destruction of the academic autonomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The letter is open for signing . Dear Mr. President! What has been talked about for so long, almost happened: the Russian Academy of Sciences was sentenced to destroy the Government of the Russian Federation. There remains the last chance to avoid national shame, and we turn to you.

** December 4, Monday ** The main events: The Federation Council will host parliamentary hearings on the topic “Migration policy and communications with compatriots”, organized by the CIS SFs, Defense and Security Committee and the United Commission on National Policy and Relations of States and Religious Associations under the Council of the Federation. The hearing will be held by the chairman of the Federation Council S. Mironov.

In London, an auction under the name “This is more than rock and roll” was held, on which instruments, personal belongings and other values ​​of world-famous musicians were sold, AFP reports. The total income from sales amounted to £ 860 thousand ($ 1 million 680 thousand). The original work with the image of the lips and language, which became the symbol of the Rolling Stones group, was sold for £ 250 thousand ($ 489 thousand).

Employees of the Russian automobile inspection want to attract bikers to patrol of Moscow streets. This was announced on Thursday by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexander Chekalin, the Air Force reports. The traffic police believe that experienced motorcyclists, united in organized groups, will help to instill discipline on roads. To go to such measures of Russian traffic cops forced a high level of traffic accidents involving motorcyclists.

One of the central streets of the capital of South Ossetia Tskhinvali - Tbilisi - was renamed to Yuri Luzhkova Street. The corresponding decision was signed by the mayor of Tskhinvali Vadim Tskhovrebov, reports Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.

Today, the London Royal Hospital will be opened by the body of the deceased a week ago from the poisoning of the radioactive polonium-210 political emigrant Alexander Litvinenko, Kommersant writes today. Meanwhile, London was seized by a real panic. The police claim that 60 thousand people who flew in November British Airways could be exposed to radiation.

From today, three new vice-governor in the Primorsky Territory come in position. Andrei Norin, Alexander Tabachenko and Pavel Popov proceed to the performance of official duties, RIA Novosti reports. Norin dismisses the position of head of the Department of Social Development and the media of the administration of the region, as vicetzer-governor, he will be responsible for interaction with law enforcement agencies.

According to the Hydrometer of the Moscow and the Moscow Region, last night in the capital was extremely warm. Even in the morning, the air temperature remained above +4, and in the city center there are more than 5 degrees. For December, this is a very rare occurrence. Throughout the history of instrumental observations, starting in 1879, only once on December at night it was also warm: December 4, 1953.