In the Caspian Sea, the active search for the missing Russian Kamyust-1 vessel and members of its crew were discontinued, Radio Echo of Moscow reports. During the search work, three people were saved. Two dead were discovered. Seven crew members are missing. The southern transport prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the fact of violation of the rules of traffic safety and the operation of this vessel.

The leaders of the Pakistani opposition Benazir Bhutto and Navaz Sharif will meet in the near future to discuss the situation with parliamentary elections in the country, reports Lenta.ru with reference to AFP. According to the agency, the first meeting of the two former prime ministers of the country will be held from the moment of expulsion will be held on December 4 or 5.

The Krasnodar Office of the Union of Right Forces storms the police, the press secretary of the party Lilia Dubovova said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. “Our activists are in the office, barricaded and withstand the onslaught of riot police and police,” she said. According to Lilia Dubova, activists do not know what this assault is related to.

In Poland, near the city of Plotsk, two foci of the H5N1 bird flu virus dangerous for a person were discovered, a representative of the local crisis headquarters Hilary Yanushchik said on Saturday. This was reported by " Echo of Moscow ." “Two foci of bird flu on farms to grow turkeys are confirmed. The dangerous territory is controlled by veterinary services and the police, ”he said. Over the next two hours, the voivodsk crisis headquarters will gather.

From the New Year on the Capital television channel (OJSC GTK “Capital”), controlled by the Moscow government, the sports editorial office (department of sports and information programs) will cease to exist. All 16 employees who were in the staff of the canal are invited to write a letter of resignation of their own free will.

Turkey introduced troops into the territory of the Northern Iraq to conduct a military operation against Kurdish separatists, Echo Moscow reports. The day before, this plan was approved by the Turkish government. Despite the opinion of the United States, which opposed a full -scale operation, the Turkish government decided to grant the army the authority to start the fighters of the Kurdish Workers' Party.

In Poland, a case of poultry disease is recorded deadly for humans by the Bird flu virus H5N1, Echo Moscow reports. A flash of the disease was detected on a poultry farm in the vicinity of the city of Plotsk. Any details are still unknown. Earlier last month, new foci of infection with bird flu were discovered in the UK and Romania.

The administration of George Bush promised to follow how the elections to the Fifth Duma would take place in Russia. The press secretary of the US President Dana Dan, at a regular briefing on Saturday, journalists asked whether the White House intends to make any statement following the election results. “Of course, we will observe the election progress, and if you need to make a statement, let us know,” she answered, reports Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.

The project of the state program for the construction of Olympic facilities was approved at the second meeting of the Olympstroy state corporation in Sochi. A working group has been created to bring the requirements of the program to investors into line.

The escalators at the transition from the Moscow metro station "Theatrical" to the station "Square of the Revolution" were stopped for the weekend on December 1 and 2, the press service of the subway reports. Passengers in these two days will be able to use them as stairs, or cross the unified lobby of these stations. According to the press service, from December 3, the transition will resume work as usual.

On December 1 at 23:00 in Moscow, the country is opening the first polling stations - now in the Kamchatka Territory and the Chukotsk Autonomous Okrug 8 a.m. The day before, the country was stopped in the country, the so -called “quiet day” was declared. All polling stations will work from 8 a.m. to 8 pm on local time. There are 11 time zones in Russia, so voting with the closure of the latest polling stations in the very West of Russia - in the Kaliningrad region end.

The international observers who have arrived in Russia begin to work at polling stations in the Russian regions. 336 representatives from 30 countries received invitations to take part in observing the vote in the State Duma elections on December 2, reports Newsru.com with reference to ITAR-TASS.

In St. Petersburg, human rights activist Ruslan Linkov was detained for the spread of election campaign. With agitation, the police considered the books of the writer-dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, reports ZakS.RU. As previously reported, around midnight in St. Petersburg, lawyer Grigory Solomensky, one of the organizers of Bukovsky’s arrival in the city, and journalists Svetlana Gavrilin and Viktor Nikolaev were detained.

Representatives of five countries - permanent members of the UN Security Council - as well as Germany, are meeting in Paris on Saturday to discuss further measures against Iran in connection with its nuclear program, the BBC Russian service reports . On Friday, negotiations between EU foreign policy coordinator Javier Solana and Iranian representative Said Jalili ended without results.

Coordination of the actions of law enforcement officers who will monitor the order in polling stations in the Duma elections is given to the FSB, the Kommersant newspaper writes. All polling stations of the country on November 29 were taken under a 24 -hour police guard. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that on December 2, the country will serve 450,000 police officers and internal troops.