The ex-lieutenant colonel of the FSB Mikhail Trepashkin said in an interview with the British The Sunday Times that one of the former colleagues tried three times to recruit him to conduct the “sponsored by the authorities” for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. According to Oorepashkin, the first attempt was made in early September 2002 by a former colleague Litvinenko named Victor.

In the city of Nevinnomysk, the Stavropol Territory on Sunday evening at the city bus station, an explosion occurred in the cabin of Pyatigorsk-Stavropol’s regular bus, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, after the explosion, a fire began in the cabin of the regular bus. As a result, according to preliminary data, two bus passengers died, four more were hospitalized.

During the joint operation of the Afghan troops and NATO forces in the city of Musa-Kala, two high-ranking representatives of the Taliban movement were caught in the south of Afghanistan, Reuters reports citing a statement by the country's Ministry of Defense. “During the operation, two Taliban commanders named Mullah Matin Akhond and Mullah Rahim Akhond were detained,” the report said.

The German Foreign Ministry announced the dismissal of several embassy employees in Cairo and Moscow, the Air Force reports. The decision on dismissal was made after it turned out that hundreds of visas were issued under subsequent documents during the usual checks. In Cairo, 132 visas of 10 thousand visas were issued on fake documents. Six Egyptian employees are suspected of assisting such statements.

Iran sent an official protest to the United States, accusing them of conducting reconnaissance operations in order to receive information about the Iranian nuclear program, the Air Force reports. The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry of Manuchekhr Motaki explained that the protest was sent in response to the publication of the American intelligence report , which contained the conclusion that Iran had stopped developing nuclear weapons in 2003.

Today, new commanders of the Pacific and Baltic Fleets were appointed: the Tikhocene fleet was headed by the former Baltic Fleet commander Vice Admiral Konstantin Sidenko, the former chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet Vice Admiral Viktor Mardusin was the new commander of the Baltic Fleet, reports Lenta.ru with a link to RIA Novosti.

The hands of the clock were transferred half an hour ago. Now Venezuela will lag behind Greenwich for 4 and a half hours, reports the Air Force . The creation of its own temporary zone is the next innovation of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, who, during his reign, has already managed to change the official name of the country, as well as its coat of arms and flag.

Two passengers of the train near Moscow are injured by part of the platform, which literally pierced the electric train through, reports Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. “In the morning last Saturday, at the Moscow-Kurskaya station, when the electric train arrives with the message“ Moscow-Kalanchevskaya-Chekhov ”, the strapping metal corner of the second platform entered the dimensions of rolling stock.

One person died, two were injured as a result of the use of firearms in the location of the mountain rifle brigade, which is deployed in the village of Botlich (Dagestan), reports Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. “On Saturday, at about 15:00 Moscow time, for reasons unclear reasons, the senior warrant officer Vladimir Buldakhin, who served at the brigade checkpoint, opened firing at colleagues,” a source in the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

On December 9, the Central Election Commission of Georgia officially registered businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili as a presidential candidate, reports Mayak radio . With the required minimum number of 50 thousand signatures in support of Patarkatsishvili, more than 200 thousand were presented. According to the regulations, the centrizibrk checked 10 thousand signatures, 849 were invalidated. Almost simultaneously with him, Irina Sarishvili, the leader of the Imady party, was registered.

On Sunday in Moscow, a meeting of the initiative group was held in support of self -nomination for the post of President of Russia Oleg Shenin, a former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and a participant in the State Emergency Committee in August 1991, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports.

Among the candidates-nominates, a person was discovered for the presidency of Russia without a specific place of residence, said the head of the CEC of Russia Vladimir Churov, writes the newspaper Arguments and Facts . Along with other candidates, a certain Ivan Serey submitted documents without a specific place of residence. In total, according to Churov, about twenty candidates submitted papers in the Central Election Commission. However, only twelve people had correctly executed statements.

In Ingushetia last night, unknown people were fired from a grenade launcher in which the mayor of Nazran Magomed Tsychoev lives, the Caucasian Knot reports with reference to Interfax. “At 3:30 am Sundays on the household, where the head of the city lives, unknown people fired from the under -barrel grenade launcher,” a source at the headquarters of the temporary group of troops in the North Caucasus told the agency. According to the source of the agency, there are no victims and victims.

The regime of a special position has been involved in Abkhazia, Georgian television companies report. The MZI television company transmitted an interview with the Kilanava Torica, the Kilanava Torgeus, in the government of the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic, in the government of the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic.

On Sunday in Brussels, at the 59th year of his life, the journalist of the NTV television company Dmitry Khavin died. As reported on the television company , a few months ago he found cancer. Khavin came to journalism in the late 70s.