Russian medical workers live behind the poverty line, ”said Mikhail Kuzmenko, head of the medical union. According to him, the average salary of doctors is 600 rubles per month, which is half the cost of the minimum consumer basket. Kuzmenko said that tomorrow at the trade union conference in Moscow the question will be considered about the possible beginning of the All -Russian strike of doctors.

Title: according to trade union leaders, the situation that has developed in the field of healthcare can be called critical. Over the past three years, the budget financing of healthcare in Russia has decreased by almost a third - from 2.9 percent to 2 percent - while for the normal functioning of healthcare, it is necessary to allocate from 5 to 7 percent from the budget.

In Chechnya - in the Leninsky district of Grozny - yesterday, as a result of the shelling of a car with the Russian military, one person died, another was injured. According to reports from Chechen sources, yesterday in the capital of Chechnya Russian divisions were attacked, five military personnel were killed. There was no official confirmation of this information.

The Supreme Court of Florida today will make a decision on the appeal of the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party of Albert Gora, requiring the end of a manually recalculation of ballots filed in the November 7 elections in three districts of the state. The lawyers Gora and the candidate of the Republicans George Bush are speaking to the judges. Republicans strive to leave the decision of the Florida court of lower instance, which has already rejected the lawsuit of the mountain.

Representatives of the Ukrainian opposition transferred an audio recording to the European Council, which, in their opinion, proves the involvement of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in the disappearance of journalist George Gongadze. The opposition achieves an independent examination. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, Kuchma called the accusations a political provocation against him yesterday in the television show.

Marina Timasheva, Moscow: Today, a meeting of creditors was held on the bankruptcy of the Gorky film studio, organized by temporary manager Mr. Moshkin. Let me remind you that the company "Silkor" presented to pay for the bill of bills issued by the former head of the studio named after Gorky Sergey Livnev, now living in Los Angeles. During the bankruptcy procedure for the studio, according to the law, the temporary manager Mr. Moshkin came.

Semyon Mirsky, Paris: The first day of the meeting at the highest level of EU participants in Nice is overshadowed by mass clashes between demonstrators opposing globalization and the police. At least 16 police officers were injured. Several stores are plundered, the bank was set on fire. The mass riots in Nice could be foreseen, but they could not be avoided.

The head of the Provisional Administration of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, called on Thursday the situation in the republic "complex and explosive". At yesterday's meeting, the representative of the President of Russia in the Southern Federal District, Viktor Kazantsev, Kadyrov announced the activation of Chechen fighters who attacked military and administrative facilities recently. On Wednesday, at least five Russian military personnel died as a result of shelling and sabotage.

Vladimir Abarinov, Washington: The US government expects that businessman Edmond POUP, sentenced by the Russian court to 20 years in prison for espionage, will be released for humanitarian reasons. The United States Administration is “deeply disappointed” with the verdict in the case of Edmond Pope. This was stated in Washington by a spokeswoman for the National Security Council Pi Jay Crauli. He noted that the American side does not see any evidence of a violation of any Russian laws.

On the western coast of Jordan, armed Palestinians opened fire on Israeli cars today. 3 people were injured, one of them is in serious condition. Today, the vehicles belonging to the Israelis were fired on the main highway north of Jerusalem. No one was injured. Yesterday, the famous terrorist Muhammad Def fled from the Palestinian prison. Israel accused the Palestinian police of connivance. Yasir Arafat rejected these accusations and gave the order to return Def to prison.

In Moscow, the former deputy general director of Aeroflot Nikolai Glushkov was arrested and placed in the investigator Lefortovo. Today, during the interrogation, the General Prosecutor's Office was charged with large -scale fraud - as part of the investigation of the case of abuse in Aeroflot. The former deputy head of the company has already been charged with illegal entrepreneurship and "laundering" of money.

The Legislative Assembly of Florida will gather on Friday to an extraordinary session in order to appoint representatives from this state to the collegium of electoral, which will formally choose the president of the United States on December 18. This was announced by the leaders of the Republicans in the Legislative Assembly of Florida. Republicans belong to the majority in this body.

In St. Petersburg, representatives of the Union of Right Forces department hold a rally of protest against the possible approval of the music of the anthem of the Soviet Union as a melody in the state anthem of Russia. The results of a sociological survey showed that more than half of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg are against the use of the music of the USSR anthem for the anthem of Russia.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved the allocation of $ 215 million to complete the construction of two reactors on Khmelnitskaya and Rivne nuclear power plants in Ukraine - in order to compensate for the country's energy tour after the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Georgian authorities do not have information about the accumulation of Chechen militants on the territory of the Pankisian gorge, ”said Kakha Imnadze, press secretary of the Georgian President. According to him, such allegations of Russian media and some officials are frankly provocative in nature and are aimed at undermining the authority of Georgia. Imnadze considers Moscow statements that the Chechens created a certain enclave in the Pankisian gorge and control 17 settlements.