In Gellivar (Sweden), the program of the 2nd stage of the World Cup was completed by relay races. Women, 4x5 km 1. Norway 2. Germany 3. Finland Men 4x10 km 1. Germany 2. Russia 3. Czech Republic.

On Sunday in Japan, matches of the 3rd round of the group tournament were played. The Russian national team beat the Canada team-3: 0 and with two victories and one defeat is in 2nd place in the group “D”, yielding to the Serbia and Montenegro team, in the asset of which there were three victories in three matches, she won 3-0 the latter at the Tunisian team.

A statement on the problems of global trade ended in Vietnam the summit of the organization of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The leaders of the APEC participating countries expressed their readiness to fully contribute to the resumption of global trade negotiations interrupted in July. In a separate statement, the summit participants called on North Korea to follow its obligations to stop the development of nuclear weapons.

In Georgia, there is another loud resignation. The president of the state oil and gas Corporation Irakli Chogovadze. He was transferred to this position just a week ago - with post of Minister of Economic Development. Instead of Chogovadze, to be responsible for the economic unit in the government Irakli district was appointed, former minister defense. Yesterday Okashvili announced that he was also leaving the office. Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaidel signed both statements about retired.

Ivan Tolstoy: On November 14, in London, the premiere of the new, 21st movie Bondian film “Casino Ruayal” was held. James Bond, as you know, was originally a book hero, and at the end of this year, Russian readers will receive a kind of small encyclopedia - the book “Sign 007: in the secret service of Her Majesty”, which was written by journalists, Russian Radio Service Service - Natalya Golitsyna and Andrey Shary.

In Shanghai, the final tennis tournament of the year is nearing completion - Masters Cap. In the paired discharge, the winners were Swede Jonas Bjorkman and Belarusian Max Mirny, who prevailed over Mark Nowls (Bagama) in the finale and Daniel Nestor (Canada) - 6: 2, 6: 4.

In Moscow, the prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case in connection with the death of a native of Chechnya Movladi Baysarov, a former commander of the Helting Drum, who was in the wanted list. Baysarov was killed in the capital on Saturday while trying to detain him. Reportedly, Baysarov refused to give up and opened fire. The prosecutor's office intends to check the legitimacy of the use of weapons by police officers.

Norilsk. Arctic or Siberia, "other land" or a mainland, frontier or border, camp or industrial zone, city or ghost? How to talk about the history of Norilsk? What to do with its modernity? Cultural scientist Vladimir Paperny, musician Alexei Paperny, poet and deputy of the Moscow City Duma Yevgeny Bunimovich, art critic Georgy Nikich, journalist Mikhail Kaluga, musical critic Varvara Turov returned from Norilsk from the conference "Local stories".

As a result of the shelling, three people were killed in Chechnya, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. As it became known today, in the district center of Kurchal on Saturday, unknown people opened fire on a car with people. Two civilians and policeman died on the spot. The dead were relatives of one of the commanders of the anti -terrorism center of the republic. The shooters disappeared.

Russia has concluded a bilateral agreement with the United States, giving it the opportunity to join the World Trade Organization. The document was signed by American and Russian representatives on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vietnam. The lack of an agreement with the United States was the main obstacle to Russia's entry into the WTO, negotiations about which have been held since 1994.

In Baghdad, at least 6 people were killed as a result of several explosions, dozens were injured. Three mined cars exploded one after another at the bus station in the Shiite district of the Iraqi capital. Earlier today, in a populated city of Hill, a suicide bomb in a crowd of construction workers, in a populated city of Hill. 22 people died, about 50 people were injured. At Baakub, the militants attacked a small bus with peasants. 8 people were killed.

In Moscow, a rally is held on Pushkinskaya Square today in defense of the rights of the child. The organizers of the action are opposed to violations of the rights of children with disabilities and the rights of the mother and child in maternity hospitals. It will also be about the impossibility of free operations for seriously ill children, about the problems of homelessness and orphanages.

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Alexander Genis: "In the towns of New England, as if emanating from the surf, along the entire coast, gleaming the racks of tiles and fights, asleep jambs, are in the darkness of the house, having hit the chain of the continent, which opened herring and cod." The landscape, described by Brodsky in the “Lullaby of the Cape Cape”, calls on a trip to the homeland of New England - to the cape code. Already the road here is dramatic, like Shakespeare or in a fairy tale.