The agricultural demarche of Warsaw completely changed the summite of the summit in Helsinki The Summit of the European Union and Russia was held in Helsinki. During the meeting, it was planned to start negotiations on a new basic agreement between Brussels and Moscow. However, they are postponed - even before the negotiations, Poland put a veto on them.

In Azerbaijan, opposition activists are sentenced to imprisonment from 3-15 days. According to Yalchin Tairoglu, 12 participants of yesterday's attempt to the unauthorized picket of the Party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan before the Presidential Administration were sentenced to various sentences, from 3 to 15 days. Among them are three women, they will serve his sentence up to 5 days. According to the court’s decision, the remaining 9 oppositionists were arrested for 15 days.

Andrei Shary : The Man of Radio Liberty Day is November 24 - Russian actor and musician Petr Mamonov, the leading actor of the monk Anatoly in the film directed by Pavel Lungin "Island". Peter Mamonov is 55 years old, he is a Muscovite, in the early 80s he became known as the leader of the rock band "Sounds of Mu". Now the group exists as a solo project of Mamonov. He also worked in the Mamon and Alexei group along with his half -brother.

After a short program in pair skating at the Grand Prix in Moscow tournament, the German couple Savchenko -Silkovy leads in Moscow. The second and third places are occupied by Russian duets: Petrova - Tikhonov and Kavaguchi - Smirnov.

The upper house of the Russian parliament approved amendments to the electoral legislation, canceling the threshold of turnout in the elections of all levels. “For” 112 senators voted, seven opposed 6, among the voting “against” there was the speaker of the Federation Council and the leader of the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov - he himself informed reporters about this. Many human rights activists and public figures opposed the cancellation of the threshold.

One of the leaders of Turkish Muslims Ali Bardakogly, who controls the imams and writes preaching for them, curled that the Pope had to say with certainty that Islam, like Christianity, is a peaceful religion. The four -day visit of the Pope to Turkey begins next week. In September, Pope Benedict XVI caused protests by Muslims, as he brought a quote that condemns Islam for a tendency to violence.

In Helsinki, the European Union-Russia summit ended. At the final press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret that negotiations on the new basic agreement between Russia and the EU could not begin due to the objections of Poland. Warsaw blocked the negotiations, demanding that Russia cancel the embargo for the supply of Polish meat and sign the European Energy Charter. The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroza personally asked Putin to remove the embargo.

On November 30, in the London cinema "Lumier" the premiere of the film Sergei Karandashov "Wanderer" will be held. Previously, this picture was awarded the highest award of the Pacific Meridian Film Festival.

Ski jumpers with a springboard struggle for the World Cup began in the Finnish Kuusamo. They competed on a large springboard, but did only one jump. The first place was taken by Finn Artt Lappy, the second - Swiss Simon Ammann, the third - Norwegian Anders Jacobsen.

On Thursday, one match was played in the National Hockey League Championship. Nashville won a major victory over Vancouver - 6: 0 and occupies the third line in the overall table of the tournament.

Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of a dying message of his death. The message today was devoted to the publicity of the friends of the former lieutenant colonel of the FSB who died in the London hospital. Three weeks ago, Litvinenko was poisoned by an unknown poison. The investigation is conducted by the British police department to combat terrorism. Litvinenko repeatedly performed with the tough criticism of the Russian authorities.

In the capital of Finland, Helsinki is the 18th Summit of Russia-Es. The meeting is the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the chairman of the EU Finland Matti Vanhanen, the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa and the representative of the European Union on foreign policy and security, Javier Solan. The main topic of discussion is economic cooperation.

In Chelyabinsk, a teleconference was torn, which representatives of the People's Democratic Union and its head, ex-Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov, were supposed to be carried out. This was reported in an interview with Radio Liberty by the press secretary of the Union Elena Dikun. According to her, the leadership of the Chelyabinsk 31th channel refused the organizers of the teleconference, citing a political background.

London The Times published new details of Alexander Litvinenko’s poisoning before the Russia-Es summit in Helsinki took the bilateral negotiations of the presidents of Finland and Russia Summit Russia-Es: will the European Union succeed in stringing Russia's “dead cat”? Vladimir Ryzhkov: "All signs indicate that this is a political murder"

In the Pacific Ocean, an earthquake of about four points on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Kamchatka. The epicenter of underground shocks was 70 kilometers southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The victims and destruction are not reported. There is no threat of tsunami.