The official diagnosis of Yegor Gaidar has not yet been made, but doctors are inclined to the version of poisoning by an unknown substance. This was reported on Thursday by the daughter of the former Russian Prime Minister Maria Gaidar and his spokesman Valery Natarov. Egor Gaidar was taken to the Moscow clinic after last week at a conference in Ireland felt a sudden malaise. Now Gaidar feels noticeably better and, according to his daughter, can be discharged at the beginning of the next week.

Information about aircraft in which they found traces of radiation appeared on the British Airways website British Airways believes that one of the three aircraft in which traces of a radioactive substance were found on the eve could use 33 thousand passengers and three thousand crew members and service personnel. This was told by the Executive Director of the company Willie Walsh. According to him, the planes completed 221 flights.

Marina Timasheva: “Tom STOPPAD, who is ranked for postmodernists, wrote a realistic play about people whose ideas are completely hostile to postmodernism” The Publishing House "Foreigne" published the trilogy of Tom Stoppard "The Coast of Utopia". On December 2, the book will be presented at the 8th International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction . On December 1, Tom Stoppard will meet with readers in the house of the book. In Russia, the project unfolds - “The Coast of Utopia”.

The Prime Ministers of Russia and Ukraine - Mikhail Fradkov and Viktor Yanukovych - are discussing in Moscow preparations for the upcoming meeting of the presidents. As expected, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yushchenko will meet in Kyiv on December 22.

Why is the dollar falling? Irina Lagunina: Why is the American dollar falling? And he falls, first of all, in relation to the euro ... The growth rate of the US economy both in this and next year, according to forecasts, will be higher than in Europe. And China confirmed that he does not intend to sell the accumulated dollar assets for itself. What main factors determine today the dynamics of the exchange rate of the American currency?

The draw of the final match of the Davis Cup for tennis, in which the national Argentines and Russia will play. On Friday, in solitary meetings, Nikolai Davydenko will play with Juan -Yignazio Huma, and Marat Safin with David Nalbandan. On Saturday, Mikhail Yuzhny and Dmitry Tursunov will play against Nalbandyan and Agustin Calieri. On Sunday, Davydenko will fight with Nalbandan, and Safin with Calieri. The match will be held in Moscow in the Olympic sports complex.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in Chelyabinsk Alexander Valiev takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant, work continues to eliminate the consequences of the fire in the fifth leaf -rolling workshop. 7 bodies of workers were extracted from under the rubble. Alexander Valiev: Rescuers have so far stopped the analysis of the rubble in the burned workshop at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that he would visit Ukraine on December 22. Putin also said that Moscow and Kyiv are close to the final agreements in the field of energy. The Russian President met on Thursday evening with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who had previously negotiated with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

Five matches of the 15th round of the English Premier League took place. The leaders won their meetings: "Manchester United" - "Everton" - 3: 0 "Bolton" - "Chelsea" - 0: 1 "Liverpool" - "Portsmouth" - 0: 0 "Fulham" - "arsenal" - 2: 1 "Aston Villa" - "Manchester City" - 1: 3 Manchester United now has 38 points, Chelsea has 35. The third or fourth places are divided by Portusmut and Bolton, scoring 24 points.

Today in Samara at 10:45, at the intersection of Solnechnaya streets and the 22nd party train in the industrial region, a powerful explosion thundered. According to Sergey Khazov, glass knocked out glass in the windows of the first floors of two 9-story houses located next to the epicenter of the explosion. According to law enforcement officers, the explosion was an attempt to attempt on local entrepreneur Alexei Shapovalov.

In the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art in Ermolaevsky Lane, from December 16 to January 15, the exhibition of Viktor Pivovarov “Ecosoki Limonov. Work of recent years. " Pivovarov is one of the recognized leaders of the unofficial Russian art of the Soviet period.

British Airways is trying to contact passengers of these flights, and we are talking about 33 thousand passengers of 221 European flights, plus 3 thousand members of the crew and service personnel Boeing The British authorities announced that in three aircraft of the British Airways airline, weak traces of radioactive materials were discovered. Aircraft were examined as part of the investigation in the case of the poisoning in London of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.