The finalists of the men's tournament were determined by the Kerling Championship in Basel (Switzerland). The first semifinals. Switzerland - Scotland - 9: 5. The second semifinals. Scotland - Sweden - 5: 2. Thus, the Swedish national team won bronze awards, and the teams of Switzerland and Scotland will meet in the final.

View of Sheremetyevo Airport from one of the buildings in the city of Skhodnya Marina Katys: Today we will talk about the construction of roads. All Muscovites know about traffic jams on Leningradsky Prospekt on the road to Sheremetyevo Airport. Even on weekdays to drive along Leningradka is a big problem, and on weekends (especially in the summer), people spend on overcoming this site for several hours.

Bosnian Serb Dragan Damyanovich sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of war crimes against the Muslim population during the 1992-1995 conflict. The court in Bosnia found him guilty of beating and torture of prisoners of concentration camps, located during the war in the suburbs of Sarajevo.

In Moscow, a "march of disagreements" is held on the triumphal square - a protest rally organized by the Other Russia Opposition Association. In the center of the capital, thousands of police and military personnel of the internal troops are located. According to the press secretary of the “other Russia”, Natalia Morar, more than 200 people were detained in the regions who went to Moscow to participate in the action, including National Bolsheviks and activists of the People's Democratic Union.

About 50 participants in the "Marsh of the Non -Losch" were detained in Moscow, mainly activists of the National Bolshevik Party and the avant -garde of red youth. According to the correspondent of the RS, after a rally on the triumphal square on one of the adjacent streets there were a clash between the left radicals and the police. More than 3 thousand people participated in the "Mark of the Disagent" - supporters of democratic and levoradic parties and movements.

The United Arab Emirates host elections to the Federal National Council - an advisory body of a parliamentary type. These are the first elections since the formation of the UAE in 1971. The right to vote has less than 7 thousand people - members of the election collegium appointed by the rulers of the seven emirates.

Victor Erofeev: Our guests: journalist Evgeny Kiselev, musician Alexander Sklyar and president of the Russian Social and Political Center Alexander Music. The theme of our transmission is why so much is stealing in Russia. Evgeny Kiselev: So much - how is it? Victor Erofeev: Well, just so many that even we must talk about it and talk about it.

The delegation of American congressmen arrived in Cuba in the hope of starting a dialogue with the country's communist government. According to Congressman Jeff Flake, this is the largest delegation of the US Congress, visiting the island since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The visit is taking place while the Kubinsky leader Fidel Castro is sick, the authorities were temporarily transferred to his brother Raul Castro.

In the east of Afghanistan, during an explosion laid down by the bomb road, NATO soldier died, two were injured. Another soldier of the coalition forces was wounded as a result of the explosion of the anti -personnel mines on the outskirts of the city of Kandahar in the south of the country. The NATO forces command in Afghanistan spread leaflets with a warning to the Talibans that if they did not leave the two districts of the province of Kandahar, they will be knocked out by force.

In the Leningrad Region, the Yak-52 sports plane crashed. Three people died. According to Interfax in the regional Ministry of Emergencies, one of the dead is the head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Postal Communications in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Igor Mostolin. The plane belonging to the private street caught fire in the air and fell in the area of the village of New Oselki 25 kilometers from St. Petersburg.

Nikita Belykh (left) and Leonid Gozman are determined in anticipation of the spring elections On December 16, the next congress of the party of the right -wing forces was held. The delegates decided not to accept the new party program, but to discuss preparations for the March regional elections to which the ATP will go on their own, refusing to cooperate with the Yabloko party and the movement of another Russia.

In dozens of Russian cities today, protests are held against the ban on right -hand drive and corruption in the traffic police. Columns of cars with lighted headlights drive along the central streets. In St. Petersburg, about 50 motorists took part in the rally, 300 in Moscow. In both cities, traffic police officers tried to interfere with the promotion, blocking the roads and selecting documents from drivers.

In Iraq, a conference on national reconciliation opens. The focus is the disagreement between Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites. The government does not report who exactly will participate in the forum. It is reported that representatives of all aspects of the political process were invited to him, except for those who committed crimes against the Iraqi people. The conference will last 2 days.