Five people died in a fire in the Sverdlovsk region, of which two children. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, a fire in a private residential building in the Beloyarsky district occurred due to a shortage in the wiring. The fire was extinguished at about five in the morning.

Perm, a fire in the club "Lame Horse". In connection with tragic events in Perm in Russia , mourning was announced on December 7 . Russian President Dmitry Medvedev considers it necessary to tighten the punishment for non -compliance with the regulations of fire supervision .

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that one of the main goals of the upcoming increase in the number of American troops in Afghanistan by 30 thousand is to force the leaders of the Taliban movement to abandon the warfare and sit down at the negotiating table. In an interview with ABC, Gates emphasized that only their unconditional rejection of violence can become the condition of negotiations with the Taliban.

Vice President of Iraq Tarik al-Hashemi must today decide on the veto, previously imposed on the election bill. It is expected that al-Hashemi, representing the Sunni community of Iraq, will confirm her veto. The reason is the conflict between the Sunnis and the Iraqi Kurds about the number of places in parliament assigned to these communities. Veto Vice President jeopardizes universal elections in Iraq, originally scheduled for January.

The attitude of Russians to law enforcement agencies is the topic of the program. Visiting Radio Liberty is the sociologist Lev Gudkov and a psychiatrist-criminalist Mikhail Vinogradov.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, Sergei Shoigu, demanded to ban the use of pyrotechnics in places of mass events. On Sunday, at a meeting meeting in Moscow, Shoigu also said that his department was developing measures to tighten fire safety requirements. In connection with the approach of the New Year holidays, telegrams were prepared in all regional emergency centers.

British boxer Amir Khan defended the WBA champion title. On Saturday in Newkasl, Khan knocked the American athlete of Ukrainian origin Dmitry Salit in the second minute of the fight.

The second round of the presidential election takes place in Romania. During the post of head of state, the current President Trajan Basescu, who adheres to the centrist views, and the chairman of the Senate Mircea Joan, the leader of the Social Democrats are fighting. Both applicants claim that they will be able to withdraw Romania from the economic crisis, which seriously hit the interests of the country's population.

Dozens of people were injured and one person died in police clashes with Kurdish manifestants in the southeast of Turkey. According to Radio Liberty, Elena Solntsev, more than fifteen thousand Kurds took to the streets of cities in protest against the difficult, in their opinion, the prison conditions of keeping the leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party of Abdullah Odalllan.

Fresh information about the events of the current day and its analysis together with experts.

At Non/Fiction Fair in Moscow The 11th International Book Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction was held in Moscow, which, as usual, represented the stands of small independent publishing houses-intellectuals, such as "Ellis Lak", "Aletheia" or the United Stand of Siberian Universities. ... Three floors of the Central House of Artists are busy, in the cash desk, a person for a hundred. On the second floor there is an exhibition of Czech illustrators.

"From childhood, it is like a song": myths of the Moscow metro. From the appearance of the first stations to today's social problems. From Living Stalin to Games in Stalinist history. Experts, culturalists and ordinary Muscovites reflect on the problems of the mass vehicle itself. The program was prepared by Lilya Palveleva.

Visiting Viktor Shenderovich - poet Sergey Gandlevsky. The theme of the program: "What is the matter to the poet peaceful before you?"

111 people became victims of a fire in Perm, according to the Main Directorate of the regional Ministry of Emergencies. More than 90 victims in the fire were delivered to hospitals in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk. About 30 more people are in hospitals in the Perm Territory. In Perm there are doctors from other cities. In the Perm nightclub "Lame Horse" on Saturday night, fireworks were arranged. There was an explosion of pyrotechnics and a fire.

Bikers from the club "Night Wolves" took control of the temple of the Apostle Thomas in Moscow after a series of attacks on priests. On November 19, the abbot of the temple was shot by father Daniil Sysoev, and yesterday his ally and friend Vitaly Zubkov was beaten. Three unknown people attacked the priest who was in the evening service and beat him. There was no attempt to rob. The head of the Association of Orthodox Experts, Kirill Frolov, connects the attack with the murder of Daniil Sysoev.