Serbian elections resemble Russian ones The parliamentary elections in Serbia, scheduled for Sunday, December 28, are the last hope for this country to finally gain legitimate power. Serbia does not have an elected president, having previously failed elections three times due to voter absenteeism. The government was created by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), now defunct.

Forecast for the coming days A powerful and active Atlantic cyclone is coming from Iceland, which will block the path to Arctic air. As it approaches, heavy snowfalls will fall on the northwestern regions, blizzards will rise, and during the day it will rain, the temperature will rise to +5°C. In the central region for the next two days there will be light snow and a slight blizzard, and during the day the frosts will weaken to -1...-6°C.

Yesterday, the number of victims of a gas explosion at the Chuandongbei gas field in southwestern China approached two hundred, although initially (and the tragedy occurred on Wednesday night) the death of only eight people was announced. Chinese authorities reported the incident only yesterday. The rescue work is being supervised by the head of the Secretariat of the State Council of China, Hua Jianmin.

Experts sum up the political results of the year If anyone, having lived through the Year of the Goat, has every right to be proud of what they have achieved, it is the team of Kremlin political strategists. She defended her project with excellent marks. Such mobility and such strategies, combined with determination and pressure, have never been demonstrated from within the walls of the Kremlin.

The threat of terrorism has deprived the world of a peaceful New Year's holiday The Christmas holiday of Western Christians passed, although without any special incidents, but in anxiety and unrest. The culprit is Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda.

The consequences of a train accident are being eliminated on the Trans-Siberian Railway Traffic along the Trans-Siberian Railway, difficult due to a collision between a Vladivostok-Novosibirsk passenger train and a timber truck near the Kotik station in the Irkutsk region, was fully restored only yesterday evening. According to operational services, the accident occurred on December 24 at 17.35 Moscow time.

Alexander Moiseev left “of his own free will” Yesterday, the long-suffering State Fisheries Committee was once again left without a leader. Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov dismissed the head of the State Fisheries Committee, Alexander Moiseev. He didn't even have time to celebrate his first anniversary as a minister. Mr.

Participants in the free sector of the electricity market on Wednesday, for the first time in trading history, implemented bilateral electricity purchase and sale agreements in the amount of 6.62 billion kWh, the non-profit partnership Trading System Administrator said in a statement. The message does not indicate which companies have entered into bilateral agreements.

Two people died and three were hospitalized in serious condition as a result of a strong fire that occurred in St. Petersburg on Thursday night in the warehouses of the Narvsky trading house, which occupies the workshops of the former factory named after Vera Slutskaya on the Leather Line of Vasilyevsky Island. In the building, which is rented by Eurodom LLC for furniture production, the fire broke out on the second floor and spread to the upper tiers of the four-story building.

The European Space Agency still hopes to hear its messenger Interest in Mars on the part of terrestrial astronomers, it seems, will soon develop into hatred. Yesterday, the Red Planet caused considerable concern among scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), who were unable to establish communication with the Beagle 2 research module at the scheduled time, which was supposed to descend to the surface of Mars and transmit the signal to start work - the band's melody.

South Ossetia is closely monitoring Georgia's preparations for the presidential elections on January 4 and making plans for 2004. The president of the unrecognized republic, Eduard KOKOYTY, told the correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper in Tbilisi, Mikhail VIGNANSKY, about them. - South Ossetia under Eduard Shevardnadze proclaimed the slogan: “With Georgia - forever, to Georgia - never.” Are you not going to change? After all, there are already new authorities in Tbilisi?

Manchester United is counting on amnesty for Rio Ferdinand The disqualification of Rio Ferdinand, defender of the English football club Manchester United, continues to acquire scandalous details. The press accused the English Football Federation that the independent arbitration panel that examined the footballer's case was not so independent. According to the newspapers, the federation is too biased towards the player, and one of the arbitrators could side with sports officials.

Summing up the results of the literary year , I said nothing about the “borderline” areas - humanities research, essay writing, memoirs, heritage publications. This is unfair and natural for the same reason: the volume of such products (of very different quality) is truly enormous.

"Scary Movie 3" on Moscow screens The third episode of Scary Movie, the world's raunchiest parody of horror films and everything else that comes to hand, was supposed to be released last fall. The subtitle “Lord of the Broom” was invented for the film, so, as is easy to understand, the heroes of Tolkien and Rowling should have ended up under the tub of slop.

New York Islanders NHL forward Alexei Yashin has been out of action for three months. These are the consequences of the injury received by Alexey in the match against Philadelphia, when the opposing Czech forward Michal Handzush in one of the game episodes ran over the hand of the fallen Yashin with his skate. The Russian suffered a tendon rupture, and the full course of treatment, according to doctors, will take 10-12 weeks.