Strengthening the government can lead to its weakening Tomorrow the government will meet for the first time in a new composition.

The Constitutional Court is considering the legality of abolishing direct gubernatorial elections The Constitutional Court yesterday began considering one of the largest cases in recent years, caused by an attempt to break the famous Putin vertical, the basis of the Kremlin’s regional power. The Constitutional Court will have to check whether the president and the State Duma violated the Constitution by canceling direct elections of governors at the end of last year.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Pittsburgh" -- "Islanders" -- 2:3 (bulls.) -- Yashin "A" (1+0), "Calgary" -- "Minnesota" -- 3:2, "Tampa Bay" -- “Philadelphia” – 5:2 – Artyukhin “TB” (0+1), “Colorado” – “Edmonton” – 2:5. Alexey Yashin scored the 300th goal of his career in the North American League. It took the longest shootout of the season to determine the winner of the match between the Penguins and the Islanders.

The Public Chamber will be filled with singers and oligarchs Yesterday in Moscow, the first third of the Public Chamber, appointed by presidential decree, elected the second. 200 candidates, representatives of all-Russian public organizations, competed for 42 places. At the time of signing the number, voting was not completed.

The Serbian government is in no hurry to “reveal its cards” The Serbian government yesterday unanimously adopted a draft resolution on Belgrade's position in negotiations to determine the final status of Kosovo. Negotiations between the Serbian authorities and representatives of the regional autonomy are due to begin in December under the auspices of the UN and with international mediation. In the coming days, the program document will be considered by the Assembly (Parliament) of Serbia.

Gazprom has not yet decided to completely transport Sibneft to St. Petersburg The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, yesterday tried to give a gift to the Governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko. He promised to build a new football stadium and office center for the gas monopolist in the northern capital. In addition, he told reporters that Sibneft “will be in St.

The Israeli Police Department for Combating National and International Crimes will recommend that the country's prosecutor's office bring charges against well-known businessman Vladimir Gusinsky for money laundering through the Tel Aviv branch of Bank Hapoalim. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this yesterday. In March, Mr. Gusinsky, owner of the RTVi television channel and co-owner of the Israeli newspaper Maariv, was interrogated in the Hapoalim Bank case.

A few numbers. 19 -- President Chirac waited nineteen days to address the citizens of France. 3 -- three months of a state of emergency was asked and received from the National Assembly by the French government, at the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy. Everyone knows these numbers. Some are outraged by Chirac's slowness. Others believe that three months of emergency is clearly too much. But there are also other very interesting figures. For example: 28,000.

Forecast for the coming days An extensive and powerful high Atlantic cyclone, leaving Scandinavia, goes to the southern coast of Novaya Zemlya. As for the weather, in the sphere of influence of the cyclone it cannot be called good. For two days the weather in the northwestern region will be formed under the influence of cold atmospheric fronts of the Atlantic cyclone.

Poor global market conditions give Russian steelmakers a break The 11th international specialized exhibition “Metal-Expo 2005” began its work in Moscow. At a press conference dedicated to the opening of the exhibition, Andrei Deineko, head of the industry department of the Ministry of Industry and Energy, said that the volume of total investments in the Russian metallurgical industry this year amounted to about 74 billion rubles. The ministry expects this figure to rise next year.

The first pre-entry campaign in the Super League passed without sensations Yesterday, the first of two additional application windows planned by the tournament regulations in the Super League closed (let us remember that last season there were three of them). As expected, there were no transfer storms. The current situation can even be called calm.

The Mainichi newspaper reported yesterday that “President Putin, at a meeting with Prime Minister Koizumi on November 21, is ready to present a new proposal for the joint economic development of the “northern territories,” that is, the Russian Southern Kuril Islands. Mainichi, one of the most authoritative newspapers in Japan, gave this information with reference to a “source in the Russian Foreign Ministry”.

The Supreme Court finally banned the NBP The Supreme Court of Russia yesterday finally banned the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), recognizing as legal the decision of the Moscow Regional Court to liquidate this interregional socio-political organization. Now Limonovites hope to defend their rights in the European Court of Human Rights, as well as to register again. The epic with the liquidation of the National Bolshevik Party began in the summer.

Today, the Russian youth team will play a return play-off match with the Danish team for the right to participate in the final part of the European Youth Championship. In the first meeting, Andrei Chernyshov’s team lost with a score of 0:1. However, nothing is lost for our youth team yet. This is the opinion of famous players and now coaches Sergei YURAN and Igor SHALIMOV, who shared their thoughts with Vremya Novostei correspondents. Sergei YURAN: - We cannot say that we have no chance.

Deceived co-investors demand that city administrations be responsible for construction pyramids The crisis in the collective housing construction market seems to have bewildered not only co-investors who were deceived in their expectations and money, but also builders and government officials.