Yesterday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko addressed parliament members during his first official visit to Israel. He called on them to jointly fight against “any totalitarian consciousness,” asking deputies for “moral support and solidarity” in honoring the memory of “the victims of totalitarian terror against the Ukrainian people, especially during the Holodomor of 1932-1933.” According to Mr.

Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Slovenia, which is preparing to assume the presidency of the European Union from January 1, 2008. He met with his colleague Dimitri Rupel, Speaker of the State Assembly of Slovenia Franze Zukiati, as well as with the new President of Slovenia, 55-year-old Danilo Turk, who was elected last Sunday. Mr. Türk will replace President Janez Drnovšek, who declined to run for a second term, and whose term expires on December 22.

Ballets by Piotr Zuska at the Dance Inversion festival The Prague National Theater Ballet brought three one-act works by its artistic director Petr Zuska to the Dance Inversion festival - “A Little Extreme”, “Embrace of the Sea” and “Mary’s Dream”. Zuska is forty; he managed to dance in the Prague Chamber Ballet, in Munich and in Montreal, and there he began composing dances.

The State Duma changed the terms of military mortgages At yesterday's plenary meeting, the State Duma adopted in the final, third reading amendments to some laws of the Russian Federation aimed at improving the savings-mortgage system (NIS) for providing housing to military personnel . Thus, nuances were taken into account that simply could not have been foreseen when the “khaki mortgage”, as a completely new business, had just started.

Moscow greeted the arrival of winter in traffic jams Throughout Wednesday, Moscow continued to deal with the consequences of the heavy snowfall that hit the city. Car owners suffered the most from the snow: traffic in the capital was practically paralyzed for the whole day, so many kilometers of traffic jams formed on the roads. However, those who were not stuck in traffic jams were forced to stand in lines at the tire shop to change summer tires to winter ones.

The ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won Tuesday's early parliamentary elections in Denmark. She received 89 out of 179 parliamentary seats. Voter turnout was high - 86.5%. Relying on the Left Liberal Party he led with the support of the Conservative People's Party, Rasmussen confirmed his right to lead the government for the third time. The 54-year-old prime minister first took office in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005.

The investment memorandum of Energo-Polyus is not limited to the development of OGK-3 power plants Norilsk Nickel yesterday published an investment memorandum on the allocation of electricity assets. As is known, a meeting of the company's shareholders on this issue will be held on December 14 . However, the main shareholders of the metallurgical company - Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, as usual, do not have a common opinion about the future of the energy business. Mr.

The prime ministers of North and South Korea have become like relatives Yesterday, the heads of government of the DPRK and the Republic of Korea met for the first time in 15 years. The talks in Seoul, which are scheduled to conclude tomorrow, were agreed upon at a summit in Pyongyang in early October by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun .

Russia and Iraq have begun technical work on the details of future cooperation . Iraqi mid-level officials and specialists in energy, finance and various industries arrived in Moscow yesterday. Today and tomorrow they will hold meetings with Russian colleagues from relevant ministries and companies. The delegation is headed by Munkiz al-Bakr, adviser to the Iraqi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources.

In Russia, few people still believe that cancer can be cured. In general, we treat oncology not as a disease, the fight against which is the job of doctors, but rather as an evil fate, fate. In practice, such a fatal attitude is manifested in the fact that our compatriots - both sick and healthy - are not interested in modern anticancer drugs and do not believe that timely detection of the disease provides a significant chance of recovery.

Vitaly Mutko put his man in charge of the clubs The Russian Football Premier League has a new leader. Sergei Pryadkin, who held the post of General Director of the Russian Football Union, became the President of the RFPL. The clubs, abandoning the practice of inviting people associated with any team to the highest leadership position, decided to trust a person associated with Vitaly Mutko.

The second stage of the Speed ​​Skating World Cup will take place this weekend in Calgary, Canada. A week earlier, three world records fell at once at the Olympic oval in Salt Lake City. Few doubted that world achievements would be rewritten this year. However, according to the leaders of the domestic Skating Union, none of them imagined that this would happen at the beginning of the season.

Tajik janitor became a victim of terrorists Early yesterday morning in the center of Dushanbe, a powerful explosion occurred near the building of the Kokhi Vahdat (Palace of Unity) state complex. His only victim was 72-year-old janitor Ibrokhim Israilov, who discovered a package under the trees on the side of the building. When he picked it up, the package exploded.

Amendments to the Law “On Gas Supply” will allow Gazprom to violate contracts with industrial consumers Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications Valery Yazev yesterday made Gazprom's long-time dream come true. On his own behalf, he submitted amendments to Article 18 of the Law “On Gas Supply of the Russian Federation” for consideration by the lower house of parliament.

The Iskander missile system can be delivered to Belarus The Iskander operational-tactical missile systems (OTRK) can be put into service with the Belarusian army and thereby become an asymmetric response to the deployment by the United States of the third position area of ​​its national missile defense system in Eastern Europe . Three high officials spoke about this yesterday, as if by agreement.