Prior to the Paris subway controllers 33-year-old man, who was not the ticket. He resisted, attacked the officers and injured one of them. His detained and taken to the police station.

group of young Arabs and Africans felt that the police had acted harshly. They began to attack the police order. Then began pogroms. Wild crowd razbivala storefront shops in the underground.

Police managed to cope with the mob only by truncheons and tear gas, transmits .

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The discussion ended with the first plan Martti Ahtisaari. The United States, Britain and France were in favor of granting independence province of Kosovo and Metohija. Russia blocked the decision and suggested to continue consultations in Serbia and send a special mission to investigate the situation on the ground.

Remember that under the plan Ahtisaari Albanians living province, the armed forces will be able to establish and enforce their own use of state symbols.

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France and Greece during consultations in the Security Council circulated a draft resolution on the situation of journalists in armed conflicts. How has the UN News Service Thursday, the Permanent Representative of France to the UN Jean-Marc de La Sablière in New York reported that the document was prepared with the support of three more delegations, the UK, Slovakia and Denmark. By such a step, these countries has prompted growing concern the situation of journalists in armed conflicts, said the French diplomat. He said that this year alone in hotspots killed 75 members of the media. The draft resolution to condemn attacks on journalists. It calls on the parties to the conflict and all UN Member States to provide them with protection and to prevent attacks on them, while respecting their independence and without violating their rights. In addition, members of the UNSC is invited to request the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to prepare a report on the situation of the media in armed conflicts, which will subsequently be discussed at an open meeting of the Council.

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Poland expressed its readiness to lift the veto on negotiations with Russia on the preparation of a new strategic partnership agreement on the EU only in the event that the European Commission will clear obligation to protect the interests of Warsaw.

Guide Poland wants to force Moscow to lift the embargo on the export of healthiness of pork and vegetables. According to the latest data, loss of Poland Russia imposed a ban on imports of agricultural products from that country for the year amounted to some 400 million euros.
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, the quality of Polish beef and pork is in question, not only from Russia. Recently, the EU and Ukraine and then sent them to the inspection of their veterinarians. Thus, the meat-processing factory in the city Starahovitse closed after unexpectedly nagryanuvshaya in his shop inspection revealed that instance, the meat is not dumped, and allowed for processing. Pokryvshayasya mold has been on the production of pork sausages, sausages and other meat products. The shocking images shown all Polish TV channels and print repeatedly criticized local authorities for poor supervision in the field of animal husbandry. In addition, knowing that Poland has identified cases of mad cow disease. According to the Ministry of Agriculture specialists Poland, in some farms still feed pigs and poultry banned in the European Union and, in Poland and bone flour containing boleznetvorny prion protein. That substance, according to the scientists, can cause cow disease, even rabies in humans.

Poland also intends to include in future EU-Russia Agreement provisions of the European Energy Charter. Warsaw insists on ratifying the Moscow Energy Charter, which would open the Russian energy market to foreign companies.

Also today, it became known that the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski has no plans to participate in the EU-Russia summit in Helsinki on 24 November.

In turn, Russia is not going to ratify the Treaty of the Energy Charter, as its well-known shortcomings of European Union, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Head of Russian foreign policy department noted that “the position of Russia is finally beginning to understand better.” He said, “it showed a recent meeting of the Energy Charter”, reported Regnum.

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Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said that the head of a party “Unified Russia” will support the nomination of the current mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov for another term.

“He is the co-chair of United Russia”, and sees his party to continue as the mayor of Moscow, “explained its position Speaker.

eve appeared reported that Luzhkov Putin intends to put the issue of trust, which could mean his desire to remain as mayor for another four years, passes .

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In Golovinskom Moscow court on Wednesday held the trial of the misuse of images Cheburashki and other cartoon characters “Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena.”

Claim will be made against the company BKR-kosmetiks “of the Bulgarian company in Russia” TOMI SHAW Kozmetiks. ” As told RIA Novosti director of the Center of Legal Protection of intellectual property Vladimir Entin, a Bulgarian company bought the copyright to the use of images from the children’s writer Eduard Uspensky.

“Uspensky registered through Ltd.” Cheburashka “trademark, which made a schematic of the black-and-white cartoon character, a Bulgarian artist painted it in the same way as a painter Leonid Shvartsman in the cartoon,” said Entin.

According to him, Bulgarian painter argues that painted glasses, in the only way of literary books Uspensky, a coincidence with the image presented in cartoon-simple coincidence.

As explained Shvartsmana supporters, “father” multiplier Cheburashki, the main problem is that the Assumption, on the already established tradition, without the consent of the artist gave a good image to use Cheburashki. And certainly not selfless. But to share the proceeds with an artist means he is not going to that, of course, the last upset. But most of all, the painter is going because Uspensky forcibly deprives his father rights to competitors. In protecting Shvartsmana faced all multipliers old guard who claim to own eyes seen the cartoon was created “Crocodile Gena and his friends” and who worked on the image of its heroes.

Chief argument for Shvartsmana introduced director and animation artist Yuri Norshtein. He showed journalists Cheburashki drawings and designs, as well as crocodile and Gen. Shapoklyak, dated 1968 and signed Schwartzman year. A designs, according to the law of copyright, already are indisputable proof that established the right of way belongs Shvartsmanu, ie vols man who painted them.

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Operatic tenor Nikolai Baskov awarded the title of People’s Artist of Ingushetia. The decision Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov announced on Thursday in Gudermes banquet devoted to the inauguration of President of the Republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. This happened after the Basque performed a song dedicated to the city of Grozny, reported the correspondent of ” and”. Previously, the singer was also awarded the title of People’s Artist of Chechnya. In 2006, opera soloist Mari State Opera and Ballet Theater Nikolai Baskov awarded the rank-deserved Artist People’s Artist of Russia and Ukraine.

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According to the preliminary results of the elections in the Netherlands, the parliamentary seats allocated among the four parties. According to the Itar-Tass leading Christian Democratic Party (PDC) call. As of 0:00 local time, it is gaining 26% of the votes, thus ensuring its mandate in parliament in 1941. This means that Jan Peter Balkenende could take a seat premiere already for the fourth time in the last five years.

It should be with the Labor Party (21% of the votes). She will receive 32 seats in the lower house, is 10 fewer than in previous elections.

The biggest surprise so far is the high percentage of votes cast for the Socialist Party, 17. That means 26 mandates instead of 9, which she had earlier. People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, won 15% while that would give it 22 mandate for 6 less than before.

already estimated 96,8% of ballots.

Even before the announcement of the final vote count Dutch Premier proclaimed the victory of his party in the elections. “We are once again the largest party … Staraniya made in the course of the four-year struggle, judged on merit, and I am proud of this,” said Balkenende, speaking before his supporters in The Hague.

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The intention of the Estonian authorities to ban Soviet symbols is a continuation of the policy of fascism and the fact of political revenge Soviet Union, said President of the Academy of Military Sciences of the army, General Mahmut Gareev ” from – AVN “on Friday.

“prepare such a bill could only people who are the spiritual heirs of fascist ideology, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union stremivsheysya destroy, remove it from the face of the earth,” said M. Gareev.

He regretted that the current policy of Estonia “is running for the office of historical awareness of the role of the Soviet Union in World War II, in the destruction of fascism and the liberation of Europe, including Estonia, from Hitlerism.”

According to M. Gareeva, “recent history of Estonia, unfortunately, convinced that the authorities Fodé people who are essentially pro, progitlerovski, profess the same sentiment, and would like to avenge politically USSR.”

“I wish Estonia become truly independent nation, including independent of the Heritage of fascist ideology, hatred of the entire Soviet, the Soviet political and anti orders and complexes,” said M. Gareev. The Estonian government on Thursday approved the meeting and agreed to send the final adoption of amendments to the Parliament on penalties in the regulations under which the perpetrator to use in a public place of Soviet symbols can be sentenced to prison terms of up to three years. As reported ” y” in the government press service, the law on amendments prepared by the Ministry of Justice.

In this paper use in public places and the proliferation of symbols and the former Soviet Union republics, as well as equivalent to the symbols of the National Party of Germany (SDSS) and SS are seen as fomenting discord related to the occupation regime.

for using symbols Soviet Union or Nazi Germany legal persons are invited to a penalty of a fine up to 50,000 kroner (1 evro/15, 6 kroner).

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Starting American shuttle “Discovery” was lifted for a few seconds before the anticipated time of take-off. Space Shuttle was to start from the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida on December 7 at 21.35 local time (5.35 am Moscow Friday), but just a minute before launch rocket engines, it was decided to postpone the start-launch remained in the area low clouds.
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attempt to go into orbit is scheduled for tomorrow at 5:13 am Moscow time. However, according to the weather, weather 9 December will be worse and the likelihood that the launch will take place still quite low and is less than 40%. So far, the most favorable for the launch day in terms of weather conditions called Tuesday 12 December.

current flight “Discovery” was to be already third space shuttle mission in the last six months. NASA rushing to complete work on the International Space Station (ISS) before the 2010 shuttle will be written off.

In September astronauts into orbit brought the second of four planned sets of solar panels. Once they complete the installation of the ISS will be able to generate twice as much electricity from solar power.

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