On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Second International Symposium on the study of Tuvan shamanism opens in the Republic of Tyva. And from August 10 to August 12, an archaeological conference will be held in Chaa-Kholsky kozhuun on arzhaan "Kara-Sug". Scientific debates are scheduled for 13 and 14 August.

Humanity may soon face an outbreak of a measles epidemic. This is evidenced by the results of studies that were published in the scientific journal Science, cited by the BBC. According to the scientists who prepared the report, even with a slight decrease in the level of vaccination of children, the risk of the spread of this contagious disease, which can be fatal, increases dramatically.

Taimyr celebrates the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The events dedicated to this holiday began on August 8 with the laying of flowers at the graves of prominent citizens of Taimyr - representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North. This event was attended by representatives of the district administration, members of the Taimyr Association of Indigenous Peoples, representatives of the public, IA "Norilsk News" reports.

Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev feels "quite normal," Ilham Aiyev, son of the President and Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, said in an interview with Rossiya TV channel on Friday. "Everything is fine. The condition is quite normal," Aliev Jr. said.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left unchanged the decision of the Krasnoyarsk regional court to suspend proceedings on the complaint of the scientist Valentin Danilov against the actions of the rector of the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University. The scientist is accused of high treason in the form of issuing state secrets.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has officially confirmed that are being held at the American military base at Guantanamo Bay.

In Novosibirsk, the warehouses of the river port caught fire. A column of smoke is visible far from the fire. This was reported to KMnews in the Main Department for Emergency Situations of the Novosibirsk Region.

In the Moscow museum-estate "Ostankino" on the night from Thursday to Friday, a wooden one-story building used as a warehouse burned down. As the correspondent of Rosbalt was informed in the press service of the UGPS of Moscow, the first message about the fire was received at about 24.00. Five fire brigades were sent to the scene. As it turned out, the warehouse kept old equipment for children's playrooms. The area of ​​the fire was 150 square meters.

A 20-year-old resident of the city of Kuznetsk, Penza Region, who has been registered as HIV-positive since 2001, was detained for trying to donate blood. According to Gazeta.ru, this was reported to Interfax by senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Penza region Tatyana Ostrovskaya. According to her, the detainee intended to purchase a dose of the drug with the funds received for donating blood.

On Thursday evening, 55 schoolchildren were hospitalized from the children's recreation camp "Forest Fairy Tale" in the Rostov Region. They have symptoms of food poisoning and a high fever. As Viktor Shubin, the head of the Gukovo municipality, told Interfrax, unripe fruits were probably the cause of the children's illness. At the time of hospitalization, one of the children was in a serious condition, six more were in a moderate condition.

Annie Girardo. Photo from the site www.peoples.ru The famous French actress Annie Girardo was injured during the filming of the film "Free Woman-2" in Moscow. Leaving the Yauz restaurant, she stepped on the hem of her long dress and fell. The result of the fall on the edge of the tiled slab was the scalped wounds of the left shoulder. It was such a diagnosis that the doctor of the institute named after Sklifosovsky Sergey Kilin, reports the newspaper "Life".

In Germany, the oldest nuclear power plant Obrigheim, located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, stopped working. The reason for this decision of the management was the unprecedentedly strong heat that is this summer in Europe. Due to the high temperature, local reservoirs have dried up and the company cannot receive enough water for cooling towers. This nuclear power plant was put into operation in 1968, and will be closed in 2005.

"Ikarus". Photo from the site www.autoline.com.ua On the night of Friday, in the area of ​​the village of Donky, Kashirsky district of the Voronezh region, the Ikarus bus turned over, in which there were fifty children. According to preliminary data, one child died, four were injured. Children who rested in the Pioneer camp in the Gelendzhik area returned to Tula, reports Gazeta.ru. In the Kashirsky district, on a bridge under construction, the bus drove into a ditch and rolled over.

Su-24. Photo from the website of the Ministry of Defense Two crew members died as a result of the Su-24 aircraft disaster in the Chita region on Thursday. “Today, at April 17, Moscow time at the Boda airfield (Chita Region), the Su-24 plane crashed,” the head of the press service of the Air Force, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, told Interfax. According to him, the pilot is Major Dorokhov A.B. and navigator - captain Kupriyan S.S. Died.

http://lib.ru/win/parachute/mi_8.jpg In Chechnya, the militants shot down a Mi-8 helicopter from a portable anti-aircraft missile missile system, three crew members were killed. This was announced on Thursday evening by Interfax AVN, a representative of the headquarters of the United Group of Troops.