Oleg Medyannikov. Photo from the website of Nature magazine Russian biologist Oleg Medyannikov is suspected of the FSB of smuggling of biological weapons in France. According to Nature magazine writes on Thursday, at the customs he seized the typhoid causative agent, allowed for exporting with a mine. Medannikov is not released from the country for eight months. Over the past two months, he was interrogated six times at the FSB.

Party rally '' Rodina ''. Photo from the party site The smallest State Duma faction - "Homeland" (folk will - SUPR - patriots of Russia) said on Friday that she did not wait for a meeting with a candidate for Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, RIA Novosti reports. “The candidate ignored our faction, although we were waiting for him,” said the deputy from this faction, Yuri Savelyev at the plenary meeting of the chamber.

Illustration for "Ramayana" In the Indian state of Madhya-Pradesh, there was a thousands of protest. Residents took to the streets after the country's government called the fiction of epic works that form the basis of the religious beliefs of the Hindus, the British Times writes on Friday. People took to the streets, accusing the government of blasphemy. The police had to use tear gas to disperse demonstrators.

British Ambassador to Russia Anthony Russell Brenton. Photos of faces Great Britain is surprised by the visible lack of the reaction of the Russian authorities to the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. About this, the British ambassador Tony Brenton writes on the pages of "Independent Gazeta". “We are still interested in Russia to find the possibility of more active assistance in this matter,” the article says.

Politique International logo Last year, an employee of the American ABC News television company Alexis Debat is accused of publishing false interviews with senior faces that were published in the French journal Politique International.

Maxim Zakharov The results of the competition of the political poster "End of the era of Putin" were summed up. According to the results of the jury voting, the first place was divided by posters 71 (" Kukish ") and 98 (" System Error ") - they scored 44 points. The winner of the user voting also became the 71 poster. Its author is the 24-year-old web designer Dmitry from Moscow (he did not want to name the name).

Victor Zubkov. Photo from the site "Rossiy newspaper" The State Duma on Friday will consider Viktor Zubkov’s candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of the Russian Government. The procedure is assigned at 12.30, reports Echo of Moscow. The outcome of voting in the lower house can be considered a foregone conclusion. The vast majority of deputies, with the exception of the Communists, want to see him head of the office.

Alexander Pichushkin. Photo from Newsru.com Alexander Pichushkin, accused of a series of murders in Bittsevsky Park in Moscow, refused to plead guilty. According to Gazeta.ru, he stated this at a court session on Friday, where he reads an indictment. The defendant stated that so far he was not going to answer the question of his guilt due to the fact that certain issues of "personal nature" have not been resolved. Earlier, the lawyer stated that Pichushkin was fully plead guilty.

Police. Photo from the site http://news.boloto.ru In Yekaterinburg, a ten -year -old boy with mental retardation was lost, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the city police department. Aunt Kirill Lysenko, a disabled childhood disabled person, turned to the police. She said that the night before, she and her nephew were walking in the Kirovsky district.

Victor Zubkov. Photo from the site "Rossiy newspaper" Victor Zubkov on Friday was approved by the State Duma as a prime minister. According to Gazeta.ru, 381 deputy voted for him, 47 - against, another 8 people abstained. Following this, President Putin by decree appointed Zubkov as the Prime Minister. During the discussion of the candidacy of Zubkov, the first vice speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov, on behalf of United Russia, demanded that he restore order in the government.

Marietta Chudakova. Photo from the personal archive Those who were 16-18 years old in the spring of 1956 remember how the stream of evidence of the atrocities of Soviet power fell upon our young heads.

Water crane. Photo from the site "Echo of Moscow" The head of Tuapse introduced an emergency mode in the city due to problems with providing residents of drinking water. This was announced on Friday by the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies, Gazeta.ru reports. There was no rain in Tuapse since May 3. As of 16.00 on September 13, water is supplied to the city from seven wells (instead of 31).

Swiss watches. Photo from the site modusvivendi.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin called the new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov a contender for the presidential chair. “It is good that another person appeared in the lists of candidates in the election of the President of the Russian Federation,” ITAR-TASS quotes him. Putin said that five people can apply for the presidency in the 2008 elections, but did not call them a name.

George Bush turns to the nation. Photo by ar US President George Bush in contacting the nation confirmed the intention to reduce the American contingent in Iraq from 160 thousand to 130 thousand people, the Air Force reports. According to him, by this Christmas, about 5700 American soldiers will be able to return home. "By July next year, we will be able to reduce our contingent in Iraq from 20 to 15 army brigades," Bush said.

Victor Zubkov. Photo from the site www.vremya.ru The candidate for the prime minister Viktor Zubkov promises personnel changes in the social block of the government. As Interfax reports, he stated this on Friday in the State Duma. “Personnel changes are rushed. They are necessary. The corresponding measures will be taken,” Zubkov said. “I agree that the chosen strategy (transformations in the social sphere - ed.) Was chosen correctly, and the execution was worthless.