Fire in California. Photo by ar Due to forest fires in California, more than a million people were evacuated. According to AR, fires have so far covered the south of the state, but in the near future evacuation can be announced in the new California districts - it has not yet been able to stop the spread of fire to firefighters. The weather is dry and hot. Two people died in fires, several dozen received burns and poisoning. Among the injured 16 firefighters.

Turkish soldiers on the border with Iraq. Photo by ar Units of the Turkish army entered Northern Iraq. This was reported on Wednesday by RIA Novosti with reference to the newspaper Eni Shafak. According to the publication, Turkish special forces, with the support of helicopters, conducts surgery to persecute militants, F-16 fighters and artillery strike at 50 km camps in the subject of the neighboring territory.

Books. Photo from the site polotsk.nm.ru A list of 16 printed works prohibited by the Fed on the basis of court decisions has been published. Experts in different ways evaluate the effectiveness of this method of combating racist propaganda. Read the comments of Emil Pain, Galina Kozhevnikova and Sergey Harutyunov.

Policeman. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Lieutenant General Mikhail Sukhodolsky, said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to completely switch to non-lethal weapons, Interfax reports. According to Sukhodolsky, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs there is a schedule according to which there is gradually the replacement of the existing military weapons with non -lethal ones.

Mikhail Gutseriev. Photo from the site www.ropnet.ru Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Gutseriev asks for political asylum in the UK. As the newspaper "Your Day" writes on Wednesday, he submitted an application eight days ago - this was confirmed in the Department of Migration Policy of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs. The fact that Gutseriev filed a petition for political asylum also reported to the publication a source in the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office.

Cover of the album of the group "Cyclone B" The Nagatinsky District Court of the capital is recognized as extremist audio recordings and texts of individual songs of the Cyclone B group. As Interfax reports, the court agreed with the request of the metropolitan prosecutor's office.

Lakshmi Mittal. Photo from the site "Independent newspaper" Indian billionaire, co -owner of Arcelor Mittal Lakshmi Mittal claims to the Russian company Russneft, write on Wednesday "Vedomosti" with reference to the source. According to these data, the other day, one of the structures controlled by Mittal submitted an appropriate application to the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Satellite "Photon-M3". Image from the site Popmech.ru Voronezh scientists the other day waited for the first in the conditions of zearing of the offspring from cockroaches, who participated in the space experiment on board the photon-M3 satellite and returned to Earth at the end of September. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the curator of the experiment, assistant of the Department of Biology and Ecology of the Voronezh Medacademia Dmitry Atyakshin.

Dagestan police. NTV frame (archive) In the Karabudykent district of Dagestan, a man was shot dead, who threw a grenade in police officers, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs. "The police officers searched a previously initiated criminal case in the house of one of the villagers. During a search of the police, he ran up unknown and threw a grenade at them.

Kurmanbek Bakiev. Photo from the site PR.KG Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev resigned the government. As RIA Novosti reports, he reported this at a government meeting. The resignation of the government is associated with the introduction of the new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan. “This resignation is not related to the assessment of the government,” said Bakiev.

Riots in Kondopoga. Photo from the site www.cityk.ru In Kondopoga, on the process of riots in September 2006, the state prosecution proposed taking into account the totality of mitigating circumstances and positive characteristics to appoint each of the 12 accused the punishment in the form of 3 years in prison with a probationary period of 3 years. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the prosecutor's office of Karelia.

Henri Matisse. Dance An exhibition of collections of leading Russian museums at the Royal Academy of Arts of Great Britain, scheduled for January, can lead to an international scandal. According to Guardian Wednesday, it is possible that the UK will not return all the collections completely.

Eduard Limonov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru In the Central Election Commission, they are now quietly rustling with papers, registering what is allowed to register. It turns out that there are 14 more parties in the Russian Federation! For example, immigrants from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Semigin and Gennady Seleznev stubbornly hold their hopeless shop "Patriots of Russia", and will go to the polls, and they will be included in the ballot.

Grocery store. Photo from the site Greenpeace.org The largest food manufacturers and retail chains have signed an agreement on freezing prices for socially significant food products. According to Interfax, this agreement will be valid until January 31, 2008. In particular, it was decided to freeze prices for milk, eggs, vegetable oil and bread. The participants in the agreement agreed that it could be extended, but no later than five days before the expiration of its validity.

Donald Tusk. Photo by ar The Poland State Electoral Commission published the official results of the elections in both chambers of the parliament that took place last Sunday. The Opposition Liberal Party "Civil Platform" won, which received 41.51 percent of voters in the Sejm election. In second place is the ruling conservative party "Law and Justice" from 32.11 percent of the vote. The third position is occupied by the election block "Left and Democrats", which gained 13.15 percent.