Kalashnikova machine gun. Photo from the site www.newslab.ru The Georgian army will be completely armed with American small arms in the near future. According to Interfax, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia Batu Kutelia reported on Saturday. According to him, instead of Russian machine guns, Kalashnikov, Georgian troops will receive American automatic M-4 automatic rifles.

Flags of the Communist Party. Photos of faces In the center of Moscow on Saturday, a rally of supporters of the Communist Party was held. About 600 people took part in the rally in the Novopushkinsky square, according to Echo of Moscow. Supporters of the Vanguard of Red Youth joined the protesters with their symbols and banners.

Fragment of the map of Ingushetia from the site www.mojgorod.ru Correspondents of the "Echo of Moscow", Radio "Freedom", "Novaya Gazeta" and "Fifth Canal", detained on Saturday in the center of Nazran, are expelled from Ingushetia. As the “Echo of Moscow” units, they, accompanied by the police, were taken by bus to the capital of North Ossetia Vladikavkaz. In Ingushetia, the authorities on Saturday harshly suppressed the opposition rally.

Alexander Abdulov in the film "Artist" Alexander Abdulov was posthumously awarded the Golden Eagle's main national film award, which was awarded on Friday. According to RIA Novosti, he was awarded in the nomination "Best Male Role" for the film by Stanislav Govorukhin "Artist". The winner of the award in the nomination for the best female role is the second -plan, the actress of the theater named after Vakhtangov Maria Aronova, who played in the same picture.

Denis Osnach. Photo from the site www.qwas.ru In Kaliningrad, an activist of the local cell "other Russia" Denis Osnach was detained. The local Organizations employees came to work on him on Friday evening and detained him, the press service of the Kaliningrad "other Russia" reports. Now Osnach is located in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Central District of Kaliningrad, where the court awaits the court of charge of an administrative offense. He faces arrest up to 15 days.

A rally in Nazran. Photo from the site www.ingushetiya.ru The chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Forced Migrants and the expert of the Moscow Helsinki group in the North Caucasus, Aslambek Apaev, sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding that the arbitrariness of the security forces and “punish the perpetrators of disgrace and lawlessness” in Ingushetia.

Echo Moscow Logo from the Radio Site Journalists of the Ekho Moscow radio station Vladimir Bartholomeev and Roman Plusov were detained on the consent Square in Nazran, where a general public rally should be held on Saturday. According to one of the correspondents, they were detained without the use of force. Now they are in a police bus, they should be taken to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

Maria Sharapova won the Australian Open. Photo by ar Russian woman Maria Sharapova became the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Championship. On Saturday, 20-year-old Sharapova, sown under the fifth number, beat a peer from Serbia Anu Ivanovich (fourth number) with a score of 7: 5, 6: 3 in the final match. The duel lasted 1 hour 31 minutes. Statistics suggest that Sharapova, ceteris paribus, has achieved an advantage due to a smaller number of errors.

Loop In 2007, 224 military personnel committed suicide, the Ministry of Defense reports on Saturday. In total, 442 Russian troops were killed over the past year. 126 of them died as a result of accidents, 41 - in an accident, 23 - as a result of the murder by negligence, 15 became victims of hazing and 13 died as a result of a violation of the rules for handling weapons.

Gennady Zyuganov at the head of the column at the October procession. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said he did not intend to refuse to participate in the election of the President of Russia. “We intend to seriously engage in elections, and not participate in provocations,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

UAZ. Photo from Newsru.com The car of the military prosecutor’s office was fired in the vicinity of Grozny on Friday evening. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. Two employees of the military prosecutor's office of the United Group of Troops in the North Caucasus and one soldier of the Vostok battalion were injured.

Indian tea. Photo from the site bezochedi.ru In Russia, tea in Russia may rise in price by 30 percent. According to Saturday Russian Newspaper, experts predict a jump in prices in connection with the ban on Rosselkhoznadzor to import all crop products from India into Russia. The ban, which will enter into force in the next Monday, January 28, was introduced due to the fact that in the party of sesame seeds from India found a Kaprov beetle, a terrible pest of grain reserves.

Semen Mogilevich. Frame NTV The United States may require Russia to issue a businessman Semen Mogilevich detained in the case of Arbat Prestige. According to RIA Novosti, this was not excluded by the deputy official representative of the US State Department Tom Casey. “If he is those who are wanted in the United States in connection with criminal charges, I am sure that the Ministry of Justice will be considered,” Casey said.

Acceleration of a rally in Nazran. Photo from the site Ingushetia.ru In Nazran, a rally against corruption of power in Ingushetia is dispersed on Saturday. As reported on the website of Novaya Gazeta, riot police opened firing from automatic weapons at the rally. According to preliminary data, there are victims. The site Ingushetia.ru reports that riot police fired over their heads.

Microphones. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Journalists detained on Saturday in Nazran are sixth in the city Central Internal Affairs Directorate. According to Echo of Moscow, they are interrogated as witnesses in the criminal case of riots. The correspondents of the Echo of Moscow Vladimir Bartholomeev and Roman Plusov, Radio Freedom - Danila Galperovich, Novaya Gazeta Olga Bobrova, as well as journalists of the St. Petersburg Fifth Canal, were detained.