In the Novopushkinsky Square in Moscow on Saturday, a picket was held against police arbitrariness. According to Echo of Moscow, 50 people took part in it - exactly so much was declared by the organizers of the action. The rest of the police did not miss the fence. In total, about 150 people tried to take part in the action.

Four members of illegal armed formations were killed on Saturday on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, RIA Novosti reports citing a source in law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia. One of the killed militants called himself "Emir of Ingushetia," said Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who arrived in the area of ​​the special operation. At the same time, he is the brother of the so-called "Minister of Defense of Ichkeria" Rustaman Makhauri, who was detained on Wednesday.

The delegates of the second congress of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration amended the charter of the organization and elected eight members of the national council - the new governing body of the movement, RIA Novosti reports. The updated leadership of the DPNI included delegates from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Kirov and Volgograd.

A column of Russian bikers who came to Crimea for an international bike show in honor of the Black Sea Fleet and the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Sevastopol drove through the city center. According to RIA Novosti, the protesters laid flowers on the Alley of Heroes and at the monument to Admiral Nakhimov.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov dismissed the chairman of the State Statistics Committee, Kakamurad Mommadov, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Turkmen television. According to the head of state, the Turkmen State Statistics Committee has not been able to organize work in accordance with world standards, and when compiling reports on a number of industries, the committee allowed itself to add and embellish data.

In Nigeria, the terrorist group Movement for the Liberation of the Niger Delta announced that it had blown up an oil pipeline recently repaired by the American company Chevron, Reuters reported. "We have destroyed the oil pipeline again," the militants said in a statement. Chevron itself has not received any official confirmation of the pipeline's shutdown. Terrorist attacks on Nigerian oil infrastructure facilities occur regularly and, as a rule, lead to sharp jumps in oil prices.

A US Navy ship, the destroyer Stout, will enter the port of Batumi in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia on Tuesday, where it will take part in exercises with the Georgian military, Rosbalt reports citing the public relations service of the US Embassy in Georgia. According to the embassy, ​​the crew of the ship will conduct exercises together with the ships of the Georgian Coast Guard.

The US does not intend to abandon the deployment of elements of the missile defense system in Eastern Europe, and after the meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, Washington's position on this issue remains the same. According to Ekho Moskvy, Philip Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Relations, made such a statement. According to Crowley, the US continues to assess its defensive potential, especially in relation to Europe.

Law enforcement agencies of Uzbekistan have detained ten suspects of involvement in the terrorist attacks in Andijan in May 2009, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the country's law enforcement agencies. According to him, all the detainees are residents of the Khojaabad district of the Andijan region. On the night of May 26, in the Andijan region, unidentified people attacked a checkpoint in the city of Khanabad, and a suicide bomber set off an explosion in Andijan.

On Saturday, a water park opened in Gudermes, RIA Novosti reports. It became the first institution of its kind in the Chechen Republic. The head of the Gudermes district, Vakha Nasukhanov, said that the water park is located in a recreation area with a total area of ​​67 hectares. On its territory there are two ponds, three swimming pools, attractions, cafes and restaurants. Taking into account religious requirements, the territory of the water park is divided into female and male halves.

34 children were poisoned by stale food at a children's camp in the Orenburg region. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko. "35 cases of acute intestinal infections were registered in the health facility of OOO Guberlya in the Orenburg region, including 34 in children, and one in an employee," Onishchenko specified. According to him, 26 children were hospitalized, the rest received assistance on the spot.

Relics related to the feat of the Varyag cruiser during the Russo-Japanese War will arrive from South Korea in Russia on Monday for display, Interfax reports citing a source in Rosokhrankultura. "On July 13, an official delegation headed by the head of Rosokhrankultura Alexander Kibovsky returns from Seoul, with which relics related to the feat of the Varyag cruiser and the Koreets gunboat during the Russo-Japanese War arrive in Russia for a traveling exhibition," the report said.

Turkmenistan intends to take part in the Nabucco gas pipeline project, which provides for the supply of natural gas from the Caspian Sea region to European countries, bypassing Russia. According to Interfax , this was stated by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a government meeting on Friday.

About ten thousand polling stations for the elections of deputies of the State Duma in 2011 will be equipped with webcams. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov. According to him, video surveillance of the elections will help increase the transparency of the voting procedure and the processing of ballots.

The head of the Ulyanovsk region, Sergei Morozov, supported the renaming of Ulyanovsk to Simbirsk. According to Ekho Moskvy, Morozov said that "it is not forbidden to anyone to build a new settlement and call it Ulyanovsk." Meanwhile, local media claim that they want to return the streets of the city to their former appearance, using elements of the old style in the improvement. "The city needs a historical name," Sergei Morozov said during his visit to the Seliger-2009 All-Russian Forum.