At least 441 people died and 1159 were injured as a result of a strong earthquake that occurred today in the north of Iran, reports AFP. According to the deputy governor of Kazvin, Mohammad Hossein Parviniyan, from a series of underground shocks 6.3 points on the Richter scale, a total of 20 villages were injured. More than half of all residential buildings were destroyed there. Local hospitals are full of wounded. The epicenter of the earthquake was 115 km southwest of Kazvin.

The famous Yugoslav coach Bora Milutinovich is not averse to trying his hand at the post of mentor of the Russian national football team. He perceived the information with interest that in Russia a group of enthusiasts was going to morally and financially support the idea of ​​invitation to the post of head coach of a world -famous specialist .

In the upcoming Presidential elections, folk-patriotic forces will be represented by a single candidate. This was stated on Saturday at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov, the theses of which were transferred to journalists. “The main goal of the campaign is to gain folk patriotic forces of power in the Kremlin, obtaining at least a blocking package of votes in the Duma.

The Chairman of the Government of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov discussed on Saturday with the leaders of the centrist factions of the State Duma preliminary results of legislative work on the eve of the completion of the spring session of the lower house of parliament. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Department of Government Information. Kasyanov and parliamentarians considered, in particular, the course and results of the discussion of the package of priority government bills.

On Friday, within the framework of the program of the film critic of Peter Shepotinnik "8 ½ films" for the first time in our country the film "Nomads" was shown, which can be called the event of the Moscow International Film Festival. This film can be recommended to everyone without exception √ men, women, children. In 1918, the Russian artist Arkady Rylov finished the picture "In the Blue Spaces". It depicted a flock of migratory geese against the backdrop of the blue sky.

“I didn’t conduct any negotiations with representatives of the Italian clubs Milan and Inter, and I intend to continue to play in the Russian championship,” 19 -year -old Dmitry Sychev said at a meeting with reporters in Omsk in Omsk. Dima flew to Omsk immediately after the world championship, ITAR-TASS reports.

Seven people, including four children who fell into a storm on boats in the Gulf of Finland, were saved on the night of Friday to Saturday. One woman went missing. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of St. Petersburg. At 21:40 On Friday, a message was received that three rubber boats in which eight people - four adults and four children came out of the Fort Milyutin Fort to the island of Kotlin.

In the Pakistani city of Lahor on Friday, a street trader of food, 28-year-old Sajad Khussein, shot his wife and her lover from a rifle, and then his young children-a 3-year-old son and three girls aged one to five years. This was reported on Saturday by the newspaper "UNON". Hussein said in the police that he was to blame for everything. According to him, he took to his assistants from the village of his unemployed cousin Rasul, who began to live in their house.

Only one first prize - out of three possible instrumentalists - was awarded at the XII International Competition of Tchaikovsky, which ended in Moscow. The winner of the first award was the pianist from Japan Ayako Wechar. The violinist and cellists decided not to award the first jury award. The second award from the pianists received Russian pianist Alexei Nabiulin. The third prize was shared by the pianists from Belarus Andrei Ponochevny and Chinese performer Jin Zyu.

Qualification races at the European Grand Prix in German Nyurgburgring, like Saturday Free Practice, were moved from 16.00 to 14.15 Moscow time, so as not to cross the broadcast of the quarterfinal match of the World Cup. According to RTR-Sport , for the first time in the season, the leader of the championship Michael Schumacher had to constantly recoup during the qualification.

An unusual message from television life was transmitted on Saturday by the NTV-International television company. The television and televisionologist in the city of Tapek in Kansas Rob Pepers, who was also a manager, fell ill with Parkinson's disease. It happened a few years ago. Parkinson's disease, as you know, gradually affects the central nervous system, reducing the mental abilities of the sick. The memory gradually refuses, the intellectual level decreases.

In Urus-Martan on Saturday at dawn, the militants killed the deputy head of the police department of the Zavodskoy district of the Terrible Major of the police of ISU Timaev. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the Chechen administration. The militants also attempted to attack the house of the head of the Urus-Martan administration Salavat Gabirtaev, but the arrived fighters of the military commandant’s office stopped her.

One policeman died and one was seriously injured as a result of a car accident in the west of Moscow. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the traffic police department of the capital. According to the source, today at 17:55 near the house 5 on Kosygin Street, the Wolkswagen-Golf car crashed into a tree. One police lieutenant, who was in the salon of a foreign car, died from the wounds on the spot, the second policeman received severe injuries and was hospitalized.

The famous entrepreneur Umar Dzhabrailov, the brother of Salavat Dzhabrailov, suspected of complicity in the attempt on the Vice -mayor of Moscow, Joseph Ordzhonikidze, is convinced that there was no attempt. “Mr. Ordzhonikidze and his company organized the murder of my brother. Salavat was stolen and killed, and only then threw the corpse in the ditch, and his blood was poured around,” Dzhabrailovo said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, published on Saturday.

The famous pop singer, Honored Artist of Russia Juliana (Vasina) stolen documents and a large sum of money. This was reported to "Interfax" by sources in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow. According to them, Julian Vasin, born in 1973, a pop singer, turned to the police on June 21 at about 05:00.