The oldest resident of the Irkutsk region Anna Todoyeva turned 107 years old. According to RIA Novosti , it was born in the village of Khalsk, Kachugsky district, during the reign of Russian Emperor Nicholas II. All her life she worked in agriculture - milking cows, raised calves and piglets, cleaned wheat, mowed hay - and never complained about health. From food, the long -liver prefers traditional foods of the Buryats - meat and bread, does not eat vegetables.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin assured that science financing will increase. As the Deputy Prime Minister noted in an interview with journalists after a meeting with the chairman of the Presidium of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Zhores Alferov, in 2004, financing of science in Russia was significantly increasing.

Syria stated on Saturday that she uses its right to self -defense if Israel again struck its territory, AR reported. On October 5, Israeli aviation bombed the training camp of Palestinian extremists near Damascus. Syria authorities deny the presence of such camps in their country. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that Israel considers forceful actions against states that cover terrorists who are preparing attacks on civilians.

According to the Saudi newspaper "Ash Shark Al-Ausat" with reference to its own sources in the leadership of the Palestinian autonomy, a few days ago the Palestinian leader Jaser Arafat survived a surgical operation to remove stones from the gallbladder. Official representatives of the Arafat do not comment on this information, reports MIGNEWS.com . In recent days, various sources have reported several diseases at once that Arafat supposedly suffers.

It is planned to build a light metro before Vnukovo Airport, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said during the next Saturday bypass. There are two options for building: from the South-West metro and from the Kievsky Station, from which a light metro branch to the Moscow City object is already being built. “These two options do not compete with each other,” the mayor noted. However, the decision has not yet been made. Both options can be implemented in the next 2-2.5 years.

In Moscow on the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) in the area of ​​zero kilometer (turning on Reutov) there was a mass accident. According to Interfax, sources in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, in the area of ​​zero kilometer from 23:00 to 0:00 Friday, 20 cars collided at once. In this section of the Moscow Ring Road, construction work is carried out, which are ensured by all safety regulations, including machines with luminous signals and special signs about speed limiting.

The Russian team should win the Georgian team, but at the same time, much will depend on the parallel match in which the Switzerland team accepts the Ireland team in Basel. In many ways, it depends on him as the Russian team will fall into Portugal: automatically, or through the butt matches. The attacking midfielder of Switzerland Marat Yakin said the day before that he was completely healthy and was ready to play against Ireland. At the same time, Yakin missed a medical test.

In Chechnya, an explosive device was found and neutralized in one of the city schools of Argun, RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti on Saturday an employee of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic. "On the eve of the secondary school sewer, number 1 located on Lenin Street, the employees of the Argun’s internal affairs department discovered and neutralized an explosive device," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine Grigory Reva called on Saturday the cause of the fire and the explosion of ammunition in warehouses in Artemovsk in the Donetsk region. According to him, this is a human factor. As Reva said, as a result of welding work in the warehouses, a fire arose, which led to explosions of ammunition. According to preliminary data, the Reva said, there were 3170 tons of ammunition in the warehouses, of which 1700 tons were self -destructed.

About two thousand relatives of the victims of the attack on the Indonesian resort island of Bali gathered today at the site of the tragedy that occurred a year ago, ITAR-TASS reports. They honored the memory of 202 people who died as a result of explosions that thundered in a night club and on the street next door. These were mainly citizens of Australia, as well as Great Britain, Germany, Sweden.

The London Police the day before arrested in the case of rape of a seventeen-year-old girl in the London hotel of two players of the English Premier League. The suspects play for Chelsea and Newkasl. The interrogation of the first lasted about six hours, the second - about two. After interrogation, both athletes were released on bail. Their names are not disclosed, but it is known that one of them is 19, and the second is 22 years old, notes Sport-Express .

The Moscow Dynamo successfully completed the three -match home series, winning from the Magnitogorsk Metallurg in overtime - 3: 2. Thus, the blue and white went in a margin from the Togliatti "Lada" by two points. In anticipation of this match, Lada overtook Dynamo in the standings on the difference. Thus, in this duel, the Dynamo had to make every effort to win. At first, the Muscovites desire was not visible.

The US intelligence services have information that Al-Qaeda was trying to get the disputes of anthrax in the countries of South East Asia to use them in terrorist attacks. This was reported on Friday by American officials who wished to maintain anonymity.

The Council of Sheikhs of the International Muslim Brothers International Terrorist Organization monthly sends $ 500-700 thousand to the information support of ideologists and propagandists of Ichkeria.

Silicone implants for prosthetics of the mammary glands will soon be able to enter into medical practice again. American lawmakers are considering the possibility of returning silicone to the mass industry. Such a decision in the coming days may be made by the US Food Control and Medications Administration. The California Pharmaceutical Company - the initiator of considering the issue of "rehabilitation" of prostheses - is sure that silicone is safe.