The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed bewilderment by the statements of some American politicians about the restriction of democratic freedoms in Russia. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Yakovenko.

In Kazakhstan, in the parliamentary elections, according to preliminary data, the party led by the head of state is the leader. The CEC of Kazakhstan has processed about half of the data obtained from 10% of the polling stations - those where the Electronic Voting Sylau voting system ("Elections") was used. The party lists are the leaders of the Otan party (the Fatherland, about 40% of the votes), the leader of which is the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

In the Stavropol Territory at the Ovechka station, 30 km from Nevinnomyssk, there was an accident of a cargo train, two people were injured. As the representative of the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia told Interfax, at 21:30 Moscow time, Saturdays left the rails of 21 (out of 60) a carriage car, 4 wagons overturned. Two people accompanying cars were injured. They were injured by their legs and were hospitalized.

Russian Marat Safin completed his sad series, when for 22 months he could not win the tournament of the Att series. This tradition broke off in China, where Marat won his compatriot Mikhail South 7: 6, 7: 5 in the final of the Beijing tournament. The former first racket of the world, which is Safin, showed that the experience is great things, applying it in the match with the South.

In the second round of the Italian series A, a nightmare for Breshia had a continuation. After a home defeat from Juventus with a score of 0: 3, the team at a party suffered another crushing defeat - from Lechch. Although the first half did not work out so unsuccessfully - the guests even led in the score, but soon they missed the return ball, and in the second half they scattered at all, missing three more goals.

Listening to musical compositions in the style of heavy rock and Havi-metal can be life-threatening. This was written by the authoritative British medical publication British Medical Journal. The journal gives a study by Belgian scientists of their medical university Brussels. According to the conclusions of this study, the musical works of the above styles can cause irreparable harm to the lungs, namely, lead to pneumothorax - a state in which the lungs cease to be filled with air and breathe.

In October, Great Britain intends to reduce the number of its military contingent in Iraq, the British Observer writes today. According to the publication, this should happen contrary to the fact that such measures can complicate the safety situations on the eve of the elections in Iraq. Currently, the number of British soldiers in Iraqi territory is about 8 thousand people. As the publication emphasizes, the upcoming reduction will pass during the planned rotation of the units.

The Iraqi authorities arrested in Baghdad one of the assistants to the radical Shiite leader of the Muktada al-Sadra-Sheikh Khazim al-Araji. Al-Araji, reports the Sava radio station, was detained by the Iraqi police with the support of American troops in his house in the Baghdad district of al-Kazimiya.

The President of the Russian Academy of Television Vladimir Pozner does not exclude that the program "Times" on the First Channel Channel, which is leading, may cease to exist. He stated this live on the air of the Echo of Moscow .

Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the possibilities of increasing his stay in power, which expires in 2008. This plan can be considered as a new sign of his intention to expand his power after a crisis in a Beslan school, writes The Times in an article, which can be read on the Inopressa website.

From today, the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic for anti -terrorism activities has been introduced in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia.

Bernard Hopkins defended his midweight champion title, knocking the applicant for this title of Oscar de la Hoyu. This happened in the ninth round of the 12-round battle. Note that Hopkins defended his title for the 19th time. The duel ended unexpectedly after 1:38 after the start of the round. De La Hoya received two blows to the corps and went to the ropes with an unsteady gait, where the donkey was on the ring. When this happened, the referee by Kenny Bailiss recorded a knockout.

Russian woman Svetlana Kuznetsova won the tennis tournament in Bali. Thus, Svetlana wins at WTA competitions for the second week in a row. Family days earlier, Kuznetsova left no chance to rivals at the opening championship of the United States. The final score of her confrontation with the German Marlene Weinger - 6: 1, 6: 4. The Russian woman’s victory was her fifth title in single competitions in her career and third this year.

On Sunday, Iran rejected the IAEA requirement to stop working on the enrichment of Uranus, reports Reuters. In the case of interference in the resolution of the UN Crisis, Iran, Iran put forward the threats to stop the access of international observers to their atomic facilities. “No one will affect and will not be able to force Iran to change his decision,” said Hassan Rukhani, secretary of the National Security of Iran, at a press conference in Tehran, on Sunday.

Researchers from the University of the Belgian city of Antwerp taught rats to find mines. According to RIA Novosti , a special center has already been created in the Tanzania of the Belgian company , a special center, which successfully uses the university method of training rats to search for explosive mechanisms. Before you release a rodent on a minefield, they put it on a mini-saber connected with a rope that allows you to control movement.