In the house of the British Minister of Defense John Reed in Scotland, marijuana was discovered. According to law enforcement agencies, a drug weighing less than one gram was found in the living room of Rida House in the County of Lanarkshir during an inspection, regularly conducted by the police in order to ensure the safety of the places of residence of government members.

The Senate of Italy has chosen today by its chairman Franco Marini, a representative of the Left -centric coalition led by Romano Prodi. 165 senators voted for his candidacy with a 162 vote necessary for the election, ITAR-TASS reports. The new Senate Speaker is one of the leaders of the left -centric Catholic Party "Margerite". In the past, he headed the Italian Confederation of Trade Unions of Workers, one of the largest in the country.

IPO "Rosneft" goes according to plan, the Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref reported on Saturday. “While everything remains according to plan, I think that we will have time in the third quarter,” he said. As reported, the Rosneft board of directors may in June of this year approve the parameters of the primary public placement of the company's shares (IPO). It is expected that IPO may take place in July.

Safety between the St. Petersburg Zenit and the Moscow Spartak on Sunday will be provided by about 4 thousand police officers, Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg, chief of public security police, Alexander Golubtsov, told reporters. According to him, military personnel of internal troops, OMO fighters, cadets of the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as dog handlers with official dogs will be involved in addition to ensuring order.

Iran’s decision to master peaceful nuclear technologies is “decisive and irrevocable”. This was announced today by the President of the Islamic Republic of Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad on the air of state television, reacting to the report of the General Director of the Iranian "nuclear dossier" published on the eve, ITAR-TASS reports. “Iran’s decision to master the peaceful technology for the production of nuclear fuel is decisive and irrevocable,” the head of the Iranian executive branch emphasized.

Tour operators and tourists who arrived in Moscow resumed a picket near the Building of the French Embassy in Moscow. According to Interfax on Saturday, a press secretary of the Russian Union of Trade (RST) Irina Tyurina, a group of approximately 70 people came to the embassy with the intention of getting an explanation of the current situation and demanding that Russian citizens who planned to go to the May holidays in France.

One of the heads of the Customs Service of the Vnukovo metropolitan airport was detained in vigorous upon receipt of a bribe of $ 1 thousand. According to the Rossiya TV channel on Saturday, the customs officer extorted money from the entrepreneur for an unhindered pass of the goods at the terminal. The investigation believes that the detainee led a whole group of customs officers who extorted bribes.

Each person is able to increase the duration of his life for three years if he eats an apple on a day. This conclusion was reached in the course of the first global study of the influence of the lifestyle and nutrition on its duration by scientists from English Cambridge University, ITAR-TASS reports. The study was conducted with the participation of 25 thousand people aged 49 to 79 years.

All 18 victims of a triple attack committed last Monday in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab are identified. This was announced today by the Prosecutor General of the Arab Republic of Egypt Maher Abdel Vahid, reports ITAR-TASS. According to him, the relatives have already been transferred to the bodies of 14 dead, including 12 Egyptians, Yemenets and Hungarian.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko today came up with the traditional subbotnaya radio image to the people, devoting him to the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. He expressed the belief that "the stereotype of Chernobyl as an incurable tumor on the body of Ukraine must be overcome." "Chernobyl was a dead zone, but it should not always be so. This land should be revived and returned to life," the president said.

Salaries to researchers will mainly increase by 2008 not by reducing budget rates in the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko said. “The main part of the salary increase will not occur due to the reduction,” he told reporters on Saturday. The minister recalled that on Friday the government was signed on the transition of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006-2008 to the sectoral system of remuneration.

The Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov turned to compatriots living in the regions of Russia and abroad, with a request to invest in the economy and social sphere of Chechnya. "Unemployment is currently remaining one of the most acute problems that is drawn by a lot of other problems," Kadyrov said on Saturday in Gudermes.

The personalities of militants were established on Saturday morning in Nalchik during a joint special operation conducted by the employees of the Center for the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria and the FSB department for the KBR. According to the Interfax agency, the prosecutor of the republic Yuri Ketov, two militants were destroyed during the special operation.

On Saturday, matches of the 36th round of the championship of England in football are held. In one of them met Chelsea and Manchester United. The match ended with a score of 3: 0 (1: 0), the goals scored: Gallas (5), Cole (61), Carvall (73). As a result, Chelsea scored 91 points and a gap from the second Mu was 12 points two rounds before the finish of the championship. In order to guarantee a champion title, Chelsea was enough to draw.

Almost two -thirds of Russians (61%) have known or heard about the appointment by the coach of the Russian national football team of the Dutch specialist Hus Hiddinka. According to the Public Opinion, which conducted a survey at the end of April among 1,500 people, 28% of respondents expect that with the arrival of the Dutchman the results of the Russian team will improve, 19% believe that improvements will not occur, and 3% suggest that they will deteriorate.