In connection with the upcoming elections to the State Duma in 2007 and the presidential elections in 2008, in the political circles of the Russian Federation they predict what may occur in the near future in the political arena of the country. A cursory look at the country's political life does not cause assumptions about future cataclysms and big changes. The campaign for elections to the State Duma is going on, and the formed party coalitions do not threaten fateful changes.

Israel develops weapons of the future - small flying killer robots. Using nanotechnology, a machine is developed in size no more than a hornet capable of pursuing, photographing and destroying goals. The flying robot, under the code name "bio -hornet", should be able to very accurately determine its whereabouts and be easily controlled to find hard -to -use goals such as missile launchers, reports Reuters with reference to the Yedioth Ahronoth Israeli newspaper.

The status of a Russian teacher should be equated to the status of a civil servant. Such an opinion on Friday at the "All-Russian Pedagogical Assembly" was expressed by the rector of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, President of the Russian Union of Rectors Viktor Sadovnichy, ITAR-TASS reports. "In Russia, the teacher has too low, while in Europe the teacher in status is close to the state official," he said.

The head coach of the Russian national team HUS Hiddink advocates reducing the legionnaire limit in the Russian football championship. The Dutch specialist told about this in an interview with RIA Novosti . “The legionnaires who play in Russian clubs should be football players of the extra -class.

The Prime Minister of Finland Matti Wanghanan will make an attempt to discharge trading problems between Warsaw and Moscow, which block negotiations on the EU-Russia trade agreement. Vanhanin, whose country now presides in the EU, outlined on Friday negotiations in Warsaw with his Polish colleague Yaroslav Kachinsky. At the meeting of permanent representatives of the EU countries, Finland, as an chairman, should intervene in the conflict at the political level.

The head of the Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications Valery Yazev said that Russia is not satisfied with a number of provisions of the Charter that infringe on the rights of Russia-in particular, gas transit requirements, which, firstly, will lead to the doubling of prices for domestic-Russian transit, and, secondly, do not apply to the EU itself. If these provisions are excluded, then Russia may ratify the charter, Yazev said.

American actor George Clooney, whose account of the three awards of the American Film Academy, the holder of Oscar for the best supporting role in the film "Syrian", is called the popular People magazine "The Sexy Men," Reuters reports. The 45-year-old actor was already the first in the annual sheet of the "most sexy" of living people in 1997. Before him, only one Hollywood actor - Brad Pitt became the owner of the title of "sexual".

On Friday, in four Japanese cities, after the female, the male championship of the world in volleyball began. The Russian team, which is considered one of the favorites of the competition, held its first match at the tournament with the Serbia team and lost 0-3 (22:25, 18:25, 23:25). At the first group stage, 24 participating teams were divided into four groups of six teams. Thus, at this stage, the teams will have to play five matches.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein (United Russia faction) believes that the government should consider the advisability of preserving the post of Minister of Health and Social Development for Mikhail Zurabov. “In any case, I believe that it is necessary to raise the question of compliance with Zurabov’s position and further finding him in this post,” Khinshtein told reporters on Friday due to the erupting corruption scandal in the federal compulsory medical insurance fund (FFOMS).

The GAZ Group and the Canadian company Magna International are going to build a car component factory in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which will provide spare parts with Russian production of foreign cars, which begins gas in 2007-2008, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. According to the newspaper, the Russian plant will take up the drainage of large imported nodes, as well as the production of the simplest and most inconvenient in transporting parts.

In Bulgaria, the head of the secret archive of the National Intelligence Service, the 61-year-old Bozdar Doychev, committed suicide in his own office. Investigators who examined his office came to the conclusion that all the archive documents remained in the field. Doychev shot his pistol in his mouth. The corpse was discovered by family members of Deutchev, who went into his searches when he did not return home after work. Doychev headed the archive over the past 20 years, ITAR-TASS reports.

Israel rejects new European initiatives to unlock the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to Israeli radio.

The holders of the TEFI-2006 main television prize in 28 nominations were named on Friday at a ceremony in the Moscow International House of Music. By tradition, the award ceremony turned into a competition between the two central channels of the country. As a result, the channel "Russia" received 12 bronze "Orpheus", "Channel One" - 9, and "Culture" and STS - 3 figurines of the work of sculptor Ernst Unknown.

The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko proposes to administerly increase the prices of cigarettes and introduce the same excise taxes on technical alcohol as food. According to Onishchenko, this will significantly improve the health of Russians. Tobacco The main san doctor suggests taking advantage of world experience.

One of the brightest Hollywood couples Tom Kruz and Katie Holmes are preparing for the wedding ceremony, which will be held on Saturday, November 18, in a medieval castle near Rome in compliance with the rituals of the Church of Scientology, which belongs to Cruise. On the same day, a solemn banquet will take place in Rome. To Italy, Tom Kruz and Katie Holmes flew a few days ago.