Military doctors of Japan conducted medical experiments on the inhabitants of the Philippines during the Second World War, who were then killed. According to Kyodo, 84-year-old Akira Makino, who at that time worked in the Naval Hospital on the island of Mindanao, in the interval between December 1944 and February 1945 in his unit as “textbooks” for practicing surgeons, about 30 Philippine men, women and children were destroyed, who were destroyed after.

The police are considering all possible versions of the death of Litvinenko, and so far has not excluded any of them. This was stated today in an interview with the British radio Minister of the Interior John Reed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Amending Article 9 of the Federal Law" On Compulsory Civil Liability Insurance of Vehicle Owners ", the Kremlin press service on Sunday said. Federal law provides for a change in the procedure for establishing the coefficients that are part of insurance tariffs used by insurers in determining the insurance premium under the OSAGO agreement of vehicle owners.

As a result of the terrorist attack, committed today in the suburbs of the Iraqi capital, five people died, 23 were injured. In a busy market in a small town of Khasva (50 km south of Baghdad), a car filled with explosives exploded, reports Reuters with reference to a source in the Iraq Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the very capital of Iraq, the third day is a commandant hour.

Russian skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took second place in the competition of dance couples at the Grand Prix stage in Moscow - the “Cup of Russia”. After two dances - mandatory and original - the Russians went in third place, lagging behind the leading American duet Tanit Belbin - Benjamin Ago more than 4 points.

State Duma deputy and entrepreneur Suleiman Kerimov (LDPR faction) was seriously wounded in a traffic accident on the Cote d'Azur in France. According to the police, on Saturday evening, the Black Ferrari, which was driven by Kerimov, for an unknown reason moved from the Angia embankment in Nice, crashed into a tree and caught fire. A helicopter deputy with severe burns was taken to the Marseille Specialized Hospital, and his companion was hospitalized in Nice.

Only 7% of Russians today have no complaints about the government of Mikhail Fradkov, Interfax was told in the analytical center of Yuri Levada. According to the November survey of sociologists, the main discontent of Russians are the activities of the government in the fact that it cannot cope with the increase in prices, the fall of the population’s incomes - of the 1600 respondents, 48%declared this.

Not in the same way, warm and moist weather to Moscow will bring atmospheric fronts of Atlantic cyclones that shift in the north. According to the forecast of Roshydromet, in the metropolitan region it will be cloudy with clearings, light rain will pass. In the metropolis, the air warms up to 2-4 degrees of heat, in regional cities - from 1 to 6 degrees. The wind is southwest, 3-8 m/s. Atmospheric pressure - higher than the norm - 754 mm Harating Pillars.

Russia does not consider the CIS space as its estate, but does not intend to make its vital interests in this region, said Andrei Denisov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs. In an interview with Interfax and the News News newspaper on the eve of the CIS summit, he emphasized that "no one has the right to claim a monopoly influence in the post -Soviet space or in any other region of the world." "Russia respects the legitimate interests of any states in the CIS space.

In the match of the second round at the World Volleyball Championship, which is taking place in Japan these days, the Russian team, having spent a little more than an hour, defeated the Puerto Rico team with a score of 3: 0 (25:20, 25:16, 25:15). The meeting for our masters has developed quite easily. Only in the starting batch did the Puertorians resisted, but even then it became obvious that the class of rivals was too different - 25:20 In the second set, it was already more interesting.

The dense fog was established in Moscow and the region by the morning of Sunday. Under these conditions, aviators work on actual weather - the Liner commanders decide themselves to which the airfield to land on. The situation in the capital's airports - Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo - is gradually improving, Interfax told Sunday twenty minutes ago in the Central Dispatch Service of the capital. “Visibility in Domodedovo is now 2400 meters, in Vnukovo - 900 meters.

The official candidate of the Socialist Party for the post of President of France is nominated today at its extraordinary congress, Rulen Rual, ITAR-TASS reports. The triumphal victory in the internal party elections - "primaries" (60.65 percent of the vote) 53 -year -old Ruayal, thus, became the first woman in the history of France, who has real chances of becoming the head of state.

Israel today withdrew all its army units from the gas sector in pursuance of an agreement on a truce. This was reported by the press service of the army. Almost all Palestinian factions announced the readiness to cease fire from 06:00 in the morning of local time, and after a telephone conversation with the head of the Palestinian National Administration, Mahmoud Abbas, the relevant guarantees were given by Israeli Prime Minister Echud Olmert.

The Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is sure that the destruction of the Arab terrorist Abu Khavs will have a serious positive impact on the situation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus as a whole.

A fire in the National Medical and Surgical Center on the Ivankovskoye Shosse in the north-west of Moscow is extinguished, said Yevgeny Bobylev , head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the city. "The fire occurred in the basement of the 10-story building of the center. On the first or third floors, a strong smoke arose because of this, in connection with which patients and staff were evacuated.