The sixth day of the swimming tournament as part of the World Sports Water Championship in Melbourne again left the Russian national team without awards, although three of our representatives sailed in the finals at once. The head coach of our team, Alexander Klokov, on the example of today's speeches by Arkady Vyatchin, Grigory Falko and the 4x200 m male relay race, explained the whole sport to the agency for sports information, why the national team cannot win a single victory in Australia.

The US authorities refused to exchange the Iranians captured in Iraq for 15 British sailors. This was announced on Saturday by the representative of the US State Department Sean McCormak, reports the Air Force . Five Iranians were captured by American troops in January of this year during hostilities in the city of Erbil in the north of Iraq. The American authorities openly condemned the position of Iran and supported the UK demands for the liberation of British sailors, including one woman.

The State Duma deputy Andrei Samoshin (the United Russia faction) was elected head of the Moscow organization "Fair Russia". According to Interfax, the conference of the capital's organization of this party completed its work on Friday late in the evening. Samoshin said that next week the United Russia faction would leave the ranks of the Fair Russia faction, headed by the secretary of the Presidium of this party Alexander Babakov.

Participants in the “Protect Moscow” action, which ended on Saturday on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, after its end, shouting the slogans, headed towards the Revolution Square, to the monument to Karl Marx. The city authorities banned the procession, but riot police did not intervene. Representatives of the Yabloko party took part in the action on Pushkinskaya Square against urban planning reform. Also, the leader of the United Civil Front Harry Kasparov came to Pushkinskaya Square.

Prime Minister of Ukraine, leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych said that President Viktor Yushchenko "must respect the point of view of the Ukrainian people." “If the president professes the principles of democracy, then he should know their functional principles and respect the choice of the Ukrainian people regardless of his addictions,” Yanukovych said today before supporters of the coalition of national unity in the European Square in the center of Kyiv, where more than 100

The battles with the use of heavy weapons resumed today in the Somali capital between the government troops and detachments of Islamists and their supporters. According to Somali Radio, the battles are coming from dawn. The main zone of military operations is located near the metropolitan stadium and the Al-Hayat hospital. The parties suffer heavy losses.

The European Union is ready to cooperate with the ministers of the Palestinian autonomy, which are not members of Hamas, and in the near future will resume the provision of financial assistance through them to the Palestinians. The EU countries fully support the decisions of the Summit of the League of the Arab states in Riyadh, opening up new opportunities in promoting the Middle Eastern peace process.

In the center of Kyiv, the number of people who arrived from different regions of the country to participate in rallies in support of the government and opposition is increasing. 2 thousand people have already gathered on the Maidan who are in support of the requirements of the opposition, on the European square - 10 thousand supporters of the government. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 300 buses with 9 thousand people have already arrived in the capital.

In the center of Moscow on Saturday, a rally of the Communist Party supporters requires to increase pensions and salaries to state employees, as well as stop the so -called "sealing" development of the capital.

The former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Iraq Tarik Aziz, after liberation from prison, intends to settle in Rome. Aziz, who spent this in an American prison in Iraq for about four years, said in an interview with the newspaper Ash Shark Al-Ausat, published on Saturday. The Aziz family lives in Jordan, but the most senior representative of the Christian community of Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein hopes that the Italian leadership will provide him with asylum.

The Russian Water Polo women's team, having won the match for the third place at the Hungarian team with a score of 9: 8, became the bronze medalist of the World Sports Water Championship in Australia. Hungarians twice became world champions - at the previous championship in Montreal 2005 and in Rome in 1994.

OMON detained several dozen participants in the anti -prredal march, who launched a stretch with the inscription "There is no draft march" and tried to go through a march to Lubyanka, where another rally was planned. According to the correspondent of the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" , at first the young people tried to stop the members of the "ours" movement. After several unsuccessful attempts, riot police appeared.

British military personnel detained by Iranian border guards on March 23 may be against the court on charges of violating the border of the Islamic Republic. This opinion today was expressed by Iranian journalists, deputy Majlis (parliament) of Iran Musa Korbani, reports ITAR-TASS.

Police officers detained the three activists of the Russian Young movement on Saturday, trying to prevent the authorized rally in pure ponds. "Three young people who threw chicken stumps at the parties to the authorized rally on clean ponds were detained by police officers and delivered to the AVD of the Basmanny District," a law enforcement source told Interfax. According to him, after drawing up administrative protocols for petty hooliganism, young people will be released.

Due to the strike announced by the employees of the capital's dispatch service, on Friday all Brazil’s airports stopped accepting and sending flights. To solve the problem, the government urgently created a "crisis office", which included several ministers. Initially, dispatchers stopped working only in Brazilia. But since many aircraft masses run through the capital of the country, the crisis has rapidly spread to other cities.