The "joke" of the Republican Senator John McCain about Iran's bombing outraged the liberal and anti-war organizations of the United States. As the official representative of Move ON, Alex Hawi, such replicas from the lips of a politician who intends to compete for the president of the country in the 2008 elections, said on Friday on Friday in Washington. “The Americans over the past 6 years have witnessed a reckless foreign policy,” he said. “We have stuck in Iraq.

The leader of the opposition United Front of Kyrgyzstan, the ex-Prime Minister of the country Felix Kulov arrived for interrogation in the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) of the country as part of a criminal case, initiated by the mass riots during a rally of opposition in Bishkek. As RIA Novosti reports from the scene, the leader of the united Kyrgyz opposition went into the GKNB building a few minutes ago. He refused to answer the questions of journalists before interrogation.

Most Russians believe that after 40-50 years, only historians will recall Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and the research of sociologists show.

The police set the personality of a person who killed a hostage in the NASA space center in Houston (Texas). It turned out to be an employee of Jacobs Engineering William Phillips. The names of hostages also became known - this is David Beverly and Fran Krenshow, RIA Novosti reports. As previously reported, at 14:44 local time (23:44 Moscow time Friday), the armed man appeared in the building number 44 of the Johnson space center.

Israeli military personnel shot three Palestinians today on the western bank of the Jordan River. According to the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera, the incident occurred during the army raid in the city of Jenin. The details of the incident are not given. The dead were members of the radical groups "Brigades of the Martyrs of Al-Aaksa" (the battle wing of the "Fath" movement) and "Sarai Al-Kuds" ("Company Jerusalem")- the armed unit of Islamic jihad.

Today, April 21, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, early in the morning in local time, two winners of the continuing European, Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling championship-Loris Oorzhak (weight category up to 48 kg) and Anna Polovnev (up to 67 kg) fell into a difficult car accident. Returning from Sofia, they, together with their coach Viktor Rakov, were traveling from Krasnoyarsk to Nazarovo.

The chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the leader of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov, announced the beginning of the party’s election campaign. “We are starting a pre -election campaign,” Gryzlov said in a video message to the participants of the meeting of the Far Eastern Regional Forum of the United Russia party, held on Saturday in Khabarovsk.

The resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney adopted the Senate of the American state Vermont. Senators are very doubtful that the actions of the country's leaders correspond to the constitution, ITAR-TASS reports. The actions of Bush and Cheney in the USA and abroad, including Iraq, "cause serious issues from the point of view of constitutionality, legality, and abuse of public trust," the resolution says. It was accepted by 16 votes against 9.

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Moroz, believes that there will be no early presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine. He expressed this opinion on Saturday to reporters in Kyiv. "There will be no election, or will be then, if we agree with the president.

The Public Chamber (OP) of Russia intends to take control of the situation at the sociological faculty of Moscow State University, whose students talk about corruption and poor quality of training at their faculty.

The leader of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky said he was thinking about participating in the 2008 presidential election and believes that democratic forces should have a single candidate. "If the elections give the opportunity to conduct debates, present an alternative, tell voters about their program, then they need to participate in them," Yavlinsky said on Saturday at a press conference in St. Petersburg.

In Russia, almost every third considers the sun an earthly companion, and dinosaurs - contemporaries of man. Confident in this, according to the VTsIOM survey , 28 and 30 percent, respectively. Although the Russians since Soviet times are used to being proud of the level of education in Russia, the data of the last survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) can seriously shake this stereotype.

The striker of Milan Ronaldo and the football player Zinedine Zidan will play in a television video aimed at combating poverty. The director of the clip, the initiator of the filming of which was the UN, will be Wim Wenders. The video will be created as part of the UN Development Program, which calls for people to completely eradicate poverty by 2015. This video will be the third in which Ronaldo and Zidan will perform as the ambassadors of the UN goodwill.

The disconnection from the electricity of several areas of Moscow on Friday evening occurred due to a malfunction during planned repair of electrical equipment at the 32 Izmailovo substation, the acting head of the Department of the Fuel and Energy Economy of Moscow Vsevolod Pleshivtsev said on Saturday. "At 18:15, after planned repairs, when two tire systems turned on, a short circuit occurred, as a result of which 15 distributors in the substation and 66 transformer substations were emergency.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Strakhov began a hunger strike "against the policy of Russian state bodies in relation to Russian science." This was announced by Ekho Moscow Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Physics of the Earth Gennady Sobolev. "Vladimir Nikolaevich Strakhov decided to declare a hunger strike, because he believes that the government does not pay enough attention to scientists.