According to the Autonews.ru portal, in 2008 in St. Petersburg it is planned to extend Sofia street to Kolpino, and Kiev highway? to the city of Pushkin. This will significantly unload traffic flows along the Moscow highway. This was announced by the head of the Committee on the improvement and road economy of the Government of St. Petersburg Oleg Virolainen.

The head of the Swedish Federation Bendy (SBF) Khokan Ramsin announced that ex-president of UEFA Lennart Johansson headed the International Department of SBF. In hockey with a ball, a functionary of such a caliber appears for the first time. “We are very happy and proud that Lennart Johansson accepted the invitation to head this committee,” Ramsin quotes the official website of the Swedish Bendy Federation .

A rally in support of the writer, a possible presidential candidate Vladimir Bukovsky will take place today in Moscow, reports Echo of Moscow . The “Free People”, as this event is called, was authorized by the capital's mayor and was planned on Saturday October 20 at 14:00 on Triumphal Square (at the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky).

In Moscow, during a comprehensive reconstruction of microdistricts, all the dilapidated five-story residential buildings with wooden floors will be demolished, said the chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin at a press conference as part of the 15th International Festival "Architecture-2007" on Saturday. “Today, the entire old development of Moscow can be divided into two parts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On additional measures to counteract the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors." This was announced today by the Kremlin press service. The head of state decided to "form the State Anti -Narcotic Committee," the document says.

There are no Russian citizens among the victims in a large accident near Cairo, the representative of the Russian Embassy in Egypt told RIA Novosti . The frontal collision of a minibus and a truck occurred on Saturday morning 45 kilometers from Cairo. According to law enforcement services, 12 people were killed as a result of the incident, five were injured.

The main goalkeeper of the Israeli football team Dudu Avat is sure that he and his partners are powerful to beat Russia in the upcoming qualifying match of Che-2008, which really claims to participate in the final tournament of the Continent Championship. Avat defended the gates of the Israelites in nine qualifying cycle matches in a row, missing only the last against Croatia, in which the head coach Droor Kashtan decided to radically shuffle the team.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said she would continue the struggle for democracy, despite the explosions in Karachi . According to the Air Force , Bhutto condemned the attack and accused the militants of an effort to prevent democratic transformations in the country. The former head of government was not injured as a result of two explosions that thundered on Thursday in the evening, but more than 130 people died, including 50 people from its own security.

The prosecutor’s office presented Hassan Didigov, suspected of involvement in the undermining of the “Nevsky Express”, an accusation in another case - about robberies and causing harm to the health of moderate severity, the lawyer of Didigov Murad Yunusov said on Saturday of RIA Novosti .

Two Palestinians were killed, up to twenty were wounded in clashes that resumed in the gas sector between the militants from the ruling Hamas movement and members of the family clan associated with the opposition movement "Fath", the local radio reports. One of the dead is a 13 -year -old teenager who was mortally wounded in the head in a shootout in the eastern quarters of the city of Gaza.

Employees of the law enforcement agencies of North Ossetia are holding measures to search for unknown people who shot at local residents-Ingush, the first deputy minister of internal affairs of the republic told Siklan Sikoev. "At the moment, the circumstances in which the shooting occurred are not known. We are considering different versions," Sikoev said.

The “unacceptable mistake” was called the US Air Force command at the end of August, when the American B-52 bomber carried missiles with nuclear warheads throughout the country, the head of the US Air Force, Michael Waynen, said at a press conference in the Pentagon. "We make all the relevant efforts to minimize the chances of repeating this," said the head of the Air Force.

Two avenues in the center of Makhachkala were blocked by residents of the city, protesting against turning off the electricity, the representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Makhachkala told RIA Novosti . “First, people blocked Gamidov Avenue, next to the clothing market, and then Shamil Avenue, next to the Polytechnic Institute. It is not possible to persuade them to disperse.

The Central Election Commission of Russia provided the media on Saturday information on the size and sources of income, property owned by candidates for deputies of the 5th State Duma from the ATP. According to this information, the leader of the first three of the federal list from the ATP Nikita Belykh has a total income in the amount of 2 million 955 thousand 87 rubles. White has real estate from 4 land plots - in the Moscow region (700 sq. M), and in the Perm Territory (910 sq. M, 772 sq.

Twenty-five aggressive adolescents aged 14-15 were detained by the police in connection with incidents in the south-west of Moscow, where teenagers beat to the death of a passerby and wounded the other two, a source in an investigative group engaged in the disclosure of these crimes told Interfax.