In Makhachkala, ten war veterans in Afghanistan stopped a hunger strike, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Saturday . “On the territory of the Park“ Warriors -Internationalists ”in the Soviet district of the city of Makhachkala, they stopped the hunger strike of 10 Afghans veterans,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. As previously reported, one of the participants in this hunger strike in Dagestan died on October 6.

The Commission of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), who finds out the circumstances of the death of Alexei Cherepanov, requested the results of a medical examination of Cherepanov from New York Rangers, the KHL official website reports. In 2007, Cherepanov held a medical commission in the Rangers - a club that chose a Russian striker under the 17th number at the Draw of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The first city hospital can be exported from its territory, as it is located in the architectural monument and cannot develop according to the modern requirements of medicine, the chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin told RIA Novosti .

The financial crisis covered not only ordinary people with the head, but walked both rich and famous. The stars of show business are forced to tighten the belts, the newspaper "Life" states. Sofia Rotaru was less lucky. Due to the crisis, she had to put up for sale an unfinished VIP hotel in Yalta. The crisis forces Sofia Rotaru to part with the dream of a business that will provide her with a comfortable old age.

About 20 teenagers from a boarding school with the initial flight training named after A.I. Pokryshkina in the village of Monino near Moscow, presumably, were poisoned by poor -quality food, a source in the Moscow Region said on Saturday of RIA Novosti on Saturday. According to him, on the eve in the village of Monino, about 20 students of the Moscow boarding school named after A.I. Pokryshkin aged 11 to 14 years old felt bad, and therefore doctors were caused.

In the 25th round of the country's football championship, Rubin with a score of 2-0 won the shinnik in Yaroslavl and took another step towards the first Russian champion title in the history of the club. As part of the Kurban Berdyev team, Christian Noboa scored the first ball in the 37th minute: the midfielder from Ecuador perfectly performed a penalty - 1: 0.

Austria today spent the last journey of the famous politician, chairman of the Union for the Future of Austria, the head of the Earth’s Government, Carinthia, Jorg Haider. He died on October 11 in an accident near the city of Klagenfurt (Federal Land of Carinthia). About 25 thousand people took part in the mourning ceremony, which was held in the main cathedral of Clagenfurt.

All posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia were given an order to open fire in the event of aimed shelling by Georgia. This was stated by the acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the republic Mikhail Minzaev, whose words are quoted by the State Committee for Print and Information. "The chain of provocative actions continues, which ultimately, according to the Georgian side, should cause the Ossetian side to such steps.

In all embassies and foreign representative offices of North Korea, business trips were canceled in anticipation of an important message from Pyongyan. This was reported today by the largest newspaper Jomiuri in Japan with reference to several informed sources. "Currently, the staff of the diplomatic and other foreign abroad of the DPRK is actually under" house arrest ", all business trips have been canceled," the sources said.

Russia at a meeting of the Committee on Social and Cultural Assembly of the UN General Assembly presented the details of crimes of the Georgian army servicemen in South Ossetia, RIA Novosti reports.

Pyongyang continued the dismantling of a nuclear reactor in Yonben, whose work threatened to restore. This was announced at a briefing for journalists, the head of the press service of the State Department Sean McCormak, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the Bush administration is satisfied that the DPRK fulfilled its promise to return to the dismantling process immediately after excluding it from the American list of terrorism sponsors.

Negotiations between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugaba and the head of the opposition Morgan Tswangirai on the formation of the government were unsuccessful, AP reported with reference to the statement of Tswangirai.

The WBC champion in heavyweight is the Ukrainian Vitaly Klitschko believes that the former absolute worldwide champion in this weight American Lennox Lewis, who turned 43 years old in September this year, can still return to the ring. Recall that then the battle was stopped in the sixth round due to the strong dissection of Vitaly, and since then the Ukrainian boxer has no hope that Lewis will return to the ring. “I have very high hopes for the second duel against Lenenx Lewis.

Vishvanatan Anand won the first victory in the match for the title of the Absolute World Chess Champion, beat Vladimir Kramnik with black figures. On Friday, the third party took place. After two starting draws, the Russian grandmaster, who played white, chose a more active option. Applying the novelty on the 17th move, Kramnik started a rather risky attack on the Black King stuck in the center.

The official order of the Beijing City Government owners of the Internet cafe in the Chinese capital is ordered to take pictures of their customers when they are the first visit to this institution, Chinese media reported. The purpose of the new rule is to prevent the use by visitors to the Internet cafe of other people's identification data.