The astronauts of the Atlantis spacecraft went out into the open space for the repair of the Hubble telescope, the AP agency reports on Saturday. It is reported that the work on the outer surface of the station is carried out by John GrunSfield and Andrew Fiustel. They will try to repair the burned camera of the telescope.

The negotiations of the Formula-1 teams held in London with the leadership of the FIA ​​International Motorsport Federation on the regulations of the 2010 World Cup ended in vain. Representatives of the stables met with FIA President Max Mosley and with Formula 1 Bosses Bernie Ecclesleston and discussed with them the possibility of canceling the plans of the plans of the annual expenses of each team of 40 million pounds outlined by administrators of the “ceiling” from the next season.

In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny on Friday, three militants were destroyed, who were part of the group of a terrorist who undermined himself at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . This was reported today by ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

American Michael Felps, who did not take part in competitions after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, triumphantly returned to great sport, winning two swims at the Ultraswim tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. Felps became the best at 200 meters in free style and 100 meters butterfly. “I am very pleased. This is a great start. I definitely go ahead of the schedule,” said Michael, resuming training only two months ago.

The blog of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in the Internet community Libe Journal turns into a public reception. The head of state has already reacted several times to the messages of the guests of his Internet diary, which appeared on the LiveJournal platform just three weeks ago, and gave instructions to understand the problems indicated by bloggers.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed reporters the Niva car he bought about a month ago, some of them were even able to ride a car. Journalists were waiting for the prime minister near the entrance to his residence in Sochi, where after some time Putin's negotiations with the Prime Minister of Turkey were supposed to begin. Suddenly, for representatives, a three -door Niva, painted in camouflage tones, drove into the residence of the residence.

NATO exercises in Georgia are pumped tension and do not add anything to the piggy bank of international security, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a press conference following negotiations with Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "I believe that in order to move forward on security issues, we must think not only about the formulation of some new ideas, but also to turn to those ideas that have established ourselves well, which were formulated some time ago," Medvedev said.

The influenza virus A/H1N1 came close to the borders of Russia. The first case of a person’s disease A/H1N1 is registered in Istanbul (Türkiye), reports on Saturday the NTV television company. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, May 15, confirmed 7.52 thousand cases of people with influenza A/H1N1 in 34 countries, 66 of them led to death. According to the channel, the virus was found from a tourist who came to Istanbul from the United States.

Abkhazia will not take part in the fifth round of Geneva discussions, which are scheduled for May 18-19, RIA Novosti said on Saturday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba. "We initially associated our participation in Geneva discussions with the UN approach to the status of our republic. In the past, when the status was unrecognized, in annual reports on the situation in Abkhazia, the UN Secretary General of Georgia was appeared.

Dmitry Medvedev is satisfied with the results of negotiations of the prime ministers of Russia and Italy and signed documents on energy cooperation. The President of the Russian Federation stated this at the beginning of the meeting with Silvio Berlusconi. “Our relationship develops well, and in all directions move forward,” Medvedev said. “Yesterday you had good negotiations that ended with the signing of energy documents,” the President of the Russian Federation emphasized, ITAR -TASS reports.

The operation to raise an emergency helicopter of the Ka-27 of the Baltic Fleet (BF), which sank in early May, was successfully completed, Vasily Apanovich Vasily Apanovich, deputy commander of the fleet, told Interfax . "The operation to raise an emergency helicopter, which has been postponed for several days due to bad weather, was successfully completed today. The helicopter has been raised on board one of the vessels participating in the operation," Apanovich said.

Irkutsk governor Igor Esipovsky, who died in a plane crash, really hunted at that moment for the bears. This became known to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda . Officially, it is still claimed that he crashed during a working trip. Governor's hunt, most likely, was illegal in nature, because it was carried not on the ground, but from the air. Earlier it was reported that hunting carbines were discovered at the scene of the accident.

The Kazan Rubin, leading in the country's championship, escaped defeat in Perm, where he met with the local Amkar. The match, which opened the program of the ninth round, ended with a score of 2: 2. Already in the first half, three goals were scored. At first, in the 20th minute, the striker of the guests Roman Adamov struck an irresistibly - 0: 1. But already seven minutes later, the solo passage was a successful of the Perm Brazilian Tovian Carlos, who restored the parity - 1: 1.

Japan officially confirmed on Saturday the first case of the transfer of the new A/H1N1 virus from a person to a person within the country, the AP agency reported. As the Minister of Health of Japan Yoiti Masudzoe, infection with a new strain of influenza, was detected in 430 kilometers east of the city of Cobe from a high school student at high school students, which has recently not traveled outside the country, said.

The CSKA basketball club and Ramunas Shishkauskas came to the agreement that the Lithuanian striker would remain in the capital's team for another two years. Thus, the forward will remain in the team until 2011 inclusive, the official website of the Moscow Club reports. “Ramunas did not need a lot of time to prove to us all - he is an integral part of CSKA,” said CSKA Director General Andrei Vatutin. “The new agreement was only a matter of time - we and the player himself understood this.