Supporters of one of the leaders of the opposition coalition “Another Russia” Eduard Limonov say that his Volga burned out in Moscow on Saturday morning, and they believe that the incident was adjusted. “This happened this morning on the 3rd Frunze street near Limonov’s house. When the driver started the car, it literally broke out. Limonov and the driver managed to jump out of the car and did not suffer.

South Ossetia is ready for the parliamentary elections, Saturday is declared "silence day", so that voters can calmly decide in their choice. "On May 30, the day before the parliamentary elections, according to the law, the day of silence is announced. On Saturday, any campaign activity related to the upcoming elections is prohibited on the entire territory of the republic.

The mammoth found in Yakutia, found in October 2008, died about 30 thousand years ago, but is in scientific terms, as it is preserved in frozen form. Scientists believe that the age of the mammoth from one and a half to two years. This was reported today at a press conference in Yakutsk by scientists of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North.

American defense minister Robert Gates said that the United States would not come to terms with the presence of northern Korea nuclear weapons, the Air Force reports. Speaking at a security conference in Singapore, Gates also said that the American administration would not sit back while the DPRK will increase its nuclear potential.

A soldier of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation died on Saturday morning as a result of an explosion of mines in the forest in the Vedensky district of Chechnya, RIA Novosti told by telephone a source in the regional law enforcement agencies. "During the reconnaissance and search activities in the forest, an explosion of mines occurred near the village of Bena.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi filed an official statement to the department of the state guarantor of the inviolability of private life, demanding to prevent the publication of photographs taken on his Ches Ches on Sardinia during the Christmas holidays of 2008 and reflecting, according to the prime minister, moments of purely personal life. The prime minister was published on Saturday by the Milan newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

The Austro-Canadian company Magna and the American GM HM auto giant have concluded a transaction on the Opel transition under the control of Magna. The results of the negotiations held in Berlin and ended on Saturday night, the Minister of Finance of Germany, Pierre Steinbryuk, announced the AP agency. Magna in this transaction acts in a consortium with Sberbank and Gas Group.

The leader of the Chechen separatists in London, Ahmed Zakayev did not directly participate in the hostilities against the federal forces and could return to his homeland at any time, said Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. He stated this on Saturday night on the air of the Terrible Republican television channel. The program was also attended by former leaders of the so-called Ichkeria, many of whom recently returned to Chechnya from abroad, RIA Novosti reports.

The organizer of the appointed battle for the WBA title in heavyweight between Nikolai Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev, the promotional company Sauerland Events announced the cancellation of the battle due to the fact that the Uzbek boxer could not undergo medical tests established by the Finnish Boxing Federation.

About 5 thousand human lives were preserved due to the tightening of responsibility to drunk drivers. Such a figure was cited today in an interview with ITAR-TASS, the chief state inspector of the road safety of the Russian Federation Viktor Kiryanov. “Over the past ten years, almost 40 thousand people have died in traffic accidents through the fault of drunk drivers. These are mainly promising, working age, prosperous, successful and family,” Kiryanov said.

About a third of Russians who are in places of imprisonment by the court sentence are involved in the murder - either intentional or by negligence. According to Interfax, the official representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Valery Zaitsev, out of almost 740 thousand prisoners, 128 thousand were convicted of various types of murder, mostly intentional.

In Georgia in the city of Rustavi, the broadcasting of the opposition television channel "Maestro" was stopped, the general producer of the television company Mamuke Glonti told reporters. According to him, the broadcasting was discontinued on Saturday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro ASO in a conversation by phone agreed that it was necessary to react to the actions of North Korea in the most serious way, which are a challenge to the international security system. This was announced today by the Kremlin press service. In addition, the Russian leader called on his interlocutor to refrain from public statements and rhetoric on the sensitive problems of bilateral relations.

Russian students arrested on May 27 in Cairo are still in the hands of Egyptian law enforcement agencies. This was announced today by ITAR-TASS Vice-Consul of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the HUSUP Abakarov Isa. “The situation has not changed yet, none of our fellow citizens have been released,” he said. “In addition, until now, we have not received any explanations on this score from the Egyptian authorities.

The Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers (SK) of the Russian Federation Nikita Mikhalkov considers the accusations that he is evicting the magazine "Cinema Art" from the building on the street Usievich, absurd - at the moment, to resolve the problem, the Union is looking for the best option that should appear within two weeks, RIA Novosti reports.