Almost 50 people have already become victims of the influenza epidemic in Ukraine, says President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. "48 people died in Ukraine, and more than 150 thousand fell ill," the president said during a meeting with the heads of regional regional regions in Lviv. According to him, the largest increase in incidence is observed today in the Lviv region.

Adjutant Hitler Fritz Darges, who died in Germany last weekend, left behind memoirs that could shed light on the personal involvement of the Nazi leader in the Holocaust. Historians believe that the manuscript found can provide key data that it was Hitler who gave orders to the destruction of six million Jews. This would refute the statements of the historians-revisionists that Hitler did not know anything about the Holocaust.

In the Olympic Committee of Russia, a meeting was held with the film actor Stephen Sigal. The American came to Moscow in cases related to cinema. At the request of the famous actor, the producers found the time in his dense schedule for a visit to the ROC. At the age of 58, Sigal continues to engage in martial arts, actively supports a sports form.

Four militants were destroyed on Saturday morning in the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, a representative of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti . "At about 04:00 Moscow time near the village of Kadyrkent, special forces of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation destroyed a group of four militants. The individuals of the dead have not yet been established," the source said.

“My upcoming visit (to Moscow) is a chance to update our relations, it is better to say that we did not have and there is no reason to return to absolute zero,” said David Milibend, who was broadcasting today to the Far Eastern Regions of the Russian Federation on Saturday, which was broadcast today to the Far Eastern Regions of the Russian Federation.

Two road workers died on Saturday on the highway near Veliky Novgorod after, according to preliminary data, a passenger car crashed, the driver of which was intoxicated, a source in the Novgorod traffic police department told RIA Novgorod . "The accident at the village of Trubichino in the suburbs of Veliky Novgorod occurred at about 14.00 Moscow time," the source said.

The influenza epidemic is spreading from Western Ukraine to the central regions of the state, the Minister of Health Vasily Knyazevich said on the air of the channel 5 on Friday evening. “In terms of dynamics, the flu is moving to Central Ukraine and we need to prepare all of Ukraine,” he emphasized. “We had a problem with the identification of the pathogen. He circulated only in the Western region. Different versions have been worked out.

Evgeny Skoblikov, who is suspected of staging $ 6 million and 7 million euros, who was inherited by pensioners from Novosibirsk, was charged with fraud, Interfax reports.

Somali pirates who seized two British demanded a ransom of seven million dollars for the release of hostages, the Air Force television and radio corporation reports with reference to one of the pirates. Unknown to British journalists, said that the pirates do not intend to harm hostages if nothing would threaten them. “We need only a small amount of seven million dollars,” the man said.

The male team in chess took the final second place at the European Command Championship, which ended in the Serbian city of Novaya Sad. Before the final round, the Russians had good chances of gold medals, but at the finish of the tournament they could not replay Spain - the meeting ended with a score of 2: 2. And in the end, the chess players of Azerbaijan, with a result of 2.5: 1.5 defeating Dutchmen, became the champions of the continent.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov believes that, evaluating the role of Joseph Stalin in the history of the Soviet country, you cannot concentrate attention only on the period of mass repressions.

Three bandits who fired at the police post on the outskirts of the village of the Oktyabrskoye Mozdok district of North Ossetia were destroyed, and a policeman was killed during the attack. “The incident occurred in the morning of Saturday. Three unknown people armed with automatic weapons drove up by taxi, Volga car, to the police post from Chechnya to the territory of the Mozdok district of North Ossetia,” the Interfax agency was told in the Mozdoksky district of North Ossetia on Saturday.

The “march against hatred”, the main slogan of which was the fight against xenophobia, gathered about a hundred people in St. Petersburg, the Interfax correspondent reports. At 13:00 Moscow time, the participants began moving from the Yubileiny Sports Palace, without leaving for the roadway and fulfilling the requirements of the police to stay on the sidewalks. At the beginning of the columns were the organizers of the event, human rights activists.

The former army officer, who headed the BBC channel, undertaken as part of the filming of the Serious Explorers children's cognitive program, received a fatal wound from the Tanzani elephant, BBC news service reports on Friday.

Several shares are being prepared today in Moscow by Russian opposition, Echo of Moscow reports. At 6 pm, together with human rights activists, they are going to go to the Triumphal Square and hold a rally in defense of civil rights. Meanwhile, the police warned opposition and human rights activists about the inadmissibility of conducting an unauthorized rally on Saturday in Moscow.