The most powerful magnetic storm over the past 5 years began on Earth on the night of Saturday, experts from the Laboratory of X -ray astronomy of the Sun, the Lebedev (Fian) Laboratory. "The event began around 22:00 Moscow time on August 5 and had the nature of the blow: the amplitude of the magnetic field fluctuations in a few tens of minutes increased from the level of KR = 2 (3 points on a 10 -point scale) to the level of KR = 8 (9 points)," the laboratory said.

The Poland Senate voted against amending the law on security at mass events, which allowed the sale of low-alcohol drinks at football matches, including during the Euro 2012 matches, the Ukraine-2012 information center reports. Last week, the Polish parliament adopted this amendment. However, the Senate rejected the sale on the arenas of "light" beer.

More than 500 students of the school of Khislavichi of the Smolensk region were under threat of tuberculosis infection from a school secretary, who was ill with an open form of a dangerous disease, said RIA Novosti on Saturday, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Smolensk region, Alexander Borovikov. According to Borovikov, on April 20, 2011, a resident of the Smolensk region was hired at school as a secretary without going through a preliminary medical examination.

Due to the reduction in the rating, Russia does not plan to revise the amount of reserve funds in dollars, the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergey Storchak told Interfax on Saturday. “No, we will not revise, because there is no big difference between AAA and AA+,” he said. Currently, the structure of the reserve fund and the National Welfare Fund consists of 45% of dollars, another 45% of the euro, by 10% of pounds.

The deceived equity holders in the city of Zheleznodorozhny suspended the hunger strike, Igor Golyev told Interfax Igor Gulev on Saturday. "The deceived equity holders met with the Zheleznodorozhnaya administration, after which it was decided to consider the facility in a special regime. The city administration did not even know about the problems of deceived equity holders, but after the meeting she promised to quickly resolve the issue," Gulev said.

"Milan" won a strong -willed victory over "Inter" in the match for the Italian Super Cup. The meeting, which took place in Beijing, ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of the "red-black". Inter stepped forward in the 22nd minute: Wesley Sneuder, whom the European media wooing either Manchester City, then in Manchester United , put the ball in the left nine with his signature blow to the penalty area. After the break, Milan was more active.

The Russian sanitary service was alarmed by an ongoing flash of cholera in Ukraine, where a citizen of the Russian Federation, who came under Mariupol from the Kaliningrad region, was among the sick. “We monitor her health. According to the information received, her condition is not alarming, ” the head of the Rospotrebnadzor, chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko, said on Friday evening.

Over the past day, the number of forest fires in Siberia in Siberia halved - up to 10 centers, the Siberian regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports on Saturday. "According to the operational data of the" Aviation -Service ", in the territory of the Siberian Federal District there are 10 centers of forest fires (decreased by 10 foci) on a total area of ​​146.5 hectares (decrease by 84.5 hectares)," the message said.

The younger brother of the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan, Akhmat Bakiev, was convicted of 7 years for organizing riots and inciting interethnic growth. "Jalal -Abad City Court sentenced the younger brother of the former president Kurmanbek Bakiev Bakiev to 7 years in a colony of intensified regime for serious crimes, " the representative of the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan said on Saturday.

Actress Natalia Zakharov, convicted in France and pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev, according to the forecasts of her lawyer Alexei Pershin, will be released from the colony next week. “Today I will contact the presidential administration and, perhaps, will tell me the exact date of her release. It seems to me that this will happen next week,” Rapsy Pershin told the agency. On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the pardon of actress Natalya Zakharova.

At Old Trafford, a farewell match of the Mu midfielder and the England team Paul Skowles took place. The Mankunians were opposed by the led by Eric Canton "New York Cosmos". The game ended with a score of 6: 0 in favor of the British. The first goal of the goal took place thanks to the main character of the evening, who sent the ball to the net in the ninth minute. After the final whistle, the living legend "MJ" thanked the club and the fans of the team.

The most coveted profession for students during summer part -time work is the profession of a beach employee - 14% would agree to such a job, the experts of the Career.ru portal told Interfax . A survey conducted in July among 5,000 Russian students showed that not previously not working students would also go to an internship in their specialty (13%) or work as a guard, a warehouse employee (10%).

As a result of an accident in the Zaok district of the Tula region, one person died, five passengers were injured. The deputy head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region Sergey Sergey Chechev told Interfax that, according to preliminary data, the minibus in which citizens of Belarus was traveling, collided "in the forehead" with panel survey.

In Moscow, information on the decision of the Israel Ministry of Internal Affairs is perceived with serious concern to build 900 new housing units in the Har Homa settlement in the eastern part of Jerusalem. This was announced today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

In Helsinki on Saturday, a procession of lovers of defiant and outright outfits was held, called in the West Slutwalk, which can be translated as a "march of whores." According to the police, on Mannerheim Avenue, South Esplanade and other central streets of the city, about 3-3.5 thousand people took place. Despite the rain, many were in through and through translucent dresses with a deep neckline or mini-skirts. Among the demonstrators were dressed and more modest: in jeans and sweaters.