The United States on Wednesday officially confirmed the intention to sell Saudi Arabia a large batch of weapons and military equipment. The transaction is estimated at 60 billion dollars, analysts call it the largest contract for the sale of weapons ever concluded by the United States. It is assumed that Washington will put the 84 F-15 fighter, more than 150 combat helicopters, modern missiles, bombs, radars and other weapons and equipment.

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The point at which the sun's rays are reduced, begins to smoke. The eyes of the Russians are directed these days to Anna Chapman! I don’t know what kind of place President Medvedev was attached to the Modern award of this laundry of the Lubyansky dough, but I believe that she should have received her in the form in which she went down in the history of the magazine Maxim: “In black lace panties with a piquant red bow” ... This would be not only cool, but also in terms of meaning.

Seven days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

This week takes place under the sign of public appeals of Russian scientists to power. The motives are familiar: underfunding and penetration of pseudoscience into government bodies. "Scientists and employees of the Academy of Sciences go outside again," writes the online publication gzt.ru. The All -Russian protest of scientists from the Academy of Sciences will be held on Thursday, October 21, in Moscow, on the embankment of Taras Shevchenko, 15 (opposite the exhibition metro).

In Rome, a ring worth half a million euros is stolen in a Cartier jewelry store. According to Radio Liberty, Vsevolod Gnetius, two elegantly dressed people from North Africa with impeccable manners made bold theft. Obviously, we are talking about high -class professional thieves specializing in the theft of luxury items.

Iran has already produced about 30 kilograms of Uranus, enriched by 20 percent, ”said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Iranian nuclear energy department, said on Wednesday. In February of this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Akhmadinejad ordered to begin the enrichment of Uranus - after it was not possible to realize an agreement on the exchange of uranium raw materials with other countries.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko hopes that the European Union recognizes the results of the presidential election in his country scheduled for December 19. Lukashenko said this in Minsk today during negotiations with Lithuania President Dalya Grybauskaite. He called on the EU countries to "discard the stereotypes" in relation to Belarus.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug during an explosion on a gas pipeline on Wednesday evening, according to specified data, one person died, 12 were injured. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, the explosion occurred on the tap of a pipeline leading to a gas-skating workshop 180 kilometers from the city of Tarko-Sale. The building of the production unit was destroyed. There was no fire.

The international organization "Reporters without borders" today has published an annual rating of freedom of the press in the world. The most free and safe media to work are recognized by the countries of Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Journalists are subjected to the greatest pressure and political control in the DPRK, Myanmar, Sudan and Turkmenistan.

A policeman is killed in Ingushetia. In the city of Malgobek, on Tuesday, unknown people opened fire on an employee of the road police station at the gate of his house. On the way to the hospital, the senior lieutenant of the police died. Investigators work at the scene.

One of the leaders of the Chechen separatists Ahmed Zakayev in an interview with the Russian BBC service said he was not involved in the attack on the building of the Chechen parliament in Grozny. Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, made charges against Zakayev. As a result of the attack on Tuesday, three people were killed, three militants were killed. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, two victims were hospitalized.

The Moscow City Duma said that any shares near the building of the City Duma on the day of approval of the candidacy of the mayor of Moscow would be suppressed. Tomorrow at an extraordinary meeting, Moscow deputies must consider the issue of endowing Sergei Sobyanin with the powers of the mayor of the capital. A number of opposition and public organizations intend to hold the Promotion for Sobyanin.