Ten foreign states have submitted applications for the construction of factories for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles on their territory, Igor Sevastyanov, deputy general director of Rosoboronexport, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Currently, Rosoboronexport is fulfilling a contract for the construction of a plant for the licensed production of Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela.

Elena Mukhametshina Purple Teletubby Tinky Winky robbed a woman in the Canadian city of London. Now the criminal is wanted by the local police. The attack took place on Halloween, so the robber, disguised as the hero of a children's show, did not attract much attention and remained unidentified. It is known that a woman was walking to a party when a man in a Teletubby suit approached her and pointed a gun at her. He took $40 from the woman and ran away.

The swine flu epidemic has confused all the cards for Ukrainian politicians. Having put competitors in quarantine, Yulia Tymoshenko wins the fight so far Deputy Governor of the Lviv region Yaroslav Kashuba asked a Newsweek correspondent to postpone an interview with him in order to go to the clinic for an x-ray. When he returned, he said that he had pneumonia.

Youth organizations competed for proximity to the Kremlin and for ownership of the Russian March brand. The nationalists won - November 4 is still their holiday On the Russian march, organized by the Nashi movement, they were allowed on tickets. They depicted celebrities participating in it: TV presenter Tina Kandelaki, "expert" Anatoly Wasserman and comedians Mikhail Galustyan and Timur Batrutdinov. The program also promised “masks and stilts”.

The legendary small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov turns 90 today. On the day of his anniversary, Mikhail Timofeevich believes that he has done little more in his life. Now the gunsmith continues to actively participate in the development of new types of weapons together with the Izhmash team, RIA Novosti reports. “Ninety years - is it a lot or a little? Hard to say. It seems to me that I have lived a lot, but so far have done little.

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated with a concert, fireworks, as well as the construction and subsequent "demolition" of a symbolic wall of foam blocks, RIA Novosti correspondents report. Neither rain nor small technical flaws prevented the holiday - the foam wall in some areas stubbornly "did not want" to collapse and the blocks had to be pushed. According to German media, a total of more than 100,000 spectators gathered on the square.

Elena Mukhametshina British Santa Clauses will be introduced to gadgets that children can ask for as a gift. There are now about 40,000 technical innovations on store shelves. But only 20% of Santas have heard of the Nintendo DSi game console, and only 10% of the Sony Reader, an e-book reader. And these things may well ask the children for Christmas. To prevent the Santas from getting into a mess, “advancement courses” were organized for them.