News from the ex USSR

Patients of the Dnepropetrovsk hospital received material and spiritual assistance from the Patriarch Cyril

2010-07-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

Several thousands of believers came to service in Dnipropetrovsk, which held the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill. Not all believers were able to get to the liturgy. Therefore, the program of the visit was scheduled hospital visit, where are those who are particularly in need of support and prayer.

Venue festive service on which the faithful hurried in the morning, was not chosen by chance. With the Transfiguration Cathedral in fact started the history of the city, formerly known as Yekaterinoslav. Catherine II laid the first stone church in 1787. Primate of the Orthodox Church Patriarch Cyril was the first in history, visited Dnipropetrovsk region.

Patriarch Cyril, the primate of the Orthodox Church: "Today we have gathered with you in so many thousands and thousands of people came, and I am glad of this opportunity with all of you to pray. Each of us after all the soul and joy and sorrow. I gaze at your face and I see kind eyes and happy faces. "

At the service under the open sky, headed by Patriarch Cyril, came more than five thousand residents. To all those who wished could attend the divine liturgy, the local authorities established in the park around the cathedral special screens. Liudmila Kondakova wanted to see the Patriarch Cyril of Dniepropetrovsk. But a few days before the visit of His Holiness the woman underwent a complicated operation. Ludmila and could not provide that the ROC would come to the ward.

Patriarch Cyril, the primate of the Orthodox Church: "I would like you to bring goodies - here fruktikov, you can eat - you have with the interior everything is normal, and every hand's blessing - that's my book, and the Holy Panteliymona when you can be well read."

Liudmila Kondakova, resident of Dnipropetrovsk: "Sensations, of course, non-transferrable. Because it happens once in a lifetime, and not everyone falls opportunity to see most of the Patriarch.

Primate of the Orthodox Church visited the temple, which is located in Central Dnepropetrovsk hospital named after Mechnikov. The Church came here 15 years ago by a doctor who does not once in his life faced situations where it was nothing depended. Helped only faith in God.

Vladimir Pavlov, the head doctor of the central hospitals of Dnipropetrovsk named after Mechnikov: "You know, there were different periods of religion, but any patient that you know everyone on their own, when it is in operation, willy-nilly, he crossed himself. And now this church, which have We exist, it helps both patients and physicians we. "

In a busy schedule of the Patriarch, who arrived in Kiev for 2 days, found time for many people - he gave a lecture to students, and gave new guidance of priests and even arrived at the legendary Yuzhmash. In the main shop of the company, which collect missiles and equipment for space vehicles, factory workers asked the Patriarch to bless Yuzhmash. Now this plant is going through hard times.

On the territory of the enterprise Patriarch consecrated the building and laid the first stones of the new Church of the Resurrection.

Wherever Patriarch Cyril already visited, it was greeted by thousands of believers. A lot of people to get the blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church, and took leave or got leave to go to work. Some Ukrainians are traveling around the country - after the Patriarch. Tonight, he went from Dnipropetrovsk to Kiev.

Lithuania celebrate the millennium.

2009-07-05T17:43:00.000-07:00

VILNIUS, July 6 - Celebrations on the occasion of the Millennium will be the country of Lithuania on Monday on the Day of the State.

At the celebration is expected to visit a large number of guests - monarchs, heads of state, prime ministers.

Millennial Celebration of the anniversary of Lithuania will begin with the national flag raising ceremony at the square in front of the Presidential Palace and the President Valdas Adamkus. Then the dignitaries will take part in Holy Mass at Vilnius Cathedral.

One of the most important events will be the opening ceremony at the Cathedral Square in Vilnius Palace of the rulers - re-established in ancient drawings of historic buildings completely disappeared.

Later, guests waiting for a solemn reception on the occasion of the Millennium mention the Day of the State of Lithuania and in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace.

In Ukraine, noted the Navy Day.

2009-07-05T11:15:00.000-07:00

There Russian military marches, and came specifically to Sevastopol Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko visits the Black Sea Fleet ships, who quit the Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Residents of Sevastopol on the established holiday Yushchenko did not call. On the square Nakhimov, where celebrations were held, was only government officials, supporters of a number of far-wing parties, the military and the press. But when Victor Yushchenko went to the impromptu inspection of the Black Sea waters in the barge, the residents of the city of Sevastopol on the bank launched a 30-meter flag of Russia. Russian flags were raised as a monument to Empress Catherine the Great. All of what happened has caused strong reaction the outgoing president of Ukraine. Viktor Yushchenko has once again expressed his hope that the Russian ships leaving Sevastopol in 2017. But even if it suddenly for some reason, and will happen, then it does not leave the city of Sevastopol residents: according to the All-Ukrainian population census conducted in 2001, more than 90% of the inhabitants of Sevastopol consider Russian their native language. Perhaps, therefore, all their statements made in anger Yushchenko in the Ukrainian language.

Why do Russian people drink?

2009-07-05T07:40:00.000-07:00

Meeting with Russian and U.S. leaders. The head of the White House asked: «Why do Russian people drink vodka?» Answer: «And what, they play tennis?!»

Use of strong alcoholic beverages in Russia has long been popular rule, and is accompanied by certain «ritual». If a person does not drink - it is a suspicious type, it is better not to have affairs. Attitudes to drink in Russia has always been sympathetic. To that person the assistance and support - a tradition. So, when industrial-scale production of alcohol, drinking in the country has adopted widespread. Drink rich and poor, drunk businessmen and the unemployed, women and men. In recent years, three times increase in the number of women alcoholics. With the advent of capitalism has widened the range of beverages consumed. There were, at first glance, innocuous low-alcohol cocktails, which have become popular among teenagers. Now, drink and children ...

West can not understand the mysterious Russian soul. What is the soul of this? This is the soul of a warrior. West can not understand it, just as the soul of the Japanese samurai does not cling to life, and at any moment ready to die. But if the Japanese samurai warriors were a little of the population, the Russian man was a warrior. In the Russian character, you can see the elements of military culture - and it is often dismissive attitude to material values, the indifferent attitude to the comfort of home, these issues with the Russian women's, and even drunkenness. Drinking alcoholic beverages is the warriors of pan-European tradition. You will not find any in the past, nor is any valid, ie in a state of war, a European army in which soldiers would have been teetotal.
Russian drink, and Europeans drink, but do so in a completely different, why? Yes because we have with them is very different cultures. Russian, this military culture, in Russia every man in the first place was a warrior, and then farmer, craftsmen, or scientists. In Europe, everything was just the opposite. Until the twentieth century, Europe did not total wars, ie wars which kill not only enemy soldiers but also civilians. The war was the fate of a handful nobility who fought among themselves, without involving its peasants and townspeople. The vast majority of the population had nothing to do with the war, people were engaged in agriculture, trade, trade. Meaning of their existence has been the accumulation of money and creation, as much as possible comfortable conditions of life.

In Russia, people's concept of the festival is closely associated with a rich meal, especially with ample alcohol. Strong alcoholic drinks are considered almost mandatory attributes of this event. Indifference, saving the latter reaction the body has become our defining feature. Therefore, and the popularity of vodka - unprecedented even by the Russian scale. This is - a terrible indifference, when a man sees his life is not broken, do not snap off with the corner, but so hopelessly fragmented, both along and across the broken, only for the alcoholic intoxication is still remain. That if the vodka banned - would immediately we broke out the revolution.

Do not want to, and not with grief, drink Russian people and for the eternal needs of a great and extraordinary. Drink, if you like, mystical, seeking to withdraw from earthly life balance and return it to the blessed bodiless state. Vodka - White Russian magic man, he strongly prefers her black magic.

However, the main use of vodka in a Russian table practice involves the use of it as a mandatory annex to the Russian fast food diet. Russian food is a final table, only in 18 th century. At the same time came the flourishing of Russian domestic distillation with its rich and varied assortment of vodka. Thus, the nature of vodka, its organoleptic properties, its flavoring and clean up all this fit in to the taste characteristics of food and Russian food composition table. That is why these two concepts - vodka and a snack - were, after all, inseparable, and both lexical idioms, and as a food reality. However, rooted in the minds of the people of these notions, because of changes in inequality and social conditions have become, over the past two years, distorted and made disproportionate importance in different segments of the population of Russia. The essence of these changes was that the vodka has remained as an indispensable component, a starter either impoverish or reduced, or disappear altogether.

Symbolism of vodka in Russia is universal. It is more important than gold or oil. Recall that never, even in the most disadvantaged in the Soviet era, vodka was not a lack. Vodka - it is fate, the fate of Russian. Because of Russian vodka are known throughout the world, as producers of vodka are huge profits from its sale.

Russia begins anti-alcohol campaign.

2009-07-05T07:08:00.000-07:00

Russia is now drinking more than 90 years, although when times were tough. The Ministry of Health and Social Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy conducts a program for the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Activities aimed at building a healthy lifestyle among the citizens of the Russian Federation, including the reduction of alcohol and tobacco, this year will cost at 830 million rubles in the next year - 820 million in 2011-meters - 850 million in 2009 to 83 regions will be established about 500 health centers.

This promotion gives the result - for the five months of 2009 was born on 3% more children than during the same period last year (mortality rate decreased by 28.3%). Covered activities, people were more likely to marry and to marry - the number of marriages increased by 6.1% (the divorce was less at 3.7%).

In Russia all the more public and community leaders speak on the topic anti-alcoholic.

Russia: Casino outlawed.

2009-06-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

Very soon - at midnight - they are in accordance with the law, must disappear from
settlements. Work will be allowed only in designated for the zones that are located in distance from residential areas. All of these will be four zones: in Primorye, Altay region, Kaliningrad region and the border Krasnodar Territory and Rostov Region. With zero hour on July 1 gaming business
outside of these territories is declared outside the law, and violators awaiting administrative and even criminal liability. Checks for the closure of the casino police will start tonight. Many gaming establishments did not wait "hours X "and stopped working the day before. Some of them, according to owners turn now to the usual entertainment centers and restaurants. Visitors,
however, can offer a sports poker or the lottery, which the law does not include gambling. In addition, there will still be allowed work totalizators and betting offices.

Russian Mafia - Myth or Reality?

2009-06-29T14:13:00.000-07:00

First of all - what is the Mafia?

Mafia - the slogan is an acronym Sicilian uprising against the French feudal lords - "Morte Alla Francia, Italia Anela".

Mafia - a secret society, organized crime groups, are widely used to achieve their criminal objectives of arbitrary violence and murder. In order to avoid legal retribution for their acts bribes officials - civil servants and law enforcement officers, often creates and uses kinship or business ties with the authorities and law enforcement agencies. Currently, the term «mafia» often used broadly to refer to any ethnic gangs. Mafia as such does not constitute a single organization. It is composed of clans, who share among themselves a certain region. Everyone understands the word Mafia in its own way. Someone remembers a lot of movies and books about the Mafia, while others saw only the mafia in computer games. But few of us go into the details of the history of the mafia and mafia structures. Sometimes, the word mafia used a combination of words - organized crime.

Does the Russian organized crime, or, as it is called more frequently - Russian mafia, some specific characteristics, it is markedly different from other criminal groups in the world?

Yes, it is so.

Mafia at all, and the Russian Mafia in particular, is always linked to the business and obtaining large profits crime. From the perspective of the business, members of the Russian mafia are not traders. The members of the mafia in other countries, doing business from start to finish for maximum profit, which then are used for economic development. Russian mafia is trying to make a profit immediately, not investing it in economic development. This is reminiscent of trade in natural resources. For Russians, it is important to sell your goods at the earliest opportunity.

Russian mafia has links with the authorities?

Yes, of course. Otherwise, the Mafia could not survive. In other countries, the Mafia comes in the same way. If the Mafia would not cooperate with the authorities, the authorities will try to get rid of it.

Russian mafia is available worldwide?

Yes. Russian mafia, there is a long time. Its characteristic feature was the speed and flexibility. On others it is different in that it does not exist borders. To achieve its goals, it uses any money. The international spread of the Russian mafia arose even before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Later, the geography of its action has spread even more. In any country, at a time when the government begins to deal with the Mafia, it strengthens its position in other countries. Russian mafia was abroad, not because she was defeated in his own country. Russian mafia differ from others in that it invests the money in their education and growing rapidly internationally.

What is more Russian mafia differ from others?

Russian mafia is that the former members of criminal gangs have become politicians. This is because in Russia the law provides protection policy of criminal responsibility. Later many of the oligarchs linked to criminal groups, with whom they had recently been members.

If any hope to win the Russian mafia?

Currently, the Mafia has played a big role in the development of Russian economy.

To combat organized crime, you need an open and independent press, a vibrant civil society, rule of law, functioning and respected judiciary - to make the people feel that their problems can be resolved fairly. In Russia there are currently no fair and open press, and no active civil society and independent judiciary. Until all of the above does not appear to fight organized crime useless.

Russian Mafia is dangerous for society and the state?

Yes, certainly. The drug problem has acquired greater danger only because of the mafia. Distribution and use of drugs, of course, affect the health of the nation. Trafficking deprives Russia of the future - who will bear children? This also contributes to the spread of AIDS, which, again, dangerous to the health of the nation. In addition, Russian mafia has a huge impact on the economy, which again is very negative impact on the status of Russia as a whole.

Mafia describes:

- Rigid hierarchies;
- The use of force to maintain internal discipline and to deal with competition;
- Its own system of values and norms;
- Liaison with the political and administrative corruption;
- The use of legal political and administrative institutions and to provide a cover for clandestine activities.

Now on the territory of the CIS are about two thousand thieves in law, 300 of whom are in prison. Ideological the scribes that they honor all traditions Vorovsky orders, almost no more.

Mafia bosses will be pleased to agree to filming his own life. Many directors and actors in the past were members of criminal gangs.

Russian mafia in the form in which it perceives the Western man in the street, the minimum is related to a Russian ethnos, and to Russia as a country. On the Russian mafia in the United States began to speak in the early 80's. By publishing the article about the Russian mafia, had in mind the emigrants from the USSR, which were not only Russian.

From the standpoint of the West in Russia and even the Russian mafia criminals include all former Soviet republics. For the Europeans and the Americans the word "Russia" has always been synonymous with the word "Soviet." On the map instead of "USSR" is often written "Russia." All this is in the subconscious. So, speaking of the "Russian" mafia, Europeans and Americans throw away not only ethnic but also the politico-geographical factors. For example, in Spain have arrested 20 members of criminal groups from former Soviet Union. They called the Russian mafia. However, all of them were of Georgian origin.

A similar situation, for example, folded and with criminal groups from Lithuania, who have flocked to Europe, counterfeit Euro, fake passports and financial documents. They also referred to as the "Russian" mafia.
2 years ago in New York was the trial of a group of people accused of illegal arms trafficking, mainly from CIS countries: Armenians, Jews, Georgians. Included in the group, and citizens of other countries. And this is the case in the United States called the case "the Russian" Mafia!

To the Russian mafia should include only the criminals now have the citizenship of Russia. In such a "clean" as the problem of the Russian mafia is extremely important. Studying the materials of criminal intelligence analysis the Interpol General Secretariat of the interactions of leaders of organized criminal groups - former and current citizens of Russia and the CIS countries, their companies to launder money, you can verify that they are all the hundreds of threads are intertwined with each other and with leaders of the mafia structures in Europe, United States , Latin America and Asia.

Is it possible to win mafia?

It is believed that the mafia is immortal. Immortality Mafia may be in different forms. It can transform into a legitimate organization. Members of criminal gangs may become mayors. There will always be a formal society, and society shadow; legitimate economy and the "shadow economy" law and concepts. " It is important that the shadow society, the shadow economy and the "concept" did not alternate their official opponents. Shadow must know his place!

To do so, lead, finally, in line with the requirements of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and against Corruption, our Russian legislation. First of all, the Penal and Criminal Procedure Codes. This includes the notion of an organized criminal group, and the responsibility for the legalization of criminal proceeds, and the institution of property confiscation.

It is important to increase the exchange of information through Interpol and Europol. It is necessary to transform the Russian bureau of Interpol is indeed at the center of the coordination of international cooperation among all law enforcement agencies in combating transnational organized crime. There should be constant monitoring of the activities of the Russian mafia abroad. To ensure that every work on ahead of the curve, providing a foreign partner proactive information and other assistance.

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Russia - Who are the thieves in the law?

2009-06-28T04:41:00.000-07:00

Thieves in the Act - that the criminal community, exists only in Russia and the former Soviet Union and has no analogues in the world. The main signs of this criminal association - the existence of strict rules, the process of initiation, secrecy and conspiracy.

Thieves in the Act appeared in the USSR in 1930, with the beginning of Stalin's repressions. They called themselves «custodians of tradition» and was a non-rigid (as opposed to the political prisoners), opposition to state power.

Not respecting the country's existing laws which they strictly follow their own unwritten code of honor, and often acted as judges of the criminal world.

Traditionally, a thief in the law may be only a man with a criminal record, sufficient authority in the criminal environment in respect of which implemented a formal procedure for the adoption of the community. A thief in the law are not encouraged to marry. Also it is forbidden to enter into any relationship with the government: to serve in the military, law enforcement, enter the public service. The thief in the law has no right to promote judicial and investigative bodies, or to cooperate with the prison.

Thieves in the laws are not a single criminal group, different «clans» and «family» interact or conflict with each other. In 1990, according to the law enforcement agencies, there were nearly 1.5 thousand thieves in the law.

In recent days, Russian law enforcement agencies have begun to fight organized crime on a national basis. Shut down restaurants, a casino under the control of the Georgian criminal leaders. Indeed, only a rough estimate, thirty percent of the criminal Russian Business «belongs» Georgian «thieves in the law». But they did not have yesterday.

And if thirty years ago, they drew the same attention to, perhaps, today in Russia would not have been the most influential of the crime of ethnic «diaspora».

Thieves in the Act - this is the legacy of the Soviet Union.

By 1985, the period of restructuring the Soviet Union came with a strong and influential Georgian criminal diaspora.

Back in the late 70-ies of the last century in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in fashion and it was an honor to be a thief.
Extensive relationship joined the party bureaucracy and the criminal authorities. As a result, young people simply planted furtively tradition.
Money in the bank for thieves gathered in the republic, even in small coins! Naturally, such amounts do not have values. But it created a cult «brotherhood of thieves», and «the case of thieves». Reached the point that 25 percent of those surveyed in the years students have been told that the dream is to become a «thieves in the law».

Jaba Ioseliani, one of the most influential Georgian thieves in law 80, which was the right hand of President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and a prominent political figure.

Today the Georgian avtority occupy major positions in the shadow economy across the European territory of Russia. Most Georgian thieves in law - in the city of Moscow - from 60 to 80 people. The second most important sphere of influence groups - Region of Krasnodar and Stavropol, from 30 to 50 of thieves in the law. Next - Tyumen region, in particular, Surgut, 30 thieves in the law.

Their specialty:
- Hijacking cars;
- Attacks on vehicles and their owners;
- Pickpocketing;
- Burglary;
- Theft of belongings from the car;
- Currency fraud;
- Real estate fraud.

Income from crime laundered into legitimate businesses controlled by criminal groups:
- Casino;
- Restaurants;
- Clubs;
- Hotel.

INCOME.

The monthly turnover of the Georgian criminal business:
- 25 million - in Moscow;
- $ 60 million - for the country

60 thieves in law live now in Moscow, 40 of them - the Georgians.
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The policemen detained in Moscow, the famous thief in the law.

2009-06-28T04:28:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW, June 28 - the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department operatives were detained on the night of Saturday in Moscow, was born in Armenia, has repeatedly tried thief in law Kamo Safaryan. A well-known thief in law Kamo Safaryan 1961 births, with extensive criminal context, throughout the former Soviet Union and arrived a day earlier to Moscow from Brazil, was arrested in a restaurant capital. Safaryan is in a state of drug intoxication, with personal inspection he had seized 11 grams of hashish.
Criminal proceedings. Sanction provides up to three years' imprisonment.
The last two years who was arrested lived in Moscow, where he was mainly pickpocketing.
In November 2006, Safaryan forcibly deported from the territory of Ukraine, the authorities have banned him for five years from entering the country. Then Safaryan moved to Russia, where he lived in the 1990's.

The last time the credibility of a criminal was tried in Nizhny Novgorod in 1995 for possession of a weapon, then he was given three years. Safaryan headed there one of the criminal groups, to introduce people to their businesses.

In the Ukraine celebrate 300 th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava.

2009-06-27T13:47:00.000-07:00

In 1709, Russian troops led by Peter the Great defeated the army of Swedish King Karl XII. This event changed the entire course of the Northern War and later reinforced the position of our country in Europe. On holiday in Poltava arrive delegations from Russia and Sweden. The government of Ukraine decided not to take part in the festivities, but in the city meet local nationalists.

From the morning memory of those killed in the battle of Poltava paid official delegation, arrived
from Russia, Sweden and the capital of Ukraine. The guests laid flowers at the monument to the victims. In the temples were for funeral services.

300 years ago, after the victory of a new history. Single Russian state has become an important factor in European and world politics. And since then, has anybody in Europe could not be with a voice and political will of Russia. Officials of the Government of Ukraine on the 300-year anniversary of the great battle had been.

300 years ago Ivan Mazepa gave the Russian tsar and moved to the Swedish King Karl XII. But now, 300 years later, for the official Kiev hetman Mazeppa of traitor gradually turns into a hero. In the famous battle won by Russian troops. Peter celebrates victory. From the wrath of Russian
king of hetman Ivan Mazepa flee. For treason, he was weaned off the church.

President Viktor Yushchenko, who is widely celebrated 370 th anniversary Mazepi this spring has not arrived in Poltava.

Who are the Russian billionaires?

2009-06-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

Today on Russia ranks third in the world after the United States and Germany in terms of the number of dollar billionaires. In Moscow for two billionaire more than in New York - 31 to 29.
The majority of Russian oligarchs have built their state on the country's natural resources: oil, gas, coal, and metals.

Today, Russian dictate the price of real estate luxury at the Cote d'Azur of France, the Alps and in London, at the longest yachts and expensive cars. Owning a luxury - it is the most affordable way to stand out from the crowd, this is an external demonstration of belonging to the elite class of "haves". Hence, gold watch with diamonds and machinery, valued at not less than one hundred thousand dollars of Brioni suits, the inscriptions "Dolce and Gabbana" or "Dior" in the entire breast, and, of course, the "cool" "Hammer", the villa with the most beautiful the type and length of the yacht is not less than 52 meters.

Average Russian billionaires around forty years. It is an absolute self-made, all that is not inherited, unlike most Western "brothers", and earned himself.

He is married and is often a second time. He has two children who still go to school. He lives in Moscow, in the heart of the city in a luxurious two-or three-Penthouse area about 500 square meters with a swimming pool and winter garden and a cost of five to ten million dollars. Furniture and design of the apartment are made to order and are not less than one million dollars, not counting the personal predilections of the owner of antiques. More often than not, our billionaire and has a country house in Rublevka value of not less than ten million dollars. Cars do not belong to a particularly expensive part of the budget. And ultrafashionable Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maseratti often flaunt provincial nouveaux riches. Large oligarchs prefer now a politically correct move with modesty and protection for Mersedes, BMW and Audi. Car count the cost. One car with a driver for himself and one reserve, one Mersedes G55 plus one for the protection of sports for the week-ends, one for the wife and another - to take children to school.

Total 800 thousand dollars of road investment, not counting staff. With regard to foreign residence, the average Russian billionaire prefers to buy a villa on the Cote d'Azur and in Sardinia, the islands in Croatia at home in Switzerland, chalets in ski resorts in the Alps and apartments in London, Paris, Monte Carlo and New York. Villa, for example, in Saint-Tropez will cost between 15 and 35, and housing in London in the best area - up to 25 million dollars, plus furniture and antiques - here it all depends on taste. Almost all Russian businessmen, quoted by "Forbes" list of "Gold hundred", have a private plane and yacht, and some even a bit. The most luxurious Boeing Business Jet 737 with a satellite phone and LCD TVs in every seat - 50 to 70 million dollars. The fifth model Gulfstream - 42-45 million dollars, Falcon 900 - 35-40 million, a tiny tenth Falcon Middle flights and is available "only" twenty million. Yachts - our favorite means of transportation average billionaire during the summer holidays. The most favorite part of the Mediterranean Sea between Saint-Tropez, Corsica, Sardinia and Croatia. Crowned the list of investment art collection of the average for the fifteen million so. The new Russian usual four guards (two for themselves and two for the wife and children) in three shifts to one and a half to two thousand dollars a month each, the four drivers (two personal, two for the protection, one for the wife and one for children). They paid fifteen hundred dollars a month each. On average, seven to eight domestic helpers (nannies, maids, cook, gardener) to seven hundred dollars a month each. Children billionaire likes to send to study abroad. In the Swiss fashion schools, such as, for example, "La Roze, worth up to one hundred thousand dollars a year, as well as the English respectable school-type Eaton, Harrow and Millfield, which are slightly cheaper - 30 thousand dollars a year for each offspring . The contents of his wife and her pocket costs include footwear, clothing and jewelry (except for a very expensive diamond necklace and large), oligarch cost approximately twenty thousand dollars a month. Contents lover is a little more (about 25 000 dollars per month) - it should take into account a one-car-type "Audi TT". If you add up all the running costs the average Russian billionaire, according to the author, having an apartment in Moscow, home to Rublevka, mansion in London and a villa on the French Riviera, yachts and aircraft, as well as all the above staff, received eight million dollars to the tail.
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How are Russian after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

2009-06-26T19:07:00.000-07:00

Abramovich to build a yacht with helicopter and submarine.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich became the owner of a new boat, this time with two helicopters and submarines on board, which left stocks with the Hamburg shipyard Blohm + Voss in last Friday. The yacht has become the largest private yacht in the world.

The construction of the vessel cost Abramovich more than 300 million euros. On board in addition to 11 guest cabins, a cinema, two swimming pools and discotheques a German missile defense system, two helicopters and a submarine. The boat is able to dive to a depth of 50 meters, for helicopters on board is equipped with a special hangar. Windows, at least in apartments Abramovich, made from bullet-proof glass, the yacht - the special solid steel.

The vessel is capable of a speed of about 75 kilometers per hour. Boat Maintenance costs amount to € 25-30 million per year.

Alsu Abramova (Safina).

Pop-star, nicknamed "the Russian Britney Spears." Her father, Ralif Safin, founder of Russian oil giant Lukoil. Now he is - a politician with the state of 350 million pounds.

Through collaboration with the company "Universal", Alsu became the first Russian performer, gave a duet with world-class star Enrique Iglesias - "You're my number one".

Billionaires in Russia more than oligarch. It may even be a civil servant or pensioner.

Nine Russian billionaires are among the list of 188 richest people of Europe in 2002. Russians are distinguished by the youth and pressure.

But first and foremost on the list of Russian billionaires draw the attention of one pensioner and one government official, capital which, according to the EuroBusiness, come from Gazprom. Status of Viktor Chernomyrdin, the magazine estimates at 1.35 billion euro (140-th place in the list evromilliarderov), the state of Rem Viajerev - 1,8 billion euro (105-th place in the overall list).

It will be recalled that Viktor Chernomyrdin was not until after Russia in the Ukraine, but also the special representative of President of Russia on the development of Russian-Ukrainian trade and economic ties. That is, it is not simply the Ambassador, but in fact the Kremlin staff.

EuroBusiness notes that nearly all the billions of dollars of Russian state acquired as a result of their proximity to power holders. However, in addition to strong ties with the power of Russian billionaires have one very noticeable difference from their European colleagues. Among European billionaires difficult to find those who are less than 60, but many, and for 70. Their condition, they have accumulated over a long life. Russian billionaires as if to exclude Vyahirev and Chernomyrdin, very young. Most of them have not reached 40 years.
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In Petrozavodsk, two Azerbaijanis accused in the kidnapping "the bride".

2009-06-26T17:19:00.000-07:00

BAKU, June 25 - The investigative authorities of Petrozavodsk, on Thursday announced the completion of the investigation of criminal case against the accused in the abduction of 14-year-old girl, which they, according to the investigation, was stolen as a bride for their customs.

The investigation revealed that in September 2008 by two natives of Azerbaijan entered the apartment in the territory of Petrozavodsk, where the girl-Azerbaijani. They forcibly removed her from the house and then moved from place to place, kept it in different flats, including the Arkhangelsk region.

Approximately ten days after the abduction of the accused came in Petrozavodsk, where he continued to hold a girl in a rented apartment. This became known to law enforcement authorities, who detained the men.

According to the investigation, the girl has not been sexually assaulted by the kidnappers.

One of them said that he wanted to marry her, and supposedly it has voluntarily agreed to be abducted by Caucasian tradition. But the victim is denied, she said, neither of whom she did not intend to marry.

With respect to defendants prosecuted. For this crime is punishable by 20 years' imprisonment.

In Ingushetia continues operations to the eradication of militant groups.

2009-06-26T11:51:00.000-07:00

According to the FSB, the members of a gang involved in murder and robbery. They were discovered last night in a village in Sunzha district. Town blocked fighters special.

During the shooting, one terrorist was killed and two wounded. Ruslan Meir, Minister Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia: "We have a number of operations, in particular, now hold, yesterday it was neutralized by three so-called member of NWF's while trying to assist resistance, they were destroyed. Now for the disclosure of the crime in the against our president is conducting a series of investigative actions, of course, hope that will be apprehended, discovered the crime in this area".

What are they - Russian girls?

2009-06-25T20:36:00.000-07:00

Anyone who marries a Russian girl who never knows what is hidden in its depths - pearls, monsters, nacre, or hurricanes. She - the very embodiment of the unknown.

The thing is that the people of Russia, men, women or children, do not fall within the established stereotypes. In this country, too many tribes and languages, peoples and religions, mixing in the giant pot of Ethnography, which prevents the formation of clear features of different classes. All are in constant motion, all constantly changing, sometimes put in the ancient form, sometimes in defiance of the sense of decency. Moreover, there is no middle class in our understanding of: generation of citizens with a decent annual income and endowed with mind, which allows somebody to manage that money.

Therefore, to describe a girl belonging to the Russian middle class, the same as painting a picture of wood at all. There are oak, birch is, there is a poplar, but the average tree exists only in the imagination. But if you delve into this subject, we will see that in any part of the Russian empire can be found representatives of numerous class, who call themselves intellectuals. It belongs to the people who graduated from grammar school, university or other higher educational institutions. A typical girl, belonging to this social group, will be strikingly different from her sisters who live in Europe and other parts of the world.

Russian girls are not brought up so that they become wives and mothers, were agriculture, served as consolation for her husband and care about children. For them such a fate similar to the degradation of nearly naked slavery and intelligent girls will never be slaves. There are many reasons why the Russian girls do not like to engage in household work in any form. Because this is - a form of slavery, it certainly is disgusting. In addition, they are accustomed from childhood to what they are doing more.

Intelligent women in Russia are paying very little or no attention to their appearance, to their daily concerns gowns occupy negligible space. Usually they are simple brown, black or gray dress, the wardrobe affects a small amount of the cap, and jewelry. They do not spend money on stylish things, as do others, and to books and magazines. Yet they are temperamental. This is a woman whose feelings are hidden in the logic. They are endowed with a generous heart, though he directs the mind.

Summing up, we can say that the Russian girl did not fit the generally accepted understanding of what needs to be a girl. It shares many features of the representatives of cats: it somewhat mysterious, somewhat fanatical, and sometimes is very much like a sphinx. It is devoid of bias - at least generally - and, therefore, is an inexhaustible source of surprises.

Article published Feb 8, 1904.

Russian girl today:

In Samara, live the most beautiful women in Russia, Barnaul - very sad, and in Novosibirsk - the most intelligent ... Anyway, that is said Pierre-Christian Brooches - publisher of guidebooks, the traveler, the founder of the Club for collectors of contemporary art, a well-known secular character and just a Frenchman. Russian women are more emotional, explosive, hysterical, as, for example, a Frenchwoman.

Russian women are very impulsive. They may at one point abruptly change their lives even worse variant known only for the sake of love for souls. They are, in my opinion, are often not guided by common sense, and their emotions. Emotions among Russian women is very high. They virtually have no borders. This is the main difference from all other women in Europe. Russian is much more beautiful than the French or German women. Yes, and all the rest. And yet very accessible. Not in terms of sex, though it is. Rather, in terms of communication, cordiality. Communicate with Russian women are very happy there is no barrier, which is like a foreign construct. Russian women are funny, can laugh at themselves. But it is impossible to be all the same in a large country. Russia - multicultural country, this is a unique state. And if we talk about women, there is no such thing - «typical Russian woman». Women in every Russian region.

Primitive image of Russian women in the West. It is divided into three types. This is, first, the good grandmother in scarves, who prays to God and bakes pies. This girl in a short skirt and with nature. And this is the heroine of the film «Doctor Zhivago» - sad unearthly beauty of a woman in a beautiful coat. Untouched, lonely, frozen in the vast snow-covered space. All. Other women, in the opinion of foreigners in Russia.

GUIDE TO THE RUSSIAN GIRL:

In Samara, live the most beautiful women in Russia, Barnaul - very sad, and in Novosibirsk - the most clever.

They are very distinct, clearly know what they want out of life. Follow the fashion, focused on the capital, are open to change. As in all major cities of the developed economies, Novosibirsk girls primarily focusing on careers rather than on the family. The same, incidentally, happens in Yekaterinburg. Most girls these cities are not in a hurry to marriage: they say, I thought about it after thirty. In general, these are from a civilized and modern.

For the obedient bride should go to Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Surgut. These cities simpler, more provincial, or something. And while there are University in Tomsk, but the girls there without any special claims. They do not rush.

They do not know how to set goals and achieve them: too the following circumstances. Drinking husband? So, this my fate. No money? So, both based on the written. Some fatal fatality.

The first thing you will notice in Krasnoyarsk is that all the girls dress up day as if we are at a party and the time has come for dancing. And the weather, among other things, for such light clothing is not available. Wonder how the poor girls are not cold. Apparently, the desire to intrigue and allure of men they are stronger than the weather conditions. And intrigue they gracefully, so easily.

Russian girls to hook you, fall in love, and then go quiet coffee drink. And though you die!
Do Russian women have a great desire to please. This is seen in the capital, but especially pronounced in the province.

Russian men are well aware of the uniqueness of their women. Wherever you arrive, Russian man, you say that in his city are the most beautiful women ...

A little secret - the most beautiful girls live in the city of Samara. There is anecdote, that Catherine II allegedly drove from St. Petersburg all the prostitutes and send them to the settlement in Samara. Perhaps, therefore, year after year, these beauties are born.

Summing up, we can say that the Russian girl did not fit the generally accepted understanding of what needs to be a girl. It shares many features of the representatives of cats: it somewhat mysterious, somewhat fanatical, and sometimes is very much like a sphinx. It is devoid of bias - at least generally - and, therefore, is an inexhaustible source of surprises...
Press review by Old Man.

CIS can not survive the crisis.

2009-06-25T17:23:00.000-07:00

The lack of a strong center in the Commonwealth of forcing its members to seek out one by one.

The current crisis will cause the strengthening of centrifugal trends among the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), because no single policy or a plan of joint action between them has not yet been developed, while the number of interstate conflicts is growing. At the same time Russia, as the center of the organization that objectively reinforces these negative trends, showing some of the worst socio-economic results for the January-April.

At a time when most countries have been faced with huge economic problems, a strong center could enhance centripetal tendencies. But how Russia could become such a center is not yet entirely clear, given that it is today one of the worst of current socio-economic outcomes and objectively enhances growth directly opposite - centrifugal - trends.

In recent years, the number of problems between the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is increasing. Aware of the difficulties in the relationship between Russia and Ukraine on the gas issue. The accident in the gas transportation system was the cause of the conflict Russia with Turkmenistan. Not all clear in relations with Azerbaijan. Finally, the recent milk conflict with Minsk Moscow has formed yet another crack in the CIS. Therefore, the prospects for union if there is such a great number of conflicts, which only exacerbates the crisis, seemed clearly mixed.

Best Socio-economic indicators among the CIS countries in January-April, are Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, where GDP growth (based on data for the first quarter) was 7.9% and 4.3% respectively. In the area of positive GDP growth in Tajikistan were at 2.9% and Belarus - 1.2%. The worst results estimated BCF demonstrate Ukraine and Moldova, where the decline in industrial production amounted to 31.9 and 25.7% respectively. All the more regrettable that Russia, which is and should be the center of Union, turned out to be closer to outsiders, showing minus 14.9% for industry and minus 9.8% - of GDP.

In addition, the allied countries, there are different degrees of action to resolve the crisis, and to combine them is problematic. The most explicit government program to combat the crisis, according to the findings of researchers - from Kazakhstan.

The worst situation in Ukraine, to analyze a program by which the output of the dire situation it is difficult for the simple reason that it has not yet been approved. This country's economic performance is rapidly declining.

In 85% of Russian companies use obscene words.

2009-06-25T17:07:00.000-07:00

Only 12% of Russians say that in their offices, obscene speech is not used. 44% claim that obscene speech is often heard, 41% - that they are rarely used, clarified Service Research, interviewed at the beginning of June 3387 people over 18 years throughout Russia.

The leaders on the use of obscene words are marketing (51%), engineering and technical workers (50%), transport and logistics (50%), telecommunications (49%), retail chains (46%).

The leaders of comity - the companies that provide services to the population (49%) and businesses (47%), banks, financial and insurance companies (47%).

Lewd language so called obscene, that it does not fit in any rules of corporate culture. The head, which makes obscene remarks to the subject, first, showing disrespect to them, and secondly, shows his own powerlessness - is, he can not achieve obedience normal words.

Indecent speech can sometimes be useful - as an expression of emotions, combining the staff, to improve the effectiveness of action in extreme situations, for accurate, concise and emkogo description of the situation, to improve overall mood and enhance mutual understanding - the General Director of Economics and law school.

Resident detained in Moscow for a blog post.

2009-06-25T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, members of law enforcement bodies detained a resident of Moscow for publication in the blog entries extremist content. 21-year-old girl, whose name has not been disclosed, has placed in his internet diary of a certain allowance for street terrorism. The audit found that the computer from which it was made, is set in one of the houses on the street Zelenodolsk. Representatives of law enforcement officials in Moscow said that the arrest was made on 20 June. In relation to a suspected criminal case under article 282 of the Criminal Code ( «of inciting interethnic hatred»). Implication of delayed to accommodate the web «manual on street terror» doubt in consequence not a cause, added to the police.

A unique rescue operation carried out from the city of Volgograd to the bank of the River Volga.

2009-06-25T07:10:00.000-07:00

Rescuers have destroyed some ammunition, hundreds of the Great Patriotic War (World War 2), which are raised from the bottom of a river. Detect dangerous metal objects underwater diver assisted the special scanner. It is rusty in the 60-odd years of projectiles on the city streets are too dangerous to carry, so to bring their boats to a deserted island Volga, where lay in a specially dug pit and blown up. In the place where the rescuers learned of ammunition, in 1942, was one of the military links. According to her besieged Stalingrad brought shells. Therefore, according to experts, for engineers, apparently, there still remain not one such expedition.

In the city of Perm to commit one of the largest in Russia attacks on the collector.

2009-06-25T06:24:00.000-07:00

According to preliminary data, abducted more than 250 million rubles. Was injured during the incident there. Law enforcement officials have identified robber. He was one of the collector, Alexander Shurman. According to police, he stopped the car, threatening to colleagues in arms, and then shifted bags bills in another car and escaped. Now way it searches.

In the commission of a robbery suspect, Alexander Shurman. For the provision of information about the scheduled fee.

The financial crisis in the CIS countries.

2009-06-24T17:09:00.000-07:00

Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan the first of the CIS will be a crisis. Among the leaders to combat the financial crisis also includes Tajikistan and Belarus. Russian anti-crisis program was the most expensive and one of the most inefficient.

The crisis is everywhere, say experts, but in each country to show him the different indicators.

Now the worst macroeconomic indicators show the Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. Industrial production in these countries during the period from January to April 2009 fell by 31,9, 25,7 and 14,9% respectively. In Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan all this time, increased GDP. During the first quarter, GDP grew by 9.9%, Azerbaijan - by 4.3%.
GDP growth is not a sign of a lack of crisis.

Despite the growth of individual indicators, the crisis is everywhere. In some countries, the crisis is that a slowdown in economic performance, and here the CIS countries are no exception.

The success of the CIS countries in addressing the crisis depends on the prospects for the Russian economy. Countries that have become self-sufficient, and maintain the momentum of growth in key macroeconomic indicators - GDP, industrial production, consumption - Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, have all chances to get ahead of Russia on restoration. Among the leaders include Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Tajikistan.
Most to combat the crisis spends Russia. Russian anti-crisis program, one of the most inefficient in the CIS. This is due partly to the fact that a plan to deal with the crisis came eight months after its onset. Most of the companies in time of crisis program. In Kazakhstan, it was introduced in January. In Tajikistan, the program was in the form of messages from the president, and in Uzbekistan, a book of President Islam Karimov on the crisis.

In Ukraine and Moldova in the approved program to combat the crisis is still there. Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus, including in his program of activities to support the demand, showed the best result for countering the crisis.

Russian pedophiles threatening chemical castration.

2009-06-24T16:47:00.000-07:00

The State Duma approved the stricter criminal penalties for crimes against children. MPs vote «for», differed in degree of stringency of the document. «Antipedofilny law», as he dubbed parliamentarians, perhaps in the next reading will lead to the imposition of chemical castration.

The lower house of parliament approved the first reading of amendments to 14 articles of the Penal Code, to increase criminal liability for crimes against life, health and sexual integrity of minors. The changes referred to such items as «Murder», «The deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm», «Rape», «Depraved acts».

The MPs suggest that over the past three years, Russia has sharply increased the number of crimes against children. For example, in 2008, according to MPs, victims of such crimes were 126 thousand young Russians. These statistics led the legislators to the idea of tightening the responsibility for such crimes.

First of all we are talking about increasing the sentences of criminals. The maximum term of service of sentence increased from 15 to 20 years. In addition, the criminals will not be able to get parole or commutation of sentence, if not spent three-quarters time.

Changes to the Criminal Code distinguishes between the degree of punishment depending on the child's age (less than a year - the more severe punishment). The bill includes an increase of sentence if the victim died due to violence. It does not take into account the age of the child.

The amendments impose more stringent regulation of child-rearing. For the «improper upbringing» (which accompanies the child abuse), the minor or his parents, teachers increases the penalty - from 40 thousand rbl. up to 100 thousand rubles.

Such measures tightening the responsibility for 366 deputies supported pedophilia. Against the remaining 57 members of parliament. Second reading of the bill is likely to be held in autumn session of the Duma.

Because of bad weather in Sakhalin evacuate people. Weather forecasters predicts a new cyclone.

2009-06-24T05:58:00.000-07:00

In several areas of the Sakhalin region launched an emergency mode.

Last night there were the two monthly precipitation norm. This was not the history of
meteorological observations. Paralyzed rail traffic. Multiple sites on the rails came down sat. Weather caught on the road, hundreds of people - they have to wait clearing roads in cars. In addition, because of the cliffs overhead power lines without light were 14 villages, broken telephone. Completely turned off water supply city Aniv. Drinking water for people are now brought in tanks. All emergency and utilities Sakhalin to enhance mode - to eliminate the effects of
cyclone will require no less days. Rescuers have evacuated from the dangerous areas more than 50 people, including children.

Prognosis poor weather forecaster, tomorrow on Sakhalin is expected to cyclone. State of emergency declared in three districts, including in the neighborhood Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, in Aniva and Makarovskiy areas. In Vladimirovka flooded more than 100 yards. The most difficult situation in Aniva area here in the morning already visited the emergency committee. Calculated losses.

Inflation in Russia: World Bank.

2009-06-24T05:48:00.000-07:00

The World Bank maintains a forecast of inflation in Russia in 2009 at the level of 11-13%, while the balance of payments while maintaining stable oil prices above 50 dollars per barrel.

As the World Bank report on the economy of Russia, the sharp slowdown in domestic demand and the continuing shortage of credit could help reduce inflation.

The significant weakening of fiscal policy and, in particular, the use of the Reserve Fund may lead to excess liquidity in the economy and increase inflation. Current account balance will decrease significantly as compared to the year 2008, but remain within the 30-40 billion dollars (2,5-3% of GDP) in 2009 and 2010.

The outflow of capital, non-repayment of debt is likely to be moderate due to weakening of the uncertainty about the global economy and rising oil prices, experts believe the World Bank.

On the roof of the house heads of district administrations of St. Petersburg threw a bomb.

2009-06-24T05:19:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW, June 24.

Police searching for the unknown, which is on the night of Wednesday threw an improvised explosive device on the roof of a house head of administration of the Pushkin District of St. Petersburg, as a result of the explosion is not affected, slightly damaged roof of the building.

The explosion occurred at 02.30 in the town of Alexander Pushkin area outside institute. According to preliminary data, the explosion of home-made device, which is equivalent to the capacity of 100 grams of TNT.

Currently working at the scene investigative team, determine whether to institute criminal proceedings.

Hundreds of thousands of cell phones stuck in customs in Moscow.

2009-06-24T05:05:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW, June 24.
Entry into force of the new order of customs registration of mobile phones has resulted in a few days only on Moscow's decision to accumulated hundreds of thousands.

The document commits the customs officers to inspect 100% of cargo. Boxes required to open and check the numbers on all of the stated specifications. In particular, it is necessary to verify the model cells, embedded memory card, IMEI-number of tubes, etc. According to newspaper sources, the new instruction will be in effect until September.

A source in the Federal Customs Service said that the increasing control of the imported goods, the service wants to improve collection of payments. Meanwhile, as claimed by managers of companies - manufacturers of phones, a new requirement has paralyzed the work of customs officers. So far checks have been selected.

As of June 23, at the customs post «Sheremetyevo» and «Domodedovo» accumulated more than 440 thousand Nokia phones worth about 30 million euro, and this figure is constantly growing.

Do Samsung have not gone through customs several hundred thousand phones. Motorola had rastamozhit a large consignment of phones last week, now at the customs to several tens of thousands of devices. SonyEricsson does not comply with delivery times and losses. Companies have to pay phones in the temporary custody of customs warehouses.

The period after which the consequences will become apparent in the market is, according to various estimates, from a week to a month.

In St. Petersburg was called the International Naval Salon.

2009-06-24T04:48:00.000-07:00

International Naval Salon opens on Wednesday in St. Petersburg. Four naval ships of Russia, five ships of the Navy of Great Britain, Spain, France and the Netherlands demonstrate their capabilities at the berths of Russia's northern capital.

All applications for participation in the cabin brought 60 companies from 25 countries. Exhibition area occupied 15 thousand square meters.

June 26, the water after a new ship for the Border Service of Russia's FSB. Also showcased will be a unique missile system Club-S for submarines and Club-N for surface ships. Missile systems designed to attack surface ships, submarines and shore facilities under intense fire and electronic countermeasures.

For foreign delegations to demonstrate the actions of the Russian artillery and rifle system. Scheduled performances flight teams «Russian Knights» and «Strizh»

How much is the cheapest apartment in Moscow?

2009-06-23T19:50:00.000-07:00

Miel-Brokerage Company has identified what the price limit is the so-called buffer zone on the secondary market of Moscow and Moscow region. That price limit was the amount of 3 million rubles.

According to Miel-Brokerage, buy an apartment in the secondary market value of up to 3 million rubles, inclusive can only be in the Moscow region. Minimum price of apartment in Moscow is 3.2 million rubles.

At the same proportion of flats, which cost no more than 3 million, accounting for 5.5% of the total volume of the company Miel-Brokerage.

Based on the study, the analysts the company to identify the most typical examples of apartments whose value is exactly 3 million. Of these, the largest number of proposals (64.3%) were two apartments, in second place (28,6%) - one, the third place is occupied by three flat (7.1%).

1-room apartments for 3 million rubles offered, for example: in the town of Khimki (brick house, the area of 24.5 sq. km. Meters) in the village of Oktyabrsky Lyuberetskogo area (monolith-brick house, the area of 44.2 sq. km. Meters) in City Pushkino (panel house, the area of 45.6 sq. km. m).

2-room apartments for 3 million can be found in all areas of the Moscow Region, except in the west, at different distances from the Moscow Ring Road (from 13 to 120 kilometers), for example, in Shchelkovo, Lyubertsy, Troitsk, Electrostal and Pushchino.

3-room apartments for 3 million rubles in Moscow also occur. For example, in the village Golovkovo (Naro-Fominsk district, panel house, the area of 66 sq. km. M).

Three eruptions of Kamchatka volcanoes can be observed online.

2009-06-23T16:42:00.000-07:00

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
To monitor on-line for volcanoes Klyuchevsky, Unnamed and Shiveluch purchased two modern high-resolution camera, after adjustment, estimated in August and September, the image will be updated volcanoes erupt on the Internet at a frequency of once per minute.

At present, continuous monitoring of the Klyuchevsky, nameless and Shiveluch is only on the volcanic-station located between the giant erupt. In the network, at the Kamchatka Branch of Geophysical Service, Russian Academy of Sciences (http://emsd.iks.ru) colossus images are updated only at the request of the user and not more than once every few hours.

For settlements Kamchatka Region, the nearest of which - in the Keys town 50 kilometers, volcanoes do not represent danger. There is also the likelihood of falling ash. Volcanic Ash - particles magmatic material to 2 millimeters in diameter - is capable of causing poisoning in humans and animals. Ash plumes stretch for hundreds of kilometers, could pose a threat to aviation.

The next presidential elections in Ukraine held on 17 January 2010.

2009-06-23T11:32:00.000-07:00

Parliament of Ukraine adopted a decision on the date of the next presidential election. They held on 17 January 2010. Around the timing of the vote has long been a severe political struggle.

In April, the Verkhovna Rada appointed election on October 25. But Yushchenko has made in the court cancel the ruling. Date approved today, is fully consistent with the Ukrainian Constitution.

According to the Constitution, the term of office of President shall be five years. Viktor Yushchenko took the post of head of state in January 2005.

Where love «Zhiguli» (Lada )?

2009-06-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

Analysis of the car park in Russia's cities showed that most car brand Lada like in Dagestan Hasavyurte!
In Hasavyurte fleet at 74.1% of cars made in Togliatti. Hasavyurt preferably even ahead of the car Lada Togliatti, where the Lada was 73.5% fleet.

For cities with a high percentage of Lada on country roads can be attributed Dimitrovgrad (69.3%), Derbent (68.1%), Novotroick (65%), Syzran (64.8%), October (64.4%), Nizhnekamsk (63%), Dace (62%), Orsk (61.6%), Zlatoust (61.6%), Lincoln (61.3%), Neftekamsk (60.9%), Makhachkala (60.6% ) Sterlitamak (60%), Nazran (59.1%), Balakovo (58.2%), Salavat (58%), Moore (57.7%), Pervouralsk (57.7%), Novoshakhtinsk (57, 4%) and Circassian (57.2%), Naberezhnye Chelny (56.7%), Engels (56.6%), Elista (56.4%), Novocheboksarsk (55.5%), Saransk (55,3 %), Orenburg (55.3%), and Novokuybyshevsk (55.3%).

Lowest car brand Lada - the Far East. In Vladivostok Lada holds 4.2% of all vehicles, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - 5%, in Nakhodka - 5.4%, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - 5.9%, and in Khabarovsk - 6,4%. Also, little Lada cars in Kaliningrad - only 7.5%.

The unique method of treating leukemia in children developed by the Russian doctors.

2009-06-23T03:40:00.000-07:00

The Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Yekaterinburg city developed a new method of treating leukemia in infants.

The disease from which children die before the year, managed to win.

If detected early in infants lymphoblastic leukemia, doctors warned the parents: you need to prepare for the worst. Cope with the disease could not. One only chemotherapy or even radical surgery - the transplantation of stem cells - only worsened the situation.

We decided to use in the treatment of seemingly well-known product - provitamin A or trans-Retinoic acid. It is mainly prescribed to adults, and not only in leukemia. Doctors conducted a study: ATRA, an international symbol acids, may fight cancer and a very young patients.

At the initial stage of a chemotherapy, and after the tumor destroyed the bulk of chemotherapy and remained the most resistant cells to treatment, effects on these cells are full of trans Retinoic acid.
After this course the children are noticeably faster on the mend. A method of treatment Uralic medics named the MLL-Baby - symbol of the gene mutations in exposed infants.

Methods developed in the Urals, have been successfully treated leukemia in infants and in other Russian regions - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod and Arkhangelsk. Little lives with the help of this protocol began to save in Belarus. And even in Germany, which has its own methods of treatment.

German colleagues at first did not even imagine how effective can be treated using provitamin A. Now, they say: the Russians coined the method can be described as phenomenal.

As Russia began to issue SUV «Rys-3».

2009-06-23T03:29:00.000-07:00

In mid-February this year in Togliatti in PSA «Bronte» started production of a new SUV based on the Lada 4x4, which was named «Lynx».

«Lynx» like so many, that this model has been very good SUV, which is in the mud feels much more confidently standard Lada 4x4. «Lynx» ampliar clearance (clearance to cross the front suspension is a minimum of 255 mm and the clearance to the rear beam axle is equal to 250 mm), auto differentials at both the front and rear, larger moves suspensions.

Prices for the whole family «lynxes» is already known. Now the base 3-door «Rys-1» is 367 000 rubles. During the 5-door «Rys-2» are requested to 392 000 rub., And here for «Rys-3» with body enlarged the capacity needed to pay already EUR 480 000.

Far East District. Vladivostok scientists «emigrate» in Moscow and Khabarovsk.

2009-06-22T21:35:00.000-07:00

A move in Primorye pensioner and former residents of the Central Asian republics.

For the year 2008 the population decreased by more than 83 thousand people. And leave the edge of highly qualified specialists working age. And choose Primorye mostly migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Over the past seven years (since the All-Russian census in 2002) the flow of newcomers from the mountainous republic increased by 14.7 times, while the southern area - 20 times.

Of those residents who left permanently from Primorye, nearly 70 percent - the professionals. Of these, 33.2 percent have a college degree and nearly 30 percent - secondary. 43 - 45 percent - the leaders of different levels and a highly qualified workforce. In recent years, from the left edge of 59 PhDs, and only 36 came. Why do residents of the Primorye region leaves?

- People are attracted by the city with a better quality of life - it is employment, wages, provide decent social services: education, health, housing. From these considerations, the majority of the inhabitants of Primorye move to Khabarovsk, Moscow and Moscow region, St. Petersburg. An increase in the number of left edge because of unfavorable environmental conditions - at 17.4 percent, and also because of the inappropriate climate - at 13.5 percent.

Statisticians predict that soon the population of Primorye will decline. Fewer people of working age will, as more retirees. It is anticipated that the number of deaths in 2,8 times exceeds the flow of migrants.

Residents of Primorye choose Khabarovsk. In recent years there has grown the standard of living. Cheaper apartments, there are no problems with heating and water supply. Good roads to interchanges and lighting. Above the common culture and security. And a completely different psychological atmosphere, especially with regard to power to scientists.

An attempt on the president of Ingushetia.

2009-06-22T07:06:00.000-07:00

An attempt on the president of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov happened on Monday in Nazran. According to witnesses, the best car traffic police had been unable to resist the bandits maneuver, the car which was in the center column.

In total, the scene took four people, among whom was the president of the republic, his satisfactory. Doctors do not comment on his condition.

22.06, 15:56:

Injured as a result of the assassination, President of Ingushetia Yunus-bek Evkurov taken for treatment in Moscow by plane MOE. The same board in Moscow brought the brother of the Heads of Ingushetia Uvays Evkurov also injured during the attack on the Ingush president, and investigator of the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Aslan Meir injured the previous day.

From the airport victims brought into one of Moscow hospitals, where they continue their treatment. During the flight of the wounded were accompanied by eight doctors and EMERCOM MHSD.

Before sending to the capital Evkurov came to mind. Now doctors described his condition as stable heavy.

On Monday morning, suicide bomber in a car with explosives rammed motorcade of President of Ingushetia. As a result of suicide bombing killed two people - officials, died at the scene and the driver of car the President of the republic, Ramzan Evkurov died later in hospital. Another three people, including Yunus-Bek Evkurova were hospitalized.

On the territory of Ingushetia region Nazranovskogo regime introduced counter-terrorism operations. Role as President of Ingushetia is the responsibility of the President of the Government of the Republic Rashid Gaysanov.

In Russia - the Day of memory and grief.

2009-06-21T16:43:00.000-07:00

In Russia - the Day of memory and grief. He is the President of the Russian Federation, dated 8 June 1996 and notes on the day of the Great Patriotic War (World War II). At dawn on 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany treacherously attacked the Soviet Union. It caused a massive air strike on airfields, railway hubs, naval bases, places of quartering of troops, and many cities to a depth of 250-300 km from the state border. Against the USSR by Italy, Hungary, Finland and Romania.

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest casualties of the Second World War. The total loss of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, which lasted 1418 days and nights, was 26 million 600 thousand people, including the military - 8 million 660 thousand people, including 6.5 million who perished in the battles.

Also in the cities of Belarus and Ukraine on the night of June 22, runs popular action "Candle of Memory". In Moscow, activists patriotic youth movements the previous evening lay flowers on the grave of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden and the eternal flame lit a candle as a sign of mourning for the dead. Then - at the Poklonnaya Hill - to the stocks joined thousands of people. Becoming a party to the action could anyone - exactly 23 hours - it was enough to set on the windowsill of their apartment lighted candle.

Professional holiday note doctors.

2009-06-21T04:03:00.000-07:00

Today, a professional holiday for those whose work can not be overstated: Russian Physicians, nurses, orderlies and paramedics accept congratulations on the Day of Health employee.

In the third Sunday in June, residents of Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine, for a multi-year tradition, marks the Day of the health care worker.

Day of the medical officer noted in Russia under the decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1 October 1980 «On holidays and commemorative days». This professional holiday celebrated by the doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and orderlies.

In the list of honor is the title of Russia «Honorary health care worker of Russian Federation» and the «Honorary Doctor of Russian Federation».

Medical Worker Day traditionally celebrated in the former Soviet Union as a celebration of people dedicated to the noble cause of preserving the lives and health of citizens.
This date has long reached beyond the purely professional holiday, because the light is not a man who would not seek the assistance of people in white coats.

That day, health workers in particular felt a need and its value, take pride in their profession, their successes and achievements.

In the Far East, operates 15 fire.

2009-06-20T19:23:00.000-07:00

On the territory of the Far Eastern region operates 15 natural fires covering an area of active burning of 47.53 hectares, the total area of fires - 1 956 ha.

In the Magadan region operates 10 fires in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - the five fires. Threats to human settlements and economic facilities there.

Last night in the Far East, eliminated 12 pockets of natural fires.

Since the beginning of forest fire period in the territory of the Far Eastern Federal District had 1 412 natural fire, the area damaged by fire, of 578 954.05 ha.

The Far East. Official raped young daughter and put the video on the Internet (Yakutia).

2009-06-20T18:43:00.000-07:00

Specialist Administration Region of Yakutia Abyysky committed debauchery with a nine-daughter in front of the camera and recording spread on the Internet. According to investigation, all this lasted for months, but, according to the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, the father of the girl thus tortured for three years.

Scared silent child until the mother took her girls are not scheduled for examination in the hospital, where it was found that long-lived female sexuality.

The Investigation Committee on the Public Ministry of the Russian Federation Yakutia showed perpetrator charged with seven episodes. He faces eight to fifteen years in prison. The case will be reviewed by the Supreme Court of Yakutia.

Law enforcement officials have destroyed militants in Kabardino-Balkaria.

2009-06-20T18:31:00.000-07:00

On Saturday during a special operation by law enforcement officers in the district were destroyed Elbrussky few members of illegal armed groups, said a source in the power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Nalchik, June 21 - RIA Novosti. Law enforcement officials on Saturday, destroying several participants Wahhabi bandpodpolya Kabardino-Balkariya, told RIA Novosti on Sunday, a source in the power structures of the country.

The participants of illegal armed groups have been eliminated after the car in which they moved, not subject to the requirement for the police to stop. At the scene of an accident investigation and operational working group, set all the circumstances of the incident.

The Great Depression in Russian.

2009-06-20T02:55:00.000-07:00

Business called on the authorities to change the rules of the game.

Summit business «Strong Russia», where the authorities and business should have been peacefully agree on ways to overcome the crisis, a troubled started. The accumulated resentment crisis measures, the Government of escape: from the restrained boards business people sometimes go to the emotions. No false restraint, they talked about the enormous corruption and lack of systematic, transparent steps to the future after the end of the crisis.

Dialogue between the authorities and the business has turned tense. Business representatives believe that the measures which are now the Government does not withdraw Russia from the crisis: rather than to support inefficient enterprises should be the example of European countries to stimulate the real economy and consumer demand. But the main thing - to go from the raw model of economy, for which all lopsided now pay. The real economy, according to representatives of «Business Russia», the Government does not support. In the face of power crisis will change the rules of the game, but closer to the time will end the contingency fund, said a representative of the business. According to him, until the money is, the rate of anti-crisis measures unlikely to change.

In Lithuania, the orchestra performed "Serenade" by Tchaikovsky, flying hot air balloon.

2009-06-20T02:35:00.000-07:00

For the first time in the history of Vilnius concert of classical music sounded over the city.
Lithuanian Orchestra of St. Christopher performed the famous "Serenade" by Tchaikovsky at the hot air balloon at an altitude of bird flight. Four violins played by classical
accompaniment of the whistling wind and the sound of gas burning. As a conductor, so
Tchaikovsky had not yet served no one. But he believes that surprising: the holy
Christopher - the patron of travelers, that's just the orchestra is required to match!

Moscow. Bad parts: the three worst places of the capital.

2009-06-19T16:28:00.000-07:00

They say, in Moscow to live well. Not in vain because people come here from all over Russia, and even from other countries in the world. For many, has long been a dream to buy an apartment in the capital, often does not matter in what area. But there is where the life of the capital is not so good.

The preferred have been and remain central areas of Moscow. This recently recognized by the most expensive Yakimanka and Hamovniki, Arbat, Ostozhenka Net ponds, Tverskaya.

It's no secret that these prestigious areas, although at the expense of the historic center, but it is not always comfortable for living. There are always tourists throng, noisy stream of cars, gas air. The dream of a quiet and prestigious center frequently and remains a dream. But despite this, people with high prosperity seeking to buy an apartment here, to underline their status.

But where the residents of Moscow did not want to move in any case? Where sales are slower and the total price is lower than the average for the District?

First of all, it Kapotnya. It is called one of the 12 districts of South-East district of Moscow. This place is famous for the fact that here are the Moscow Oil Refinery (from 1938), a few more plants - in total more than hundreds of different enterprises, as well as the two prisons. Not so far away and is sadly famous for its accident Chaginskaya substation.

Another outsider could be called Western Biryulevo. The district includes the border in Southern Administrative District of Moscow, has 64 thousand inhabitants. It is also one of the industrial areas of the capital. There is a large brewery «Efes», Vostryakovsky sausage factory, and most unpleasant, incineration plant «Ekotehprom», as well as TPP-26.

County Beskudnikovo also not popular. It is located in the north of the capital, the main highway - Highway Dmitrovskoye and Beskudnikovsky Blvd. Here is a major railway station Savelovskaya branches. Historically, this area was considered to be poor, because there was not a fertile land, and the name of the area is believed to historians, comes from the «Beskunnikovo», meaning «accommodation». Since 1874 environmental damages are based merchant Denisov brick factory, which has existed until now, producing ceramic tiles.

Russia. In the Rostov region fell bomber Su-24.

2009-06-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 19. Bomber Su-24 fell on Friday in the area of farms Costin-Bystrianska Morozov district of Rostov region. According to RIA «News» law enforcement source in the region, the two pilots ejected.

Chief of Air Force decided to suspend flights to Russia bombers "SU-24". The occasion was the second already this week, an accident of this type of bomber. Both the pilot survived. Crew bomber several times approach, but was unable to land due to technical faults in the system of governance. As the team leader of flight, the pilots increased the aircraft to a safe place and ejected. "Black boxes" are already detected. At the crash site flew Defense Commission. Just the day before yesterday similar incident occurred - "Su-24 crashed in the Murmansk region. The pilots then also managed to shoot.

A Practical Guide to Central Asia for tourists alone.

2009-06-19T05:26:00.000-07:00

Issued a practical guide for independent travelers to Central Asia, which describes the visit to the former USSR countries: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. How to get to this country by train, plane or hitchhiking as to move within the country, where to find accommodation, how to communicate with local people - these and other helpful tips are written by people who do not go there again. Information checked on a journey of the summer and autumn of 2007, so fresh and relevant.

According to the authors of the guide - experienced travelers Anton Krotov and Andrew Sapunov, with the help of this book tour in the countries of Central Asia will become more interesting, safer and cheaper. Buy this and other guides available on the Academy web site free of travelers.

Published a guide to the territory of the former USSR.

2009-06-19T05:10:00.000-07:00

In Russia released a practical guide for independent travelers "Near abroad. The entire territory of former USSR." Each of the articles written by people who have personally visited and described by the countries can share with readers their experiences. Author and compiler - the famous "free traveler" Anton Krotov.

The book is "Near abroad. The entire territory of the former USSR" covers 19 countries and territories that have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia and South Ossetia. Also guide contains a list of the 600 orthodox monasteries in Russia and the tourist calendar, songs and informal festivals.

Guide issued by publishing house "Geo-MT.

The Constitutional Court will be retired from the former USSR.

2009-06-19T05:02:00.000-07:00

The Constitutional Court has begun checking the constitutionality of the law "On the retirement pension to persons substitute public office of Nizhny Novgorod region".

This provision requires to take into account the seniority of civil servants in the government until 31 December 1991 only in the territory of the RSFSR, and work in similar positions in other republics of the USSR in the period is not included.

The complainant, Nizhny Novgorod retired, for 23 years held various positions in public administration and management of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, but the pension he was not appointed.

In his view, the contested rule is discriminatory, because of all the subjects of the Russian Federation only in Nizhny Novgorod in the appointment of retirement pension does not take into account experience in other republics of the USSR.

In Russia will forbid the importation of used vehicles older than 5 years.

2009-06-19T04:50:00.000-07:00

The Government of Russia is preparing a series of restrictive measures (and under certain conditions, and even prohibiting) the import of used cars and new cars, in direct competition models, produced in the territory of the Russian Federation. By this step, it also pushes the growing financial crisis, with its decline in the level of consumption and lack of funds.

Analysts suggest that the outcome of the meeting will be lowered the threshold of the so-called prohibitive duties on the importation of used vehicles older than 5 years (they now apply only to vehicles older than 7 years). In addition, the Government plans to raise import duties on new cars from 25% currently to 35% in the near future. Measures to increase import duties may affect both passenger cars and commercial, and freight.

The collective force - the States of the former Soviet Union - are united around Russia.

2009-06-19T04:20:00.000-07:00

Major geopolitical events occurred last week in Moscow - Russia and its allies among the former Soviet Union have signed several important agreements to work together in politics, economy and military. The Heads of State, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, have decided the formation of the collective rapid reaction forces, and at a meeting of the Interstate Council of EurAsEC presidents of the member countries decided to create a crisis fund amounting to 10 billion dollars, which will be formed within the next three months.

Su-25 attack plane leaves for military duty. Kant airfield - the first Russian foreign station, established after the dissolution of Union. The main objective squadron - cover with joint air ground operations grouping of CSTO. This organization is composed of 7 ex-Soviet republics: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

The radius of action of Su-25 allows you to cut almost to Dushanbe, the whole mountain region. After the reconstruction, the band will be here to take planes and long-distance aircraft - missile TU-95 and Tu-160. Kant airfield, as they say military experts, is located in the "core" point in Central Asia. This - "air gates" in Afghanistan.

As expected, under the unified command will set up three military groups: the Central Asian, West and South. Backbone of the Collective rapid deployment force will be 98 th Guards Tula Airborne division and 31 th Ulyanovskaya landing-assault brigade. Landing division identified Kazakhstan. Other countries send to the new structure for the battalion. The total troop strength of about 15 thousand people.

The presence of the Allied allow Russia to establish military facilities, including the deployment of air defense is also beyond the borders, and this increases the depth of defense, that from a military point of view it is very important. On this week signed an agreement to establish a joint Russian-Belarusian air system Defense.

Picket opposition dispersed in Tbilisi.

2009-06-19T04:15:00.000-07:00

The action took place at the residence of the President of Georgia. Defeated camp,
broken iron cage installed protesters as a symbol of restriction their civil liberties. Some demonstrators were beaten. They argue that the case hands of police officers. The opposition, for several months, requiring the resignation of Mikhail Saakashvili, reiterated that the surrender did not intend. They promise set at the same place twice as many tents and cells.

Film Festival begins in Moscow.

2009-06-19T04:06:00.000-07:00

This evening will XXXI Moscow International Film Festival.

For the first time this holiday was exactly half a century ago. Audience waiting for a lot of surprises. The program this year, critics called the "particularly interesting". Before cinema "Pushkin" spread carpet track, and pull the posters - here this evening the public will greet the participants and guests of the festival. In another famous Moscow theater - "Art" - the press and critics to study the calendar of sessions. What movies to watch - I choose in advance. Moscow Film Festival opens this evening only, but the audience has a problem: see everything just physically impossible.

Weather in some regions of Russia.

2009-06-19T03:55:00.000-07:00

Cold front passed and the European part of Russia, and Siberia. The strongest wind gusts recorded in the Samara region - up to 24 meters per second. In Omsk, the storm was of such force that even the large trees uprooted, along with the roots. Damaged some buildings, damaged cars. To deal with the consequences of nature clearly did not leave one day. In doing so, according to the MOE, the threat of emergency situations in the region persists. In the vicinity of Lake Baikal cyclone hit the ground first heavy rains, and then do - snow. In the Irkutsk region fell to 30 mm precipitation, while in neighboring Buryatia - more than 60. Wind gusts reached 20 meters per second. Storm warning remains in this area, and suburban landscapes are more like winter, but not in June.

In Russia have identified 13 «crisis» regions.

2009-06-19T03:45:00.000-07:00

Thirteen regions are included in the group «crisis» because of falling revenues.

By the «crisis» regions include Tatarstan, the Khanty-Mansi, Krasnoyarsk and Perm Krai, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Volgograd, Kemerovo, Kursk, Novgorod, Orenburg, Samara and Chelyabinsk Region.

In the most difficult position on the budgetary performance in Chelyabinsk and Kemerovo region, severely affected by the sharp drop in revenues from income taxes - for 90 and 88 percent respectively.

Name the most useless profession in Moscow.

2009-06-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

Alumni, this year, completing the economic, psychological and legal faculties of higher educational institutions may experience serious difficulties in finding work.

To date, the profession of lawyers, psychologists and economists have become increasingly demanding in their place are managers, and graduates of technical universities. In Moscow, remained in demand, and graduates of pedagogical universities, said «Interfax».

Kiev has been one of the cheapest cities in the world.

2009-06-18T08:03:00.000-07:00

Kiev was in 196 th place in the ranking of most expensive cities for tourists, which was well-known London consulting firm ECA International.

The Ukrainian capital has become one of the cheapest cities in the world for foreigners because of the collapse of the currency. Last year, Kiev was on the 84 th place in the ranking, and this year it dropped immediately to 108 positions.

UAH desheveet the dollar and euro.

2009-06-18T07:38:00.000-07:00

Today in the cash market hryvna cheaper against the dollar and euro. This increase in the dollar is very low, and rates of purchase and sale euro rose by an average of 2-3 kopecks.

At the same time, the Ukrainian hryvnia rate in relation to the Russian ruble is not changed significantly.

Thus, the exchange rate of dollar buying is 7,60-7,67 grn / dollar., Sales - 7,67-7,70 grn / dollar. Cash euro banks to buy 10,48-10,67 grn / euros, sell on 10,69-10,85 grn / euros. Course of purchase of the ruble is 2,0-2,45, sales - 2,45-2,8 grn for 10 rbl.

National Bank today, slightly lowered the official hryvnia rate on the dollar - up to 7,619 UAH / USD. At the same time, the regulator for more than two pennies raised the official rate of the domestic currency against the euro - up to 10.544696 grn / euros. Russian ruble rate set at 2.4475 UAH for 10 rubles.

Today's trading on the dollar in the interbank foreign exchange market opened, and at 10:36 are in the range 7,6345-7,6680 grn / dollar. According to the company InterBiznesKonsalting, trading in the euro opened in the range 10,6550-10,7020 grn / euros, trading in ruble - 0,2451-0,2466 UAH / USD.

Quotes of the proposed intervention today by the National Bank currency pair USD / UAH constitute 7,61-7,63 grn / dollar.

Recall yesterday's trading in the dollar in the interbank foreign exchange market ended in the range 7,6435-7,6505 grn / dollar. Tenders for the euro closed at 10,5780-10,5965 UAH / EUR, the ruble - 0,2443-0,2451 UAH / USD.

Weather in Ukraine: heat comes back.

2009-06-18T07:25:00.000-07:00

In the next few days in Ukraine is expected to further increase the temperature of the air, as well as a decrease in rainfall. Showers will still be a nuisance only to residents of the western regions. The average air temperature of about 11-16 ° at night and 25-30 ° of heat during the day, said Liga.net.

In Kiev on Thursday night from 7-12 ° to 21-26 ° during the day. No precipitation. On Saturday, rain is possible. Night 13-18 °, daytime 25-30 °. On Sunday mostly dry. Night 13-18 °, daily air temperature from 25 to 30 °. In the Kiev area on Thursday is expected to variable cloudiness. Temperature - from 7-12 ° at night to 21-26 ° during the day. Wind south-western, eastern, 5-10 m / sec.

To the east on Friday, forecast to 5-10 ° at night, 22-27 ° during the day. Precipitation is not expected. On Saturday night синоптики predicted 11-16 °, day temperature 25-30 °, without the rain. On Sunday синоптики promise to dry weather. Night 13-18 °, daytime 25-30 °. Southeasterlies, 5-10 m / sec.

To the west on Thursday night is expected to 10-15 °, daytime 25-30 °, precipitation is expected. Saturday will be rain. Temperatures at night around 10-15 °, daytime 19-24 °. On Sunday night, the air temperature will be 11-16 °, the day about 20-25 °. Expected rainy weather. Wind south-western, eastern, 5-10 m / sec. Partly gusts up to 15-20 m / sec.

In the southern parts of the June 19, from 12 to 17 ° at night, 21-26 ° of heat during the day. Weather forecasters promise dry weather. On Saturday night - about 14-19 °, day temperature 25-30 ° heat, rain. Sunday is expected to variable cloudiness. At night around 14-19 °, daytime 25-30 ° heat. Southeasterlies, 5-10 m / sec.

In the central regions of the short night of 6-11 °, daytime 22-27 °, dry weather is expected. On Saturday, without rain. Night 12-17 °, daytime 25-30 ° heat. On Sunday afternoon синоптики promise Central Ukraine cloudy days. The temperature at night - about 13-18 °, daytime thermometers show 25-30 ° heat. Wind south-western, eastern, 5-10 m / sec.

Israel rejected the visa-free Ukraine.

2009-06-18T07:10:00.000-07:00

Israel changed to abolish visa requirements for Ukrainians.

According to the Minister of Tourism of Israel, in Jerusalem in connection with the economic crisis questioned the solvency of Ukrainian tourists, and now consider the desirability of the initiative.

Previously planned that after Russia imposed a visa-free regime with Ukraine.

Where will the Russians to relax this summer.

2009-06-17T21:02:00.000-07:00

Most operators agree that this year, Russian tourists abandon long-distance lines, preferring the next low-cost countries and their southern resorts.

Tour operators believe that the crisis will adjust the flow of tourists, but is unlikely to radically alter the geography of departure.

In their view, the main country of mass beach tourism remains Turkey. The reasons are not so much in price, but in proximity and the absence of visa barriers.

Among European countries, rest mass of Russians, on the basis of last year, the leaders are France, Italy and Croatia.

According to the Federal Agency for Tourism of Russia, in 2009, will go abroad at less than 20-25% of Russian tourists than in 2008.

How much is in this season's holiday in the Crimea.

2009-06-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

Crimean homeowners say that the booking of accommodation on the Black Sea coast this year is several times less than normal. The cost of apartments and rooms in hotels has become a fall. A similar situation - and in other traditional private holiday resorts Russians.

According to estimates of Realtors, at the beginning of the season empty at least one-third vacancy housing. Residents complain about the weather in Crimea - in early May, the rains came. However, another expert opinion. In preparation for the May season, the prices compared to last year in the U.S. grew by 10-15%. The cost of the low-cost housing was $ 30 a day average - 50.

The number of applications automatically fell in three. Particularly badly failed in the price of the western coast of Crimea, Evpatoria, sand and the eastern coast of Crimea. The cost of accommodation is reduced, which could not affect the private sector.

At Yalta, the range of the June home prices range from 180 to 350 hryvnia per day, a double room in a mini-hotel with sea views can be rented for 700 hryvnia. The southern coast is to stay 100 hryvnia per day per person with meals. On the east coast of the Crimea - from 60 hryvnia. Room with amenities - 40 hryvnia. Similar rates and on the west coast. One hryvna is approximately four Russian rubles.

Thus, without a vacation requests will cost between $ 160 to 720 rubles per day. On the demand - from one and a half thousand. Even in high season price rises by no more than 10-15% compared with traditional 50%.

3-star hotel offers rooms from 1200 to 2000 rubles.

The overall trend this season is that tourists prefer economy options. Business class - almost without a demand. At the same time decreased and the period for which the tourists come to the sea. More and more realtors clients choose an apartment for one to three days, rather than five or ten, as it was before.

Emergencies due to lightning and winds are possible in the four regions of the Far East.

2009-06-17T20:07:00.000-07:00

KHABAROVSK, June 18 - RIA Novosti, Larissa Dokuchaeva. Far Eastern Regional Center (DVRTS) EMERCOM Russia circulated on Thursday early warning of the likely emergency situations (disaster) in the coming days, in four regions of Far East, told the RIA news agency press-service.

«In the coming days, in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky region, the Amur and Jewish Autonomous Region is expected severe lightning rains with hail and wind gusts of 18 to 24 meters per second. In this regard, the power given to the readiness of the Ministry of Emergencies, advised heads of districts and the Department of Internal Affairs », - said the representative of the press-service DVRTS.

He noted that due to the weather may cause disaster to the inter-municipal level. Not excluded disruption of life, transport, damage to power lines and communications, low underflooding sites, increasing the number of accidents and injuries of people.

Sobesednik agency said that according to the Roshydromet, the worsening weather in the Amur region and the Jewish AO happen on the night of Friday, in the Khabarovsk territory - on the night from Friday to Saturday, in the Primorye weather comes on Sunday. Rain and wind will remain until Tuesday 23 June.

Su-24 crashed in the Murmansk region, the crew survived.

2009-06-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW / MURMANSK, June 17 - RIA Novosti. Bomber Su-24 crashed on Wednesday in the Murmansk area, the pilots managed to shoot. This is not the first accident SU-24 over the past six months in Russia, and currently deals with a possible suspension of their operations.

The accident, as reported by RIA Novosti, Assistant Chief of Russian Federation Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir DRIK occurred at 14.55 Moscow time to the airport Monchegorsk. Airplane performing routine flight, fell on the runways during approach. Meanwhile, spokesman for PG MES area Tatyana Zakharova told RIA Novosti that the Su-24 beyond the runway. The machine is completely destroyed and burned.

Both Su-24 pilot managed to shoot, their health concerns are not raised. Casualties and destruction on the ground there.

Georgia (Caucasus) eliminated the effects of an extreme downpour with hail.

2009-06-17T14:30:00.000-07:00

In the flooded streets of Tbilisi, paralyzed traffic. Under the water were
basements and first floors zdaniy.Gradom walnut-sized holes roofs, damaged dozens of cars. Here and there grew up the whole ice sugroby.Spasateli all night went to the challenges of the residents of affected areas - in the MES contacted hundreds people. The difficult situation now and in the north-east of the country. There, from the shores left Aragvi river. Destroyed the protective levees and bridges, making 17 in mountain villages were cut off from the outside world.

The strike of transport workers paralyzed the life in Estonia.

2009-06-17T14:27:00.000-07:00

Only in the capital Tallinn on routes not left dozens of buses, trolley buses and trams. And in the city of Tartu have not worked the entire public transport. Drivers
and conductors demanded improved working conditions and strengthen the fight against unemployment. The government made concessions do not intend to go so far. The protesters have vowed to hold further strikes if their demands were not met.

In the Lipetsk region (Russia) divers lifted from the bottom of the river poods old bell.

2009-06-17T14:25:00.000-07:00

In 30 of the last century, along with other village church bells removed with the belfry and the Bolsheviks were thrown into the water. Since then, local residents have repeatedly tried to to find a relic. Bell had already examined the specialists. They say that it is perfectly preserved and is of historical value. Relic will be kept in the Regional Museum. Local residents hope that it will be possible to find the other bells and belfry.

Rockets the Great Patriotic War (WWII ) found in the Crimea.

2009-06-17T14:14:00.000-07:00

Ukraine is quickly moving people from one of the beach. There in the water, just a few meters from the shore, found a mine of the Great Patriotic War. Young People dived for mussels, and came across a suspicious metal object. On their finding, they reported in the Rescue Service. Arrived on the scene specialists confirmed - mine contains about 300 kilograms of TNT and a serious danger. Charge destroyed on the spot.

"First Channel" became the owner of prestigious professional AWARD "PROMAX"

2009-06-17T14:09:00.000-07:00

Prize is awarded for achievements in the field of television marketing and design. "First" recognized as the best in the category of "total image of television." And another achievement - the channel has also been able to break the top three finalists, fought for victory in the nomination "The best news design studio" - but that the competition was incredible. The ceremony was held in New York and brought together representatives of major television companies in the world.

In Khabarovsk, the first in this season's death toll from the Tick-borne encephalitis.

2009-06-17T14:04:00.000-07:00

Doctors fought for a month for the life of the patient, which was this diagnosis,
but have not been able to withdraw 70-year-old woman from komy.Kstati, as experts say,
This year the number of ticks in the region has soared. Information is scary, especially given that the local type of the virus is extremely dangerous and, without timely treatment may lead to death patsientov.Nu, but the surest way to protect
from the disease - it is still vaccination. Recall the physicians and that, leaving
nature, must necessarily wear skintight clothes. And we must not forget inspect your body after a walk.

In Russia the new order becomes effective recognition of diplomas issued abroad.

2009-06-17T10:51:00.000-07:00

This information is important for foreigners who want to work or study in Russia. In our country, starts a new procedure for the recognition of diplomas and certificates issued abroad. Now a graduate of a foreign university would appeal to the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, and write the appropriate application.

Then already the case for our government officials - they will determine whether a foreign diploma falls within the scope of the treaty between Russia and the countries from which came the graduate. If this contract is - then no problem with wishing to continue their education or find work will not arise. If no agreement has not - the alien will have to give certificate for examination and await the Commission's decision.

Pay soldiers from 1 August will be increased.

2009-06-17T10:48:00.000-07:00

At the meeting, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with members of the Government was
aware that the indexation allowance to troops will be 8.5%.
This also applies to military pensions, which are directly related to the allowance.

The current increase in food war touches almost three million man.

Over 1100 children have already made summer camp Kalmykia.

2009-06-17T10:33:00.000-07:00

22 general educational establishments of the city Elista has opened its doors this summer as a children's recreation camp day stay in the moment, it rests 1,190 children. This summer, 141 children will ozdorovlen summer camps in the republic. For this purpose the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Kalmykia has 3,056,920 rubles.

The first part of the Fourth Ring in Moscow will open in mid-July.

2009-06-17T10:11:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW, June 17 - RIA Novosti. The first part of the Fourth transport ring in the length of three kilometers of highway Entuziastov and Izmailovsky Avenue builders promise to pass on 15 July, told reporters the prefect of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow.

Moscow opens exhibition of works of art from Germany.

2009-06-17T09:50:00.000-07:00

In the Moscow Kremlin Museums opened an exhibition, which presents subjects interior of the precious metal, created by masters from the city of Augsburg. In past century, many of these items were decorated with the royal houses of Europe. Organizers Russian exhibition was able to convey even the atmosphere in which they were created masterpieces.

To earn the favor ruler any State in XVII-XVIII centuries, the Ambassador was saying is: done in Augsburg. And then a diplomatic gift - whether it be a silver cup, a bronze a sculpture or a gold watch, then entered into the treasury of the country.

Buy in Augsburg goldsmiths works great - a tradition continued in Russia for a long time, and even bought for Catherine II, in particular, such travel services, which are represented here on our show.

Masterpieces of the Museum of Maximilian, the palace Shetslera and other German collections - Today in the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

In the center of Moscow collapsed part of the house, underneath the rubble, people can be.

2009-06-17T07:04:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW, June 17 - RIA Novosti. Section four repaired the old houses built on the embankment Sadovnicheskaya in Moscow collapsed under the rubble may be four, told the RIA Novosti source in law enforcement capital.

«Collapse at No. 78 on the embankment Sadovnicheskaya occurred in 16.45. According to preliminary data, the collapsed portion of the wall and the internal floor level with a fourth on the first floor. Under the rubble could be four workers », - said the agency interlocutor.

He noted that the location of emergency rescue personnel arrived the capital and several firefighters MOE calculations, which have already begun to search for people under the rubble.

Damage caused by an accident at Pipeline in Moscow, will be determined before the end of the week.

2009-06-17T04:45:00.001-07:00

Legal entities and individuals have already indicated they caused damage totaling more than 2 billion rubles, he added. Also Gasangadzhiev noted that the cost of 3 million cubic meters of gas burned as a result of the accident at about 8 million rubles.

The cause of the explosion on the pipeline Lake Street in Moscow on 10 May were a violation of technology in the pipeline for 80 years and in its subsequent repair in 1996.

For an explosion followed by fire, flame height and the reach, according to various estimates, from two hundred to three hundred meters. At the site of the explosion, a crater about 10 meters in diameter.

The tense situation in Dagestan.

2009-06-17T04:11:00.000-07:00

The situation in Dagestan is becoming increasingly tense. The reasons for this very much: dire economic situation (Dagestan is the most impoverished North Caucasus republics), incredible to the extent of corruption, ethnic and religious tensions, arbitrary power, etc. All these phenomena have become a breeding ground for action by the radical underground. This was at a hearing in U.S. Congress on Dagestan, which were organized by the Helsinki Commission.

Speaking at a hearing a Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Committee «Civic Assistance», explained that, in Dagestan, law enforcement practice of kidnapping, torture, fabrication of criminal cases. The perpetrators of numerous crimes, in most cases not brought to justice. The only possible opposition to such acts has long been a jury trial - the vast majority of fabricated criminal cases dilapidate processes by jury. However, more recently, the jury lost its right to review such cases. According to the observation Gannushkina, as a result of the «all hope for justice lost».

Civil society is extremely weak in Dagestan (the only local human rights organizations to prosecution authorities), the opposition has been unable to use legitimate methods. This leads to resistance, which turns into armed resistance.
The vast majority of those killed or arrested members of illegal armed groups operating in Dagestan - the locals. They are united by their commitment to Islam. Moreover, under the influence of the Russian government, which actively pursues followers, the so-called, «non-traditional Islam», underground increasingly radikalizuetsya - a religion for these people becomes a form of protest.

However, in Dagestan and the North Caucasus in general, are larger processes. In this region there is a process demodernizatsii Russia - to return to the traditions and the rejection of many manifestations of modernity. It is no coincidence, none of the North Caucasian republics no modern industries. Grave situation arises in the field of education - the quality of education has steadily decreased.

At the North Caucasus had «second wave» Islamization. «First Wave» was observed during the disintegration of the USSR - then Islam has become an alternative to the communist ideology and atheism; «second wave» became a political and social factors, the main method of regulating the relations within society. Significantly, many government officials of North Caucasus and Central Asia, trying to act as spiritual leaders. This is a dangerous trend away from the fundamental principles of the modern state. Federal laws in Dagestan and other republics of the region almost no work. Moscow calls on local authorities to ensure stability, turning a blind eye to the manner in which this stability is ensured. In turn, local authorities receive federal grants and a blank check for virtually any action. This relationship begins to decline.

Dagestan was the only subject of the Russian Federation, which has its own law banning Wahhabism. However, there is no adequate definition of Wahhabism, so all believers have the power to raise their suspicions.

Law enforcement agencies are using extremely brutal methods of struggle against the Wahhabis. The brutality of the police and security services with impunity causing a reaction. The fight against Wahhabism is that police killed suspects, relatives of those killed are killed by policemen. Indeed, in Dagestan «some Muslims kill other Muslims». In addition, we should not forget that in Dagestan and committed a lot of «normal» Crimes: contract killings on criminal grounds.

Unreasonable actions of the authorities of local and federal level are the cause of a very dangerous trend. Leave Dagestan ethnic Russian, and returned Dagestanis, even in Soviet times, settled in the North. However, no one in Dagestan is not willing to separate from Russia. On the other hand, Dagestan, clearly, is drifting away from Russia. Much depends on how the economic crisis will evolve - whether Moscow can continue to provide sufficient funds North Caucasian elites.

Ukraina.Tragediya in the Donetsk coal mine.

2009-06-17T04:05:00.000-07:00

Rescuers continued to search the four miners whose fate remains unknown after an accident June 8 at the Donetsk coal mine them. Skochinskogo.

According to official data, the abnormal area is 51 people. Presumably, in the shaft at a depth of some kilometers occurred methane emissions.

Working conditions at this mine is called Media «extremely dangerous».

More than 38 miners came to the surface, the fate of the other miners remains unknown. According to the latest figures, the deaths of 9 people.

Accident occurred coincided with the tragedy of one year, when the coal mine, 60 km from Donetsk killed 12 miners.

Explosions at an ammunition dump in Kazakhstan.

2009-06-17T04:02:00.000-07:00

According to official reports from Kazakhstan, one person died as a result of a series of explosions, progremevshih early in the morning on Tuesday at an ammunition dump near Almaty. Dozens of people were evacuated from the area.

Cause of the explosion at the warehouse, built in Soviet times, is not yet known. However, they often occur at such facilities as a result of fires.

New clashes in Tbilisi.

2009-06-17T03:57:00.000-07:00

On Monday at the detention facility in Tbilisi clashed with police armed with batons dozens of participants of protests demanding the release from detention of opposition activists.

According to reports from the scene of the representatives of foreign media, the police confiscated cameras and journalists arrested several demonstrators. Several protesters were injured.

Opposition protests to demand the resignation of President Saakashvili continued since the beginning of April. The main reason for this conflict is the dissatisfaction of internal and external policies of the current administration.

Uzbekistan has restricted the export of its natural gas to Tajikistan.

2009-06-17T03:54:00.000-07:00

Uzbekistan has restricted the export of its natural gas reserves in Tajikistan, and finally threatened to stop deliveries. Such a scenario is possible if a neighboring country does not pay his debt in the amount of several million dollars.

Deputy Head of Tajik Gas Company Shavkat Shoimov argues that the limited supply of gas, which is continuing, we need only to operate the mill aluminum.

Major fraud uncovered in Moscow.

2009-06-17T03:39:00.000-07:00

June 17 - First Channel. Several students, using forged documents and credit cards, spend someone else's 11 million rubles.

For several years, young people organized a lucrative illegal business. According to the investigation, the criminal group was composed of 7 persons. Two of them wanted, and the rest had already been apprehended.

When searching the apartment of one of the suspects have a warehouse of forged documents. In addition to plastic cards and passports are printed in their own equipment, and documents to electronic bank accounts.

Malefactors produced a package of documents for any person to disappear in the virtual and real space.

How do I find the operatives, all you need to pay a criminal found on the Internet. At one of the virtual auctions, registered in the Cayman Islands, you can easily buy stolen credit card codes.

With the help of special equipment, these codes are applied to any plastic card, and it is already possible to pay in stores for the bum. To a buyer did not cause any suspicion from vendors, swindlers and produced fake documents, apply for the card logos reputable banks. Is not known how long it lasted, if they have not got only one pilot and the watchful saleswoman.

During the searches and investigations have not been able to determine which happened to the stolen millions of scams. Apparently, the majority of young people have spent, and the rest invested in the development of its criminal business - got special equipment for manufacturing plastic cards, and virtually any instrument. Arrested five students, two more are wanted. Articles for which they suspect penalize up to 10 years imprisonment.

Ukraine lost 4 of Russian tourists.

2009-06-17T03:17:00.000-07:00

KIEV, June 17. Rescuers are searching for the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations 4 tourists from Russia, who lost the previous day on the mountain near the village of Stary Krym some monastery Surb-Hach. As the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine, people are searching for 10 workers Feodosia Mountain Rescue Group.

In addition, the MES transmits that Kerch rescuers dragged from a small well in Moscow.

Around 13:00 on 16 th June in Kerch fortress Enikale in a well depth of about 10 meters, failed a child born in 2006, the son of tourists from Moscow. The father of the child, trying to release the baby, went down, but he could not draw it, and decided to jump down to the bottom of the pit to await rescuers, along with MES frighten child. The fighters soon MOE released the child from the underground detention.

Doctors «emergency», fortunately, did not find her external injuries, but the baby's condition was unstable: lowered blood pressure and lethargy, which could be caused by stress. The boy runs a full medical examination.

One person seriously injured a handgun during a fight in a cafe in Moscow.

2009-06-16T21:04:00.000-07:00

Unknown staged a fight in a cafe in the east of Moscow on the night of Wednesday, one man was shot in the head and was hospitalized, said a source in law enforcement capital.
MOSCOW, June 17 - RIA Novosti. Unknown staged a fight in a cafe in the east of Moscow on the night of Wednesday, one man was shot in the head and was hospitalized, told the RIA Novosti source in law enforcement capital.
He said five people assaulted in the cafe, located in the house at 66 Perovskaya street, about an hour the night.

Police officers now interview witnesses of the incident to establish the physical fight between men.

The machine, which presumably escaped the law, declared in an urban search.

At the crime scene investigation team is working to identify the wounded man and the brand of weapons, from which the shot was fired, said the source.

Rest in Crimea has desheveet.

2009-06-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

Fearing the failure of the tourist season, krymchane reduce the cost of rental housing.

When in June last year, one-room apartment in Sevastopol could lift over 350 hryvnia per day, in June this year the price dropped to 250 hryvnia. Double room in a mini-Yalta hotel can be rented for 700 hryvnia. With regard to the eastern shore, rental rates range from 60 to 300 hryvnia per day depending on the quality of services.

Room in the private sector without the amenities can be rented for 40 hryvnia per day.

In line ministries note a decrease of tourist flow in the five months of this year by 20% compared to last year's data.

Unemployment in Ukraine - the lowest in Europe.

2009-06-16T20:43:00.000-07:00

The number of officially registered unemployed persons in Ukraine, on the basis of May amounted to 752 thousand people, or 2.7% of the total working population. These data revealed yesterday by the State Employment Service. A month ago, the Center reported on the employment of 808.8 thousand unemployed (2.9%). Thus, Ukraine is the second consecutive month, an increase in employment, writes «Case».

According to experts, the decline in unemployment is directly linked to the seasonal characteristics of the domestic labor market. Thus, summer is traditionally an increase in demand for manpower in the field of sales and services.

In the euro zone unemployment rate, despite the approaching summer, continues to grow. At the end of May it reached a record 9.4%.

In Russia, can enter the grants for recycling of old cars.

2009-06-16T20:31:00.000-07:00

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed Minpromtorgu, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economic Development to develop a series of measures for the development of automobile market in Russia, including payments "to owners of vehicles sent for recycling cars" over 10 years. Terms execution order is not contained in the document, writes the newspaper "Vedomosti".

According to the Executive Director of the Association automakers Russia Igor Korovkin, the idea arose when given the effect of a similar mechanism in Germany.

In Russia each year is 6-7% of the park, about 2 million cars, evaluates the director of "Ekotehmasha" Yuri Babenko. But the worn-out machines are not utilized. Now from an old car, all components are selected, which can be sold and the rest goes to landfill.

To create a complete infrastructure for the recycling of cars in Russia should be 25-30 billion rubles, said Babenko, but to motivate businesses, requires additional funding for full utilization of the car - in his estimation, about $ 100 per vehicle. The cost of disposal of the vehicle may be, for example, embedded in vacation price dealer.

Chain stores of natural cosmetics gains Baltic.

2009-06-16T20:27:00.000-07:00

Trading network of natural cosmetics Thann this week opened a new store in the shopping center Kristiine and plans in collaboration with a network IlU over 5 years to open 15 offices across the Baltics.
According to Marje Hallik-Wilson, executive director of Thann Baltic Holdings OÜ, importing brands of natural cosmetics and Thann Harnn from Thailand this year, in addition to representation in the center Kristiine will open two more new stores. "Courage to open stores, we attached to change the attitudes of consumers to purchase. Since visiting spas is now less accessible to people and shops selling cosmetics have become serious competitors for Estonian health centers", - said Marje Hallik-Wilson.
According to the Executive Director, the selection of goods in the new store in Kristiine has more than 200 funds home spa for hair, face and body, spa-inspired culture of the eastern countries.
Thann Baltic company recently signed a cooperation project with part of the company Tallinna Kaubamaja by TKM Beauty on the association with a network of stores cosmetics ILU As part of this collaboration within 5 years of Thann Baltic will open 15 stores Thann ja Harnn in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The first store outside Estonia Thann, under the auspices of ILU starting in Latvia in 2010.
Currently, there is a representation of Thann Baltic in Estonia Rotermanni Kaubamaja, Tallinna Kaubamaja, Viru keskus and Pärnu Keskus to open in late March this year a new store ILU Executive shop home spa products Thann ja Harnn operates in Estonia as of 2007.

In Moscow on fault slept on duty on a railway train rammed moving car, driven by the mother of three children.

2009-06-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

In Moscow on fault slept on duty on a railway train rammed moving car, driven by the mother of three children.

34-year-old Elena P. received terrible injuries - fractures of the spine, ribs, numerous bruises. Unhappy survived only because the train driver managed to brake.

Terrible accident at railway crossings occurred at 7 am today at the 46 th kilometer Mozhaisky highway. Elena P., at its «Sitroene» was traveling through the railroad, when suddenly her car stuck. It was at that moment seemed a train coming from Zvenigorod to Golitsyna ...

Mnogotonny of the stop was no longer possible. Experienced 50-year-old driver Nikolai Z. did manage to press the brake. Maybe it saved the mother of three children.

From the terrible gravity of 34-year-old Elena literally vmyalo inside the cabin. The train dragged her car 130 meters.

In the hospital brought the poor little unconscious with a broken spine, broken ribs on the left chest injury and his left hand.

The population in Ukraine continues to fall.

2009-06-16T20:04:00.000-07:00

Ukraine's population as of 1 May, 2009 amounted to 46 million 61 thousand 403 people, according to Goskomstat. Over the same period last year the figure was 46 million 263 thousand 79 people (a decrease of 0.44%).

In particular, the urban population is 31 million 550 thousand 372 people, agriculture - 14 million 511 thousand 31 people. In Kiev, a population of 2 million 769 thousand 317.

In addition, during the period registered 72 thousand 493 marriages, divorces recorded with 46 thousand 911.

Ukraine lost yacht worth more than a million dollars.

2009-06-16T18:45:00.000-07:00

Since storage facilities in the Crimea missing yacht confiscated in 2008 by the owner for violation of customs regulations. According to the press service of the Crimean prosecutor's office, without specifying the date of the disappearance of a vessel worth more than a million dollars.

«The court decided to confiscate the boat to the state. At the vessel seized and left in safe custody, but once its there (on-site storage) have not found », - said the press service. Crimean Prosecutor's Office instituted criminal proceedings under Article «fraud at a large scale». Investigation of the crime charged with the management of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

In the event of war, NATO is not Ukraine assistant.

2009-06-16T18:37:00.000-07:00

The possible entry of Ukraine into NATO will not save the country in the event of military conflict. The opinion was expressed by a senior researcher at the Institute of Katona, the former special assistant to U.S. President Ronald Reagan Doug gangs.

First and foremost, this move will raise tensions with Russia. Intervene in Ukraine as «in which case» no one will: "Each country must rely on security first and foremost for themselves. Politicians can make promises, but these promises are not always respected. It is important to remember that the most beautiful promises and speeches does not necessarily mean military assistance if necessary ", - said Bando, speaking Tuesday at a meeting of« round table », organized by the American Institute in Ukraine.

If we consider the hypothetical option of Ukraine becoming a NATO member and get involved in the conflict with Russia, the United States leadership is likely to choose a line of non-participation in the conflict. «Even if America decides that it wants to fight, then it may be that it would have to fight alone, without European allies», - said the expert, adding that in Europe the prospect of military conflict with Russia no one «can no longer enthusiasm ».

Belarus has decided to take revenge on Russia for «beer front»

2009-06-16T18:32:00.000-07:00

Minsk has decided from 9 o'clock in the morning (10:00 Moscow time) on 17 June to impose greater control over movement of goods to the Belarusian-Russian border. As explained by the Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus Alexander Shpilevski, the decision taken by the decree of the Head of State.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan for several years engaged in the harmonization of customs rules and tariffs as part of a Customs Union. Moreover, a week ago, leadership of three countries decided to join the WTO as a single customs territory. Meanwhile, Russia has recently imposed restrictions on the supply of Belarusian dairy products, which caused discontent in Minsk. Rospotrebnadzor initially banned the import of nearly 500 titles, and then - another 800 due to the fact that Belarusian producers did not revise the documents in accordance with Russian tehreglamenta of milk.

Today, the Belarusian delegation led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Michael Savelyeva was withdrawn from Moscow. According to the Capital of the television, the delegation of «waiting for the meeting until late at night», but has not been adopted in Rospotrebnadzor. Earlier today, the head of this department Gennady Onishchenko said that Rospotrebnadzor suspends talks with Belarus on «dairy issue» to clarify the powers of the Belarusian delegation, recalled «Interfax».

Toward the evening of Belarus State Control Committee has called for the establishment in the importing country, of a beer. According to the management control over the circulation of excisable goods of the OCG Helena Masurnovskoy, checks revealed that approximately 20% of imported beer in the Belarus Russian comes into the country on a shadow pattern, resulting in a budget bears «billions of dollars of losses».

News from the USSR

2009-06-16T18:21:00.000-07:00

In Russia impend unprecedented heat.

June 16 - First Channel. Weather forecasters warn that in the next few days the temperature in many regions may rise up to +36 degrees. In this regard, the MOE has extended an urgent warning about the possibility of a emergency.

According to experts, abnormally high temperatures can disrupt the operation of transport and human power in Privolzhie, areas of Central Russia, almost all the southern parts of the country, as well as Eastern Siberia.

In parallel, the country is moving cold front, accompanied by stormy weather. In the North Caucasus is likely rainstorms, hail and windstorms. All this can lead to severe floods, while in the mountains - to rockfalls and landslides. In this regard, all regional offices EMERCOM advised to switch to mode «alert».

In Moscow, tomorrow will be rainy with a maximum temperature of the day - 21. Weather forecasters predict storms.