Fragment of the Daimler-Motoren-GesellSchaft campaign. From the site www.tschoepe.de On November 28, 1890, the Daimler-Motoren-GesellSchaft (DMG) was officially registered with a notarized certificate in Stuttgart. Despite the unification of Daimler and Benz in the 20s and the recent Daimler and Chrysler confluence, the name Gottlib Daimler remained in the name of the DaimlerchrySler concern.

President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan votes at a referendum under the Constitution. Photo from the site www.rferl.org Residents of Armenia approved the draft constitutional reform. As reported on Monday, ITAR-TASS in the Central Commission on referendum, after processing 96.6 percent of the ballots for changes in the Constitution, 93.3 percent of citizens voted.

Mikhail Evdokimov. Frame of Channel One Galina Evdokimova, the widow of the head of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov, stood up for the driver of Toyota, who is now judged as the culprit of an accident, which led to the death of the governor. "The tragedy of one family should not cause the tragedy of another person," the open letter of Galina Evdokimova, published on Monday, Altai news agency Bankfax said.

Frame from the movie '' Pirates of the Caribbean '' The Ukrainian government reported that the pirates off the coast of Somalia liberated the Ukrainian ship captured more than a month ago. It is reported on Monday of the Air Force. The abductors demanded a ransom of 700 thousand dollars, but whether the money was paid so far unclear. The representative of the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said that the Panagia ship had already left Somali's territorial waters.

Ivan Kulakov. Photo from the site mskomi.ru The chairman of the State Council of the Komi Republic, Ivan Kulakov, died on Monday at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow. As Interfax was told by phone at the airport control room, 62-year-old Kulakov, together with his family, returned from Moscow to Syktyvkar. Around 13.00 he registered for a flight, after which he felt bad. Ten minutes later, his heart stopped. The doctors who arrived in place could not return him to life.

Counting votes. Photo by RIA Novosti In the parliamentary elections in Chechnya, "United Russia" leads. According to the data on 09.00 Monday, the party in power is gaining 59.26 percent of votes, RIA Novosti reports. According to the chairman of the republican election commission of Ismail Baikhanov, by this time data were processed from 171 of 430 polling stations. The second and third places are still occupied by the Communist Party (11.93 percent) and ATP (10.57 percent).

African in St. Petersburg. Photo from the site www.smilga-photos.ru In Nizhny Novgorod, a group of teenagers beat a student of the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy from Mauritius and his Russian comrade. This was reported by NTA-Volga region with reference to law enforcement agencies. According to the source, students were beaten last Sunday on Lyadov Square near the hostel of the Nizhny Novgorod State Polytechnic University (NSTU).

Ukrainian police. Photo from LJ-blog Seljan The law providing for the abolition of deferrals from service in the army on a professional basis will enter into force in 2008. According to RIA Novosti, citing the chairman of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, the police and prosecutors will lose delay, in particular. According to Mironov, the law will enter into force no earlier than the norm begins to operate, according to which they will call for the service for only one year.

Vladimir Putin. Photo Reuters Vladimir Putin called the current system for the issuance of housing certificates to military personnel. The president made such a statement as Interfax reports on Monday at a meeting with government members. "I ask the Prime Minister to ensure and agree with the deputies to additionally allocate 15 billion rubles in 2006 to resolve the housing issues of military personnel so that the system of housing certificates began to actually act," said Vladimir Putin.

Ilya Kuzmenkov. Photo from the site www.mediaatlas.ru The concept of news broadcasting on Ren TV is outdated, it must be made more modern, according to the new chief editor of the channel Ilya Kuzmenkov. He stated this on Monday in an interview with the Franes. “I have no significant complaints about how the news is being done now,” he said. “But the news concept of the channel was created many years ago and is out of time. Now this product needs to be brought to a modern look.

Svyatoslav Piskun. Photo from the site tribuna.com.ua Against the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun, it is planned to initiate a criminal case on the fact of unauthorized appropriation of authority and the rank of official person. According to the Ukrainian network publication "Correspondent.net", the Minister of Justice Sergey Golovaty said this. According to Golovaty, the initiator of the initiation of a criminal case will be the new Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko.

Ilya Kuzmenkov. Photo from the site www.mediaatlas.ru Ilya Kuzmenkov is appointed chief editor of the Ren TV channel. This was the air of "Echo of Moscow" on Monday was stated by the general director of the REN TV holding Alexander Ordzhonikidze. Kuzmenkov "participated as a correspondent in the pools of the first persons, worked in Ostankino, then organized his own business" Kuzmenkov and partners, "he added.

The first reports appeared on the use of the Vlti (Very Large Telescope Interferometer, paranal) of the Southern European Observatory ( ESO ) of the Amber (Astronomical Multi-Beam Combiner-Astronomical Value Union, recently installed. working in the infrared range).

Alexander Osovtsov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru - Do you like tomatoes? I like to eat, but not. As you know, many concepts are not amenable to accurate definition. Obvious examples are love and dislike. The words "I do not like ..." in the lips, for example, Churchill, had a different meaning, depending on whether it was a question of the Labor or the Nazis.

Vladimir Voronin. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Last weekend, Moscow, Moldova President Vladimir Voronin, visited Moscow on a private visit. According to Kommersant, he tried to meet with representatives of the Kremlin for two days, but he was refused. According to the publication on Monday, Vladimir Voronin flew to the Russian capital on Friday, and flew away on Sunday evening. Neither in the Moldavian nor in the Russian press the visit of the President of Moldova to Moscow was announced.