Alexey Kudrin. Photo from the site www.politcom.ru The stabilization fund will be placed on a currency deposit in the Central Bank by 45 percent in dollars, by 45 percent in euros and 10 percent in pounds of sterling. As reports RIA Novosti, this was stated by Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.

Fire at Istanbul airport. Photo AP The Kurdish separatist group "Free Falcon of Kurdistan" took responsibility for the arson of the Istanbul International Airport. A statement about this appeared on the night of Thursday on one of the Prokurid Internet sites, reports AP. However, earlier representatives of the leadership of the airport and the authorities of Istanbul said that they completely exclude the possibility that the fire was the result of the attack.

State Duma. Hard of news The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the introduction of the state monopoly on the revolution of raw materials for the production of alcohol products, RIA Novosti reports. With the required 226 votes, 374 deputies voted for the bill, and five against it. The bill introduces a monopoly on the revolution of raw materials for the production of alcohol and alcohol -containing products - ethyl alcohol.

Jose Manuel Barrosa, Vladimir Putin, Javier Solan, Wolfgang Shüssel in Sochi. Photo from the official website of the President of Russia In Sochi on Thursday, the Russia-Es summit opens. One of the main topics of the discussion, as observers suggest, will be energy security, in addition, we will talk about hot international problems: the Iranian atom, the conflict of Israel and Palestine, and, it is possible, about Belarus and frozen conflicts in Georgia and Moldova.

Locker in Chechnya. Photo from the site www.radiorus.ru About 400 people were injured as a result of landslides in the Nozha-Yurt district of Chechnya. Among them are 165 children, on Thursday was said by the First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for Chechnya, Colonel Ahmed Jarkhanov. More than others, the highland village of Shuani suffered. There, a school, a mosque, 35 houses and roads leading to other villages were destroyed there.

Cyril, Metropolitan Smolensky and Kaliningrad. Photo from the site www.eparhia.ru The Russian Orthodox Church considers the film "Da Vinci Code" to the deepest insult of religious feelings, comparable to the incitement of religious and national razor. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the chairman of the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Kirill. “This film is the deepest insult of our religious feelings,” said Metropolitan.

Grigory Yavlinsky. Photos of faces In 2008, Putin may not leave the presidential post. This was stated on Thursday by the leader of the Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky during the online interview with Gazeta.ru. Answering one of the questions, Yavlinsky said: “In 2008, Putin may not leave. Authoritarian system - she does not know how to change the leader.

Knife The prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances of the murder of a citizen of Azerbaijan in Moscow, the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. A criminal case has been opened under the article "Murder", Interfax reports. According to him, during the inspection at the scene, investigators found three medical syringes. “At present, the necessary investigative measures are being held, criminals are being held,” the prosecutor’s representative added.

Champions League logo The mayor of the Russian capital, Yuri Luzhkov, announced the readiness of Moscow to accept in 2008 the final of the most prestigious European club football tournament - the Champions League, RBC reports.

Border guards. Photo from the site www.rg.ru Border guards serving on the Rostov site of the Russian-Ukrainian state border, using weapons, prevented a breakthrough of columns from six Ukrainian fuel trucks into Russia, RIA Novosti reports. As the head of the press service of the regional border department of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Sergey Livantsov said, the incident occurred in the Gukovo city.

Object of capital. Image from the site www.itrealty.ru The tributary and outflow of private capital in Russia for the first time was equal, the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin said on Thursday. Speaking at the forum of state borrowers in St. Petersburg, the minister said that the balance of capital in the private sector was zero.

With the help of two spacecraft of the Voyager series ( Voyager ), American scientists were able to identify the form of the heliosphere considered the border of the solar system, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the American National Aerospace Agency ( NASA ). The Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 spacecraft reached the edge of the interstellar space and found that heliosphere (the "territory" on which the sun extends) was expanded in the north and narrowed in the south.

Ambulance. Photo from Newsru.com In the suburbs, a driver who shot down ten people - pedestrians and merchants of tents was detained. This was reported on Thursday by Russia "Russia". The incident occurred on Wednesday in Serpukhov, Moscow Region, at the crossroads of the Borisov highway and Revolution Street. The driver of the "Opel-Vetrra" car lost control and drove into the oncoming lane.

Vasily Kononov. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" The European Court of Human Rights for the second time refused the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Vasily Kononov in the priority of his complaint against Latvia. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the defense representative of the veteran Mikhail Ioffe. At the same time, according to Ioffe, the European court did not explain the reasons for the refusal.

Konstantin Bochkarev. Photo from the site of the regional administration The prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region charged the deputy governor of the region. Konstantin Bochkarev is charged with excess of official powers with causing grave consequences. According to RBC, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported this.