The famous British model was recognized as the property of the Fatherland of the world famous model of Twiggi, a symbol of British fashion and swing, took part in the show of a collection of clothing collection of the British chain of the Marks & Spencer department stores.

The struggle of Primorye motorists for the right to an inexpensive "right -handed steering", which lasted almost a week, was crowned with an unconditional victory. The introduction of a new mini-catalog of the assessment value of foreign cars, in accordance with which the rates for the customs clearance of right-handed machines were several times, were canceled. All right -handed cars entering the ports of the region from Japan and South Korea will be formalized according to the old rules.

16:10 // 12.10.2005 This was stated by Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko. According to him, now in Voronezh to analyze the situation is an employee of the ministry. Despite the security measures at the universities of this city, the situation is clearly difficult there, the minister admitted, recalling a recent murder in the city of Peruvian student. Source: gzt.ru

Yesterday, a trial began in Rome over 45 police officers, carbines, prison warders and medical workers who are accused of planning and organizing an attack on the camp of anti -globalists who were about to hold protests during the Grand Eight summit in Genoa. Recall that the summit was opened on July 18, 2001 and was fundamentally important for the legal government of Silvio Berlusconi, who was chosen shortly before the meeting of the G8 leaders.

16:08 // 12.10.2005 The environmental situation in Moscow is deteriorating. A significant improvement in the situation is not expected in the near future. Smoke from forest-orih fires in the Moscow Region significantly complicates the movement of transport in the eastern and southeastern regions of Moscow, reports Echo of Moscow . It is difficult to move along the Moscow Ring Road on the site from the highway of enthusiasts to Volgogradsky Prospekt. Source: gzt.ru

The Russians will switch to small, but expensive cars of the car dealers summed up the results of sales of foreign cars in Russia for three quarters. There were no special surprises: the Asian note is clearly traced in the automobile preferences of Russians. At the same time, the main struggle unfolds in the price segment of 10-15 thousand dollars.

The patches for the Windows operating system and the Internet Explorer operating system were released, the Microsoft corporation recognized the presence of several holes at once in its software products and this week pleased users by releasing patch for their elimination. Windows operating systems of various versions, as well as the Internet Explorer browser, turned out to be vulnerable. Some of the released gaps can be used by attackers to get complete access to other people's computers.

The Law Chamber of Moscow disputes the actions of prosecutors in the Constitutional Court. The capital's advocacy is trying to reflect the state’s advance to its rights. She stood up for the defenders of Yukos, whose offices were subjected to searches.

11:25 // 12.10.2005 In St. Petersburg, police officers detained a tax inspector suspected of extortion and receiving a large bribe. As ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North-West II, the investigation began with the application received in September this year from one of the St. Petersburg entrepreneurs.

The Chinese Eximbank or the investment fund will finance the creation of an icebreaker -electrical station in China is ready to become an investor in the project to create the most unusual nuclear power plant in Russia - floating. As the first deputy director for the development of the Rosenergoatom concern, Alexander Polushkin, the State Chinese Eximbank said yesterday, is ready to provide a loan in an amount equivalent to 400 million rubles for the implementation of this project.

The most closed segment in the real estate market, the Moscow market of mansions used for offices, is closed and opaque: the most expensive buildings are usually sold without publicity. Therefore, official data on the assessment of this segment of the real estate market simply does not exist, although conservative expert estimates suggest that about 1.5 billion dollars contacts here. “The market of Moscow mansions is the market of sellers and buyers.

10:35 // 12.10.2005 Representatives of the colonies, where Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will serve his sentences, will inform their relatives with the address of these correctional institutions and other necessary information after the convicts are delivered to the colony. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (Federal Penitentiary Service) in the Siberian Federal District Alexander Pleshkov.

Veselin Topalov is close to winning the title of world champion until the end of the World Chess Fide Championship in Argentina, two rounds remained. Veselin Topalov moves to the finish line confidently and slowly. Like Lance Armstrong according to the Champs Elysees at the last stage of “Tour de France”. Looking around, bowing, collecting applause. So, he is moving towards the championship title. Now it is enough for him to collect two “halves” in the last two rounds.

Yesterday, the State Duma approved the budget of the Russian Pension Fund (FIU) for 2006. With a volume of 1 trillion. The budget does not differ in generosity - the pensions next year will be indexed below the inflation level, which is a violation of the law. This was not embarrassed by legislators - they hope that the real growth of pensions will occur due to infusions from the federal budget, as it was this year. The fund itself becomes bankrupt.

The state employees conducted the All -Russian protest campaign of more than a million scientists, doctors and teachers throughout the country suspended their work and demanded an increase in salary. As the newspaper has already reported, the trade unions that organized the All -Russian protest rally require to increase wages by 50% this year and the same - in the following. In Moscow yesterday, about two and a half thousand people gathered on a hunchback bridge at the Government House.