Deputies are fighting corruption and preparing a law on combining the posts of the State Duma unanimously ratified the UN Convention against Corruption. The deputies inspired the possibility under the sauce of the Convention to return to the Criminal Code the norm on confiscation of property acquired illegally. A possible confiscation object was even named - the Chelsea football club, belonging to the "chief of Chukotka" to Roman Abramovich.

The first malicious program for Mac OS x Macintosh computers based on the Mac OS X operating system is distributed on the Web. At the end of last week, representatives of Apple confirmed that for several days the first harmful program has been distributing on the network that affects its most modern operating room - Mac OS X 10.4. The harmful program received several names at once-Leap-a, OSX/Oompa-A and Ooompa Loompa Trojan Horse.

The caricature war ended in the liquidation of the newspaper, the authorities put an end to the caricature scandal in Russian. The Volgograd publication "City Vesti" is eliminated, a criminal case has been instituted against the editor of the Vologda newspaper "Our Region+". In such an extraordinary outcome for the media, at least two trends can be seen.

15:25 // 19.02.2006 If you have to make an important decision, the best way to make the right choice is to go to bed. In a dream, the brain will calculate all the options and you will wake up with the finished answer. Such a recommendation on the basis of long -term research was made by a group of European scientists from the University of Amsterdam. Reports on their work are published today in the European press.

Eighteen years later, the truth was known about the reasons for the scandal of the disgrace between The Beatles and Makharishi Mahesh Yoga in 1968 instantly turned into a legend and even went down in history as the most bitter scandal for the entire era of free love. Today, after almost four decades of speculations and gossip, the intermediary between both sides said what actually happened, although his revelations may not have the same nourishment of the famous four.

In the fall of 2003, the third show “Factory of Stars” began. By that time, everyone had already understood two important things about the “factory”: firstly, the graduates of the show make up really serious competition on the Russian pop market, and secondly, and it happens that truly talented people come.

The Canadian company Barrick can redeem the gold mining assets of Viktor Vekselberg as it became known to Gazeta, the Canadian gold mining company Barrick is considering the possibility of acquiring gold mining assets close to Renova. According to the source on the market, Barrick is of interest in CJSC Koryakgeologiy, which is part of the Renova group, as well as CJSC Kamhold.

The leader of Rne is preparing a new criminal case by the wife of the founder of the Russian National Unity Alexander Barkashova Natalya again attacked unknown people. “This happened around nine in the morning on February 18, when Natalia went out into the courtyard of her country house, where she lives with her husband,” Yuri Kachana lawyer Yuri Kachan told the newspaper. Recall that Barkashov himself is accused of attacking a police officer.

The verdict of the group of Yuri Shutov was announced an unprecedented sentence was sentenced in St. Petersburg in the case of a gang of deputy of the local Legislative Assembly Yuri Shutov. For the first time in the history of Russian legal proceedings, five defendants at once were sentenced to life imprisonment. Nine more people received long terms of imprisonment.

15:50 // 19.02.2006 Audi German car concern, part of the Volkswagen industrial group, recalls 70 thousand cars to check and eliminate defects, including about 20 thousand in Germany. According to the representative of the concern’s headquarters in Ingolstadt (Bavaria Land), the Audi A-3 limousines with 2.0 liters of TDI, released in the period from June 2003 to the end of December 2004, are subject to testing. Some of them have detected clutch defects, which can negatively affect operation.

On the year, the grandiose international festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Dmitry Shostakovich is opening in Baku. The initiator of the festival is Mstislav Rostropovich. The festival program almost accurately corresponds to the plan that Shostakovich wrote in the 1960s for his anniversary evening at the request of Rostropovich. At the festival, the first and tenth symphonies, concert No.

The composer Vladimir Martynov turned sixty years old. The hero of the day does not want to close in the narrow framework of music. He creates installations, combining them with other varieties of art, engages in photography and writes books. In March, the Center “House” holds the next creative festival Martynov, where the audience will have to see a new installation of the composer. Olga Romtsova talked about this and much more with the anniversary.

The crisis management of the Volga Automobile Plant requires humility from the GM-Autsovaz on the eve of the unification of the automotive industry, the state makes it clear to independent partners who is the master in the house. Last week, it became known that AvtoVAZ stopped supplying components to the joint venture (SP) "GM-Avtsovaz", blocking the work of its conveyor.

13:10 // 19.02.2006 A rally was held in Nakhodka (Primorsky Territory), whose participants opposed the increase in tariffs for housing and communal services, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Sunday. According to him, on Saturday afternoon, at the building of the municipal center of culture, 120 local residents under the leadership of representatives of the regional branch of the Communist Party held an unauthorized action.

People and banks get used to the consumers, the more people have money, the more they begin to borrow. The growth rate of lending to individuals in Russia is growing at a dizzying speed. According to experts, over the past five years, the volume of consumer loans has grown 60 times and reached 60 billion dollars. Moreover, according to their forecasts, in the next three years this figure may double.