13:46 // 11.03.2007 During the election campaign, the fourth convocation was not able to avoid unscrupulous competition in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, said the governor of the northern capital, Valentin Matvienko. According to her, often the pre -election polemic turned into a "competition of empty unsimulated promises," RIA Novosti reports. “It was not possible to achieve completely pure elections.

Some British visas will be cheaper after increasing consular fees, the British Embassy announced the increase in the consular fee for the issuance of visas from April 1. Some categories of visas, for example, work, rise in price by two and a half times, a tourist one by a quarter. But at the same time as an increase in the consular fee, the British embassy will cancel the collection of the visa center. As a result, a short -term tourist visa will become even cheaper.

21:50 // 11.03.2007 The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder considers US plans for the deployment of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe "politically dangerous". According to German news television channels that RIA referred to, he announced this on Sunday in Dresden.

14:00 // 11.03.2007 NTV-Plus and RTR Channel Sports agreed today to show the matches of the Russian championship on the Sports channel, ITAR-TASS reports. This was stated by the general director of NTV-Plus OJSC Dmitry Samokhin. Source: gzt.ru

Muscovites will be able to reconstruct houses at their own free will in Moscow are preparing an experiment on the reconstruction of houses on the initiative and with the financial participation of residents of the capital. The presented GUP “Office of the experimental development of microdistricts” (State Unitary Enterprise UEZ) of the city of Moscow experimented the Moscow City Duma deputies approved, and soon the administrative document on pilot projects may be issued by the city hall.

The Lufthansa airline has completed a year with billionth profits as forecasted in September last year by specialists of the International Aviation Transport Association (IATA), for the first time in five years, European airlines graduated from a year in plus. On March 8, one of the market leaders, the German airline Lufthansa, published consolidated reports. Over the year, her net profit increased by 77.3% and amounted to 803 million euros ($ 1.05 billion).

Most expects further growth in Europe rose money. The European Central Bank decided to increase the discount rate by 0.25%. Now its value is 3.75%. This decision was not a surprise for market participants. Moreover, the majority expect further increase from the ECB. The text of the press release that accompanied the decision was also evidenced in favor of such expectations. It refers to the threat of risks of raising prices in Europe.

A weekly rating of the newspaper Crisis with the provision of drugs of Russian beneficiaries led to one predictable result: the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov became a man whose criticism of which can be earned by good dividends.

Accounting in modern Russia is a lightweight version of hellish torment in its earthly arrangement. So far, they are not fried on the coals of the accountant, but seven skins are already lowered. Somehow, in the light of membership in the “group of eight” and looting the prospect of the WTO, that one of the first claims of the West to Russia was precisely in complex reporting. What the authorities do not do for the sake of entering the elite club - just to please.

12:27 // 11.03.2007 At the polling station in Odintsovo near Moscow, police detained three activists of the prohibited National Bolshevik Party. Thanks to the "surgery of the police, it was possible to prevent violation of law enforcement," ITAR-TASS reports, referring to law enforcement information. Young people who came to the site with two flags of the NBP only managed to light a fire, after which they were detained.

21:35 // 11.03.2007 The United Russia party has a chance to gain about half the votes in the regional elections that have passed on Sunday, the data of voter surveys at the exit from the sections (Exit Polls) conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion.

Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin - in an interview with Gazeta, strengthening the fight against corruption, counteraction to nationalist and religious extremism - such primary tasks are faced with the Moscow prosecutor's office. About how they will be decided and how the investigation of high -profile criminal cases is going on, Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin told in an interview with the newspaper correspondent Sergey Zykin.

NTV-Plus transferred the right to show the NTV-Plus and RTR-Sport television channels to show the right to show the Russian Championship matches to show the Russian Championship matches on the Sports channel. This was stated by the general director of NTV-Plus OJSC Dmitry Samokhin.

Students will be divided into “black” and “white” from September 1, 2007, Russian universities will recruit students according to the Western system. The government is ready to send a bill to the State Duma dividing higher education into three levels: undergraduate studies with a 3-4-year study period, a magistracy in which bachelors will study for another 1-2 years, and a “specialty” (a 5-year training system operating now).

The owner of the world's most expensive yacht in the world will be a Russian billionaire, whose name is still kept secret at this yacht 134 meters long, two helicopter sites and a hold for a small submarine. But the most remarkable in the yacht that is now being built in Genoa is a record cost: 140 million pounds. The team of the most expensive private yacht in the world will have 60 people.