16:16 // 19.05.2008 The Canadian-British information company Thomson Reuters, created in April of this year, announced the upcoming dismissal of 140 journalists, the company said. Earlier, information about upcoming reductions was sent to employees of the company on behalf of the editor -in -chief of the Reuters News news division David Schlezinger.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor forbade putting frozen products in Russia in Russia can double in price to sausage. The reason for this is the new sanitary rules that are now preparing, according to which the use of frozen meat for processing will be prohibited.

13:12 // 05/19/2008 The law on the ban on smoking in all public places has entered into force in Turkey today, ITAR-TASS reports. Now smoking is allowed only in the open air at a certain distance from buildings and territories of public and state significance. The law also prescribes in places where smoking is allowed, hang visual aids and posters about the dangers of this habit. Owners of catering enterprises will have to equip separate zones for smokers.

18:31 // 19.05.2008 The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin instructed to conduct an inventory of foreign trade agreements in the agro-industrial sphere for their compliance with Russia's interests.

15:07 // 05/19/2008 There are no victims of the fire at the Chagino electrical substation, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the city Yevgeny Bobylev told RIA Novosti . According to him, the fire occurred in a new building under construction. "There are no victims and the victims. The fire area is about 500 square meters. Special fire helicopter began to extinguish," Bobylev said.

In the election of the mayor of United Russia, Igor Pushkarev won in the first round the inhabitants of Vladivostok demonstrated an extremely low turnout for the mayor’s early elections on Sunday. Despite all the calls of agitators to “wake up and vote”, less than 21% of voters came to the sites. However, since the threshold of turnout is absent, the elections are recognized as held.

10:44 // 19.05.2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the coach of the Russian hockey team Vyacheslav Bykov and the head of the Russian Office Vyacheslav Fetisov with an outstanding victory of Russian athletes at the World Cup, wished further success. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the head of state.

17:38 // 05/19/2008 The tripartite agreement on the holding of the World Boxing World Cup in Moscow was signed by the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov, the president of the International Association of Amateur Boxing (AIBA) Ching Kuo Wu and the President of the Russian Boxing Federation (FBI) Evgeny Murov. The mayor of Moscow emphasized that for Moscow the upcoming tournament will be of particular importance, RIA Novosti reports.

13:37 // 05/19/2008 Yuri Rodionovsky, the mayor of the Zapolyarny Naryan -Mar - the capital of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, was elected, who had already led the city three years ago. He won the early elections of the mayor. According to ITAR-TASS in the district election commission, the self-nominated Rodionovsky, according to preliminary data, scored 36.49% of the voters who participated in the elections, and almost 9% ahead of the closest competitor.

13:29 // 19.05.2008 The leader of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, denied the information of some media that allegedly Tbilisi and Sukhumi "in general terms agreed on a plan for the peaceful settlement of" the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. “This information is not true,” he said today ITAR -TASS .

17:31 // 19.05.2008 Deputies from the Duma faction of the LDPR, who were developing a decree on an amnesty in connection with the entry of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, withdrew the document for revision, said RIA Novosti, one of the authors of the bill Sergey Ivanov. "We took the bill for revision. I looked at the reviews that appeared in the press, and it rightly noted that there are no disabled people in our resolution," Lebedev said.

09:36 // 05/19/2008 The new mayor of Vladivostok, Igor Pushkarev, will take office for two weeks. According to the charter of Vladivostok, he must pronounce the oath in the city’s Duma, which is considered the beginning of his work as the mayor. As specified in the cityizburkom, reports ITAR-TASS , Senator Igor Pushkarev won the election of the head of Vladivostok on the eve of the election, significantly ahead of his three rivals.

09:52 // 05/19/2008 About 30 people died from poisoning with poor -quality alcohol in the South Indian states of Karnatak and Tamilnad, Indian television channels report. According to unconfirmed data, RIA Novosti reports, deadly alcohol was distributed among local residents by activists of one of the political parties in Karnataka, where elections to the local parliament are held.

15:23 // 19.05.2008 Employers who attract migrants for labor activities will now be able to notify control departments by mail.

In the United States, a Russian citizen - UN employee Vyacheslav Manokhin, was sentenced to Russian employee of the UN at the end of last week in the United States, was sentenced to Russian employee. He was found guilty of forgery documents that allow you to get an American visa. With the help of the UN official forms, he organized invitations to conferences held in the USA, illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan.