Japanese Tomoji Tanabe turned 113 The most elderly resident of the planet - Japanese Tomoji Tanabe said at the celebration of his birthday that he feels well and eats a lot, RIA Novosti said with reference to Reuters. “I am happy,” said the Japanese -record -acting Tomoji Tanabe guests and journalists who gathered on the occasion of celebrations in his house in the city of Miyakonodze, who is located in the prefect of about 900 km from Tokyo.

Alexey Kudrin is ready to reduce the value of value added tax (VAT) will not be reduced. Instead, enterprises will receive income tax benefits, and oil workers will receive benefits for mining tax (NDPI). The point in a fierce dispute for the VAT rate set prices and volumes of production of the country's main resource - oil. Their ongoing fall was the main argument against the reduction in VAT.

12:59 // 09/18/2008 Trading on Russian exchanges suspended by decision of the FSFR due to the collapsible fall of the quotations, resolved tomorrow, said Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. His words are given by RIA Novosti . "Today it was decided to complete the reconciliation and resolve of debt and resume trading on Russian exchanges from tomorrow," Kudrin said at a meeting on economic issues with President Dmitry Medvedev. Source: gzt.ru

The newspaper special project continues "The newspaper continues the project" Sports Stava ". Weekly on Fridays, the newspaper observers - popular sports commentators give their forecasts on the eve of the main sports events of the weekend. Football Germany Bundesliga The fifth tour of the Bundesliga will take place after European cup matches, in which eight German clubs participated at once. Four clubs played on Thursday, that is, they will have practically no time to restore.

10:28 // 09/18/2008 On the fact of shelling in Grozny a car, as a result of which the commander of the West battalion and two more military personnel were injured and one died, a criminal case was instituted on the life of law enforcement officers and illegal turnover of weapons. This was reported by the official representative of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (UKP) of the Russian Federation.

In Moscow, the day without cars will be arranged on the next Monday in Moscow will be held by the “Day without cars” campaign. The organizers - the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans" and the World Wildlife Fund - call on all motorists on this day to transfer to public transport. “We understand that the only alternative car in such a big city as Moscow may be public transport, and we offer Muscovites to transfer on September 22 from personal transport to public.

The Riga "Dynamo" is looking for the replacement of Edgar Masalskis, the Continental Hockey League (KHL) continues to give the fans with surprises. The principle "everyone can beat everyone" is realized almost daily. The champion of the country was the next losing favorite: Salavat Yulaev in Novokuznetsk first left the ice defeated in regular time. Maxim Sokolov, after a dry match in St.

11:41 // 09/18/2008 The volume of international reserves of the Russian Federation as of September 12, 2008 amounted to $ 560.3 billion against $ 573.6 billion as of September 5, the Department of Foreign and Public Relations of the Central Bank said. Thus, in a week, the international reserves of the Russian Federation decreased by $ 13.3 billion.

18:26 // 09/18/2008 The Federal Financial Markets Service (FSFR) allowed the RTS stock exchange from Friday to resume the trading on Wednesday, the site said. "According to the notification of the cancellation of the action of the FSFR of Russia on the suspension of bidding in all RTS markets, it will be carried out from September 19 as usual," it says in the message, as RIA Novosti reports. Source: gzt.ru

19:20 // 09/18/2008 A group of eight American congressmen introduced a resolution to the House of Representatives of the US Congress, which states that in connection with the power actions of Russia, the United States should lead efforts in order to ““ connect Ukraine to the plan on membership (PDC) as soon as possible with the aim of the subsequent entry of Ukraine into this alliance, RIA Novosti reports.

10:03 // 09/18/2008 A helicopter with American soldiers on board crashed in Iraq. According to Reuters with reference to the official statement of the American forces in the country, all seven people who were on board were killed. The helicopter was sent from neighboring Kuwait to the American military base "Ballad" in the south of Iraq. According to the preliminary version, technical problems were the reason for the fall of the CH-47 helicopter. Source: gzt.ru

The work of the accelerator was suspended on Thursday reports about the first interruptions in the work of the Great Adron Collider (BAC). According to France-Presse, the world's most powerful accelerator of subatomic particles (Adrons) was stopped on Wednesday due to electricity problems. As the newspaper correspondent in the European Council of Nuclear Research (CERN) explained, problems with electricity arose on the weekend, which violated the operation of the accelerator cooling system.

21:38 // 09/18/2008 Morocco authorities withdrew two diplomats from Holland in response that the Dutch authorities accused the Rotterdam police officer in espionage in favor of Rabat, Associated Press said, citing a statement by the Netherlands Foreign Ministry.

15:11 // 09/18/2008 The chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Anatoly Gritsenko, during an attempt to familiarize him with the materials of the decision of the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv, dated August 20, to bring him to administrative responsibility, inflicted bodily harm to one of the witnesses present, the injured was hospitalized in one of the medical institutions of Simferopol, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported.

A recent shootout in Ashgabat is overgrown with new details. According to the informed source, the security forces took out the families of two militants outside the capital. During the shootout, the militants were killed, but their relatives on the orders of the President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov returned to the Ashgabat returned to their homes. Where they were taken away, what happened to them at this time is unknown.