The vast majority of toy traders violate sanitary standards to buy toys in Moscow unsafe. According to the capital’s department of Rospotrebnadzor, over the past nine months of this year, the department examined 129 trading facilities, 103 (80%) of them revealed violations of sanitary standards.

20:53 // 07.10.2008 More than 136 people in southern China were poisoned by water infected with waste of the metallurgical plant, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Chinese agency Sinhua. Local authorities reported that the results of the tests of the inhabitants of two villages near the city of Hechi in the Guanxi-Juan Autonomous Region, who complained about nausea, the tumor of the face and eyes and visual impairment, showed the presence of a large number of arsenic in their urine.

The draw of the UEFA Cup was held in Njon yesterday in the Swiss Nyon took place a draw for the group stage of the UEFA Cup. Of the three Russian participants in the qualifying round, two clubs reached this stage - Spartak and CSKA. Red-white fell into UEFA after a triumphal departure from the third qualification round, in which Spartak lost two matches of Dynamo Kyiv with a total score of 2: 8.

Director Igor Yatsko in an interview with the Gazeta at the School of Dramatic Art Theater today will be held the premiere of the play “Stone Angel”, staged by Igor Yatsko, a student of Anatoly Vasiliev. The play, written by Marina Tsvetaeva in 1920, was considered lost for a long time and was found only in the mid-1960s.

19:07 // 07/07/2008 Only members of the Nur Otan party (Light of the Fatherland), the leader of the country of Nursultan Nazarbayev, was held at the Senate of Kazakhstan on October 4 to the Senate of Kazakhstan, the press service of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan said.

17:44 // 07.10.2008 The ministers of the economy and finance of 27 countries participating in the European Union during a meeting on Tuesday in Luxembourg approved an increase from the current 20 thousand euros to at least 50 thousand euros of the guaranteed return on deposits in the event of bankruptcy of a credit institution, the Minister of Economy of the EU chairman Christine Lyagarda said.

18:43 // 07/07/2008 The Russian company Mercury Group, engaged in the sale of luxury items, acquired the auction house Phillips de Pury, the house said. "The head of the auction house Simon de Puri will remain as head of Phillips de Pury and his shareholder," RIA Novosti quotes the release.

The federal authorities will not be invested in the development of metropolitan electric trains for the implementation of the first stage of the project for the reconstruction of the small railway ring of Moscow (MK MC) will not be allocated from the federal budget.

11:45 // 07.10.2008 The best teachers of Dagestan will receive a bonus of 100 thousand rubles, a representative of the Ministry of Education of Dagestan told RIA Novosti . "Grants in the amount of 100 thousand rubles will have 346 professionals who have made a significant contribution to the development of education in Dagestan," the agency’s interlocutor said.

18:10 // 07/07/2008 The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation for the Siberian Federal District transferred a criminal case to the court against the alleged members of the gang involved, according to the investigation, by 11 murders and 39 robberies, the RIA Novosti Media Department of the SCP said on Tuesday.

The former commander of the Black Sea Fleet Eduard Baltin, the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, Admiral Baltin, at the 72nd year of his life, died yesterday in a military hospital after three operations. Baltin in 1992 fell a mission to divide the fleet between the two newly formed states - Russia and Ukraine. The command of the Russian Navy expressed condolences to the admiral's family. The funeral will pass through the military ritual with all the appropriate honors.

The motorist received a deadline for an attack on a pedestrian, the World Court of the Blagoveshchensk of the Amur Region issued a conviction against a motorist who beat a pedestrian. The conflict occurred in February of this year. Early in the morning, Alexei Pashkov went to work on his Toyota. Passing along the suburban street, he touched the right mirror of a pedestrian walking along the edge. At the same time, the mirror broke off and, falling on the asphalt, broke.

The captured crew of the Faina showed the American military from $ 20 million to $ 8 million reduced yesterday the ransom of the Somali pirates, who seized the Ukrainian ship Faina on September 25. This was reported to the international news agencies on a cell phone by a representative of Korsarov, who called Jama Aden.

12:03 // 07.10.2008 The Government of the Russian Federation increased the quota for labor migrants for 2008 by 1.9 times to 3.4 million people, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the resolution on the Cabinet of Ministers. The deputy head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin said in early October that the government is considering an increase in quota to 3.2 million people.

21:49 // 07.10.2008 The new resolution, designed to tighten the struggle with piracy off the coast of Somalia, was unanimously approved by members of the UN Security Council today, ITAR-TASS reports.