Porsche was controlled by Volkswagen German automaker Porsche Automobil Holding SE received the other day, the Volkswagen AG (VW) concern package. Now Porsche owns a package of 50.76% of the shares; According to management, in 2009, the holding intends to continue to buy stocks in order to receive at least 75% of the third largest car manufacturer in Europe.

The South Korean Sollers South Korean Ssangyong Motor is trying to avoid bankruptcy and restore profitability. To do this, the company submitted an application for protection against creditors and property management in the Seoul Court Court. Ssangyong Motor decided to apply to the court after refusing its main shareholder (Chinese SIAC Automobile Concert) assistance. It is expected that the application will be considered by the court within a month.

The metropolitan authorities are asked to change the rules of the road by the beginning of spring, the capital’s authorities intend to prepare an appeal to the Russian government with a request to introduce a ban on the use of studded rubber in the summer. The city hall has been trying to fight the townspeople for several years who forget to change the tires: they are accused of spoiling road surface. So far unsuccessfully.

The Russians began the world of the Biathlon World Cup from victories in five of the six-races of the 4th stage of the World Cup, Russian biathletes rose to the pedestal. Three times - to the first step. The win -win series of the season was extended by the female relay quartet, Ekaterina Yuryeva and Maxim Chudov celebrated in the sprint races of Victory. In the mass start, a wonderful return of the Olga Medvedtseva Olympic champion took place.

10:29 // 11.01.2009 Prince Harry apologized for insulting and racist statements to the Pakistani soldiers. This was done after the News of the World newspaper published material in which she reported that she had a video made three years earlier, in which the prince insults immigrants from the Arab countries. The video was made in 2006 at the British airport.

The DIA will save the Tarhana in a new way for itself today, the deposit insurance agency (DIA) can begin reorganization of the Tarhana bank. It is supposed to do this through the entry of the agency into the capital of the bank. As the Gazeta correspondent told in the DIA, this issue was to be considered at the Central Bank Banking Supervision Committee, and, according to the representative of the agency, the chances of approval by the committee of this procedure were very large.

18:19 // 11.01.2009 The rector of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichi proposes to expand the list of specialties by which the university can conduct entrance exams. "We would like more faculties to receive additional tests to have other criteria and other opportunities," Sadovnichi said.

17:02 // 11.01.2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on amendments to the Regulation on the procedure for military service. This was announced today by the Kremlin press service. The amendments mainly relate to the terms of stay in military ranks, the rights of officials to assign military ranks and the procedure for assigning military ranks to citizens in stock, ITAR-TASS reports.

The dollar exchange rate in Russia returned in 2003 the New Year's offensive did not bring changes to the Central Bank's foreign exchange policy. He celebrated the first working day of January the most sharp ruble devaluation in recent years. The bivalve basket ($ 0.55 and 0.45 euros), which the Central Bank uses as a course landmark, went up at once by 50 kopecks.

Wealthy Russians changed the habit of writing out famous performers from abroad and pay them remarkable fees of the Moscow elite for the first time in a few years celebrated the New Year without world stars of the first magnitude. In most clubs, the public remained to be content with electronics, poppies and nostalgic remixes of the 1980s.

Leon Panetta does not have a scout, but he has an excellent reputation by the elected US President Barack Obama distance from the Bush administration, appointing the head of the CIA of the former White House official who has no appropriate experience.

11:08 // 11.01.2009 Today in Hollywood the 66th Golden Globe Cinema ceremony will be held. The leaders among the nominees are the films "The Mysterious History of Benjamin Batton", "Doubt" and "Frost against Nixon", claiming awards in five nominations.

The number of victims of the armed conflict is approaching 900 people yesterday the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) entered the most densely populated quarters of the Palestinian Gaza Sector. On this day, street battles between Israeli servicemen and militants of the Palestinian group Hamas were especially fierce. According to official information, 27 Palestinians died in yesterday's clashes, about half of them are children.

18:47 // 11.01.2009 More than three thousand young residents of the Kaliningrad region visited the winter holidays in historical cities of Russia.

Yesterday, after a three-day search in the Altai Republic, a Mi-171 helicopter missing on Friday was discovered. The worst fears were confirmed: the car crashed, breaking on the slope of the Black Mountain. 7 out of 11 people on board were killed. Including the plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia in the State Duma, Alexander Koskopkin. During the New Year holidays, he came to Altai to hunt. Two survivors are in serious condition. Two more received relatively easy injuries.