16:01 // 01/25/2009 Ukraine faces default, says Alexander Golub, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Communist Party faction. “The country is moving in the direction of default. Moreover, the default, in comparison with which the crisis of the early 90s will seem“ easy absenteeism, ”the agency of RIA Novosti quoted the words of the politician.

Yesterday, the American company Coca-Cola nevertheless succumbed to the pressure of consumers and revealed the same “secret ingredient”, which has been stored in deep secret since 1886. Everything turned out to be much more trivial than expected. This is a koshenil - an extract that is obtained from koshenic worms. By the way, in the European part of Russia, the Polish Koshenil, or Porphyrophora Polonica, is one of the types of these worms of the above -family coccids.

Russian industry did not fall as much as predicted to the Ministry of Economic Development the growth rate of industrial production in Russia in 2008 amounted to only 2.1%. For comparison: in 2007, industry increased by 6.3%. However, everything turned out to be not as bad as forecasters warned from the Ministry of Economic Development.

Having released a new album after a huge break, Guns´n´rosses broke a lot of stereotypes Work on the album “Chinese Democracy” (“Chinese Democracy”) lasted 17 years, and this is undoubtedly a record. Of course, the risk of breaking away from reality and forget about what time in the yard was too large, but the Guns´n´roses group turned out to be higher than that. She turned out to be a classic rock album, which they no longer do.

The main motive for Charles Darwin’s scientific research was the struggle against the slavery of Darwin's theory is often used as an argument against the existence of God, however, according to the latest study, its goal was to get rid of the world from slavery. Science historians Adrian Desmond and James Moore discovered new facts that prove that Darwin actively fought with slavery, and it was this struggle that served as a moral stimulus for his work.

Entrepreneurs interviewed by Business Russia as part of the Barometer project noted a sharp deterioration in business activity in the last quarter of 2008. The value of the consolidated index (the sum of positive and negative assessments of the current situation in various directions) amounted to 27.8 points. With regard to the first quarter of 2009, the business is even more negative.

Onexim will not redeem the TGK-4 shares by January 29 to the Moscow Arbitration Court will prepare why the ONEXIM Holdings LTD Offer’s guarantee is invalid. The bank gave a guarantee in the amount of 25 billion rubles, according to which he pledged to pay all TGK-4 minority-4s presented for the redemption. The lawsuit was satisfied on January 22 in favor of Griodio LTD, Cyprus Offshore Onexim.

The entrance to the CTP market has fallen in price for small companies and went up for large at the end of last week at a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Union of Auto Strakhotovniki (RSA) the cost of an “entrance ticket” to the CTP market for small companies was reduced by six times. The size of the deposit, which they must be formed by March 1, will be their average monthly payment for OSAGO, but not less than 3 million rubles.

The authorities lost five lawsuits on Friday to the ECHR, Russian human rights activists commented on the decisions from five statements filed by citizens of the Russian Federation on the eve of the Strasbourg Court. The ECHR (the European Court of Human Rights), in particular, considered several complaints in which he recognized the presence of a violation of the 6th article of the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides for the consideration of the case in reasonable time.

The absorption can cost the company more than $ 60 billion leader in American pharmacy Pfizer Inc. It is negotiating on the acquisition of one of the largest Wyeth drug manufacturers in the United States. As reported on Friday The Wall Street Journal, the amount of the transaction may exceed $ 60 billion. This figure is called on the fact that the Wyeth market capitalization is about $ 52 billion, and the average premium on the pharmaceutical market usually ranges from 20%.

There is such a position: the crisis around, which means that it is world. Since the world, then ... Differences begin from this place. There is such a continuation: the governments of economically leading countries need to be united, then at least coordinate their anti -crisis efforts. It is logical, only relevance, in fact, is lost. Everyone is sick alone.

Yesterday, the Bishop Cathedral determined three candidates for the Patriarchal Department, tomorrow at the Local Council the elections of the new lord of the new lord yesterday in Moscow by the Bishop Cathedral, following a secret vote behind closed doors, called three candidates of 145 possible applicants for the Patriarchal Department: these are Metropolitans Kirill, Clement and Filaret. The results of the 198 bishops were published yesterday at 18.40 Moscow time.

In the world of stopped moments, two noticeable events at once: an exhibition of a journalist with a camera Yuri Growth in Moscow and who left the film director of Carlos Saura in Barcelona. At the exhibition in Moscow, more than 200 black and white works are presented. This is only a small part of the photo archive of growth.

Bolivia votes at the referendum to change the Constitution Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, invited his fellow citizens to change the country's constitution in order to transfer more power to the Indian population - a majority that was traditionally the poorest social layer. If today the population votes “for”, then the new basic law will allow Morales to remain in power until 2014, and ensure greater control of the government over the country's natural resources.

Capital officials promise an innovative breakthrough on January 27 to discuss the Moscow government will be made a program of applied research and projects in the interests of the city of Moscow for 2009-2011. The total funding - almost 12.3 billion rubles, of which about 3.6 billion will be allocated this year.