13:12 // 02/17/2009 Leading mobile phone manufacturers agreed to unify charger, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Television of Spain (TVE1). Representatives of 17 companies participating in the World Mobile Congress, who are held these days in Barcelona: Nokia, Motorola, LG, Sony Ericson, Samsung and Orange Operators, At & T, KTF, MOBILKOM AUTRICE, Telecom Italia. Telefonica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile et Vodafone.

The Central District Court of Kemerovo recognized the 21-year-old student of KuzSTU Evgeny Kolosov, who was accused of killing a university professor, and sent him for compulsory treatment in a mental hospital, RIA Novosti was told by the press secretary of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kemerovo Region Nadezhda Ananyeva ..

10:34 // 02/17/2009 Tuition for training students-in-laws at state municipal universities in 2009 will decrease, said the head of the dewing Nikolai Bulaev, RIA Novosti reports. "My forecast is that the vast majority of universities this year will reduce the amount of payment at extrabudgetary departments, because there is competition in the educational services market, and this year it will be quite serious," Bulaev told reporters on Tuesday.

18:18 // 02/17/2009 The presidents of the Russian Federation and France exchanged assessments of the course of preparation for the upcoming in April S.G. In London, the Twenty Summit. This was announced by the Kremlin press service, informing about the telephone conversation Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy, ITAR-TASS reports.

The next round of negotiations between Russia and China on the provision of loans to Rosneft and Transneft in exchange for oil supply finally brought the results. According to Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, according to the results of negotiations, the parties signed a long-term contract for the supply of oil between Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC ).

19:03 // 02/17/2009 Russia did not promise Japan to “non -standard” to resolve the issue of smoking, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov told reporters during an flight from Egypt, commenting on the information that had appeared in the Japanese media that they promised a promise to resolve a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Japan, RIA Novosti reports.

15:59 // 02/17/2009 The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation expects a slowdown in industrial production in February 2009, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Klepach. "In January, the decline in industrial production was large, but the speed of the decline slows down. In February, there is a tendency to slow down the decline," said the Amblows of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Krypach, RIA Novosti reports.

16:25 // 02/17/2009 The chairman of the OSCE, the chairman of the Greece Foreign Affairs, Dora Bakoyanni, will discuss at the meeting on February 25 with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among other problems, the situation in the Caucasus, the official representative of the Greek foreign policy, Yorgos Kumutsacos, said on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports.

12:21 // 02/17/2009 The weighted average of the dollar to the ruble at a single trading session (ETS) MICEX "Tomorrow" by 11.30 Moscow time on Tuesday grew by 85 kopecks compared to a similar indicator of the previous session - up to 35.63 rubles from 34.78 rubles per dollar, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the MICEX data.

17:42 // 02/17/2009 Three police officers died, seven more were injured as a result of a terrorist attack in the Iraqi city of Baakub, located 65 km northeast of Baghdad. According to the received data, the bomb exploded in a restaurant near the building of the police department of the province of Dyal, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, it is reported to the trigger of a home -made explosive device in the suburbs of Baakuba, as a result of which two children were injured.

20:10 // 02/17/2009 The Bank of Russia limited 52 out of 174 banks of the loan limits without security, the director of the Department of Banking Regulation and Supervision of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Alexei Simanovsky told RIA Novosti .

The Gang of Nigerian drug dealers has been neutralized by the largest operation to suppress the activities of the international criminal community that transported cocaine to the territory of Russia in recent years, was carried out by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the FSB and the Federal Customs Service, as well as law enforcement agencies. This was told yesterday by the Deputy Minister of the Interior Nikolai Ovchinnikov.

The mayor's office will arrange a sales of shares belonging to the city, the capital’s authorities intend to radically reduce the participation of the city in joint -stock companies (JSC). Under the control of the Moscow government, only the large AOs necessary for the life support of the city will remain, said Vladimir Silkin, the head of the complex of property and land relations of the city.

The injured ammonia at the Businovsky meat processing plant was six times the number of ammonia leaks at the Businovsky meat processing plant in Moscow increased six times more yesterday. Seven of them are hospitalized with inhalation poisoning of ammonia pairs. Earlier it was reported that as a result of the accident, only one person suffered, then two. On Monday, in the compressor workshop of a meat processing plant located at: Businovskaya hill, house 2, about 10 kg of liquid ammonia spilled.

16:00 // 02/17/2009 About 300 illegal immigrants contained in the center of the temporary stay of immigrants on the Italian island of Lamepeduza announced a hunger strike as a protest against sending some of them to the homeland, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the APKOM agency. In the island center of the temporary detention of immigrants, there are currently 870 people, mainly Tunisian citizens.