The LNG plant was launched on Sakhalin today, the first gas liquefaction plant was launched in Russia. The symbolic start to the beginning of production in the village of Prigorodnoye (south of the island of Sakhalin), together pressing the large blue button, gave the leaders of the company's shareholders: the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, the chief executive director of Shell Yerun Van der Vir, the presidents of the Japanese Mitsui and Mitsubishi Shoe Utsud and Yorichico Kodzhima.

Global warming will expand the habitat of the Colorado beetle and destroy white bears as a result of global warming melting of arctic ice in the 21st century can become irreversible, and by the end of the century the Arctic will be completely free from ice. Such a forecast was made by domestic scientists who presented the first appraisal report on the climate change and their consequences in the territory of the Russian Federation at ITAR-TASS .

In Moscow, there will be an underground animation from February 18 to February 22 at the 35 mm cinema, OneDotzero Moscow Mix will host, animation of OneDotzero festivals in 2007-2008. For four days, perhaps the best of what is in today's animated world will spin on the screens. The annual OneDotzero festivals are held around the world and have a rather significant success.

The upper boundary of the currency corridor is again tested for strength of the ruble again closely approached the upper boundary of the corridor of the oscillations of the bivalyat basket established by the Central Bank. Its cost rose to 40.72 rubles. The ruble was strengthened the whole past week, but this week the speculative demand for currency has returned to the market. The dollar set by the Central Bank for today is 36.42 rubles, which is 69 kopecks higher than the day before.

Pharmacists are trying to understand how one of the participants in the pharmaceutical market - the Heropharm company, will develop the market - considers the possibility of creating the plant, the Rosbalt agency said yesterday. The company's press service does not specify the term and place of the construction of the new capacities of the enterprise. Also, the company "Gerofarm" decided to expand production due to new capacities in the Moscow region.

15:36 // 02/18/2009 Prices for imported alcohol in Moscow will rise, but the cost of domestic vodka may decrease, Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the Department of Consumer Market and Services of the Capital, told reporters. “People consuming this drink may not want to purchase it at a price of 100 rubles and higher,” said Malykkov. At the same time, according to him, imported alcohol will only rise in price.

15:29 // 18.02.2009 A cargo elevator with people broke from the level of the second floor in the universum in the east of Moscow, three people were injured. The incident occurred in the Sokolina Gora region in a universm, located in house 18 on Mironovskaya Street. People were hospitalized, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies went to the place of emergency, but their help was not required. Currently, the causes of the incident are established, reports RIA Novosti . Source: gzt.ru

The personal belongings of the king of pop music are an auction Michael Jackson is ready to part with the awards received by him over the years of creativity. The figurines of prestigious musical awards and more than two thousand personal belongings of the performer will be put up for auction planned for April of this year. Julien announced the intention to conduct trading to sell the musician’s things auction house in December.

Did you work socially? I will explain the inability: at least you were on potatoes? And I was. 1978, autumn. Two courses of the historical and philological faculty of the University of Friendship of Peoples named after P. Lumonba was collected in the late Sunday evening at the so -called "cross" - the buildings of the humanitarian faculties. 200 people, including blond compatriots, have prevailed, it was now difficult to believe (and whoever believes will envy me), into one regular bus.

14:35 // 18.02.2009 Perm doctors can now receive and process a cardiogram using a mobile phone. At the central ambulance station, the city of television cameras of the Israeli company Aerotel Medicel Systems began to be introduced, the head physician of the station Yevgeny Kamkin said. According to him, the basis of the system is the mobile cardiographer Hist Vew - a miniature device, which the doctor takes a cardiogram from the patient in a minute.

Six-time Russian champion Alexander Filimonov in an interview with the newspaper about Spartak football of the 90s, about the absence of a goalkeeper school in Russia, about the mistakes of goalkeepers and their fate, as well as about the history and historical literature with Alexander Filimonov, Alexey Andronov and Alexander Shmornov are talking. Alexander Filimonov is one of the most famous goalkeepers in the latest Russian history.

20:30 // 18.02.2009 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the issuance of a loan of Tajikistan in the amount of $ 120 million for three years under the program to reduce poverty and promotion of growth to help the country in the conditions of the global financial crisis, the head of the IMF Mission Axel Shimmelfennig said at a briefing.

In the fourth quarter, the economy of the OECR countries decreased by 1.5% of such a large quarterly recession since the 1960s. In the third quarter (compared with the second) GDP of the OECR countries, it decreased by 0.2%. The strongest braking in the fourth quarter (by the third) of 2008 was recorded in South Korea and Japan. The South Korean economy decreased by 5.6%, the Japanese - by 3.3% (it falls in a row in a row). The fall from October to December is the most painful.

The polemic about the possibility of conception from a person who is in a coma erupted in Italy .. The polemic about the possibility of conception from a person in a coma erupted in Italy. The scandal is associated with the desire of a 40-year-old resident of the Northern Italian city of Vigevano (Vigevano) to conceive a child from his 35-year-old spouse in a coma.

The “right case” was received by the registration certificate of the Deputy Minister of Justice today Alexei Velichko presented the party “The right business”, created in November 2008 on the basis of the ATP (the Union of Right Forces), the Democratic and “Civil Power”, and the registration certificate.