12:22 // 24.02.2009 The suburban train crashed on Monday into a passenger car at a railway crossing in the Novgorod region, a car passenger suffered, a representative of the Novgorod traffic police department said on Tuesday. The emergency occurred in the city of Pestovo at about 16.20 Moscow time. The 33-year-old resident of Pestovo, who drove a car of the Hyundai brand, is drunk, without convincing the safety of the movement, went to the railway crossing on Titov Street.

20:24 // 24.02.2009 The exact date of the election of the rector of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky will be named in early March, and the elections themselves will be allegedly held in May, the acting rector of the Moscow Conservatory Alexander Sokolov said. According to him, at today's meeting of the Scientific Council of the Conservatory, those present unanimously voted for the beginning of the rector’s choice.

The increase in the state presence in Citigroup rejoiced the market and scared competitors of the shares of American banks markedly growing on the news about their possible nationalization. So, on Monday, Citigroup paper took off by more than 9% after it became known that the US government can increase its presence in the bank from the current 7.8 to 25-40%.

13:14 // 24.02.2009 In 2008, Russian courts deprived the right to drive a car of a total of 1 million 205 thousand citizens. Of these, 365 thousand were left without driver’s licenses, as they were driving in a state of alcohol intoxication, Vladimir Kuzin Vladimir Kuzin said the first deputy head of the road safety department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on Tuesday.

Anti -crisis advertising by 30% will be reduced by the base rate, on the basis of which the cost of installing and operating outdoor advertising carriers in Moscow is calculated My patent nanny Migrants working in Russia for individuals will be offered to legalize for a thousand rubles a month look Incentive to work and salary Alimony will have to pay even unemployed parents if a draft law is adopted on the establishment of the minimum mandatory bar of such payments look

Alexander Gafin, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board Alfa-Bank, dismissed from his position .. Alexander Gafin, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board Alfa-Bank, dismissed from his position. About this Representative of the bank informed RIA Novosti . "The latest statements by Gafin regarding the president of OJSC "Alfa-Bank" of Peter Aven, were completely his initiative and not were initiated by someone from the bank's leadership. All this It is a gross violation of corporate ethics.

World indices returned in 1997, world stock indices continue to travel into the past, reaching more and more many years of minimums. At the end of last week, the Dow Jones index fell to the 1997 level. On Monday, his example was followed by the Standard & Poor´s 500 index. He lost 3.37% per session and settled at 743.33 points.

13:05 // 24.02.2009 The American democrats that control the US Congress intend to cancel the restrictions adopted by the George Bush administration regarding citizens' visits by relatives in Cuba. In 2004, George Bush signed restrictions according to which it was possible to come to relatives in Cuba once every three years. The time of stay on the island of Freedom was also limited to 14 days, to spend 50 dollars a day in Cuba.

In the social institutions of Moscow, total deratization of the metropolitan epidemiologists has been announced from yesterday and until the end of February will check all Moscow kindergartens, hospitals and boarding houses for rodents, the Moscow City Hall reported yesterday.

22:06 // 24.02.2009 The head coach of the Birmingham "Aston Villa" Martin Oowel announced the composition of 19 players who will go to Moscow for a return match with CSKA as part of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup. “Several players of our team are injured, and some others need a vacation to the extremely important final third season,” Owsla quoted the official website of Aston Villa.

15:25 // 24.02.2009 16 people were injured as a result of the collision of a Chevrolet Lanos car on a group of people on Vernadsky Avenue on Tuesday morning, eight people were hospitalized, a representative of the Moscow Department of Health told RIA Novosti . According to him, there is no threat to the life of the victims. Basically, young people received bruises, abrasions and injuries.

10:01 // 24.02.2009 Four people, including a child, died in a fire in a wooden residential building of Petrozavodsk, a representative of the Ministry of Emergencies of Karelia told RIA Novosti . "The message about the fire was registered at about one in the morning. Despite the fact that firefighters arrived at the place after four minutes, the two -story wooden house was almost completely embraced by fire, and the design of the second floor has already begun to collapse.

17:32 // 24.02.2009 Russian skier Nikolai Morilov won the bronze of the 2009 World Cup in ski sports, which takes place in the Czech Liberets, becoming the third in sprint competitions. In the final race, Morilov, who won the first Russian medal at the world championship, lost only to the Norwegians Ole Vigen Hattestt, who won gold, and Johan Kielstada, RIA Novosti reports.

21:15 // 24.02.2009 Olympic champion Yevgeny Plushenko confirmed that he intends to return to amateur sport soon. “First, these will be competitions in Russia, and then, having got into the national team, international championships. I want to fight for medals at the upcoming Olympics in the Canadian Vancouver. I train at full strength. I have two or three training every day,” Plushchenko ITAR-TASS quoted. Source: gzt.ru

12:49 // 24.02.2009 The ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev are transferred from the Chita pre-trial detention center to provide participation in the consideration of a criminal case against them. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva, ITAR-TASS reports.