09:31 // 03/17/2009 The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia recognized the actions of the Eldorado company unfair competition, expressed in an incorrect comparison of goods offered for the sale of goods offered by M. Video. According to the FAS press service, the Eldorado company issued an order to terminate the spread of incorrect information. Both companies specialize in the provision of services for the sale of non-food goods in the Russian Federation, Prime-Tass notes.

12:02 // 03/17/2009 The weighted average of the dollar at a single trading session (ETS) with "Tomorrow" settlements as of 11:30 Moscow time dropped by 30.7 kopecks and amounted to 34.5318 rubles per dollar. The Bank of Russia, reports Prime-Tass , sets the official dollar exchange rate on the average weighted value of the dollar at the auction of the ETC accounting "Tomorrow", which has developed as of 11:30 Moscow time of the day of trading.

14:19 // 03/17/2009 The decision to fix the training fee at universities will be made before the end of April, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko said on Tuesday, speaking at the College of the Ministry of Education and Science according to the results of 2008, RIA Novosti reports. With the proposal to "freeze" this amount in rubles without indexation for the entire period of training was performed in early February, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

10:42 // 03/17/2009 President of Madagascar Mark Ravalumanan turned to the UN and the South African development community with a request to provide him with military assistance. This was announced by the representative of the head of state. “The possibilities of the president are now very limited,” he said. “The situation is turning into a military coup.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development has prepared a package of bills for the introduction of insurance premiums, the government still plans to replace the Unified Social tax (UST) with insurance contributions from January 1, 2010, the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova said yesterday. “So far there are no decisions (for cancellation). We have now practically completed the preparation of all the necessary bills, ”the minister said.

09:26 // 03/17/2009 All Russians who suffered in a car accident in Vietnam and delivered from this country on an EMERCOM aircraft to Moscow were sent to Russian federal clinics, the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation Vladimir Uyba told RIA Novosti . On Friday on a mountain track in Vietnam, a tourist bus collapsed in a 200-meter gap. Nine died and 15 Russians were injured.

The new medical technology, tested on rodents, can either improve a person or kill hundreds of thousands of people from hereditary diabetes - a disease that destroys pancreatic cells and violates the body's ability to regulate blood sugar. In order to cope with an incurable disease, patients need to introduce insulin and adhere to special diets daily. Scientists argue that in the future a cure for diabetes can be developed.

10:36 // 03/17/2009 The administration of the President of Barack Obama suspended production by General Electric Gas turbines intended to equip new warships built by India, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the influential newspaper Khindustustan Times, the decision also affects a number of other foreign contracts implemented by the giant of the American energy industry. It is assumed that it is motivated by the US military-technical relations with other countries held by the new government.

10:08 // 03/17/2009 Six provinces in the south of the Philippines were left without electricity as a result of undermining the support of the power line by separatists, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regional media. The explosion occurred the night before in the province of North Kotabato, the power supply of six provinces on the southern island of Mindanao was interrupted.

In the court of Thailand, the next hearings are held in the case of Viktor But's extradition in the United States Alla Buta, the wife of Russian businessman Viktor But, who is suspected of selling weapons to terrorists, is convinced of the innocence of her husband. She stated this today at the hearing of the case of the "death merchant" in the Bangkok court.

10:41 // 03/17/2009 Moscow operatives on Tuesday night detained two suspects in a robbery attack on a woman in the north-west of the capital, a source in the city law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, on March 16, around midnight, a woman turned to the duty unit, who said that about 15 minutes ago, two unknown people met her at the Boulevard of Yana Rainis Boulevard in the metro station.

The chief military prosecutor of Russia Sergey Friedinsky said yesterday that a criminal case had been opened on suspicion of desertion against Sergeant Alexander Glukhov. At the end of January, he left his military unit in South Ossetia, then ended up in Tbilisi, where the Georgian side used it for propaganda purposes. Despite the statement of the main military prosecutor, there was little clarity in the situation.

10:22 // 03/17/2009 To 3 years in prison, the court in Arkhangelsk, who forged a medical certificate for the bribe, was conditionally sentenced to 3 years. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the regional prosecutor’s office, the ISAKOYOR District Court of Arkhangelsk recognized the head of the Radiation Diagnostics Department of the city hospital number 12 of Mikhail Panfilov guilty of receiving a bribe. For 500 rubles, he forged a medical certificate to receive a certificate.

10:54 // 03/17/2009 An unknown person with a pistol selected two laptops and a cell phone from two students of the Gubkin Institute named after Gubkin, a source in the city law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti .

The Finnish programmer, who lost the ring finger in an accident, replaced it with a USB drive with the development of technology, people can no longer do without computer devices. They try to surround themselves with them: they buy a PC for home, laptops for work, even phones are now more reminiscent of complex computer devices than communications. It turns out that many are not enough. Transformers from comics and Hollywood films walk right into real life.