14:26 // 18.03.2009 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed the former head of Rosavtodor Oleg Belozerov as deputy minister of transport; As the head of the road agency, Anatoly Chabunin replaced him, follows from orders on the government’s website. Chabunin still worked as deputy head of Rosavtodor, who is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport, recalls RIA Novosti .

14:56 // 18.03.2009 A criminal case has been instituted in Buryatia on the death of a three-year-old girl due to the wrong actions of the ambulance doctors. According to the IV Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (UKP) of the Russian Federation, it was established that the child left unattended at home swallowed several pills of the Yodomarin (the drug for the treatment of the thyroid gland). Having discovered this, the mother called an ambulance.

18:10 // 18.03.2009 Employees of the Moscow Region Office of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the Russian Federation detained 76 citizens of Tajikistan on Wednesday, who illegally worked at the city dump in Khimki and lived there, the representative of the press service of the regional FMS said. Illegal migrants from Tajikistan were identified in the city dump of household waste located in the Khimki Left Bank.

18:40 // 18.03.2009 The leadership of the GAZ Group introduced a Sberbank program of the company's restructuring, which involves a reduction in costs by 35%; Sberbank agrees to restructure gas debts and is ready to convince other creditors of this, the head of the largest Russian bank German Gref said on Wednesday. "Sberbank, VTB and VEB have approximately 30% of the total gas debt," he said, adding that the greatest debt among the three named banks falls on VTB.

In Suzdal, the XIV open Russian festival of animated cinema ended. For five days, both recognized professionals and beginners of the genre showed their works. This year, a festival catalog included more than a hundred films. Spectators usually left the viewing hall, to put it mildly, tired: refusing selection, the organizers brought down such a stream of ribbons on them that sometimes there was not enough strength to distinguish victory from defeats.

In the center of Moscow, part of the historical ensemble of the former plant, the Moskomnomnight, decided to demolish most of the buildings of the complex of the former Moscow gas plant in Nizhny Susalny (Central Administrative District), the first buildings of which dates back to 1865. A multifunctional complex with underground parking lots may appear at this place, under which more than 7.5 hectares of land will go.

The corporation is ready to purchase Sun Microsystems for $ 6.5 billion one of the world's largest computers, peripheral and software manufacturers, the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation can purchase Sun Microsystems for about $ 6.5 billion. The transaction can be approved this week, although, according to the WSJ source, there is a risk that the antimonopoly authorities will block it.

The NASA astronomers noticed a 15-meter asteroid the day before its approaching the ground yesterday, next to the Earth flew an asteroid FH-2009, noticed by astronomers only the night before. Not even nothing threatened our planet, or even orbital companions. Scientists argue that people have nothing to fear at all: all asteroids that can destroy the Earth or bring it irreparable harm have long been open.

20:45 // 18.03.2009 Light therapy helps to cope with winter depression and significantly improves the mood of people sensitive to seasonal changes, says Swedish physiotherapist Cecilia Plastad from Sweden. The researcher made a conclusion about the effectiveness of this type of therapy in her dissertation, which gives the results of the analysis of the effects of light on the condition of 50 people - 40 women and 10 men.

Relations of the Russian Federation and NATO may change. One of the main connecting links in Russia and NATO will be an interagency commission, the composition of which was approved yesterday by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It was headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko, who was responsible for the foreign policy for interaction with pan -European and Euro -Atlantic organizations.

19:20 // 18.03.2009 On March 17, Baroness Thornton, the Minister of Health of Great Britain, invited the government to adopt a new law by which people will be able to choose themselves who will get their bodies after death. According to The Daily Telegraph , Lady Thornton called for a change in the law after the incident from Rachel Lake, which was refused to transplant the kidneys from her own daughter.

Polluts China - importers are paid by China threatens the greenhouse effect, demanding from the countries - importers of its products to divide the responsibility for the industrial gases thrown out by it .

The conscript from the Chelyabinsk region George Dzhakhontel, who was serving in the Bikinsky garrison of the Khabarovsk Territory and became a victim of the "grandfature", will soon be sent home. The diagnosis with whom the soldier who made a suicide attempt sounds disappointing: schizophrenia.

The scientist claims that the English playwright wrote more than we can imagine Dr. John Casson claims that he discovered the first published poem by Shakespeare - the sonnet of Phaeton, the first comedy of Musedor, as well as two tragedies - “Locrin” and “Arden from the Phyrsham”.

The FST approved the dollar tariffs for servicing foreign air carriers by the Board of the Federal Tariffs for Tariffs (FSTs) of the Russian Federation yesterday decided to approve dollar tariffs for servicing foreign air carriers at the capital's airports of Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo. Appeal to the service with a proposal to consider changing the level of airport training rates and tariffs for ground -based aircraft was initiated by airports themselves.