American singer Whitney Houston filed a lawsuit of $ 1.6 billion for her stepmother. Houston claims that a woman owes her for payment of utilities. The stepmother has been living in the house of the deceased father of the singer since 1987, and all this time Houston covered her housing expenses. According to the Associated Press , the singer’s stepmother is not going to give up. She confirms that Houston was obliged to take care of her by testament, which her father left in 2003.

Amendments to the law on the securities market and the protection of investors' rights passed the second reading of the State Duma yesterday, in the second reading, the amendments on the admission of foreign securities to the Russian financial market. Changes are made to the laws “On the Securities Market” and “On the Protection of the Rights and Legal interests of investors in the securities market”. The second reading in the committee on financial markets received 54 amendments.

12:50 // 08/08/2009 Moldova after the riots in Chisinau, during which the calls of Moldova’s accession to Romania sounded, decided to introduce a visa regime with Romania, RIA Novosti reports. “We decided to introduce a visa regime with Romania. In addition, the Romanian ambassador in Moldova has been declared a person Non Grata,” said Moldova President Vladimir Voronin at a meeting in the Government House with representatives of civil society on Wednesday.

The famous Russian writer Boris Akunin claims that the authorities of Uzbekistan refused him to enter this country, fearing that he would portray it in a negative light, but the Embassy of Uzbekistan in the Russian Federation does not understand such accusations, since the visa for visiting the republic is not required, RIA Novosti reports ..

Russian scientists are developing new methods of protecting against accumulating garbage in orbiting Russian scientists invented self -metering material, which in the future is supposed to be used as an external skin of space stations and ships to protect against cosmic garbage. This material, according to the specialist of the Central Research Institute of Ship Engineering Valery Feldstein, resembles the skin of a person who is delayed after small cuts.

16:16 // 08/08/2009 The situation with the external debt of Ukraine is not threatening, said Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine Andrei Kravets. “There is absolutely no reason to say that we have a significant amount of duty,” he said here at a briefing, ITAR -TASS reports. According to him, the total debt of the state reaches $ 23 billion or about 20 percent of GDP. At the same time, the Budget Code allows you to increase it to 60 percent to GDP.

15:08 // 08/08/2009 A two -year -old resident of Samarkand, having fallen from the seventh floor, escaped with a concussion, a representative of the Samarkand Scientific Center for Children's Surgery told RIA Novosti . He said that the other day the boy was left in the care of a 12-year-old sister, while the baby’s mother was led away for a short while on business. “At some time, the child was left unattended and fell out of the balcony of the seventh floor,” the doctor said.

The Bank of Russia is building up the pace of buying up currency from the market for the first week of April, the Central Bank bought more than $ 2 billion. This was announced yesterday by the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Ulyukaev. At the same time, for March, the Bank of Russia bought only twice as much - $ 4 billion.

20:46 // 08.04.2009 The price of land owned by Moscow and put up for sale will fall in the coming years due to a decrease in its cadastral value, said Oleg Ryzhkov, First Deputy Head of the capital’s department of land resources, RIA Novosti reports. "As for those areas that will enter the market, the following process will go here. Yes, there will be 100% cadastral value. But we are reviewing the cadastral value once every three years.

20:50 // 08.04.2009 Twenty criminal cases for violation of copyright and related rights were instituted in Moscow according to the results of the employees of the metropolitan UBEP for several weeks of operational-search measures. The police checked more than 40 retail and small-optical outlets, as a result, they managed to go to the wholesale warehouse, where 50 thousand counterfeit DVDs were seized totaling more than 5 million rubles. Source: gzt.ru

The Ministry of Agriculture took up land reform, the new Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik intends to do what nobody managed before it - to restore order with agricultural land. She spoke about the plans of the Ministry of Agriculture to regulate the turnover of agricultural land and on the progress of land reform at the government hour in the State Duma. According to Rosnedvzhini, over the past 15 years, arable land has declined by more than 10 million hectares.

Gordon Brown proposed a plan for environmental recovery Gordon Brown hopes to make the UK a world leader in the production and export of electric vehicles and machines with hybrid engines. According to the prime minister, the next year, residents of two or three English cities in the experiment will be transplanted into electric cars. The government’s plans also include negotiations with energy companies so that the cars can be charged with batteries at gas stations.

11:51 // 08/08/2009 Trading at the largest Tokyo Stock Exchange in Asia ended today with a large drop in the main quotations. By the end of the second session at 15:00 local time (10:00 Moscow time), the key to Japan is the financial indicator of Nickei, which reflects shares of 225 leading companies in the country, fell by 2.6 percent. He lost 238 points and reached the level of 8595.01 points, ITAR-TASS reports.

14:41 // 08/08/2009 The ruble slightly weakened to the bivalyat basket, by the middle of the day (at 14.00 Moscow time) its cost increased to 38.65 rubles against 38.59 rubles at the opening, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the MICEVB exchange data. At the closure of the auction 7, the cost of the bivalyut basket was 38.48 rubles, during the day the ruble was stable to the basket.

09:34 // 08.04.2009 The manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-13, on the board of which is the crew of the 18th Expedition of the ISS-American Michael Fink and Russian Yuri Lonchakov, as well as the space tourist Charles Simoni, plucked from the ISS and headed for the Earth, reports RIA Novosti . "The health and mood of the crew, as well as a space tourist, is good.