12:49 // 08/08/2009 The Moscow Zoo "prescribed" a new tenant - a newborn elephant, who was born in late April, an employee of the press service of the zoo told RIA Novosti . "The elephant was born for the first time in 14 years. In general, the birth of the elephants in the zoos is quite rare, especially since the gestational age of the elephant reaches two years. The born elephant - a female family of Asian elephants," the agency’s interlocutor said.

12:36 // 08/08/2009 The Russian side did not interrupt the consultations and meetings of the Russian Council at the level of the preparatory committee, Dmitry Rogozin said to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at NATO, RIA Novosti reports. Rogozin specified that at this level meetings are held between deputies and senior diplomats. “Both yesterday and Tuesday, such meetings took place,” he said.

Jose Carreras announced that he no longer had the strength to speak on the opera stage. The media hastened to report on the end of the career of the Trio Tenor participant, but in fact, Carreras only stated a long -failed fact - in the performances he did not sing for a long time and you can only hear it at solo concerts. The 62-year-old Spanish tenor Jose Carreras dispelled the latest hopes for those fans who prefer classic opera production to the concerts of “hits” of classical music.

15:31 // 08/08/2009 The Moscow Arbitration Court collected Apatit from OJSC, which is included in the Fosagro holding, 1.99 billion rubles in favor of OJSC Voskresensky Mineral Fertilizers (VMU - controlled by Uralhim), RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. Thus, the court granted the lawsuit of the VMU. Earlier, the company demanded to recover 2.1 billion rubles in joint from Apatite and Fegagro, but later somewhat changed its claims.

12:34 // 08/08/2009 The damage from forest fires in 2008 in Russia amounted to more than 18 billion rubles, said Alexei Ermolenko, head of the Office for the Protection and Protection of the Forests of Rosleskhoz, RIA Novosti reports. Last year, more than 2.6 million hectares of forests were destroyed by fires, about 300 thousand of them died. The injured forests are recorded in the so -called forestry fund.

19:50 // 08/08/2009 During the crisis, 44% of Russian users will not refuse the Internet, even if there is no money for food and clothes. These are the research data conducted by the Rometric project, RIA Novosti reports.

17:54 // 08/08/2009 Hong Kong took off weekly quarantine from the hotel, where 280 Mexican citizens and all service personnel were closed. With the luggage at the ready, the guests of China left the Metropark Hotel on Friday, May 8, simultaneously welcoming journalists who met them. Many analysts said that quarantine had a political connotation, but China authorities claim that they were forced to take such a step to prevent the spread of the pork flu virus.

The President invited the Duma to change the procedure for the appointment of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court (KS). Under the new bill, members of the Federation Council will be done by this. According to experts, reform will help the court become less conservative and more flexible when making decisions.

The star of the series "24" was charged with the attack by Hollywood actor Kifer Saserland received a summons. He was charged with attacking fashion designer Jack McCallow. Suserland broke his nose to the designer - supposedly for pushing actress Brooke Shilds, although she denies it. In trouble, the actor is now at a five -year test period for drunk driving, and this small fight can turn into serious problems for him.

13:48 // 08/08/2009 On the occasion of Victory Day, the ISS crew received a small holidays - the astronauts will rest for three days: May 9, 10 and 11. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the flight center near Moscow (TsPU). In anticipation of a three-day vacation, the ISS-19 crew on the last day of the working week seeks to complete all things.

17:47 // 08/08/2009 Police officers in Bryansk detained lawyer Alexander Kostitsyn, who is suspected of fraudulently extorted a bribe from a woman whose son allegedly wanted to arrest drug storage, the press service of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate on railway transport told.

12:46 // 08/08/2009 Samples of the new strain of the influenza virus A/H1N1, known as the Pork influenza, have already been delivered from the USA to Russia, where Russian microbiologists will explore the virus genome, check the previously developed test systems, and may also develop a vaccine from the "new" flu, a source in one of the institutes that will work with virus told RIA Novosti .

14:54 // 08/08/2009 The son of a former Georgian official, ex-chairman of the control chamber, and now activist of the opposition Sulkhan Molashvili, is suspected of deliberate damage to police vehicles, according to a common message from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs. "Bakur Molashvili was detained on May 6 by employees of the third department of the internal affairs department of the Old Tbilisi district, on Sevastopol Street ...

The prosecutor of the Saratov region on Friday approved the indictment in the criminal case against the three operatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Leninsky district of Saratov, accused of the murder of a citizen of Armenia Armen Gasparyan, a source in the regional prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti ..

15:15 // 08/08/2009 The net losses of the Japanese automotive concern Toyota following the results of the current financial year, which ended on March 31, amounted to $ 4.41 billion against profit of $ 17.38 billion, received a year earlier. Such data are given in the company's financial report published today. The company has not carried such losses since its founding.