Canada will finance new projects in Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as part of a global partnership program in the amount of 180 million Canadian dollars (about $ 156 million). This was announced on Friday in Trieste Foreign Minister of Canada Lawrence Knnon, who took part in the meeting of the heads of foreign policy departments of the Eight countries. In particular, $ 61 million is designed to strengthen the security regime at 7 nuclear facilities in Russia.

The construction of all facilities for the Olympiad in Sochi will be started until the end of 2009. This was announced at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. He noted that since the March of this year, the mass construction of Olympic facilities has already been launched. “Today, five Olympic objects are being built, and by the end of the year we will begin to build everything else,” Kozaka quotes Vesti .

A mass fight at a toy factory in China led to the death of two people, 118 were injured, 14 of them are in serious condition. A fight at the Xuri factory in the city of Shaguan lasted two hours, reports the Associated Press with reference to the local authorities. About 400 police officers were able to establish order only by early morning Friday.

The Egyptian authorities are preparing to temporarily open a border crossing with the gas sector near the city of Rafach, which was closed in June 2007. For three days, students and Palestinians who need medical treatment will be able to cross the border with Egypt, the Air Force reports. The gas sector has been in full isolation from Egypt and Israel for two years, since the arrival of Hamas’s movement to power in the Palestinian autonomy.

The state of the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was attempted on June 22, stably, with a slight dynamics to improve. "The president has a small dynamics for the better, in general, his condition is stable. Doctors do not predict sudden changes," said Evkurov, Kalai Achilgov, said RIA Novosti on Saturday. He noted that Yunus Bek Yevkurov is still unconscious. According to Akhilgov, Yevkurov’s brother Uvais, who also suffered during the assassination, feels much better.

Vladimir Medinsky, a deputy of the State Duma, answers the questions in an online interview: why has history become such an urgent topic? What myths haunt Russian history? What goals do her falsifiers set for themselves? Why do we know so badly the history of our country and what can this lead to? Questions are accepted until April 5

The ex-wife of Michael Jackson Lisa Maria Presley said that Jackson was afraid to end his life the same way as her father, Elvis Presley, writes The Daily Telegraph British newspaper on Saturday. “A few years ago, Michael and I had a serious conversation about life. I did not remember exactly the subject of the conversation, but, in my opinion, he asked me about the circumstances of my father’s death.

The erupting volcano of the peak of Sarychev on the uninhabited Kuril Island of Matua throws out ashes to a height of three kilometers. This was reported from the scene of the event at the Sakhalin Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, the expedition of vulcanologists landed on the matuel. The eruption of the volcano of the peak of Sarychev began on the night of June 11 to 12. The maximum height of the columns of the ash reached 16 km, ITAR-TASS reports.

The body of the king of pop music of Michael Jackson, who suddenly died on Friday at the age of 50, handed over to relatives, reports Associated Press . The singer’s body was in the police. The autopsy did not reveal signs of violent death, at a press conference, the coroner of Los Angeles Craig Harvey said.

More than 1.5 thousand prisoners of the central prison of the Philippines, dressed in orange overalls, performed the famous dance from the video "Thriller" in memory of the deceased pop king Michael Jackson. The prisoners of the penitentiary and rehabilitation center on the island of Sebu specifically revised several records of Michael to reproduce in the dance his famous "Moon Gait", AFP reports.

By the end of this year, a public competition should be announced for the name of the future stadium of the Zenit football club, the construction of which is being held on Krestovsky Island of St. Petersburg. “The discussion must be developed on this subject. The name should choose Petersburgers, ”Valentin Matvienko Fontanka.ru quoted the governor as saying the governor. Currently, there is some lag in the pace of the construction of the arena.

Nine people became victims of a large traffic accident in the American state of Oklahom, there are victims, the Associated Press agency reports reference to the police. The accident occurred on Friday on the road north-east of Miami. A large car carrier encountered several forced to stop due to another accident by cars. Investigators believe that the driver of the truck, who is now hospitalized, did not even try to stop his car before the collision. “It is like wartime.

The Telefonica Black yacht was the first to cross the finish line of the Volvo Ocean Race circuit sailing regatta to the Tolbukhin lighthouse near St. Petersburg. The Spaniards 30 miles before the finish managed to get ahead of the American yacht Puma, which was leading throughout almost the entire final stage of the circle. Telefonica Black won at the stage for the first time in the entire regatta. The journey between Stockholm and St. Petersburg took her 1 day, 12 hours and 41 minutes.

Why are expensive products in Moscow stores? Will network retailers reduce margins? Does Moscow face the invasion of network restaurants? These and other questions of readers on the GZT .ru website will be answered by Dmitry Potapenko, the managing partner of the Management Development Group Inc (Gastronchik and Prodeco network), ex-controling the Pentarochka network in Moscow and the Moscow Region. Questions for the interview are accepted until July 21.

The German-anatomist Gunther von Hagen, a plasticization specialist, known around the world as a doctor of death, said that he was going to balming the body of Michael Jackson. According to von Hagen, writes The Daily Mail , such was Jackson's desire, which he agreed with representatives of the pop star a few months ago. Hagenses plans to embalm the corpse of Jackson in Polyurethane using the plasticization method invented and patented by him and put on display by the end of July.