Shipbuilding Baltic Shipyard LLC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) will lay down a Project 22600 diesel-electric icebreaker with a capacity of 25 MW for the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosmorport on September 14, 2012. This was reported by the press service of the enterprise. The decision to transfer the contract for the construction of a series of diesel-electric icebreakers to the Baltic Shipyard was made at a meeting led by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

On September 9, the “Anti-Capitalism 2012” action took place in Moscow. Left-wing organizations took part in the march. Participants demanded to “take away the benefits from the rich and give them to the poor.” Read more from Kommersant FM correspondent Nikita Batalov.

US authorities reduce their stake in the company below 50% The US Treasury Department announced the sale of most of its stake in financial corporation AIG. The shares put up for sale are valued at $18 billion. After the sale, the state's share in AIG's share capital will become less than 50%. Almost four years after the de facto nationalization of financial corporation AIG, the US government decided to sell most of its shares in AIG, reducing its stake to below 50%.

Roscosmos structures must bear financial responsibility for failures, Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting on the development of the space industry. In addition, it became known that Roscosmos will recall the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after. Tsiolkovsky Yuri Karash told the details to presenter Roman Karlov. — Do you think the measures proposed by Medvedev will help improve the situation in the domestic space industry?

Athletes from Taganrog brought two silver medals in swimming to the Rostov region, the regional Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports reported. Artem Pavlenko won the first silver in the 100-meter breaststroke in the class of athletes with intellectual disabilities. The silver award was the highest achievement in Artem Pavlenko’s career; he had not yet won a medal at the World and European Championships.

88 1 min. ... Spain will send observers to the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Bray said in his letter sent to Viktor Yanukovych. “I understand the great importance of fair and transparent elections for the Ukrainian people and I am glad that you invited all OSCE member states to participate in the elections through the presence of members of the Election Observer Mission from this organization.

Talent Doesn't look in the teeth The Kiev publication "Correspondent" recently published the top 100 most influential Ukrainians. The most fantastic rise on this list was made six years ago by an unknown entrepreneur, a dentist by training, Alexander Yanukovych.

US transfers control of Bagram prison to Afghanistan The United States is transferring control of the prison at Bagram Air Base to Afghan authorities. This gesture is intended to confirm NATO's intention to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Meanwhile, about 3 thousand prisoners of the Bagram prison are not at all happy that they will be guarded by local jailers.

Event of the week 86 1 min. ... Real Madrid midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo's words that he is unhappy at Real Madrid have given sports journalists in Spain a story that has been discussed for the second week. The first thing they did was try to dig up the backstory, but found out little. Last season at Real Madrid turned out to be almost the best for Ronaldo, so there is no apparent reason to worry.

The Resident Evil film franchise has reached its fifth installment: the film will premiere worldwide this week. The only exception was Japan, where “Resident Evil: Retribution” was released on September 3 - as usual, under the title “Biohazard”, since all rights to the phrase “Resident Evil” belong to the gaming company Capcom, which came up with this whole story.

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland considers it necessary to revise Articles 364 and 365 of the new Criminal Code of Ukraine in the context of the case against ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the working project "Construction of a local highway "Bypass of Reni, on the section km 0+000 - km 5+600, Odessa region", according to which the estimated cost of construction is 155.4 million UAH. The corresponding order No. 651-r was published on the Cabinet of Ministers website.

Several ministers of the federal government may resign from its membership if a law prohibiting government officials from owning property abroad comes into force, former Finance Minister and head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin said on September 10.

A gang of Wahhabis was put on trial in Kazan In Tatarstan, a criminal case has been brought to court against two alleged organizers of the extremist community, Ilfat Shaikhutdinov and Dinar Mingalimov, as well as their accomplices. They are accused of stealing money from banks and extorting citizens. According to investigators, the accused were thus waging a “holy war against the infidels.” The total amount of damage they caused is more than 1.2 million rubles.

The APEC summit showed that becoming Asia is also not bad Due to a number of circumstances, the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization that ended in Vladivostok on September 9 turned out to be unexpectedly successful for Russia.