If we give a little more time to technological evolution, health can be bought. In the meantime, Alexander Levy talks about new products to help the immune system. For workaholics – an exercise chair for the office. For hypochondriacs - a bracelet that checks the cardiovascular system. Cloud technologies are increasingly being used in medicine. In particular, this concerns the development of BPro, a joint project between HP, SingTel, HealthSTATS and Frontier Healthcare.

The Russian nuclear energy industry will set a record for electricity production in 2012, and Rosenergoatom will be able to move from a loss to a net profit zone. But starting next year, nuclear scientists will be faced with the problem of retirement of old RBMK power units (high-power channel reactor) and will be forced to reduce production. The prospects of the concern, which now produces about 17% of all electricity in Russia, depend on the solution to the “RBMK problem”.

Deputy head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) Alexander Sinenko was appointed government plenipotentiary representative in the State Duma on December 26; the corresponding document is posted on the government website . “Appoint Alexander Yuryevich Sinenko as a plenipotentiary representative of the government of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, releasing him from his position,” the order says.

Due to bad weather, thousands of Americans were caught in miles-long traffic jams on Christmas Eve. Hundreds of flights have been delayed or canceled at airports. In one day, 15 tornadoes occurred in the southern states of the country. Details from Alena Kuznetsova. More than 100 thousand Americans were left without power on Christmas. Tornadoes and storms damaged many homes, toppled trees and downed power lines.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Service for Medicines to conduct checks on the possible use of the counterfeit medicine "Ubistezin". “On the website of the TV channel ICTV on December 24, information was posted on the possible use of the counterfeit drug Ubistezin in medical practice by dentists.

Today Scartel (trademark Yota ) launched a fourth generation network in the LTE standard in Naberezhnye Chelny, reports the press service of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Tatarstan. The cost of unlimited Internet, depending on the speed (up to 20 Mbit/s), ranges from 300 to 1.2 thousand rubles per month, a modem costs 2.9 thousand rubles. Now the LTE network operates in Kazan, services are provided by Scartel (covers 80% of the city) and MTS.

The investigation has questions for the Bashkir Trolleybus Plant The Kirov police are investigating major thefts of budget funds during the purchase of a batch of products from Bashkir Trolleybus Plant OJSC (BTZ). The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation believes that under the guise of new equipment, vehicles with spare parts manufactured in the USSR were supplied to Kirov.

The analytical agency "Auto-Dealer-Ekaterinburg" summed up the results of car sales for the period from January to November 2012. According to analysts, 89.1 thousand new cars were sold in Yekaterinburg, which is 16% (1.2 thousand cars) of sales results for 11 months of last year. However, in November, only 7.7 thousand cars were sold in the city, which was an increase of only 1% (64 cars) more than in the same month last year.

Charges have been brought against Igor Shabalin, a defendant in the case of illegal imprisonment of several rehabilitators of the City Without Drugs Foundation. “The investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region have charged 34-year-old Igor Shabalin, an officially unemployed resident of Yekaterinburg,” the department said in a statement.

On December 26, senators approved a government law expanding the list of activities of socially oriented non-profit organizations (NPOs), RIA Novosti reports. The law establishes two types of activities for such NGOs: to create intolerance in society towards corrupt behavior and to develop interethnic cooperation, preserve and protect the identity, culture, language and traditions of the peoples of Russia. In June, the Presidential Council on Interethnic Relations was created.

The ban on the circulation of second class fuels (Euro 2) will come into force on January 1, 2013, as previously expected. There will be no postponement, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Pavel Fedorov told the Prime agency on December 26. “No,” the deputy minister said, answering a question about the possibility of a postponement.

The opposition accuses the authorities of using chemical weapons The Syrian opposition rejected the peace plan proposed the day before by the UN and Arab League special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. She is not happy that one of the points in the plan leaves Bashar al-Assad as president for another two years, albeit with reduced powers. According to experts, the opposition wants to disrupt the dialogue and overthrow the Assad regime militarily with the help of external force.

CJSC “Mortgage Company of Sberbank” (IKS, 100% of shares belong to Sberbank) has been replenished with Chuvash assets. CJSC First Investment and Construction Company (PISC), also owned by Sberbank and registered in Chuvashia, was reorganized in the form of merger with ICS: PISC shares were converted into shares of the Nizhny Novgorod company.

Based on the results of competitions, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Stavropol Territory distributed funds from the regional budget in the amount of 17.36 million rubles. between 23 investment entities implementing projects in the east of the region, the department’s press service reported. The allocated budget funds allowed organizations to purchase new and renew worn-out fixed assets in the amount of more than 110 million rubles.

The opposition does not agree with the results of the referendum The publication of the official results of the referendum on the adoption of a new constitution for Egypt provoked further protests on the streets of Cairo. Representatives of the opposition declare their intention to continue demonstrations and try to challenge the voting results in court. The United States, meanwhile, calls on all parties to the conflict to overcome the accumulated differences as quickly as possible.