The German concern Siemens, which owns the shares of the Russian machine -building “Power Machines”, expressed his readiness to acquire part of the additional issue of shares of the company, and in the future to increase his package up to the control. In 2005, Russian antitrust workers banned the company to purchase a control package of power machines, but Siemens did not refuse his idea.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office did not confirm reports of the termination of the criminal case on the murder of the former commander of the Chechen battalion “Highlander” by Movladi Baysarov. According to the metropolitan prosecutor’s office, “the prosecutor's office of the Southern Administrative District continues the investigation of the criminal case initiated under the articles“ Murder ”and“ The illegal storage of weapons and explosive devices of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

American researchers managed to teach bees to recognize by smell various explosives. The authors of the project claim that it took them about a year and a half to develop a training system, Interfax reports. Scientists explain their attention to these insects by the fact that bees can effectively cope with the task, since they have a very good flair.

All semi -final couples were determined at the world volleyball championship among men's teams, which is held these days in Japan. In the final round of the second group stage, the current world champions Brazilians in Hiroshima defeated the Bulgarians-3-1 and went into the playoffs from the first place in the group. The Bulgarians are in group F second place. In the match for first place in another group in the city of Sendai, the Poles, who won 3-0 Serbs, celebrated success.

The court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced two teenagers accused of murders on the motive of national hatred. The defendants were charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: paragraphs. “A”, “g”, “l” of part 2 of article 105 (the murder of two or more persons committed by a group by preliminary conspiracy on the motive of national hatred), article 116 (beatings), article 214 (vandalism).

A student from China, who studied at the Geological Department of Moscow State University (Moscow State University), was released from the window of the seventh floor of the main building of the university. The incident occurred on Tuesday, but it became known only on Wednesday. A native of the PRC studied in the third year. According to the press secretary of Moscow State University Evgenia Zaitsev, the reasons for the Chinese act are still unknown.

According to the acting governor of the Chelyabinsk region Andrei Kosilov, as a result of a fire in a leaf-rolling workshop at the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant, seven people died and one is considered without missing news, ITAR-TASS reports. Speaking about the causes of the fire, he emphasized that they are found out by members of a special commission.

The "most difficult visit" again called the trip of Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey Italian La Repubblica (full text on the website Inopressa.ru ). The newspaper once again notes that the difficulty of this visit is explained by the fact that three months ago, the pontiff “struck” Muslims with words that they considered offensive.

Rososh security culture turned to the Sotheby's auction house with a request for a meeting with the dealer of Soviet orders removed from the auction. As it turned out, the surrender itself is in America and, as reported in the Russian department of the auction house, it is considered one of the most reliable dealers.

Another case of an attack by a dog on a person. A little girl died from a dog bites in her own apartment in the northeast of Moscow. As Interfax was informed in the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor’s office, on Tuesday evening at about 19:00 in the apartment of one of the houses on Khachaturian Street Pitbulterier, a girl of a year and a half, the daughter of dog owners.

Doctors did not exclude that Yegor Gaidar could be poisoned. This version “takes place, and doctors study all the symptoms and consequences to cure Yegor Timurovich and determine what happened,” said Gaidar spokesman Valery Natarov. Gaidar from the hospital communicates by phone exclusively "with a close circle of people", RIA Novosti reports. Recall that the director of the Institute of Economics of the Transition period Yegor Gaidar felt bad on November 24 at a conference in Dublin.

In Moscow, a 16-year-old teenager of Azerbaijani nationality was killed on Wednesday evening. According to Interfax sources in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the murder was committed at about 19:00. An unknown criminal cut the Azerbaijani youth with a knife in the entrance of house number 6 along Pavel Romanov Street (Southeast District). The wounded teenager was discovered by his neighbor, who called doctors. However, the young man died before the ambulance arrived.

A new major non -state Airunion airline may appear in Russia. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the CEO of Krasaire Boris Abramovich was able to convince the Kremlin to create a single air chief that is not controlled by the state on the basis of several state and private airlines. The new airline will be the fourth largest air carrier in Russia.

Successful transplantation of stem cells was held at the Center for Children's Oncology and Hematology of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Yekaterinburg, the New Region reports. According to the Department of Information Policy of the Governor of the region, the operation was carried out on October 30, after 14 days the transplanted stem cells successfully took root.

The financial resources allocated by the city for the operation of housing should be transferred to the partnerships of homeowners (HOAs), and not to dezam, said Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. “We are not satisfied with the subsidies to go to the dezs,” Luzhkov said, speaking on Tuesday on the air of TVC. The mayor also does not agree that the funds are transferred to management companies. “I have an idea to transmit these subsidies to the HOA. This is the most correct,” Interfax quotes the mayor.