The French consulate in Russia will soon turn to an outsourcing for a private company for preliminary processing of numerous profiles of Russians who want to get a French visa, the ambassador of this country in Russia Stanislav de Labule said. "We intend to soon turn to the external service. It will be a private company that is already successfully interacting with another European consulate and has extensive experience," de Labul told Mayak on Wednesday.

American psychologists analyzed the results of a sociological survey, according to which more than 65% of respondents devote much more time to the computer than their spouses or partners. 52% of users experience real human feelings in relation to their computing machines. According to experts, humanization is already creating a huge threat to living interpersonal communication and modern society as a whole, the new Izvestia newspaper writes on Wednesday.

The problem of illegal drug business is associated with the growing consumption of cocaine in the United States, says Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, which the American authorities do not agree with. As the US Ambassador to La Pas Philip Goldberg said on Tuesday in an interview with a local newspaper, this is the statement of "far from reality." Only a reduction in a proposal can solve the drug that has become an exacerbated in the world, the ambassador noted.

An unknown in the market, a small company "Petromir" discovered a gas field in the Irkutsk region at the Angaro-Lensky deposit in the Irkutsk region, in terms of potential with Kovyktinsky, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. Unproven calculation reserves of the C2 category on Angaro-Lensky were estimated at 1.22 trillion cubic meters of gas. If additional drilling confirms the volume of stocks, then the market value of the field will increase to one billion dollars.

In Budapest, the traditional annual festival of Hungarian cinema was opened, to which filmmakers presented 17 full -length feature films and almost 40 documentary works. Hungarian cinema is experiencing a period of noticeable creative upsurge, notes ITAR-TASS. Several works of the Hungarian cinema masters are devoted to the tragic events of the fall of 1956.

In Canada, the court continues in the case of the most terrible maniac in the history of the country , which admitted to the murder of 49 women. 12 jurors for almost a whole year are practically locked in the small hall of the Supreme Court of the New Westminster, near Vancouver (British Colombia Province). Seven men and five women should be issued a verdict in the case of 57-year-old Svinovod Robert Picton. He was charged with the murder of 26 prostitutes and drug addicts.

In Washington, a large diplomatic reception was held, which opened a series of anniversary events dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States, RIA Novosti reported.

On many Moscow roads in the evening, serious difficulties in traffic arose on Wednesday. A five -kilometer cork was formed on the Leningrad highway, which actually paralyzed the road traffic. A large camber is also observed on Leningradsky Prospekt towards the region. Traffic jams are recorded on the streets of Academician Korolev and Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, as well as on Zemlyanoy Valu, RIA Novosti reports.

The metropolitan government is experiencing a shortage of land: according to the recognition of officials themselves, there is practically nowhere to build in Moscow. Therefore, the city hall has developed a draft resolution regulating the procedure for withdrawing land for the needs of the city. It is prescribed without fail to reserve land for state -owners when approving the planning of territories.

The place in the underground garage of a residential building in Moscow at 22 Union Prospekt addresses (Eastern administrative district) on Tuesday sold at auction for a record amount of $ 113 thousand, Igor Maimistov, spokesman for the sale of property of Moscow Maimistov, told Interfax agency. “13 square meters of 20 square meters were put up for sale,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The laureates of the revived Pushkin Prize this year were writers Vyacheslav Pietsukh and Dmitry Novikov. Prizes of 250 thousand and 100 thousand rubles will be awarded to laureates on Pushkin's Day on May 26. As part of the prize, grants for a two -week stay in the Mikhailovskoy reserve are also provided as creative reward. The prose writer Vyacheslav Pietsuhu is awarded "for the total creative contribution to domestic culture," Kommersant reports.

At the Den Bosch, which is passing in the Dutch city , on charges of the head coach of the Russian national football team, Guiddinka of Football of taxes, the judges decided to postpone the prosecutor’s performance planned initially on Friday, at which he should state his vision of the case and declare what punishment he requires for the accused.

Tel Aviva City Court found the ex-Minister of Justice Haim Ramon guilty of the commission of depraved actions. According to Israeli television, the judges accepted this verdict unanimously, the punishment will be determined later, ITAR-TASS reports. Ramona was accused by the serviceman who worked in the government of forcibly kissed her in July 2006. Immediately after that, the minister resigned, saying that he was hoping for an acquittal and returning to the performance of previous duties.

The Supreme Council (Sun) of the Non -recognized Republic of Transnistria at the first meeting of the Spring session refused to create a confederation with Moldova, and decided to cancel the corresponding mechanism.

The Ministry of Industry has compiled a list of 40 industries closed to foreigners. The law on restriction of foreign investment in the strategic industries is submitted to the government and is considered on Wednesday on January 31 at a government meeting, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Russian office of ministers.