The transition to full payment of the cost of housing and communal services will be completed by 2010, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yakovlev said at a government meeting on Friday. According to him, in 2006, the share of payment for housing and communal services amounted to 82.5% of the full tariff, while in the early 90s, citizens paid only 3-5% of the cost of housing services.

In the city of Pushkin (suburb of St. Petersburg) on ​​Friday, a mass fight occurred on Friday, as a result of which, according to the updated information, two people were killed, both were immigrants from Uzbekistan. A fight, in which, according to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg, more than ten people participated at about 20:30 on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street near house number 48, Interfax reports.

The victory of the Polish national team ended the day before in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, the European mini-football championship among representatives of Catholic dioceses. In the final match, the Polish national team defeated Croatia in a penalty shootout (regular time ended in a 1:1 draw). The cup was presented to the winners by the Catholic Cardinal of Bosnia and Herzegovina Vinko Puljic, RIA Novosti reports.

In Brazil on Friday, a traditional carnival begins. Costume processions will be held several nights in a row in different parts of the country. Everywhere there will be their own rules, their own characteristics, their winners. But the most striking and large-scale show, undoubtedly, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, ITAR-TASS reports.

At least 15 people died in the United States due to a snowstorm, local authorities announced. The storm fell on Wednesday to the central and eastern parts of the country. On Friday, she gradually began to subside, Interfax reports. Due to snowfalls, interruptions in the operation of airports and traffic jams arose on the roads. So passengers at once by Jetblue Airways were blocked in their planes on the runway of the John F. Kennedy New York International Airport within 10 hours.

In the city of Cheremkhovo, the Irkutsk region, the chairman of the district court is accused of rape of a student. The board of judges of the Irkutsk Regional Court on Friday considered the submission of the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation in relation to the chairman of the Cheremkhovsky District Court Mikhail Dobrinz and found in the actions of the judge the signs of the corpus delicti under Part 1 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rape).

This weekend, you can see the first part of the bloody "trilogy of revenge" of the Korean director Pak Chen-Wook "Sympathy Madame Revenge" and reveal the "Diary of the artist". In the "16 tons" of the Moscow public, "Lyuk", a concert of the Kharkov group will be opened. In Cicterna Hall you can listen to the DJ-network of the most successful Japanese DJ Satoshi Tomi. Two theatrical premieres will take place in the theater. Evg.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday held a meeting with young writers in his residence of Novo-Ogravo. 15 poets, prose writers and playwrights came to a meeting with the head of state, including Stanislav Vostokov, Denis Gutsko, Vitaly Karkhanin, Andrey Korteev, Ilya Kochergin, Alexei Lukyanov, Irina Mamaeva, Andrei Nitchenko, Evgeny Prilepin, Valeria Pustovkov, Igor Saveliev, Pavel, Pavel, Pavel. Sanaev and Anastasia Chekhovskaya, reports ITAR-TASS.

In Vyborg, the Leningrad Region was detained by the head of the Golden Fish kindergarten, which extorted money from parents for the child’s enrollment. As Interfax was told in the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the head of the children's institution was detained by the police officer when she received 5 thousand dollars from the director of Spetstrans LLC for enrolling his child in kindergarten.

Contrary to human nerve cells, the previous ideas are restored in the same way as in animals, Swedish scientists say. As it turned out, in the human brain, which is responsible for the sense of smell, mature neurons are formed from the predecessor cells. Once they will be able to help "fix" the injured brain. The human brain is able to reproduce new neurons thanks to the activity of stem cells.

Luzhkov offers the federal center to pay for most of the overhaul of housing built in Moscow until 1989. The mayor does not want to pay for "the past that is imposed on us." Luzhkov said that the capital was ready to pay only a third of the necessary 256 billion rubles for the overhaul of housing built in the capital until 1989. "Until 1989, 140 million square meters of housing were built in Moscow.

Art Academic Theater. A.P. Chekhova, film concert "Mosfilm", film studio "Soyuzmultfilm", central film studio of children's and youth films named after M. Gorky, the State Museum of Ceramics and the Kuskovo Manor and the State Academic Mariinsky Theater are included in the program for checking the effectiveness of the use of federal budget funds, which is held by the College of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Passengers at once by Jetblue Airways were blocked in their planes on the take-off of the New York International Airport named after John F. Kennedy within 10 hours. The reason for the many hours of captivity was the miscalculation of operators and a breakdown of equipment, reports CBS . At first, the normal operation of the airport was violated by strong wind, snow and ice. Dozens of flights were detained until the weather improved and completion of work on cleaning the runway.

The Government of Japan imposed sanctions against Tehran on Friday in connection with the nuclear program carried out by it. These measures provide, in particular, freezing a number of Iranian bank deposits, the general secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Yasukhis Syodzaki said at a press conference at Tokyo. “In connection with the Iranian nuclear problem,” he said, “we need decisive actions, from the point of view of maintaining the non -proliferation regime.

In Sochi in the coming days, the first thousand policemen will be provided with a pocket conversation that will allow them to speak with foreigners in three languages ​​at once - English, French and German, of course, provided that this city will be elected the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympiad. About 300 specific police phrases were included in the Battery of the Olympic Sochi, the Russian newspaper writes on Friday.