Half a million immigrants from Russia, settled in the British capital, buy the most expensive apartments, villas and estates there. Our compatriots, "moored" to the banks of the Thames, call their huge community there in the Russian manner - "Londongrad". Sloan Street connects two enclaves, where most Russian billionaires anchored: Belgravia and Knightsbridge. In the Russian manner, this area is called Londongrad.

The declassified documents showed that the Japanese ultra-rationalists, together with American military intelligence, planned to overthrow the government of Japan and kill the country's prime minister in 1952. The scheme was developed by militants and people suspected of committing war crimes who worked for the occupation American government after the Second World War, the CIA report said, AR reports. The conspirators wanted to create a right government that will re -make Japan.

Valentina Tereshkova’s first woman -cosmonaut reported on Thursday at a press conference dedicated to her upcoming anniversary that her hobby is “an amazing, mysterious red planet, about which Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and I dreamed of several decades ago.” According to Tereshkova, she devoted to the study of Mars for several years of her life and is ready to fly there "and not even return," ITAR-TASS reports.

In Moscow in 2008, it is planned to build about 100 hotels, said the head of the Department of International Relations of the capital, Georgy Muradov on Thursday at a press conference. "This year, Moscow will build an average of one hotel in two weeks, next year the construction rate will increase to two every week. As a result, in 2008, Moscow should build about 100 hotels," Muradov said.

The largest powers of the world are discussing the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Iranian State Bank Sepah to enhance pressure on Tehran in connection with its nuclear program.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych visited Berlin. The main, although not official topic of the Berlin meetings of the prime minister was the creation of a gas traffic consortium with the participation of Ukraine, Germany and Russia. Meanwhile, the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko went to the United States, where she proved the “harm” of Yanukovych’s gas ambitions and the need for early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, “New Izvestia” write.

President of Pakistan Perevez Musharraf said on a rally in the southern province of Sind that foreign extremists and mercenaries should immediately leave the areas of compact residence of tribes in the north-west of Pakistan. Otherwise, the country's authorities will take all measures to eliminate them.

The German engineering company EDAG reported that it would present on the annual spring car show in Geneva, starting next week, the new concept of the LUV car-and-house . The hood, floors and the LUV cargo compartment are decorated with a real tick tree used in the construction of yachts, and all the installation work of the panels were performed by engineers from the Brabus studio.

On Thursday, the Latvian Seim of Latvia rejected the bill proving to simplify the procedure for obtaining the status of a permanent resident of the EU by the Russian -speaking non -citizens of this Baltic Republic. "For" the bill, only 18 deputies voted, "against" - 64, and one parliamentarian abstained.

The Vologda regional branch of the Just Russia party filed a lawsuit in the regional court with the demand to remove the United Russia party from the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Oblast for the use of an administrative resource in the election campaign. "United Russia" systematically violates electoral law.

The Tver court of the city of Moscow forbade Katya Lel to engage in professional activities. The singer is forbidden to go on stage until she regulates her relationship with ex-producer Alexander Volkov. The court also fined the singer for 20 thousand rubles. Russian media commented on the decision of the Tver court of Moscow.

President Suala Brian Gilbertson will leave the company immediately after the completion of the transaction to unite with the “Russian aluminum”, reports The Financial Times with reference to unnamed sources. According to one of the interlocutors of the newspaper, Gilbertson failed to agree on the amount of monetary reward with the main shareholder of Sual Viktor Vekselberg.

The Norwegian court arrested the Russian fishing vessel "Scarrus" , owned by the Murmansk company "Scythian Marin" . At the end of January of this year, the crew of the vessel, while in the port of the Norwegian city of Kirkenes, announced a strike , and three crew members - a hunger strike, due to the fact that the shipowner owed their wages about 70 thousand US dollars.

For the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), a form of special clothing of dark-bearded color has been developed. In the near future, all employees of the department, including its leader, chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, are applied to it.

The All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ) published the results of a survey of Russians about what changes their moral appearance undergoes. It turned out that today it is not the values ​​that are related, as once, with sincerity, but "lustful problems of consumption", writes on Thursday the newspaper New Izvestia . As a result of the survey, we can conclude that Russia is experiencing a crisis of collectivism.