The head of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais, hospitalized a couple of days ago in one of the Moscow hospitals with pneumonia, is recovering. His condition stabilized. "At present, the state of Anatoly Borisovich has stabilized, the temperature was sleeping due to complex therapy," ITAR -TASS quoted the representative of the energy holding representative.

In the Swedish town of Piteo, an experiment was put up: his first graders learn to write not a fountain pen in the notebook, but with the help of a computer keyboard, the new Izvestia publication reports. Local linguists consider this program as a transitional stage to a complete refusal to teach a letter, so the whole Sweden is watching the experiment. By pressing the keys, children gain words, and a special program converts them into a beautiful manuscript text.

The Moscow government this year plans to experience new types of markings and asphalt on Moscow roads. As the First Deputy Mayor, the head of the city economy complex, Petr Aksenov, said at a press conference in the Moscow government, the emphasis in road work will be placed on new methods of laying the roadbed, which should help solve the problem of Roads of Roads, the newspaper "News Time" writes.

Sberbank nevertheless forced his employees to acquire his own shares, the Vedomosti newspaper writes with reference to sources in the local branches of the bank, who claim that some local leaders were urgently recommended to help his own bank, having acquired at least one share at the price of 89 thousand rubles.

The ordinary bypass of the guarded object "Khimkinsky bridge" ended for the police outfit with a curious incident: they had to consistently pull out a pensioner and his unsuccessful rescuers in the person of a passerby and an employee of the Ministry of Emergencies. At the same time, the foreman Ruban was bitten by a wandering dog, whose nerves were "surrendered" at the sight of such a curiocous situation.

The Secretary of the Federal Political Council of the ATP Boris Nadezhdin said that during the election of elections to the local Legislative Assembly, his party overcame the 7-percent threshold for elections to the Moscow Region and is going to protest the elections in court, Interfax reports. Recall that the ATP after processing all the ballots scored 6.9% and did not go to the regional parliament.

According to updated data, during an explosion in the town of Afghuye near the capital of Somalia Mogadishi, 9 civilians were killed on Friday, among them five children, Reuters reports. Four more people were injured in varying severity. “The explosion occurred after the children threw a mine into the fire,” RIA Novosti quoted the words of the head of the police of Afghuye Ibrahim Dini Isak.

Very important and encouraging named the results of the recent visit of President Vladimir Putin to Pope Benedict XVI Head of the Catholic Metropolis in Russia, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusevich . This was announced on the eve of the information center of the Metropolis, who distributed a press release about the conversation of the archbishop with reporters.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation will consider a bill on Friday in the first reading, tightening punishment for violations of the rules of the road. The bill, in particular, introduces the determination of the state of intoxication and involves a significant increase in fines. On average - 10 times.

In the coming weeks, cigarettes can disappear from small retail sale. Several public movements of business entrepreneurs turned to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to check for a monopoly conspiracy of their suppliers - tobacco companies. The reason for this was the introduction of the so -called maximum retail prices (MRC) for tobacco products.

On Friday evening, the Volzhsky District Court of Saratov decided to arrest the head of one of the regions of the region Stepanid Timokhin, who was recently detained on suspicion of bribery on a large scale, Sarbc.ru reports. Particular attention to this event is attracted by the fact that Timokhin is considered a figure from the closest environment of the governor of the region Pavel Ipatov, the "Independent Gazeta" notes.

The judges in Vienna began an investigation, during which they found that Natasha Kampush’s mother, who lived for 8 years in captivity with a maniac , took part in the abduction of her daughter to hide her involvement in sexual abuse of her.

The main theme of the Friday meeting of the working group of participants in six-way negotiations under the chairmanship of Russia was the task of overcoming the “lack of trust” existing in North-Eastern Asia. “There are concern in the region, and we must take them into account,” the source close to the negotiation process said.

Bolivian manufacturers Koki asked Coca-Cola to remove the name "Holy Plant" from the brand. As the Committee of Farmers involved in the production of agricultural culture, which is also used for drug production, Coca is part of the cultural heritage and an integral element of the daily life of the Bolivians.

The leader of the Taliban in the Afghan province of Gelmand Ibrahim Hanifi told the agency that the Italian journalist Daniele Mastrojakomo could let go if the Afghan government releases three Taliban from prison, RIA Novosti reports. "We will let him go if the Afghan government fulfills our requirements - to release three Taliban who are in prison now.