After the choice of Sochi, the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympiad and the Russians who died on this occasion, the Russians with extraordinary enthusiasm began to offer options for the talisman of future games. “Everyone has already begun with this talisman. There have already been some kind of insanity. There are already so many these initiatives - it’s even difficult to imagine. People call and call us,” Gennady Shvets said on Wednesday of Interfax.

The second book of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych "... and a year in power" is waiting for a reprint before its official publication. Recall, the first book was called "Year in the opposition." According to the newspaper "Today" , the cover of the first hundred signal copies of the book was illustrated by the photograph of Yanukovych and the inverted national flag of Ukraine: the yellow strip from above, and the blue - from below.

In 2007, the demand for exclusive cars, the price of which exceeds 80 thousand euros, increased sharply in Latvia. This year alone, 208 such cars were purchased that almost one and a half times more than in 2006. Maserati, Aston Martin and Bentley, the residents of Latvia bought about 100 such cars this year, were especially popular, RIA Novosti was told in the Latvian Association of Merchants of Road Transport.

Russia will become the second country where the American Ford Automobile Producer will assemble the Mondeo model. The first car will go off the conveyor of the Vsevolozhsk factory of the Ford Motor Co. At the end of 2008, they write Vedomosti .

The manufacturer of the Dell computer manufacturing equipment announced the start of production and sales of a new line of computer systems with the general name Vostro ("Your" translated from Latin). For the first time in a long time, the company decided not to replenish existing grocery lines, but to create a new one. It is reported by cnet.com . As a result of the Vostro system?

A group of enthusiasts consisting of 11 people went on reeds on a shuttle on a transatlantic journey. According to ITAR-TASS, the voyage began in New York (from the pier on the Hudson River) and after about 3 months it should end in the Canary Islands. The ship is called Abora III . Preparation for the expedition was conducted for more than two years. The ABORA III building from the reeds of the Plot of Bolivian Indians in the area of ​​the island of Titikaka.

Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will arrive in North Korea on Saturday. This was stated on Wednesday by the general director of the agency Muhammad al-Baradei, Interfax reports. The head of the Magate said that he did not know whether the work to stop the reactor to the arrival of the inspectors or not, but explained that it does not matter, because They, one way or another, will check that the reactor is stopped.

The press secretary of the Pakistan army, Majid General Wahid Arshad, announced to reporters that the territory of the Lal Masjid complex in Islamabad, known as the Red Mosque, is completely cleaned of militants, ” Newsru Israel reports with reference to Sky News . According to the representative of the Pakistani army, the Red Mosque is completely controlled by the military and the police.

The best tennis player in Russia Maria Sharapova, who will not be able to help the Russian national team on July 14-15 in the semifinals of the Federation Cup against American women, believes that her compatriots have every chance of victory. The athlete emphasized that the next forced abandonment for the game for the national team was very upset by her.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Cassation Court of Libya confirmed the death sentences to the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who were previously found guilty of intentional infection with HIV virus 426 children in the Benghazi Libyan Immunological Center. According to the Sophia Radio Radio radio station, the judges of the highest court of Libya took only a few minutes to reject the last appeal filed by lawyers of the accused, Interfax reports.

The fourth son of Osama Ben Laden, 27-year-old Omar, took an English woman to his wife, who is almost half as much. The newlyweds are going to live in the UK. According to the British The Times , Jane Felix-Braun and Omar Usama Ben Laden in April made marriage in Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the Muslim rite. They currently expect documents confirming marriage from the Saudi authorities. As soon as they are ready, the newlyweds want to visit London.

In the United States, a huge metal ball used to destroy the old buildings broke off the auto crane and damaged more than 10 cars. As a result of the incident, three people were injured, reports Daily Mail . The incident occurred during the destruction of part of the old ALLEGHENY college library in the city of Midwill in Pennsylvania, about 60 km from Pittsburgh.

On the American website of Apple there were reports about hiring employees in the Moscow office of the company. We are talking about the position of PR Manager and Account Executive Channel . Currently, Apple does not have its representative office in Russia, and its partner is Apple IMC. Apple has not yet received official information about Apple's intentions in Russia.

The Russian Foundation of the World awarded the gold medals of the leaders of the main religious faiths of Russia. On the eve of the Danilov Monastery, the chairman of the board of the Russian Fund, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, presented awards, ITAR-TASS reports.

One of the leaders of Al-Qaeda Aiman ​​Zavakhiri made threats to the UK and its leaders in response to the knights of the famous writer Salman Rushdi. On the audio recordings placed on one of the Islamist websites, a man with a voice similar to the voice of Zavakhiri promises a “very accurate answer” to the dedication to the knightly title of the writer, whose works caused a negative reaction among many in the Islamic world, BBC Russian.com reports.