In Germany, the Transrapid high -speed magnetic road will be built (aka Maglev - magnetic levitation), which will connect the center of Munich to the airport. The project investors divided the responsibility for the missing 165 million euros, the German Wave reports. Previously, the project had problems with financing, since the total construction cost is 1.85 billion euros.

The solution to the problems that impede the development of the Far East and Transbaikalia acquires the features of the national project. This was announced on Wednesday by the First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, opening a meeting on the socio-economic development of the Amur region. Ivanov also noted that the growth of production in the Far East, unlike other regions of the Russian Federation, where the prime minister visited, is not observed.

At the popular Internet auction for sale, a former military base was put up for sale, on which the Titan intercontinental missiles were located during the Cold War, reports with reference to the Air Force . The cost of real estate, which is described as “excellent property” and “potential resort”, is about one and a half million dollars, it is located in the “remote corner” of Washington.

The Grand Prix of the XVI Open Festival of the Cinema of the CIS, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia "Kinoshok" "Golden Loza" received the painting "Spell of sin" by the Lithuanian director Algimantas Pupe. The awards for the best directing was awarded to Juris Pushkus for the film "Monotony" (Latvia), already awarded the prize of the 29th Moscow International Film Festival, where he participated in the competition "Prospects".

At an online auction on eBay, a former American intercontinental ballistic missile base is being sold for $1.5 million - with all the infrastructure, that is, tunnels and launchers, however, without nuclear warheads, reports the BBC . Situated in a remote corner of Washington state and still surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, the 22.5-hectare base is described by the seller as a "beautiful" piece of property that could be used as a resort.

In the UK, on ​​the set of the new film about Batman, the operator died. The car on which the deceased was crashed into a tree. The accident occurred in the town of Longross (not far from Chetsi) in the county of Surrey. The ambulance team, who arrived at the place of the tragedy, only ascertained the death of the operator, reports factnews with reference to the BBC .

One of the three tourists wounded as a result of a shootout that occurred on Tuesday evening in the Soviet-Gavansky district of the Khabarovsk Territory died from the wounds received, Interfax reports. "The tourist died before the helicopter arrived with doctors who were sent from Khabarovsk on Wednesday morning. The remaining victims with injuries were taken to Khabarovsk," said Galina Orlova, head of the press service of the regional police department.

In Saratov, a criminal case has been instituted against employees of the regional police department on suspicion of telephone conversations with unauthorized persons. As the correspondent of Newsru.com from Saratov reports, a preliminary investigation has already begun as part of the case.

The Russian Football Union published a ticket program for the qualifying match of the European Football Championship in 2008 between the national teams of Russia and England, which will be held on October 17th at the Luzhniki stadium. According to this program, the cheapest tickets will cost 300 rubles. The next price category is tickets worth 400 rubles. They will spread to the rostrum D. On the same rostrum (outside the gate) there will be a sector of English fans.

The director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev handed on to Wednesday the main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazaru copies of photographs and archival documents from the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia related to the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raul Vallenberg . According to the documents, the Swedish diplomat, who helped Jews during the Second World War, died in a Soviet prison as a result of a heart attack.

More than 60 people were killed and more than 100 workers are under the wreckage of a bridge under construction in the south of Vietnam, RIA Novosti, citing the local newspaper VNEXPRESS . At the time of the accident, about 250 builders worked at the facility. According to the local police, about 60 victims were taken to hospitals, Interfax reports. "We have already discovered 14 bodies, many victims still remain clamped in the wreckage of a collapsed bridge," the police report.

The military representative of the Republic of Estonia in NATO, General Johannes Kert, confirmed on Wednesday that the NATO cybersecurity center is planned to be created in Estonia, Delfi reports. As General Kert said, the next spring the center will work in full force. According to him, the appearance of the department is very important from a political point of view, since Estonia will have a greater right to vote.

On Tuesday, a consultation was held in Perm, at which the doctors decided to refrain from amputation of the hands of 15-year-old Andrei Shcherbakov, who flew in the wing of Boeing-737 , and try to stop the gangrene without surgical intervention. Doctors do everything possible to prevent amputation. But they do not give guarantees that they can save the life of a teenager without amputation, the newspaper "Your Day" writes.

The military prosecutor’s office spread the appeal on Wednesday, in which the soldier who left military units calls on to return to the service. The application was timed to the beginning of the autumn call.

A visit to the United States, President of Poland Lech Kachinsky denies that the country's policy has an anti -Russian orientation. Speaking in the Chicago Council for International Affairs, he noted: "We want only one thing from our Russian partner - to abandon the idea that Poland is not now, but maybe in the future it will fall into the sphere of its special influence." “There is only this problem,” added Kacinsky.