The American Dodge Automobile Company, which is part of the Chrysler concern, decided to hold an unusual action for its customers from Germany. So the brand is going to "kill two birds with one stone" - to increase the sales of their cars in the German market and improve birth rate in the country, Autoblog reports. All pregnant women who come to dealerships, Dodge offers discounts for the purchase of their cars and minivans.

Now only the Department of Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will issue permits for the installation of special signals for machines without special painting. Previously, such permissions were issued by the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The relevant order prescribes in detail the procedure for obtaining such a permit for the machines of the Federal Security Service (FSO).

In the Swiss Berne, the first Victoria Cup in the history of the best hockey teams of the Old and New Worlds, established by the International Hockey Federation in the year of its 100th anniversary, took place on Post-Finance. The Magnitogorsk Metallurg, which won the European Champions Cup, was represented in it, and the New York Rangers Club of NHL opposed it.

Ten billion rubles will be additionally allocated this year to provide Russian beneficiaries with the necessary drugs. This was announced today at a press conference on the improvement of medicinal policy, the head of the Department of Farmrynka and the Medical Medical Technical Department of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia Diana Mikhailova. In the federal budget for the program for providing the necessary drugs in 2008, an amount of 30 billion rubles was provided.

The Russian Orthodox Church consider it necessary to pursue a focused state policy to combat the causes of the financial crisis. “The state’s direct intervention is necessary to reject the economy,” said the chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan and Kaliningrad Kirill at the press conference held today in Moscow, the Interfax-religion portal reports.

The acting chairman of the ATP Leonid Gozman at a meeting of the Federal Political Council (FPS) of the party on Thursday will report his members about the situation in it and offer options for leaving the crisis state , Interfax reports.

The cargo of the Faina vessel, captured by the pirate of Somalia at the end of September this year, was supplied by Kenya - according to international law and national legislation under the relevant contract between the Ukrinmash company and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kenya, the apparatus of the Security Council of Ukraine, widespread on Thursday, said.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of South Ossetia, after the search for President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, plans to send an appropriate request to Russian law enforcement agencies. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Taimuraz Khugaeva recognized by Russia.

Unique documents were at the disposal of the Russian newspaper Izvestia , according to which Ukraine supplied Georgia with weapons for conducting hostilities in South Ossetia with the knowledge and on behalf of its president Viktor Yushchenko. In addition, this happened to the detriment of the defense capacity of Ukraine itself. Now the head of state is threatened with impeachment.

Police investigators interrogated the head of the Israeli Government Ehud Olmert Ehud Olmert in the corruption case for the eighth time. The prime minister leaving the post is suspected that in the period from 2003 to 2006, being the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, he allocated to his business partner, lawyer Uri Messer, a large amount from the state budget, Interfax reports with reference to the local press.

Boeing-737-300 KD-Avia Airlines made an emergency landing with unprofitable chassis at Kaliningrad Airport, a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation said, citing Rostransnadzor. "According to Rostransnadzor, on October 1, at the Kaliningrad airport, an emergency landing of the Boeing-737-300A KD-Avia Airlines, which executed the Barcelona-Kaliningrad flight. There were 108 passengers on board.

A crisis in the real estate market of Russia should be expected after 4-6 months. This statement was made on October 1 at the Civil Housing Forum (GHF) in St. Petersburg, General Director of the Housing Initiative Corporation (Moscow) Andrei Likifet, speaking with the report "Modern problems of the developer and investor." "A few months later, when the euphoria passes and the money from the stab fund will end, the crisis will begin on the real estate market," Likifet said.

Europe should perceive Russia as it is, and not the way it would like to see. This point of view was a member of the European Commission Benit Ferrero-Waldner, responsible for external ties, expressed in an interview with Handelsblatt . Now the European Union is reviewing its relationship with Russia, but so far, according to her, the analysis is not completed. “We are waiting for Russia to withdraw troops out of the buffer zone in Georgia. Then foreign ministers will give the situation.

Gazprom and E.on will participate together in the project for the development of the South Russian oil and gas field. The agreement on this was signed in the presence of President Dmitry Medvedev and Chancellor Angela Merkel, Interfax reports.

In the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) on Thursday, a previously postponed trial began on the former chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, General Momchilo Perishic, ITAR-TASS reports. The presiding judge Bakon Moloto said that the prosecution intends to submit 150 witnesses in this process, and their speeches will last a total of 355 hours.