With a new fall in the euro regarding the US dollar, the European Union foreign exchange markets began their work on Monday. By 11:30 Moscow time, 1,2942 US dollars were given in the EU for one euro, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, the exchange rate of the euro falls relative to the American currency by the third trading session in a row.

The Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina proposed to use a crisis to buy cheaper enterprises abroad. According to RIA Novosti , Nabiullina performed on January 23 at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Economic Activities and called on Russian companies not to refuse due to a crisis from foreign expansion. “Of course, minimization of losses is an important task today, but the conditions of the global crisis must be used to ensure subsequent growth and development.

The company "Russian Railways" (Russian Railways) will carry cars from the AvtoVAZ conveyor half cheaper. This is implied by an agreement signed on Monday between Russian Railways, AvtoVAZ and the Roiltransavto company. The document implies a reduction in the coefficient for the transportation of cars by a distance of 1 thousand to 3 thousand kilometers from 0.75 to 0.37 from the set tariff.

Instead of creating regional currencies, the world community should have agreed on a new world currency that would be used in international trade, was recognized as the UN and controlled by the relevant commissions. Such a proposal was made by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Kazakh-Indian Business Forum in Delhi, the Kazinform news agency reports.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted on Monday a resolution on the responsibility of President Viktor Yushchenko for the situation in the financial sector of the country. 227 deputies voted for the decision (4 members of the Party of Regions, 154 - BET factions, 23 - "Our Ukraine", 27 - Communist Party and 19 - Litvin Bloc) out of 248.

The head of the Board of NAC Naftogaz of Ukraine Oleg Dubin provided the necessary medical care in order to withdraw him from the pre -infarction state, but he did not have surgery. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper "Today" , referring to the information of the head of the public relations department "Naftogaz" Valentina Zemlyansky. Earlier it was reported that the club has a heavy heart surgery .

In the Rostov region, a large theft of water was revealed - the amount of damage, according to preliminary estimates, is nine million rubles. The theft is accused of the municipal enterprise "Vodokanal" of the Kamenolonsk city settlement of the Oktyabrsky district. Its director faces criminal prosecution. OJSC Water Holding Don South on its website states that its experts revealed devices on the stopper of the water metering unit at 15 water meters of the Vodokanal enterprise.

The Italian goalkeeper "Chelsea" Carlo Kudichini after 10 years of the game for "aristocrats" moved to Tottenham as a free agent. According to Reuters , Kudichini, who has been in Chelsea for the past five years, the second number after the Czech goalkeeper Peter Czech, can debut in the “spurs” already on Tuesday in the game with Stock City.

The Italian weekly L'Espresso published an article in which he accused the CIA of the fact that on the same aircraft belonging to American intelligence, they transported not only those suspected of a base in Guantanamo, but also drugs from Columbia in the United States. According to the publication, for several years the CIA aircraft made secret flights between North America and the areas of cultivation or drug transit. It turned out to be involved in the drug scandal and the United Nations.

Three children died as a result of a fire in a private house of the village of Shamara of the Shalinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region on Monday night. Another girl and mother of children are hospitalized with burns. A two -story wooden house in which a large family lived completely burned out. According to the head of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh, at the third hour of the morning a fire broke out in the house.

Law enforcement agencies of Moscow prevented an explosion in a mosque on Poklonnaya Gora. This action was supposed to become the following in the explosions in the capital in 2008-2009, on suspicion of involvement in which a group of persons has already been detained , the Kommersant newspaper writes on Monday.

The current global recession dispelled many myths, for example, the one that developing economies are protected from developed malformations and consumers in Asia can compensate for the fall in demand. The crisis occurs so quickly and in all directions at the same time that the established ideas are rapidly obsolete, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to Newsweek magazine.

A popular Apple smartphone around the world in Russia does not diverge: in the first three months of its sales, a maximum of 120,000-180,000 tubes has been sold. At such a pace of MTS, Vimpelkom and Megafon, it will not be easy to fulfill the obligation to Apple and sell 3.5 million iPhone 3G in three years, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Monday. In total, according to Mobile Research Group (MRG), for the IV quarter of 2008, 89,000 IPhone 3G tubes were sold in Russia.

All American airports will soon be equipped with radars who can track flocks of birds. Representatives of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAU) of the United States reported on Monday that this measure is necessary to ensure the safety of airplane flights and prevent cases of birds with aircraft, ITAR-TASS reports.

At least five people were killed and about 20 were injured in varying severity as a result of the operation of a home-made explosive device in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in the north-west of Pakistan, ITAR-TASS reports citing local media. The attack occurred on Monday morning. The explosive device attached to the trunk of the bicycle was put into operation at one of the lively crossbars of the city in the morning rush hour, when most residents were in a hurry to work.