The conflict between Andrei Vavilov, the former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, and now the Senator from the Penza region, and the developer company El-DAD Properties from the United States is exhausted, reports Reuters . Penthaus worth $ 53.3 million, in which Vavilov was disappointed after making a pledge, again put up for sale. According to David Sharf, the senator lawyer, the parties came to the agreement, but refused to clarify the details of the transaction.

The anti -government rally planned on February 3 in Vilnius will not take place. The Ministry of Economy and the Association of Small Entrepreneurs and AMPT (AMPT) were able to agree "on the main attitudes of solving the problems of residents working on entrepreneurial certificates", so the action will not be held, the Minister Vita Ramanauskaite told Interfax .

Officials from United Russia decided to support the domestic auto industry at a rally in St. Petersburg, but they made a small mistake and everyone came to the rally in foreign cars, many of them? on right-hand drive Japanese cars. At a rally that took place the day before on Stachek Avenue, near the Kirov Plant, several hundred people gathered, most of whom work in the automotive industry.

Elena Dementyeva failed to reach the final of the first tennis tournament of the Grand Slam series, an open championship of Australia, which continues in Melbourne. On Thursday, a Russian woman, sown under the fourth number, with a score of 6: 3, 6: 4 defeated the three -time winner of these competitions Serena Williams. Thus, the victorious series of Dementieva was interrupted in the 16th match. This defeat was the first for a Muscovite this season.

Another criminal case has been opened against the former deputy commander of the Railway Troops of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Evgeny Kornishin, who was sentenced by a military court to five years in prison, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of the Russian Federation Investigative Committee.

The author of the book Perfect Passwords Mark Berett compiled a list of 500 most common passwords among English -speaking users. The combination of 123456 was in the first place. The modifications of this simple combination (1234 and 12345678) are occupied by the third and fourth place, respectively, the newspaper "News Time" reported this study.

After weakening liquidity and deterioration of the market situation, weakened Russian organizations are most at risk of reducing their corporate ratings. This was reported in its report by "a decrease in the growth of the world economy enhances the risk of insolvency for Russia" International rating agency Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, which is referred to by K2kapital .

The head of the traffic police of the Sverdlovsk region Yuri Demin, who was detained for the attack on the photographer and is suspected of excess of official powers, was released from the temporary detention center under the obligation to turn out. This was reported to "Interfax" in the regional department of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.

In Russian-Tajik relations, a loud scandal is flared up. The Ambassador of Tajikistan to Moscow received a sharp rebuke in the Russian foreign policy after Dushanbe expressed his protest in connection with Moscow violation of previous agreements. Thus, the statement of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was accepted in Tajikistan that Russia would not participate in the construction of hydroelectric power plants in Central Asia without the consent of neighboring countries.

The younger sergeant Alexander Glukhov arbitrarily left the location of his unit deployed in the territory of South Ossetia, where he underwent military service - such an opinion of a high -ranking source in a commission engaged in the investigation of the incident , on Thursday of RIA Novosti .

The legendary Polytechnic Museum in Moscow can be closed in 2009 due to insufficient financing. There is not enough money even to serve the museum building: garbage collection, security, power supply and wardrobe. This was announced by ITAR-TASS, General Director of the Museum Gurgen Grigoryan. "The museum will be able to function on the funds provided for in the budget," he said. “According to preliminary estimates, we lack about 6 million rubles,” he complained.

Consumer prices for autobensin in Russia in December 2008 decreased by 7.3% compared to the indicator of November and amounted to 20.12 rubles/l, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) of the Russian Federation reports. So, the cost of gasoline A-76 in December decreased by 8% and amounted to 17.41 rubles/l, the price of AI-92 gasoline decreased by 7.4% to 20.11 rubles/l. AI -95 gasoline fell in price by 5.9% - up to 22.84 rubles/l.

Astronomers first recorded a change in the weather on the planet outside the solar system. In just six hours, the HD80606B planet, four times higher than Jupiter, heats up by 700 degrees, reports AP with reference to the publication in the journal Nature. In normal times, the temperature on the planet is 500 degrees Celsius.

According to the Royal Mint in 2008, each 40-pound coin that has a walk in the UK is a fake, writes The Daily Telegraph on Thursday. Meanwhile, in 2007, only every fiftieth turned out to be false among the coins of this dignity, in 2002 - every hundredth. Thus, we can conclude, writes that in 2008 the number of fakes increased by already 27%. This is the highest indicator of the level of fakes from the moment the coins began in the country (1983).

US President Barack Obama will pay his first visit to Canada on February 19. This was announced in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, reports ITAR-TASS.