The debate of the parties in the court in the case of the murder of the Observer of the Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya, will partially be held closed. In particular, the prosecutor will be heard. According to Interfax , Judge Yevgeny Zubov made such a decision due to the fact that representatives of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation intend to refer to secret materials.

Toyota Motor Corp. The largest world automotive company Will reduce the production of cars in Japan by 54% in January-March against the backdrop of demand for demand in Europe, the USA and Japan, Bloomberg reports. The production volumes of the company, excluding Daihatsu and Hino divisions for 3 months, ending on March 31, will amount to 519 thousand cars compared with 1.13 million cars for the same period in 2008, Interfax notes.

The decline in industrial production in Russia in January 2009 reached 16% in annual terms after a decrease by 10.3% in December 2008 and 8.7% in November 2008, the Federal State Statistics Service - Rosstat said on Monday. Industrial production in Russia in January decreased by 19.9% ​​compared to December 2008.

The European Commission intends to demand from manufacturers to develop a single charger for all cell phones, Prime-Tass reports. This was stated by the Commissioner of the European Union Gunter Verkhogen in an interview with Deutsche Welle (German Wave). In his opinion, is the situation when the consumer is forced to buy a new charger with every new cell phone? Unacceptable.

A recent study of American wrestlers with cybercrime showed that not an outstanding teenager can even hack someone else's password. And often the users themselves are to blame for this, who are extremely negligently approaching the choice of secret codes and passwords, writes RBC Daily .

As a result of the collision of two passenger trains in the Czech Republic, 23 people were injured. This, according to RIA Novosti , told reporters a spokeswoman for the regional rescue service Lukash GUMPL. The emergency occurred on Monday in the northeast of the Czech Republic near Pashkov. Trains collided five kilometers from the nearest railway station. According to preliminary information, at least 23 people were injured, one of them is a train driver, Gumple said.

A scientist from the American Arizona University offers instead of trying to look for unusual forms of life on other planets, to focus on Earth. According to the theoretician Paul Davies, perhaps the "aliens", whom we are so eager to see on other planets, are already living among us. We are talking about microbes that differ from the life forms of life at the biochemical level.

Since the beginning of the year, the criminogenic situation has sharply worsened in the capital of Russia. The authorities associate this with the economic crisis covering the country and are already in alarm. According to individual indicators, the number of serious crimes increased by almost 1.5 times. In January, 16 percent growth of murders was registered.

“Hamas” rejected the conditions of Israel to discuss the opening of border crossings or the conclusion of a truce only after the liberation of the Israeli soldier Gida Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006. This was stated by local television as deputy head of the Politburo of the Islamic resistance of Musa Abu Marzuk, who heads the Islamist delegation in negotiations with the Egyptian intermediaries about the conditions for achieving a truce.

For the first time in four centuries , the Roman Catholic Church officially celebrated Galileo Galileo on the eve of the birthday. In the Roman basilica of the Virgin Mary and Martyrs, the Minister of Culture, Vatican, Archbishop Dzhanfranco Revasy, headed the solemn mass on the occasion of the 445th anniversary of the great Italian scientist, ITAR-TASS reports.

The manual for the study of Russian literature of the XIX - XX centuries, in which famous modern writers will express their opinion about the authors, the study of the work of which is part of the school program, is prepared in the St. Petersburg publishing house "Limbus". The manual will not replace existing school textbooks, but complement them, the Gzt.ru newspaper reports.

In the near future, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin must sign a decision to increase import duties on liquid crystalline and plasma TVs from 10 to 15%. The draft document has already been approved at the last meeting of the Government Commission on protective measures in foreign trade and customs and tariff policy, writes the Gzt.ru newspaper . Meanwhile, TV production in Russia is reduced.

The new, 12th novel of the popular writer Paulo Coelho "The winner is left" will appear on sale in Russia in early March. The world premiere of the work took place in 2008, RIA Novosti was told in the AST Publishing House. According to the plot, the protagonist of the book of Igor Maleev has one thing on his mind - his ex -wife Eve. He is beautiful, rich, but she threw him because of a successful fashion designer - he cannot drown out this pain.

The National Security Office for Transport of the United States published preliminary data from the investigation of the circumstances of the Bombardier Aircraft Disaster, which occurred on February 12 at night near Buffalo (New York). The number of its victims was 50 people: 44 passengers, 4 crew members, a backup pilot and one person on Earth. In general, the available data confirm that the main cause of the tragedy was icing of the wings, the tail and propeller of the engines.

Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation of the criminal authority, nicknamed Koba Kutaisky. He was already caught six months ago with a fake passport and again ended up in Russia illegally. The operation to detain the 36-year-old Koba Tserzvadze, known under the nickname Koba Kutaisky, was held last Friday evening. During a personal search, the detainee found a dose of heroin, reports REGNUM .