United Russia will change the leaders of its branches in the Tver region and Tver for the poor organization organization and a low result when voting on March 1. This was stated on Friday by the speaker of the State Duma, chairman of the party of the party Boris Gryzlov. Recall that in the elections half of the composition of the Tver City Council of EP took second place, significantly lagging behind the Communist Party. 29.44% of voters voted behind the EP, 49.18% for the Communist Party.

Cardinal Roger Mahoni forbade the British bishop Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust, to enter the Catholic temples, schools or other institutions on the territory of the Archbishop of Los Angeles, reports Sedmitsa.Ru with reference to the news portal "News of the Christian World". On March 3, Mahoni published an order to ban in a joint statement with two representatives of the American Jewish Committee.

The New York Prosecutor General’s Office sent the agendas to seven managers of the Supreme Service of the Merrill Lynch investment bank, absorbed in January 1, Bank of America. Prosecutor General Andrew Kuomo intends to take the testimony from them what premium and for which they were accrued for the catastrophic for the 2008 bank.

In the coming year, the volume of the Russian market of personal computers will be reduced by 17.4%. This conclusion was reached by researchers from IDC. The most significant decline is expected in the first half of the year. Will the segment of standard architecture servers go the most significant? More than 50%, reports CNews.ru . The IDC introduced the data on the quarterly report of Quarterly PC Tracker.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, before meeting with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that Russia and the United States have serious disagreements on a number of issues. To the "classical" topics (Iran, pro), which should be discussed during today's dialogue, have been added very relevant recently on the European continent, the issues of energy. “Of course, there are areas in which we are not going,” the US Secretary of State as saying.

The Prosecutor General of Russia did not approve the indictment on the high -profile case of the undermining of the Nevsky Express train in August 2007 and sent it for a investigation. "The materials were returned to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office, since the investigation was not fully made," the source in the Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday told Interfax .

The crisis has its advantages: the legendary Moscow traffic jams slightly resolved, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to The Wall Street Journal . The decline in trade and the avalanche of dismissal entailed a sharp decrease in the intensity of the commercial and passenger traffic in Moscow, the newspaper writes. According to Vladislav Borodin, the director of the Yandex-Proki project, before the evening hour, the peak lasted from 16:00 in the afternoon until 22:00 p.m.

The European Boxing Union (EBU) determined the participants of the fight for the vacant European champion title, freed after the previous European champion - Matt Skeleton - lost to the boxer Irish Martin Rogan in battle for the title of the British Commonwealth Champion. The fight for the European Champion title will take place between the official contender Alexander Dmitrenko and occupying the first line of the rating Alexander Povetkin.

Ecological departments of Russia, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland received a report on environmental impact in the cross -border context of the ESPO Convention from Nord Stream AG, which is the operator of the gas pipeline project from Russia to Europe on the Baltic Sea, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The text of the report will be published next Monday.

Defenders of animal rights from the PETA group compiled an annual list of the most badly dressing celebrities, based on their criteria, the main of which is the use of genuine leather and fur in the wardrobe. The first place this year went to the Queen of the pop music of Madonna, whom Reta repeatedly asked to abandon the fur, RBC reports.

The Russian Ford Automation in Vsevolozhsk, the Leningrad Region, began to produce a Mondeo car. This was reported to Rosbalt by the director of public relations Ford in Russia Ekaterina Kulinenko. "The first batch of cars will go to dealers for 2 weeks,"? She said.

The absolute faith of the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank in the reliability of foreign mortgages was replaced by complete distrust in less than a year. The Ministry of Finance prohibited investing funds from the reserve fund and the National Welfare Fund in the papers of foreign state agencies. The order with the ban was signed at the end of February, but published only on March 5.

For more than 50 years, the presidents have been resorting to the help of television and shutters (the screen, on which the text pronounced by the host of the program) has been resorting to, but no one has already used them as wide as the new head of the Barack Obama White House, Inopressa notes with reference to The International Herald Tribune . So, representing the new Minister of Health Kathleen Sibilius, Obama turned his head to the right or left, but not at all to look at the audience.

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tswangirai got into a traffic accident on Friday. In the accident, his wife Suzan Tswangirai died, the head of the government himself was injured and hospitalized, representatives of the Party "Movement for Democratic Changes" (DDP), whose leader is the prime minister. “We just learned that an accident occurred with the participation of the chairman of our party. Yes, there are injuries, but it is not in critical condition.

The actor and master of the verbal genre Robin Williams, famous far beyond the United States, will have an operation to replace the aorta valve, ITAR-TASS reports. “I am so touched by words of support addressed to me and the wishes of all the best,” Williams himself said in the published statement. The 57 -year -old actor in connection with malaise - difficulty breathing - is forced to interrupt the tour in the United States.