The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) on Tuesday officially announced the inclusion of Russia in the list of applicants for the 2018 or 2022 World Cups, along with another ten candidates, FIFA.com reports. These included: Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the USA, as well as the joint applications of Belgium/Netherlands and Spain/Portugal. In addition, South Korea and Qatar are only interested in conducting the World Cup 2022.

Repair of six apartments affected by the Police Special Transactions in Vladivostok to eliminate three armed attackers suspected of attacking Chinese businessmen will be carried out at the expense of the municipal budget, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the press service of the city hall.

As experts predicted , in connection with the economic crisis in the capital, an increase in the number of crimes is recorded compared to past years. Incorrect cases of selfish crime are expected. Last year’s indicators of the number of crimes committed by migrants are large, although there are no surges in the current conditions yet.

European peacekeepers in Chad replaced the UN forces. The transfer ceremony took place last weekend in the city of Abecch in the east of the country, Interfax reports on Tuesday with reference to the UN press service. It was attended by the representative of the UN Secretary General for the peacekeeping operation Alain Leroy. In September 2007, the Security Council decided to deploy the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. This peacekeeping operation consists of three components.

The Russian Newspaper sued five political parties that did not pay with the publication for the placement of political advertising during the campaign for the Duma election in 2007. However, the editorial office is ready, if the party really cannot pay money, write off debts as hopeless, Kommersant writes. The claims were filed on March 16 to the Moscow Arbitration Court.

The total wage arrears, according to Russian companies and organizations not related to small businesses, increased by 16.1% to 8.087 billion rubles in February 2009, Rosstat said on Tuesday. February debt became maximum over the past three years - in November 2005, this figure was 8.985 billion rubles, Reuters recall.

The governor of Transbaikalia Ravil Geniatulin turned to the government with a request to include the region in the program to subsidize part of the cost of air tickets, the action of which so far applies only to the regions of the Far East. Buryatia President Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn also sent a similar appeal to the federal government, ITAR-TASS reports. The average cost of a ticket for the Chita - Moscow flight is from 13 to 25 thousand rubles one way.

In Europe, a prototype of a new wireless communication system is represented, capable of transferring up to 12.5 gigabits of data per second in theory. The new technology, according to CyberSecurity.ru , does not look like WiFi or WiMAX, since it works in a millimeter and submilemma range of radio frequencies.

Sergey Blank, Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Vladimir Blank, is transferred to the post of adviser to the general director of the State Corporation of Rostekhnology. According to Kommersant , he will oversee the regional policy and the transport direction of the state corporation, and in the future, Vitaly Vantsev can be replaced by the general director of the Rosavia airline .

Therefore, in comparison, the February result, according to which 22% of the adult population tries to monitor the exchange rate, is a record of awareness, which appeared against the background of the establishment of the boundaries of the currency corridor, which was especially widely discussed at that time. The share of indifferent people has decreased - now only half of the population (50%) is not interested in the exchange rate problem.

In Russia, the concept of development of the Armed Forces Management System for the period until 2025 has been approved. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov. He spoke at an expanded meeting of the College of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and spoke about prospects and dangers.

The plot of the musical will be the story of a certain company, whose workers suddenly realize their oppressed position and gradually begin to comprehend the secret of surplus value. The musical is scheduled to premiere early next year. As The Guardian notes, this is not the first attempt to bring Marx's famous work to the theatrical stage. Capital was first staged in Japan back in the 1930s, and the Japanese production was later translated into Chinese.

The Mexico government decided to increase import duties for 90 types of industrial goods and agricultural products from the United States, the New York Times said, referring to the Minister of Economy of Mexico, Herardo Ruis Mateos. According to the minister, this is a return measure adopted after the ban on the entry of heavy Mexican trucks to the US territory. According to the American authorities, the condition of the cars does not comply with the safety standards accepted there.

The basic part of the pension will be increased from December 1 by 31.4% instead of 26.5% planned earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova said at the collegium of the Pension Fund of Russia. According to her, this will be done so that the social pension is equal to the subsistence minimum of the pensioner. Additional indexation is caused by accelerated inflation, which from the beginning of the year to March 10 amounted to 4.5%.

A resident of Ohio in the United States filed a lawsuit against Apple with a request to pay 225 thousand dollars of compensation for damage caused to her son as a result of the IPOD Touch player explosion, CNews.ru reports with reference to AppleinSider. In addition to Apple, the application mentions sales consultants from a company store. According to the woman, they could be more attentive and warn of such cases, especially children and adolescents.