The volume of industrial production in the eurozone in January 2009 decreased by 3.5% compared to last December, AFP said with reference to Eurostat. The decrease in the indicator broke the 1990 record when they began to collect statistical data. Over the past 12 months, the decline in industrial production amounted to 17.3%. The previous record reduction in the indicator in December last year amounted to 2.7%.

The prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory made an idea to the governor of the region Sergey Darkin, the reason was the violation of the legislation identified during the audit in his actions. According to law enforcement agencies, in 2007, at the expense of the KSUP Primteploenergo, the hunting farm Vepr in the area of ​​the abandoned village of the Volkha of the Ussuri district built and the forest was cut down.

The American dollar is traded in the immediate vicinity of the two -month minimums relative to a single European currency, risking to break the historical record for weakening to the euro, is rapidly cheaper in relation to Yen and even the British pound. The "raw materials" Australian, Canadian and New Zealand dollars are growing after the expensive raw materials, Bloomberg reports.

In his Zavidovo residence near Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday received President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. For three hours of communication, the Russian side managed to dissuade Lukashenko from taking a loan of 100 billion rubles from Moscow, persuading him to pay $ 210 for a thousand cubic meters of Russian gas and, it seems, even recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Kommersant writes on Friday.

The financial crisis significantly influenced the purchasing power of the Urals. At first, the consequences of the crisis were felt by those who were forced to refuse to buy a car, and then those who became obstacle to contain an “iron horse”. Car owners began to get rid of cars in specific ways, the variety of which is told by the "New Region" .

In the capital of Scotland, a pedophile was convicted, whose victim was a 13-year-old girl. The pervert raped it for seven years, having made three hundred abuse. The Supreme Court of Edinburgh sentenced the 74-year-old resident of the city of Hithall in the Daffris region, who raped a teenage girl for seven years under various circumstances. Crimes were committed from 1973 to 1980, BBC TV channel reports. At the time of the first rape, the UK citizen David Hiddleston was 38 years old.

Several Russian aircraft this week flew over American ships participating in the joints jointly with South Korea in the Sea of ​​Japan. At the same time, the flight altitude was only 150 meters, according to CNN on Friday, citing sources in the US command. According to their data, the first such incident occurred on Monday: two IL-38 patrol aircraft flew over the Stennis aircraft carrier at the time when he was in the international waters of the Sea of ​​Japan.

On Friday, the State Duma in the second reading adopted a bill that gives the criminals the right to go to the “deal with justice” : the criminal who assisted the investigation will receive no more than two-thirds, which is assumed under his article, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, this document is aimed at counteracting organized forms of crime and attracting law enforcement agencies to cooperation of persons in the organized crime group.

Israeli scientists have developed a fundamentally new irrigation system: farmers and gardeners will receive SMS messages on their mobile phones if a certain tree needs watering. The system will help reduce water consumption and prevent soil damage and planting from excessive irrigation, reports MIGNEWS . The sensor operation is based on the principle of electrical conductivity.

The English car company Jaguar decided to update its luxury sedan XJ. The premiere of the novelty is approximately scheduled for July 2009. The model will be very different from the current generation of XJ, but at the same time the changes will not be so radical in nature, as in the case of the BMW 7 series, whose restyling Bavarians started in 2002, reports WorldCarfans .

In Afghanistan, during the largest joint operation of the Afghan troops and international forces, at least 30 Taliban militants were killed, Breitbart.com reports with reference to the statement of the American military command. Fights broke out in the south of the country, in the province of Hilmens, where the Taliban, performing regular patrolling of the area, made an unsuccessful attack on a detachment of government and international troops.

A group of Dutch Protestants opens against the placement of the symbols of the European Union on car numbers. Activists of the National Fund for preserving the principles of reformation in politics believe that the gold stars on a blue background indicate the Catholic cult of the Virgin Mary, contrary to strict Protestant views. EU symbols are located on license plates of Dutch cars since 2000.

On Thursday, Forbes magazine published another list of the best business countries in 2009. Russia in this rating failed in a year, having lost 17 positions. The Russian Federation sank from 86th to 103rd out of 127 possible, occupying the "honorary" position between Mauritania and Honduras. Forbes for the fourth time publishes a similar rating of states that are more or less attractive for doing business.

In the Swiss Nyon, on Friday, the procedure of drawing quarterfinal and semi -final stages of the UEFA Cup was held, which, after yesterday's failures of Zenit and CSKA, will be held without the participation of Russian teams. The rivals of two Ukrainian clubs in the 1/4 finals became French teams. The offender of the army, Donetsk "Shakhtar" will play with the Marseille Olympic, and the Kiev Dynamo - with Paris Saint -Germain.

During the reform of the Russian army, not a single special forces will be fired from the ranks of the armed forces forcibly. This was announced on Friday by the head of the General Staff, Army General Nikolai Makarov, speaking in the State Duma. "As for the forces of special forces - not a single soldier of the special forces for the elite of the Armed Forces leaves the ranks of the Armed Forces," Makarov said.