The 2012 Summer Olympiad in London may become the first since 1908, when football was included in the program of the main competitions of the four-year anniversary, which will be held without the most popular world sport in the program. The World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada) is ready to take the most stringent measures in the conflict with UEFA and FIFA, who opposed the provision of data on the daily location of the players, Interfax reports.

In the Irkutsk region, a criminal case has been instituted against the Obolaryngologist, due to the professional incompetence of which the patient died. According to RIA Novosti in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the region, the doctor in one of the hospitals of the Shelekhovsky district made a tracheotomy - an emergency operation that provides for the dissection of the front wall of the trachea.

Pavel Obuyuh, a visually impaired person who was not allowed on February 18 on the flight of Siberia (S7), filed a lawsuit for compensation for non -pecuniary damage in the amount of 1 million rubles. The lawsuit was sent to the court of the Leninsky district of the Tula region at the place of permanent registration of a man, Interfax reports.

The State Duma expects to make a new edition of the budget for 2009 on the night of March 31 to April 1, RIA Novosti reports. "The budget is expected to be entered on April 1. But, most likely, it will be entered on the night of the 31st to the 1st number," Vitaly Shuba, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Tax, told reporters.

The profitability of banks in 2009, even according to optimistic estimates, will not go beyond 1%. So the Association of Regional Banks "Russia" assesses the situation in the country. The banking community proposes to create a fund of problem assets, but the Bank of Russia does not yet have a single position to create such a fund.

The author of the paintings with the naked Prime Minister of Ireland Brian Cowen, who mysteriously appeared in two art galleries this week, was the 35-year-old school teacher Conor Cesby. It is reported on Thursday by the British newspaper Times . His name was helped by an employee of the local radio station. The joker has already been detained, the newspaper writes. He can be accused of vandalism and imprisoned.

The resignation of the General Director of Aeroflot Valeria Okulova took place, the website of Gazeta.ru said with reference to a source in the Council of Directors of the Company. Meanwhile, the tape.ru in the press service of Aeroflot refused to comment on this information. On Thursday, a meeting of the board of directors of Aeroflot - Russian Airlines OJSC was held, at which the question of the change of general director was supposed to be considered.

The General Director still changed in Aeroflot - now this is officially announced. As Interfax reports with reference to the assistant Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Svetlana Krystanovskaya, the Board of Directors of Aeroflot - Russian Airlines OJSC decided on early termination of powers of the General Director Valery Okulov.

The verdict to the boxer Roman Romanchuk, who is accused of the murder of a resident of Primorye Oleg Meshkov and insulting a representative of the authorities, will be announced on Friday, and not on Thursday , as previously reported. “Since the court is considering a difficult case, it is necessary to more clearly formulate a number of points,” the athlete’s lawyer Yevgeny Timofeev explained in an interview with RIA Novosti .

Employees who directly bring profit to their companies may not worry about the workplace even during the crisis. According to the specialists of the recruiting company "Empire of personnel", employers highly value engineering personnel and managers-sales managers.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko wrote an article about her feelings for Alla Pugacheva. The prime minister's article was published in a glossy magazine called "Favorite". It is reported that Tymoshenko wrote the whole article herself. “The other day, an event took place, which for some reason passed unnoticed, although in world practice it is, in fact, a precedent. Prime Minister of the European country, in this case, Ukraine wrote an article for one of the glossy magazines.

According to analysts, BANC of America Securities - Merrill Lynch, the Russian ruble showed a decent ability to resist further decrease, so the “bear” scenario is no longer the main one. Experts believe that the Central Bank will be able to keep the ruble exchange rate relative to the dollar/euro in a given corridor.

A number of non -state pension funds will replace managers. The main reason is the attempt of the founders to find the guilty in the fact that in a crisis, the pension reserves of the funds are reduced, the Kommersant newspaper writes. On Wednesday, the resignation of Natalia Tativosova, the executive director of the non -state pension fund Transneft, which is part of the five largest Russian NPFs, was announced.

New technologies are more and more actively introduced into everyday use. Today it is impossible to imagine the life of people without a computer, a mobile phone, player, SMS, ICQ, etc. There was no circumstances and the most conservative sphere of human being - religious life. Electronics tries to serve as believers, but it happens that religion comes to the aid of modern technologies.

According to experts, in 2008 the rating of the 10 best artists who brought the greatest profit to their owners was headed by Pablo Picasso. The volume of sales of his work amounted to $ 262 million. Over the past 10 years, prices for Picasso's works, whether sculpture, painting or graphics, have risen by 96% and reached their peak in January 2008, reports artinvestment.ru . The famous Spaniard by only $ 8 million bypassed Francis Bacon.