In anticipation of the Big Twenty summit, which will be held in London on April 1-2, twice in the last days there has been a "leak" of confidential information regarding the project of the final communique. On Saturday, excerpts from the document were published by the German magazine Spiegel , and on Sunday it almost appeared in full on the pages of the influential British newspaper The Financial Times .

The daughter of the US Vice President Joseph Biden takes drugs, says her anonymous “friend”, who offered a video cassette for sale with a record of how Ashley Bayden inhales cocaine at a certain party. According to the author and owner of the recording, a 43-minute video was legally made, and the girl knew that she was shooting. Representatives of the popular American tabloid The New York Post managed to look at one and a half minutes of the record, but the editors refused to buy a cassette.

Entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev is going to file a lawsuit against the famous Forbes magazine. The Forbes magazine, according to Lebedev, slandered him, writing that during the global financial crisis, the businessman lost $ 2.5 billion, which is “complete nonsense”. As Ledebev promised, he will demand in court compensation for the damage caused by this slander, Interfax reports.

The Extraordinary Congress of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation opened in the living room at the initiative of Nikita Mikhalkov, the chairman of the Union since 1997. The congress began at 10:30 Moscow time and will last two days. As Mikhalkov explained, a detailed report on the activities of the SK over the past period will be presented on the forum and legal elections of governing bodies are held, ITAR-TASS reports.

Analysts of one of the largest British companies in the sale of BCA used car, on the basis of their research, came to the conclusion that the car, whose previous owner smoked in the cabin, loses most of all during resale. It is reported by Autonews.ru . As the representative of BCA Tim Nilor said, modern buyers pay great attention not only to the technical condition of the bought used machine, but also to the smell in its salon.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine proposed a draft resolution on the election of the president of the country. The Committee of State Building and Local Self -Government of the Ukrainian Parliament proposed holding the next presidential election on January 17, 2010, Interfax reports. “The Committee decided and sent it to the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada,” the head of this committee, Alexander Omelchenko, said on Monday at the conciliation council of factions.

The government is waiting for the budget revenues in 2009 will decrease by a quarter. “The federal budget revenues in 2009 will be a quarter lower than in 2008, and 4 trillion less than we expected,” Zhukov calculated. Zhukov on Monday in Nizhny Novgorod held a meeting to discuss the anti -crisis program of the Government of the Russian Federation for 2009, Interfax reports.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trading Session of the MMEVB as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day occurs, increased by 60.01 kopecks compared to the state of the previous trade day and amounted to 34.0134 rubles, Finmarket reports.

New Zealand Aborigines were imbued with the spirit of Orthodox Christianity. More and more representatives of the Maori tribe accept Orthodoxy and call their children Russian names, the New Region agency reports with reference to information widespread by the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church . Orthodox Christianity owes its promotion in New Zealand to missionary activities of emigrants from Russia.

The Russian economy will leave the current crisis longer than from the 1998 crisis, the World Bank economists predict. Its decline will exceed government forecasts and will reach 4.5%in 2009. The authorities need to spend up to 1.5% of GDP on the help of the poor in order to weaken the growing social pressure. This year, unemployment in Russia will grow to 12% against 6.3% in 2008, and the poverty level will reach 15.5%, which is 2.8% higher than the pre -crisis level.

On Volyn, Ukrainian police detained a former colony guard who is suspected of killing his own father. Relatives did not divide the sofa when the eldest of them decided to sleep, and the younger one to watch the TV. The crime was committed in the village of Novoselki of the Volyn region, reports the NTN channel with reference to the deputy head of the Malevitsky district police department of Rostislav Pavlyuk. A coachman became a cold -blooded murder.

Accusations of an attempt to kill, incite the riots and other serious criminally punishable violations were presented in India to 29-year-old Varun Gandhi, the grandson of the former prime minister of Indira Gandhi.

In the 2008 Record income, Gazprom's net profit fell at half the time compared to 2007, up to 173 billion rubles. The most sad results of the monopoly showed in the fourth quarter, in which, according to the Russian standards of buying (RAS), it received a net loss of 259.8 billion rubles, which is explained by the revaluation of financial investments at the current market value.

At an extraordinary emergency congress of the Union of Cinematographers , who on Monday morning opened in Moscow in the Gostiny Dvor, the chairman of the RF IC Nikita Mikhalkov made a two -hour report. Mikhalkov reported to his colleagues about the activities of the Union, which he led since 1997, told why the December Congress was recognized as illegitimate , rejected all the accusations of the inappropriate use of the funds that were put forward against him.

The really former commander of the Vostok battalion Sulim Yamadaev as a result of the attempt in Dubai in Dubai. On Monday, he died in a hospital in Dubai. This was reported with reference to the relatives of the murdered by the Russian consul in Dubai Sergey Krasnogor. According to BBC , confirmation was also obtained from the Dubai police. On suspicion of attempts, a Russian was detained, but the incident, according to the media, may have both the Chechen and Arabic trail.