National Joint -Stock Company (NAC) Naftogaz Ukraine transferred the funds for natural gas delivered by Russian company in March. This was announced by the head of the press center of the NAC Valentin Zemlyansky, Interfax reports. "The company transferred the necessary amount of funds to Gazprom accounts and thereby calculated for gas delivered in March," he said. What amount was paid by Gazprom, the representative of Naftogaz did not specify.

From a boarding school near St. Petersburg at night, children with disabilities were evacuated after a suspicious device resembling a bomb was found in the building. Later it turned out that it was just a dummy. In the boarding house for children with disabilities in Strelna on Tuesday at night, a dummy of an explosive device was discovered, Interfax was told in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the city. "Anxiety was raised.

One of the main attractions of New York is the Empire skyscraper. State Building" - will be switched to a more efficient and environmentally friendly use of electricity. This was announced on Monday by the mayor of the metropolis, Michael Bloomberg, and former US President Bill Clinton, ITAR-TASS reports. The cost of the corresponding project is estimated at $20 million.

Sukhumi regards the actions of Georgian border guards as pirate. This was stated on Tuesday by the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry. On April 5, in neutral waters, Georgian sea border boats were detained by the Turkish ship "Denfa Demet". It delivered about 1000 tons of fuel and lubricants to Abkhazia, RIA Novosti said a source in the state-owned company "Abkhazian Shipping Company".

Despite the gigantic budget deficit and amazing US public debt, the American currency has a chance to remain a world reserve currency, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the article by Michael Shuman in Time magazine. For more than six decades, the dollar is a universal payment means that is recognized and accepted around the world.

The Russian automaker GAZ GAZ does not intend to use the Maxus commercial British LDV commercial van platform to create a new Gazeli-3. The company wants to develop a car independently, writes Kommersant . As Vadim Sorokin, deputy chairman of the Gas, stated on Monday, since 2010, the group will update its Gazelle commercial truck - the machine will be more economical in operation and receive an “improved interior and exterior”.

The Chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Admiral Mallen, told reporters on Monday that, according to him, the head of the Afghan Extremist movement Taliban is currently hiding in the territory of Belujistan Province in Pakistan. The admiral visited Islamabad along with the special envoy of the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbruck, Interfax reports.

Mass unrest in Moldova is the result of the actions of Western special services. According to Interfax , the leader of the Communist Party and its parliamentary faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov are sure of this. "The ears of the Western special services are sticking out in Moldova today in Moldova, who had previously carried out similar" operations "in other places," Zyuganov said.

Employees of Russian defense enterprises, which have become victims of the economic crisis and military reform, are preparing for mass protests due to non -payment of salaries. Strikes and other strike actions will begin from the Northern Fleet, the largest to the Navy, the Independent Gazeta reports.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, at a meeting on Tuesday with the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, said that the latest events in the Middle Eastern region, including the change of government in Israel, will not affect the process of peaceful settlement. Putin expressed the hope that the process would be continued, in spite of any difficulties of an external and domestic political nature, Interfax reports.

The power of Moldova will rigidly protect the sovereignty and statehood of the country from the "bunch of fascists intoxicated from anger," said President of the Republic Vladimir Voronin. In a television, he urged the opposition to abandon the attempt to violent seizure of power, Interfax reports. "The leaders of the losers of the parties took the path of power seizure of power.

By a decision of the Belarusian court, in Minsk they sell property from the rented apartment of the opposition. According to the authorities, there is no political background in the confiscation of property from the headquarters of the opposition movement "For freedom!" No - just the owner of this apartment was convicted of fraud on an especially large scale.

The residual underground shocks of up to 5 points continue to shake central Italy, and the number of victims is growing. AFP, citing rescuers, reports on Tuesday in the morning about 179 people who died as a result of earthquakes, about 40 more are considered missing. About 1.5 thousand were injured, 100 thousand were left without shelter.

In the Black Sea, the Beriks vessel is drifting for 4 months. The ship left the Georgian port of Poti back in December 2008, in its holds there are more than two hundred tons of meat and poultry. The expiration date of these products has long expired, and the refrigerators of the vessel broke. Ukrainian port authorities do not allow a bad -smelling ship closer than 20 kilometers from the shore, reports on Tuesday Newsru.ua with reference to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine .

The tax inspectorate N45, which previously checked CJSC Mian, made claims to CJSC MIIL-Real Estate, the structure of one of the largest real estate holdings of Miel, for 200.5 million rubles, Kommersant writes. After the tax authorities discovered in Miana a bill scheme for selling apartments in new buildings, market participants announced their intention to abandon the "gray" schemes.