A survey of the heads of 284 companies presented on the New York Stock Exchange was conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation research organization. Most of them are waiting for an economic recovery in the United States next year, and in 2011 - around the world. Business leaders representing 23 industries and 24 countries agree that the global economic crisis, combined with the subsequent lack of loans, forced companies to make adjustments to business, quoted the study of Prime-Tass .

The American military in Afghanistan burned a batch of confiscated copies of the Bible, printed on Pushta and Dari - the two most common languages ​​in the country, due to fears that a foreign contingent will be suspected of trying to turn the country's population into Christianity. And this will threaten the security of the troops, Interfax reports with reference to the CNN television company.

According to Lee Williams, the head of the Symbian Foundation non-profit organization, in 2009, smartphone sales will grow by 12-15% of 2008 levels. According to CyberSecurity.ru , Williams told reporters that Symbian will put a special emphasis on the functionality for advanced devices this year, since only their sales will grow against the backdrop of general negative cell phone sales.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District confirmed the legality of the decision that the newspaper The Moscow Times refutes the previously published information concerning the president of the ONEXIM investment fund Mikhail Prokhorov, the RIA Novosti agency reports. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the publisher of the newspaper - LLC United Press.

The Russian authorities continue to improve the penitentiary policy in the Russian Federation, including using the institution of pardon. On Tuesday, Dmitry Medvedev allowed to submit a mercy on the convicts who are in the investigative insulators (pre -trial detention center). In this position, the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev are now in this position.

On the Tu-154 aircraft, which almost encountered the Boeing-767 liner at the end of April in the sky of the Moscow Region, there was no TCAS device warning about a dangerous rapprochement. This was announced on Tuesday by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper with reference to the Tu-154 commander Sergei Ronin and Sturman Valery Tikunkov. They claim that the device was rearranged on a plane that executed the flight abroad.

In the American state of Texas, a criminal who killed the saleswoman during the robbery of the store is executed. The gambling player went to brutal reprisal because of monetary debts and the desire to live in a wide leg. 51-year-old Michael Linna Riley was executed last Tuesday in the city of Khantsville almost a quarter of a century after he stabbed the 23-year-old Vayon Harris, Fox News .

Magna int., Which claims to purchase the Opel/Vauxhall package from GM in a consortium with a Sberbank and GAZ group, is ready to bet on a gas partnership , which will allow Opel to significantly expand sales in developing markets, including Russia, told Vedomosti . In 2006, the GAZ group bought equipment from Chrysler, in Nizhny Novgorod, the Volga Siber production was deployed in it.

The clergy of Chechnya supported the decision of the President of the Republic of Ramzan Kadyrov to abandon the amnesty of members of the bandit groups and conduct their neutralization in the provision of armed resistance, the head of the spiritual department of Muslims, Chechnya, Sultan Mirzaev, told RIA Novosti today.

The leaders of the Democrats in the US Senate did not approve the allocation of funds to close the Guantanamo prison, planned by President Barack Obama. At the same time, they emphasized that they still support the decision to close the head of state in January. According to his order, this scandalously known prison on the American military base on Cuba, which still contains 240 suspects in terrorism, should be closed by January 22, 2010. This process needed to allocate $ 80 million.

One of the leaders of the Russian national football team Andrei Arshavin, now protecting the colors of the London Arsenal, shared his success in the development of foggy Albion. In a web chat with fans of the “gunners”, Arshavin admitted that he had already made friends among team partners and gradually gets used to the English way of life. “I will name the best friends outside the field, Sesk Fabregas, Nilels Bendner and Koln tour,” Andrei ITAR -TASS quotes.

The former mayor of Vilnius and the leader of the Union of Centers and Liberals Arthurus Zuokas proposed levying 29 euros from politicians who will use the word "crisis" in a public vocabulary. As RIA Novosti reports, Zuokas said about this by the Lithuanian radio. At the same time, the politician proposed creating a penalty fund. "Today, the main crisis is in the heads of state politicians and bureaucrats. The crisis is a proof of its helplessness and hopelessness," Zuokas said.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yuri Yehanurov the day before said that in the near future the Russian military pilots will be able to train at the Nitka deck aircraft in the Crimea, built in Soviet times at the airfield. After the collapse of the USSR, the complex remained in Ukraine.

Representatives of the Georgian opposition say that the police confiscated 20 personal cars of its leaders and supporters. Political opponents of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili demand to return the captured cars until 15:00 in Wednesday. Otherwise, the leaders of the opposition threaten, from Thursday all the central roads in the country will be blocked.

Almost half of the Russian IT companies delay the salary of their employees. According to CNews.ru , the survey conducted by HeadHunter in May 2009 reports. Headhunter conducted a survey on the topic "Are your company delayed salaries?" Almost 6.5 thousand respondents answered the questions of the organizers on-line research. According to the results, on average, the salary is delayed in 60% of organizations, and in 35% - more than a month.