The Bank of Russia reduces the refinancing rate by 0.5 percentage points from July 13 - to 11% per annum, the minimum rate of the auction of one -day repo (base rate of the Central Bank) is also by 0.5 percentage points, up to 8%, as well as other rates, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on Friday.

Repeated elections of the Moldavian parliament, scheduled for July 29 , promise to turn into the most stringent confrontation in the history of the country and can again lead to riots. The day before, the CEC registered the final list of participants in the election race, but the uncompromising struggle began much earlier, writes Kommersant . Opponents accuse each other of pogroms that took place after the April elections.

The senior vice-president of Russian Railways OJSC Fedor Andreev can lead the AK "ALROSA" instead of Sergei Vybornov. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to a source close to Russian Railways. At the last annual meeting of Alrosa shareholders, Andreev was elected to the company's board of directors as an independent director. Vybornov, on the contrary, was not included in the Council.

In Udmurtia, Ustinovsky District Court of Izhevsk sentenced the 17-year-old gamer, who stabbed his father, who was trying to prevent him from playing on the computer. The murder was committed in the spring of 2008 in the Ustinovsky district of the city of Izhevsk. The court sentenced the killer to two years in prison, reports AiF in Udmurtia . A teenager from a prosperous family did not study and did not work, he sat at the monitor for days and played computer games.

The police of the Southern Mexican state Michiokan discovered 4 mutilated corpses. Detectives see the connection between this brutal reprisal and the arrest of the local official accused of relations with the mafia. The corpses mutilated by torture in plastic bags lay at the roadside of the high-speed highway in the city of La Huacan. A terrible find was made after the reports of eyewitnesses who told about black packages from which blood oozes.

The condition of the victims worsened as a result of random shooting in a supermarket arranged by the ex-head of the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs of Tsaritsyno Major Denis Evsyukov. According to Interfax , the lawyer of the victims Igor Trunov, on the night of 19-year-old Ilya Gerasimenko, who was injured, called an ambulance, because the bullet, which is still near his heart, set in motion. Surgeons insist on the operation.

The European Swimming Federation (LEN) approved the record of Europe Julia Efimova at a distance of 100 m Brasses - 1.05.80, set on April 27 this year at the Russian Championship in Moscow. The result of Valentina Artemyeva was also approved as a continent record at a distance of 50 m, shown by her on April 28 in a preliminary swim - 30.32, Sport -Express reports.

Current macroeconomic indicators do not give prerequisites for the devaluation of the ruble , in case of change, it is possible, but there will be no large -scale, said the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich in an interview with Russia Today . "The stability of the ruble depends on the stability of the Russian economy and the state of payment balance.

An integral and perhaps the most important attribute of the football arbitrator - the whistle celebrates its 131st birthday on July 10. The lip whistle was developed in the 19th century by a poor Birmingham master Joseph Hadson.

The main rabbi of the Israeli city of Beer-Shev proposed to use video cameras in order to check the compliance of food in restaurants with the Kashrut rules (a set of ritual rules that determine the compliance of something with the requirements of Galahi-Jewish law.- Approx. Ed. ), The Blagovers-Info reports with reference to the Ha'aretz newspaper.

The high-profile case of the attempt on the president of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is overgrown with new details. A few days ago, operatives announced the detention of a group of bandits who are checked for involvement in the explosion of the Yevkurov motorcade. It turned out that these criminals are Moscow car agents, reports Life.ru. “Two people were detained,” a source in the law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia told the publication. “They are residents of the capital.

Microsoft Corporation will present a new version of the Silverlight multimedia environment, which declared offline operations, support for new formats and a lot of other innovations. The official presentation of the novelty will take place along with the presentation of the environment for web developers Express Studio 3, reports CyberSecurity.ru . You can download the Silverlight 3 distribution from Microsoft now.

The final day of the Big Eight summit (G8) in Aquille will be held in the most wide format - with the participation of 28 countries and heads of 8 international organizations at once, including the African Union, the UN, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the International Energy Agency, the OECD. It will be devoted to the problems of Africa, the fight against poverty and food security.

Often called the Nabucco gas pipeline, which should connect the Caspian countries with the European Union, on Monday will encounter the first serious test - on this day it is planned to sign an intergovernmental agreement, writes Inopressa.ru , citing the opinion of the Financial Times . This ambitious project caused a lot of debate with Turkey, from the territory of which it should begin - Ankara claimed 15% of blue fuel.

One of the largest mortgage companies in the United States, Freddie Mac, is helping homeowners understand the intricacies of modifying mortgage loans thanks to the popular Internet video service YouTube, reports Prian.ru . The two-minute video is available in English and Spanish. Its title says it all: Stop Foreclosure: Documents Your Lender Needs to Help You.