The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund approved the allocation of the third tranche of stabilization loan by $ 3.3 billion, but tightened the loan conditions. From the funds allocated by the IMF, the Ukrainian government has already decided to send $ 1.9 billion to pay off its external debt, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the newspaper "Delo" .

AvtoVAZ will introduce an incomplete working week from September 1 to February 28, 2010. The change will last 20 hours a week, and the payment will go for the time actually worked. Workers are afraid that then the salary will fall to 5,000 rubles a month, Bfm.ru business portal writes. The message that AvtoVAZ plans to dismiss a quarter of the employees that appeared on Tuesday produced the effect of an exploding bomb, and the press service of the enterprise had to refute this information.

According to the company -manufacturer of antivirus on McAfee, spam volumes on the Internet in the second quarter of this year reached a record value: from April to June, inclusive, the share of garbage in the total flow of electronic correspondence was 92%. This is more than that in the second and third quarters of last year, when the highest spammer activity in history was observed: 91% of all postal messages were then in unwanted letters, reports.

The Minister of Health of Zimbabwe Henry Madzorer announced that the cholera epidemic , which was raging in the country since August last year and has claimed the lives of more than four thousand people, ended.

The Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev ordered for a month to re -certify police officers managing official vehicles, in connection with the frequent cases of their accident, Interfax reports. According to him, within a month, the results of the re -certification should be sent to the Department of the OBDD.

The press service of the mayor and the Moscow government refutes the information that appeared in the media that a large Chinese shopping center will be built on the site of the Cherkizov market. “Recently, a number of media have published reports that the construction of a large Chinese shopping center has been planned at the site of the closed Cherkizov market.

The presidents of Russia and Tajikistan instructed the ministers of the two countries to work out proposals on specific areas of military cooperation, including issues of the 201th Russian military base, deployed in the territory of this Central Asian Republic.

In the fourth grades of secondary schools of the Russian Federation, from next two hours a week, spiritual and moral education will be given to a week, a professor at the Moscow Theological Academy, Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev said at a press conference today. The initiative about the beginning of this experiment since 2010 in 18 regions of Russia was supported by President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

The market of shares of the Russian Federation showed on Thursday a confident growth against the background of the positive dynamics of external sites and the resumed increase in oil prices, the “Interfax” summarizes the results of the day. The MICEX index increased by 6.05% per day, rising to 1046.46 points, the RTS index grew by 2.83% to 1001.3 points. Quotes of the main "blue chips" on exchanges increased by 1-10%.

Housing prices in the largest cities of Russia in the first half of 2009 fell the fastest in the primary market in Volgograd and Tver, and in the secondary market-in Rostov-on-Don and Perm, the results of the real estate agency Mian. {pic_1 c} "The ended half -year in regional residential real estate markets was characterized by a decrease in the cost of a square meter both in the primary and secondary segments.

One of the largest gangster wars can begin in the near future in Russia, experts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs believe. The start of an unprecedented confrontation was given on Tuesday evening, when an unknown criminal opened fire on Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Japanchik, the legend of the criminal world, the most influential thief in law.

At the Russian Nissan plant in St. Petersburg, everything is almost ready for the production of X-Trail SUVs. Their test assembly has already begun. Serial production of the X-Trail will start in the fall, reports the Autostat agency. Let us remind you that the Nissan plant in the northern capital opened on June 2, 2009. Then the first Teana cars rolled off the assembly line of the St. Petersburg enterprise.

The famous singer Madonna wrote an article for the largest Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot , reports the British edition of The Mirror . The announcement of the material entitled “How my Life has changed” was taken to the first lane of the room, but the article itself will be published only on Friday, July 31. Madonna is not a Jewish, she is a former Catholic, carried away in 2003 by the ancient mystical teaching of Kabbalah and adopted in 2004 the biblical name Esther.

Russian Marat Safin made his way to the quarterfinals of the Atp la Tennis Open-2009 tournament in Los Angeles, defeating the Latvian Ernest Gulibis-2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4. At the same time, another representative of Russia Dmitry Tursunov ahead of schedule completed performances in California due to injury.

The Federal Customs Service (FCS) proposes to allow transit on the territory of Russia drugs and their precursors included in the lists of the II, III and IV Federal Drug Law. We are talking about the transportation of amphetamines, cocaine, codeine, morphine and ketamine.