The three -time Olympic figure skating champion Irina Rodnina said that she did not sign a “letter of fifty famous” in support of the conviction to the former head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2005. “I didn’t sign it. It wasn’t yet. I was in Singapore at that moment. Yes, they wrote my last name there, but sometimes it happens,” Rodnina said in an interview with REN TV channel on Friday. “Yes, I read this letter then.

The Japanese electronic giant Panasonic has developed a new generation of household lamps that can work 40-45 times longer than ordinary incandescent lamps. New energy -binding lamps will go on sale in Japan on October 21 under the Everled brand. In working condition, they consume only from 7 to 15 watts, reports CyberSecurity.ru. Monthly Panasonic hopes to produce 50,000 such lamps, in retail lamps will be sold at about $ 4,000 or $ 40 apiece.

The famous American actor seriously decided to get rid of his house in the prestigious Los Angeles district of Bel -Eir. He will sell it at auction, since previous attempts to sell the mansion were unsuccessful. The initial price of the lot will be $ 9.95 million, writes Prian.ru . The Late English Gothic mansion has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a cinema, a library and a wine cellar for 1800 bottles. The total area of ​​the house is almost 1100 square meters. m.

On one of the streets of Moscow, two killed were found in the car. The mysterious circumstance was that there was no bullet holes in the car, but after the situation cleared up: the killer shot from the rear seat. The bodies of men were discovered on Friday at about 16:30 in Moscow in Starokirochny Lane near house 2 in the Honda CRV car.

The World Bank plans to increase the annual volume of its financing by 2 times - from $ 100 to 200 million in the framework of the current country strategy in Belarus, the Finmarket agency reports with reference to the statement of the head of the Belarusian Office of the World Bank Ivan Velev. According to him, the World Bank board will consider this proposal as part of an intermediate review of the current strategy in October-November of this year.

Muscovites finally refused to buy housing in the early stages of construction, preferring to invest their funds in ready -made new buildings. Demand for new “turnkey” housing has grown 4 times compared to pre -crisis indicators, writes gzt.ru with reference to the analytical review of the real estate agency Mian.

Slovenia is ready to unlock the negotiations of Croatia on the entry into the European Union, said Slomen Borutus Pahore, Prime Minister of Slovenia after meeting with his Croatian colleague, Yadranda Coser in Ljubljana on Friday. “We managed to achieve the result that will benefit the two peoples, two countries,” Pahore emphasized.

His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill signed an order to create the editorial board and editorial council for the preparation and creation of the first textbook "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in Russia.

On Thursday, the Japanese car company Honda introduced the updated version of the CR-V crossover. The novelty received a fake radiator grille, the new front and rear bumper, as well as a modified hood. In cast discs, the number of spokes in top modifications is increased from 7 to 10. This is reported by Drom.ru. The line of power plants for the 2010 crossover was changed depending on the market to which it will be delivered.

The Nikolaev police put on the state wanted list of the ex-deputy of the Odessa City Council, the leader of the Rodina party Igor Markov, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said on Friday. According to her, Markov was put on the wanted list due to the fact that he did not appear for interrogation regarding the criminal case against him about the beating of the participants in the campaign of Ukrainian nationalists in 2007.

The international company Island Global Yachting (Igy), which runs yacht clubs in the USA, Mexico and the Persian Gulf, agreed to manage the Olympic Village Marina label, which is going to build Oleg Deripaska in Sochi, Writes Vedomosti . The agreement provides that IGY will become the manager of Marina after the completion of her construction. Yacht clubs under the control of Igy are in the USA, Mexico, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean, and Caribbean.

On Friday, the American currency against the backdrop of the growth of world oil prices has again lost its position in relation to the ruble, the New Region reports. At the auction on the Moscow interbank currency exchange, the dollar rate fell by 16 kopecks.

For the first time in many years, Russia bought less than American poultry meat than China. For seven months of 2009, the United States put 336.5 thousand tons on the Russian market, and 374.1 thousand tons in China. Russian experts believe that Russia's reduction of imports is the beginning of a long -term trend that arose as a result of reducing quotas, increasing duties on fuckers, as well as lifting domestic poultry farming, writes RBC Daily .

The operatives detained an employee of Vnukovo Airport, as well as a aircraft technique and a group of government -sales companies of the Russian State Customs Committee, who stole parts from aircraft, including high -precision navigation devices, and sold them over the Internet. According to Life.ru on Friday, the salesman was the first to detain. He was caught red -handed at the time of sale of a device worth about 1 million rubles.

The mortgage housing lending agency (AIZHK) in cooperation with the Federal Bailiff Service of the Altai Territory (FSSP) began a project to inform the population about the FSSP on trade facilities of the mortgaged real estate, RIA Novosti reports. Information about the mortgage items set for bidding is posted on the AIZHK website . As the agency’s press service explained, such an action is held for the first time.