On average, from January 1, from January 1, electricity tariffs for the population will increase by 10%, and for enterprises - by 7.6%, ITAR -TASS said with reference to the federal tariff service. The service approved the minimum and maximum electricity tariffs for 2010. The lowest electricity prices for the population are set in the Irkutsk region - 62 kopecks per kW/h, and the highest - in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug - 5 rubles 69 kopecks per kW/h.

The official representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the information that the General Director of the Mohammed El Baradei agency intends to visit Iran. "The general director was invited to Tehran by the Iranian authorities," said the IEA, Magate representative Jill Tudor. According to him, the head of the agency "will go there soon to discuss a number of problems," RIA Novosti reports.

The number of those who died as a result of two destructive earthquakes on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia reached 1,100 people, the UN reports. Moreover, the total number of victims can be much larger. Thousands of people are still listed as missing, and although some people manage to save, the country's leadership called to prepare for the worse, AP reports.

Already at the beginning of 2010, Russian Railways will be able to cancel the part -time mode for 440 thousand of his employees, the company President Vladimir Yakunin said in an interview with Vesti . If the optimistic forecasts of the company to increase the volume of loading are justified, almost half of all employees of the company will be able to return to the normal schedule of work.

The computer system of one of the English prisons turned out to be blocked after the leadership of the prison instructed the convicted cyber rescue to reprogram it, Kaker.ru reports to the newspaper The Sunday Mirror .

A certain Gennady, a native of Tula, was deceiving 134 times in Moscow. According to Elena Maslennikova, an investigator of the investigative part of the GSU in Moscow, the 33-year-old unemployed in search of money through the Internet, met people who then made fake identity certificates for him, told the Moscow Komsomolets . Fraudsters mined their passports, which at one time lost by the owners.

Russian striker Alexander Ovechkin abandoned two goals and made one effective program in the meeting of Boston and Washington, which formally opened on Thursday the new season in the overseas National Hockey League (NHL). Despite the fact that the metropolitan American team was visiting, she achieved a confident victory with a score of 4: 1.

After the completion of the “Money for Dranes” programs in the United States, its stimulating effect quickly ended. September demand for cars collapsed by 23%. Sales were significantly reduced by all leading automakers, pichest of the IFX.RU business online newspaper. Experts warned that after the completion of programs that stimulate demand and support the automotive industry in Europe and in the States, the effect of revitalization in the auto industry and related industries will quickly end.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, at a press conference on Friday, said that certain forces in Russia prevented Minsk from timely recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Recall that last year Tskhinvali and Sukhumi turned to the parliament of Belarus with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. It was expected that Belarusian deputies would consider the question at the previous session, but this did not happen.

The head coach of the Russian national football team Hus Hiddink is not sure that he will include the team for the decisive match of the 2010 World Cup with the national team of striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, RIA Novosti reports. Pavlyuchenko, the best scorer of the Russian national team in the current qualifying cycle (5 goals), due to high competition in Tottenham, was practically devoid of game practice, in addition, it barely recovered after an injury.

In Russia, in the near future, the rehabilitation centers of alcoholics, which will replace traditional sobering -ups, said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliev on Friday at the opening of the medical unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Magadan. "Now the issue of creating new centers is very acute in order to fight alcoholism," Nurgaliev said. “It is very important for us what their orientation will be,” the minister added.

In the context of Pakistan and China, the Indian Air Force intensifying their defense potential intends to purchase an additional 50 Su-30MKI fighters to ensure border safety in the eastern and western directions, Times of India reports. "The new batch of aircraft should be replenished by the fighter park, determined by 230 cars, which were ordered under three contracts with Russia totaling 8.5 billion," the report said.

In the Samara region on Friday, a new accident occurred with the participation of a passenger bus: a truck collided with a flight bus on the M-5 highway in the city of Zhigulevsk. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Samara Region, according to preliminary data, 24 people were injured as a result of the accident. "The signal about the accident was received on the on-back on Friday at 9:33 local time at 966 km of the M-5 highway, opposite ZhKU CJSC.

The US Army soldier died of influenza A/H1N1 - this is the first case of death from such a disease in the American Armed Forces (Sun), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the US Army. According to the United press service of the Armed Forces, the case was recorded on the military base of Fort Jackson in the state of South Carolina. The soldier died on September 10.

The French car company Bugatti presented official photos of the luxury car Galibier 16C. The creators hope that it will become the world's fastest 4-door sedan. According to AutoExpress , an 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine with 800 hp was installed under the hood of the new product. from the Veyron supercar. Power is sent to all four wheels through an 8-speed automatic transmission (the Veyron uses a DSG dual-clutch gearbox). The maximum speed of the car is 350 km/h.