At the Japanese factory, where streamlined nasal units are made for super -speed trains, an accurate copy of the Stradivari -Messiah violin from magnesium was created. The silver-white metal violin is distinguished by a very “warm” sound, almost indistinguishable from the violins made of wood, writes RIA Novosti according to the Japanese press. "Messiah" is considered the top of the work of the famous master of string instruments Antonio Stradivari.

Georgian publications claim that they received confidential information about the preparation of Russian special groups in sabotage acts in the Pankisi Gorge. According to Georgia Online , citing the Georgian agency Expressnyus, which received information from the source in Chechnya, the movement of saboteurs to the place of attacks in Georgia has already begun. The Chechen source announced the location and route of the movement of Russian groups, the media note.

On Tuesday in the city of Jinan, all -Chinese games are ending - the main internal competitions of the season for the strongest national planet of recent years. The most representative in names and outstanding on the results was a tournament in weightlifting, where nine athletes immediately exceeded official world records, and four more repeated them. True, as the agency "All Sport" notes, the fireworks of world records mainly happened in a women's tournament.

The draft budget for 2010 has an increase in excise tax on beer by 200% at once. Having raised taxes for brewers, the Russian government will only aggravate the situation with alcohol consumption, says Carlsberg President Jorgen Rasmussen in his interview with the newspaper Vedomosti . “In the first half of the year, we saw in Russia what is definitely the result of a financial crisis: consumers have less money, and the market in the first half of the year decreased more than we expected.

According to the results of 2010, the housekeeper housing in Russia will be cheaper by 1.9%, the average cost of the apartment will be 2.9 million rubles. However, in 2011, the increase in real estate prices will begin, and by 2016 the average apartment will rise in price to 3.6 million rubles. Such data are contained in the draft federal target program "Housing" for 2010-2015, which is developed by the Ministry of Regional Development together with AIZHK, writes RBC Daily .

On the birthday of Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) today, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the violin of the work of Garvarneri Del Jesu "ex-vietan" of 1741 will sound. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the investment program, the winner of the first prize of the Fourth Moscow International Competition named after Paganini Kioko Yonemoto (Japan) will act as a soloist.

The correctional court of Paris recognized the businessman of Soviet descent Arkady Gaidamak, who has double Russian-Israeli citizenship, and his French colleague Pierre Falcon guilty of the illegal supply of weapons to Angola and sentenced everyone to the sixth prison imprisonment. The verdict of Gaidamak was sentenced in the absence of the accused. Gaidamak, according to media reports, never appeared at court meetings. According to some reports, the businessman lives now in Moscow.

The police of the Moscow region detained a man who is suspected of brutal murder of a young child, the daughter of his drinking companion. The murder of a two -year -old girl took place in Solnechnogorsk near Moscow. On suspicion of committing a crime, a 25-year-old resident of the Rostov region was detained, reports REGNUM with reference to the investigation department (SU) at the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region.

The current deputy of Isilkul of the Omsk Region Sergey Podnyepryansky, accused of fraud and announced in 2008 by the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on the international wanted list, was arrested in Chile. The people's chosen one is charged with non -return of Sberbank loans in the amount of about 600 million rubles. The Upniensky was declared the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on the international wanted list after he disappeared from justice.

Iran will accept the draft agreement of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to finish its uranium abroad , but will require a number of changes to it. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, reports Iranian television, referring to the statement of an unnamed official source. According to him, Iran will give an appropriate Magate response for the upcoming two days.

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev introduced on Tuesday to ratification to the State Duma an interstate agreement on the joint protection of the external border of the Union State in the airspace and the creation of a unified regional air defense system (air defense) of Russia and Belarus, ITAR-TASS reports.

The British collector discovered on the coast a skull of a giant sea dinosaur, who lived 150 million years ago. The size of the skull is 2.4 meters, and the total length of the prehistoric lizard was about 16 meters, writes BBC . The authorities of the County Dorset bought a valuable find, soon it is planned to put it in the museum. Pliozavr is a predatory dinosaur of the Jurassic period from the reziosaurian detachment.

Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and Kamchatka received an emergency warning on Tuesday due to the approach of the typhoon "lupi". In their territories, emergency situations may occur, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies.

The Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recommended that Russian courts continue to consider protectionism by officials with selfish or other personal interest as a criminal offense - the use by the official of their official powers contrary to the interests of the service.

The responsibility for the Sunday terrorist attack in Baghdad, which claimed more than 150 lives, was taken by the Islamic State Iraq group, associated with al-Qaeda. The militants posted a statement about this on a site that regularly publishes information about responsibility for terrorist attacks, Reuters reports. On Sunday morning, suicide bombers almost simultaneously blew up two mined buses in the center of the Iraqi capital. According to various sources, from 155 to 160 people died.