The Japanese manufacturer of Electronics Panasonic Corporation can receive control in Sanyo Electric Co, paying 400 billion yen ($ 4.6 billion) for it, reports The Wall Street Journal . The desire to obtain control in Sanyo is associated with the desire of Panasonic to protect their leading positions in the production of batteries for economical cars. The Japanese giant based in Osaka will acquire 50.19% Sanyo.

South Ural police police officers stole the money from the opened ATM, which they themselves had to guard. This incident in Chelyabinsk occurred back in February 2009, and in December a criminal case against police officers was transferred to court. Here is what the portal Chelyabinsk.ru wrote on this subject with reference to the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Ural Federal District.

The entrance to the main building of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda was attacked by unknown young people, says the publication’s website . This happened on Thursday at about 20:00 Moscow time. The attackers defeated the glass, damaged the layout of the orders above the entrance, threw the building with smoke bombs. According to the report, a group of 10-15 people made an attack. The faces of most of them were closed either by scarves or masks.

The economic prospects of Greece look gloomy even against the general background of a crisis in Europe. This country can become the "next oak tree" , writes Inopressa.ru with reference to Time magazine. Over the past two days, the Greek stock market has collapsed by 9%, and the Fitch credit agency has reduced the country's rating to the lowest mark in the Euro zone - BBB+. In 2010, its external debt, apparently, will increase to 125% of GDP.

The Russian Ministry of Defense admitted that on Wednesday the next unsuccessful launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out , Interfax reports.

Mozilla has released the long -awaited final version of its open mail client Thunderbird, reports CNews.ru . Thunderbird 3 operates under Windows, Mac, Mac and Linux operating systems and contains a number of changes and improvements, including a fully converted search, support support and a significantly modernized and simplified process of configuring the program.

The largest gas concern E.on Ruhrgas Ag in 2009 imports less gas to the Germany than long -term contracts. The Chairman of the Board of the Concern Bernhard Roitersberg in an interview with Welt newspaper said that E.on Ruhrgas may not have the minimum consistent gas volumes. In this case, the German concern will have to transfer an advance on the account of future deliveries to Gazprom, DW-World reports.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation creates an Office for working with believers of military personnel, Colonel Igor Sergienko, head of the Department of Educational Work (GUVR) of the Armed Forces, told the Interfax agency.

The new book of the American writer Dan Brown "The Lost Symbol" has already been brought into a number of capital's bookstores and will go on sale in the morning, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the information of the AST Publishing House. “At the moment, the books have already been brought to the graphs of the“ letter ”chain, but have not yet been laid out on sale. Many books will be sent for the printing house to their cars.

In St. Petersburg, the commander of the department of the fire and rescue unit, who is suspected of murder and robbery, was detained. A victim of an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) was a migrant worker, whom the criminal cut off an ax. On Wednesday, law enforcement officers detained 33-year-old Gennady Nenakhov, commander of the fire and rescue unit No. 43 of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg and the region.

The weighted medium of the US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MMEVB as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, decreased by 12.94 kopecks and amounted to 30.6268 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

The accident occurred in the metropolitan circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard on Wednesday evening. As Interfax reports with reference to a source in the medical circles of Moscow, during the rehearsal of the number, for reasons not yet established, gymnasts Alexander and Julia Volkovs fell. "The doctors who arrived at the place found a traumatic brain injury, a fracture of the base of the skull and a fracture of the lower leg.

In Tuva, the accused of excess of official powers, the inspector of the DPS Borbak-ool Bair, who shot a 17-year-old schoolboy at the end of October, admitted to investigators that he had not done a warning shot, and then threw a toy plastic pistol to the scene. On Thursday, ITAR-TASS was reported in the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tuva.

France President Nicolas Sarkozy supported the paper books digitizing a program, saying that he would not allow Google to take ancient French manuscripts and other literary values ​​to his hands. “We will not allow our cultural heritage to be used for the benefit of large corporations, no matter how friendly, large or American they are,” said the President of France, not mentioning Google aloud.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, they are not ready in the previous format to conduct a dialogue with the Evangelical Church of Germany (ECG), but at the same time are open to the discussion of existing disagreements.