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 mortgage housing lending agency (AIZHK) intends to stimulate a decrease in mortgage rates to 11% per annum due to the pension savings of "silence". Market participants believe that it is really possible to achieve a decrease in bets in this way, but this will lead to a decrease in the profitability of investing pension funds, Kommersant writes.

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.

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.

Housing prices in Dubai decreased by 47%per year, which became the maximum fall in the world for the period since the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2008 to the end of the third quarter of 2009, follows from the global housing value prepared by the consulting company Knight Frank. "Estonia took the second place in terms of reducing the cost of housing over the past 12 months - here prices have fallen by 35.8%," the company's analysts say. The report data is given by RIA Novosti .

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.

In Ingushetia, the militants tried to blow up a car with soldiers from a grenade launcher, but missed and hit the residential building, no one was injured, reports Life News with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. There they reported that the incident occurred on the outskirts of Nazran in the Solcortovsky district. The militants fired at the UAZ grenade launcher of the 503rd motorized rifle regiment.

International rating agencies seriously took up the revision of the ratings of the European Union countries. Before the news about the reduction of the rating of Greece by the Fitch agency, how the new step, took the new step, took the Standard & Poors agency, taking negative rating actions against another EU country - Spain, the IFX.ru business online newspaper writes.

Deputies of the regional Duma and the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region at a joint meeting on Thursday agreed with the appointment of the former governor of the region of Eduard Rossel by a member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation from the executive body of state power of the region.

The widow of the famous writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn Natalya Solzhenitsyna prepared for the publication an abbreviated version of the novel "Archipelago Gulag". Especially for schoolchildren, the text of the four-volume was reduced by as much as five times, ITAR-TASS reports.

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.

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.

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.