Prime Minister Vietnam Nguyen Tan Zung after negotiations in Moscow with the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Russia Vladimir Putin said that contracts were signed for the supply of submarines, aircraft and other military equipment from Russia.

The world's largest multifunctional solar energy building in the form of a fan, located in the city of Dzhou in the north-west of China, has already been put into operation. The building with an area of ​​75 thousand square meters includes exhibition centers, research institutions, premises for meetings and conducting trainings, as well as a hotel. The energy supply of the building entirely depends on the sun, writes Prian.ru .

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, increased by 13 kopecks and amounted to 30,1978 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

The work of Internet resources of Belarus will be controlled by the government and a special structure under the presidential administration. Provider - all of them are controlled by the authorities - will receive the right to disconnect access to certain resources. The draft decree of Alexander Lukashenko was published by opposition media of Belarus.

The State Duma adopted on Wednesday on the third and final reading of the amendments that establish a new type of punishment - house arrest, ITAR -TASS reports. It will be applied as the main type of punishment - for a period of two months to four years - for crimes of a small degree of severity, and as additional to deprivation of liberty - for a period of six months to two years - for individual serious and especially serious crimes.

The Nokia representative announced the beginning of temporary dismissals at the only Finnish corporation, located in the city of Salo, reports Infox.ru with reference to Yle.fi. The reduction will be cyclic in nature, and only 80% of the staff will work in production constantly. The removal from work will affect 2 thousand people. “The terms of temporary dismissals will still be specified during negotiations,” the company representative said.

Sverdlovsk archaeologists are in alarm - unknown people destroy the burial place of the remains of the family of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II.

The Republic of Nauru, a dwarf state in the Pacific Ocean, followed Abkhazia, recognized the independence of South Ossetia. The agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations was signed on Wednesday in the morning, said Eduard Kokoita, president of South Ossetia. "The process of recognition of the new state of the Republic of South Ossetia is unreasonable by the international community. In the near future, the republic recognizes about ten more states," ITAR -TASS quotes the president.

The Central Election Commission is surprised by the proposal of the head of Rosstat to transfer local elections in the fall of 2010 so that they do not interfere with the census. The regions administrations cannot independently transfer the deadlines for local elections, and the exact term of the population census has not yet been determined, said the secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Nikolai Konkin in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta .

The tiny state in Oceania with a population of 14 thousand people - the Republic of Nauru, concluding the on the eve of the agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Abkhazia, is ready to go further and recognize South Ossetia. But, probably, only after the humanitarian aid promised by Russia will receive $ 50 million to the state account.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs states a decrease in the number of crimes registered in the country. However, it is too early to talk about the successes in the fight against corruption in the police, the head of the department, Rashid Nurgaliev. In Russia this year, crime decreased, including less serious crimes, the Interfax Ministry of Internal Affairs press center said.

The commissioning of the gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan with China released the gas producing republics of Central Asia from Russian guardianship in the issue of export of its goods and allowed them to expand the list of customers, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the French newspaper Le Monde .

As a result of the accident of a tourist bus in South Korea, 11 people were killed on Wednesday, another 20 were injured. The incident occurred near the South Korean city of Kenju, ITAR-TASS reports. The accident occurred on the mountain road at the moment when tourists returned on a rented bus from hot springs. According to the police, at 17:40 local time, the bus broke off the road and, tumbling, flew 20 meters down along the steep rocky slope.

The press service of the Russian Airline Transaero denied the message of a number of Israeli media, saying that the Boeing 737-400 plane did not land on a closed runway at the Ben-Gurion Israeli Airport and did not sit at the highway neighboring Highway Airport, RIA Novosti reports. Recall, according to the media, on the afternoon on Tuesday, the Russian aircraft Boeing-737 Transaero airlines began to land on a closed runway.

According to the Bank of Russia, at a meeting of the National Banking Council under the chairmanship of the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin, it was decided to allow the Central Bank to increase the salary of its employees by 11.2%next year. Thus, the amount of expenses for the maintenance of employees of the Bank of Russia will increase to 74.1 billion rubles. Experts believe that the Central Bank employees have earned even a greater increase in salaries, writes RBC Daily .