According to the Mercury group, the largest seller of luxurious, exclusive goods in Russia, in the crisis in 2009, wealthy Russians purchased 188 cars of the most expensive grades in the world - Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, Maserati and Bugatti. The cost of each such machine is in the range from 150,000 euros to 1.2 million euros. In 2008, these cars were sold out by Russian luxury fans in the amount of 282 cars, which is 33.3% more.

Energy -saving lamps that are replacing traditional incandescent lamps have a number of disadvantages, but the main one - they contain mercury. On September 1 last year, in all countries of the European Union, a phased implementation of the plan began to replace traditional incandescent lamps with the so -called energy -saving lamps, many experts reacted to this step, to put it mildly, skeptical, the German wave reports.

State Duma deputy Communist Valery Rashkin appealed to the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika with a request to recognize the warning , issued to him by the first Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman for a rally at a rally in Saratov, where the deputy called on the Saratovs to the new revolution. The deputy calls the boxman the executor of the political order "United Russia", writes Kommersant .

The speaker of the Federation Council and the leader of the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov proposed to transform the Russian police into federal police. Speaking on Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow, he expressed the opinion that this kind of “rebranding” will help to carry out a really evolutionary reform of the law enforcement system, ITAR-TASS reports.

Significant changes have occurred in the leadership of the Russian army. As it became known, decrees were signed on the dismissal of two high-ranking Generals of the Ministry of Defense, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army General Vladimir Boldyrev and the commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District, Colonel General Sergei Makarov.

Radical personnel permits in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation probably have no analogues in the history of the modern Russian army. So the source in the power structures commented on the next resignation and appointment in the leading structures of the armed forces, which were announced on Wednesday.

The Tata Motors Indian auto corporation continues to develop the cheapest cars in the world. After the company issued Nano hatchback, which officially earned the title of the cheapest car (its cost $ 2,500 in the base), a family van is being prepared for sale. Experts, despite some wretchedness of the model, predict a great future to her. The new minivan will receive the name Magic Iris, will be built on the same platform as Nano, and will cost about $ 3,000.

Prime Minister Rezhep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Russia the day before. On Wednesday, he will negotiate with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, with whom he will discuss the implementation of joint projects South Stream, Blue Stream-2 and Samsun-Jahan. In addition, Erdogan can offer Russia to participate in the Nabucco project, Kommersant writes with reference to the Turkish media.

Director Tim Burton is actively attracting rock musicians to recording the soundtrack for his version of the famous fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland". According to NME , the musical design of the film will be made by The Cure and Franz Ferdinand. The Scottish Franz Ferdinand Scottish rockers will put Lobster Quadrille to the music Lewis Carroll, while Robert Smith from the Gothic Cure will write a cover version of the song “Very Good Advice” from Disney cartoon Alice 1951.

In 2009, in the first hundred leading politicians of Russia, the influence of "ministers-economists", top managers of state banks, the "international-power" bloc and the party elite. At the same time, compared with 2008, the influence of regional and business elites has significantly decreased.

According to preliminary data, none of the Russian citizens were injured as a result of a powerful night earthquake in Haiti. Currently, the Russian Foreign Ministry "carefully monitor the situation for Haiti through the embassy in Venezuela, which also oversees this direction," said Igor Lyakin-Frolov, deputy official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Citizens of the Russian Federation mainly work in Haiti through the UN mission, ITAR-TASS notes.

Since 2010, about a third of the official sites of federal authorities have ceased to comply with the current legislation. This fact, as the Vedomosti newspaper, was discovered by the Interregional Public Organization "Information for All", created in 2002 to implement the UNESCO program in Russia, having studied data about these portals. Almost a third of the official sites of federal state bodies do not belong to them.

Russian lawyers Viktor Buta hope to get his exit on bail through the Supreme Court of Thailand, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the spouse of businessman Alla. Recall that Bout was detained in Bangkok in March 2008 at the request of the American side, he was accused of illegal weapons trade and demanded extradition to the United States. In August 2009, the Bangkok criminal court refused to lack a serious evidence base and another six other points of charge. The American side appealed.

Pupils of Moscow School No. 945, where the series "School" is shot, broadcast on Channel One, ask to stop shooting new episodes in the building of this educational institution, says its director Tatyana Rybina. "We spent the line yesterday on this occasion. On the line I said the main phrase to the students: I am glad that you are so outraged, I am so happy that you are not on the stairs, but several staircases above all those that are being shot.

Kamchatka climbers installed the flags of the Kamchatka Territory and United Russia at the peak of Simon Bolivar in Venezuela. This is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the regional government.