Next week, the trade union of the largest British airline British Airways is preparing to vote regarding the start of the strike, in mid -February the same steps can be taken by Lufthansa employees, Bloomberg reports. A new vote among the British Airways trade union was appointed after the British court banned the holding from December 22 to January 2 in protest against the future reduction of jobs and changes in labor contracts .

The candidate for the president of Ukraine, the leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych is convinced that the country will no longer be the "Orange Revolution". He made such a statement in his electoral headquarters, commenting on the arrival of a large number of Georgian citizens in Ukraine allegedly to observe the elections, Interfax reports. “If people respect themselves, who arrived, they would have returned a long time ago and went back.

The Russians Dinara Safina, Maria Kirilenko, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova successfully started at the first Big Slam tournament this season, the Australian Open Tennis Championship with a prize pool of 7 million 650 thousand dollars. The program of the first day on the Central Court of the Lever was honored to open to the Russians of Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko, whom the lot had already reduced at the stage of the first circle.

In the Orenburg region, the 23-year-old worker of OJSC Uralskaya Steel died. According to Interfax , he jumped from the site to a working stove. According to the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for the Orenburg region, the incident occurred on Friday evening.

The grandson of Joseph Stalin Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who had previously defended his grandfather's honor in Russian courts, decided to achieve justice in Ukraine. He demands to initiate a criminal case against employees of the security service of the country (SBU) and judges who decided to recognize Stalin guilty of organizing the famine of the 1930s - the Holodomor.

The head of the International Monetary Fund Dominic Struss-Kang warned about the possibility of a second wave of a global economic recession. “We must be very careful, since the current recovery remains extremely unstable,” he told reporters in Tokyo on January 18. According to the head of the IMF, an increased risk to the global economy is now creating cheap money that fill developing markets.

The American Express payment system announced the acquisition of a little -known financial enterprise Revolution Money, the owner of the same payment system of "instant" payments and transfers. The volume of the transaction is 300 million dollars. Revolution Money was created in 2005 by the founder of the telecommunications American Online Steve Kais.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has prepared a list of models of Russian assembly cars, which will participate on March 8, 2010 in the program for the disposal of old machines. They will be available on sale at a discount as part of an experiment to stimulate the acquisition of new vehicles instead of failed and submitted for utilization, Prime-Tass reports.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation left the sentence of the ex-head of the Main Investigative Department of the National Security and Defense Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Dovgia , sentenced to 9 years in prison for receiving a major bribe. According to ITAR-TASS, the court rejected the cassation complaints Dovgia, his lawyers, as well as the second defendant Andrei Sagura.

Despite the fall in real estate prices, the tightening of mortgage lending conditions forces to solve the apartment issue using housing rental. And the monthly loan payment is now twice as high as the amount that needs to be given for renting a similar apartment.

China claims that Google’s threat to leave the market of this country “accepted a“ dramatic turn ”. According to the Sinhua agency with reference to the newspaper Huangu Shibao,“ employees of various levels of the company said that their subsequent stay in China is not excluded, and so far the company has not performed any actions about their evacuation.

The tests of the Russian unmanned aerial vehicle “AIST” , which were held in the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, ended: the aircraft exploded, reports Newsru Israel with reference to a source in the defense and industrial complex of the Russian Federation. According to these data, the AIST UAV, within the framework of the approved test program, carried out jogging along the runway of the Rybinsk airfield.

On Monday, Togliatti AvtoVAZ Avtovaz Avtovavod began releasing a new small -scale Lada Priora Coupe model. As noted in the press center of the enterprise, this 3-door hatchback is ideal for lovers of active driving style, for everyone who wants to drive in a rare non-standard car.

The Pope Benedict XVI performed the night before the prayer for peace around the world in the Roman choral synagogue. He spoke of the general biblical roots of Jews and Christians. Dad greeted a group of believers of the Jews who survived during the Holocaust, and condemned the anti -human actions of the Nazis as a crime against God.

Grounding and torture in the prison department are systemic in nature, human rights activists are convinced. This is exactly what the reform and personnel cleaning in the Federal Service for the Penception (FSIN) under the Ministry of Justice of the Ministry of Justice were caused by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.