The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trading Session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the dollar exchange rate processes the next day decreased by 2.15 kopecks and amounted to 30.2921 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill spoke in support of the right of the Palestinians to his own statehood, Interfax reports. “The Arab people of Palestine are actively following the path of creating their own statehood.

In the Federal Migration Service (FMS) of the Russian Federation, they denied the data of some media outlets that since March of this year, the issuance of foreign passports of the so -called old model is stopped in Russia - without electronic media of information. The department clarified that from March 1, Russia will begin to accept documents for a new 10-year biometric passport, but at the same time, five-year-old passports of the old-style will continue to be issued.

The paintball club in Syktyvkar was fined 40 thousand rubles for using the image of the mother’s homeland in his advertisement, Komi Online reports. Such a decision by the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for Komi was carried out against LLC Adrenalin.

The Executive Committee of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (FLGR) decided to disqualify for two years the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games-2006 Alena Sidko, convicted of the use of recombinant erythropoetin (EPO). “You can believe me or not, but when I said that I didn’t know anything about Sidko , I didn’t be cunning,” said Vladimir Loginov, Vice President of the Olympic Committee of Russia.

In the north of Moscow, on Tuesday evening, an unknown criminal at a parking lot near the store from a car belonging to the famous singer Anita Tsoi, stole a bag with documents and money belonging to her driver. This was reported by RIA Novosti by a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred at about 22:00 on the parking lot near the Globus Gurme store on the Leningradskoye Shosse.

A series of attacks on police officers again occurred in Ingushetia. So, in the village of Troitskaya, the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a clash began in the evening, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. In private households, several militants were blocked on the outskirts of the village. They shoot from machine guns. "When trying to detain them, they were armed with armed resistance. Currently there is a battle.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case of large fraud was transferred to the court, according to which the director of the local branch of Bank of Moscow LLC is being held. Banker Ruslan Khuranova, suspected of embezzlement of almost two tens of million rubles, threatens 10 years in prison, reports Life News . At the moment, the suspect has been detained and placed in the SIZO Stavropol.

The largest Bank of Russia Sberbank lost $ 1.2 billion due to "thieves" loans issued by the heads of three Moscow divisions of the bank to dubious companies, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the LE Monde Fraceusian publication. However, there is still no confidence that the scale of the damage has been estimated correctly, because since in August 2009 it became known about the scandal, the amount of loss has already increased by 7 times, the newspaper notes.

In Voronezh, the authorities put up a monument to Lenin for sale. Bronze Vladimir Ilyich became a product after the municipal enterprise was bankrupt, on whose balance the monument was listed, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda says. Nobody needs a monument. Even the Voronezh Communists did not take a restoration of restoration, receiving work estimates for one and a half million rubles. Meanwhile, the bronze jacket of Lenin cracked in front.

Japanese automaker Toyota is not done with the story of cars being pulled from the US market due to problems with the gas pedal sticking. The company, which was unable to quickly fix the problem, had to suspend the sale of eight models on the American market due to such a defect. The Japanese made the move in response to growing concerns that potential faults in the cars could lead to unintended acceleration and accidents. Experts called it stunning and unprecedented, Interfax reports.

The investigation will investigate the case of the fake of technical passports of the burned Perm club "Lame Horse" despite the fact that the statute of limitations for these acts expired, said Marina Zabbarova, head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory.

The court of Afghanistan sentenced the death execution of the former Australian soldier for the murder of the Afghan guard. According to the Australian newspaper The Australian , 38-year-old Robert William Langdon, a former Australian soldier who worked in Afghanistan for the American private security company Four Horsemen International, was arrested in May 2009 after the murder of his Afghan colleague named Karim. Langdon killed him with four shots in the head and in the body, Interfax notes.

Almost 10 years after the spread of the deadly sibir ulcer in 2001, the American authorities are still not ready for a large terrorist attack using biological weapons - the US Congress Commission to prevent the spread of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction came to this conclusion. In the report presented on Tuesday, the experts put the “F” to the White House and the US Congress, which means “non -it”, writes The Washington Post , which is referred to by Inopressa.ru .

"Rusal" on Monday completed the placement of its shares as part of an IPO, and the environment was the first day of trading papers of an aluminum giant on the exchange. They started a significant drop in quotations compared to the cost of placement. On the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the price of shares fell by almost 8%, up to 9.94 Hong Kong dollar at a leaf price of 10.80 dollars, the business Internet gas stroke .