The Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev announced a solution to the problem with the issuance of "thieves" car numbers. The practice of trading in Russia by car "VIPs" with a beautiful and rare combination of letters and numbers, giving their owners an advantage on the roads, managed to stop, the minister said in the program "Conversation with the Minister" on the Militsa Wave radio station on Wednesday.

The Kazan Football Club Rubin signed a three-year contract with the striker of the St. Petersburg Zenit Fatich Tekke. An agreement with the Turkish striker will enter into force in August 2010, after his current contract with Zenit, the official website of two -time champions of Russia reports.

In Russia, under the threat of dismissal, about half a million people are currently located, said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov. "The number of alleged dismissals of employees is now about 480 thousand.

In Haiti, the number of those killed as a result of a powerful earthquake , the bodies of which are buried by special brigades, exceeded 200 thousand people. According to the Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Belriv, the victims of the natural disaster that are still under the ruins of buildings are not included in this number, and those that were buried by relatives reports ITAR-TASS.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill spoke on the eve of a bishop's meeting in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior with a lengthy report in which he told about what the principles of organizing spiritual education in Russia should be based on, proposed to coordinate the principles of organizing spiritual education in Russia, about the centers for the preparation of military priests and the creation of church courts in the dioceses of the Moscow Patriarchate .

Twitter social network users, whose accounts could be hacked by attackers, had to come up with passwords again, Infox.ru reports. As the developers of the service write in their blog, recently, a suspicious activity has been seen on the expanses of the social network: for a short time, a significant jump in the number of “friends” was recorded at once at once. The investigation of the details of the next attack of hackers continues.

The speaker of the Federation Council, the leader of the Fair Russia party, Sergei Mironov, was surprised by how sharply the leadership of United Russia reacted to his statements about a number of positions with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Recall, for criticism of the government of the government, Mironov threatened to deprive his position. "In these positions, in particular, the budget, I have repeatedly publicly expressed my disagreement.

On Wednesday, on tests in Valencia, the Russian pilot of the Renault team Vitaly Petrov debuted in the Royal Races, for the first time leaving on the highway driving the Formula 1 combat car. He replaced Robert Kubitsa, who worked for the first two days of tests, and began full preparation of the season. The test program this year is seriously limited, so every test day is important - Vitaly has a lot to learn, get comfortable with an unfamiliar machine and work in a new team, F1news.ru notes.

Sergei Fursenko was elected president of the Russian Football Union (RFU). This decision was made by the delegates of the RFU following a secret vote at an extraordinary conference, which on Wednesday took place at the Cosmos Moscow hotel. Initially, three candidates were going to fight for the post of head of the RFU. However, after the self -release was taken by Sergey Kuzmin, there were only two applicants left - Alisher Aminov and Sergey Fursenko, and the elections went on one round.

The police of the United Arab Emirates detained a “thief in law” nicknamed the car. The mafiosi is close to the almost most powerful “thief in the law” in the post -Soviet space - Aslan Usoyan, by the nickname, Santa Hassan. A certain car was detained on Tuesday evening in Dubai. Both Arab police officers and employees of Russian law enforcement agencies participated in the operation to capture the offender, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

The Pope Benedict XVI , who intends to make a visit to the UK in 2010, called on the Catholic bishops of England and Wales to continue the struggle against Bill proposed by the Labor Government, which can oblige the church to hire and allow people of non -traditional sexual orientation, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Information, widespread on the eve of the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force.

The US Army Black Hawk multi-purpose military helicopter crashed on Wednesday near the German city of Firnheim in the Federal land of Hesse, ITAR-TASS reports. The helicopter followed the field airfield Coleman Barracks north of Mangame. Under still not clarified circumstances, the helicopter pilot lost control, and at 18:20 (20:20 in Moscow) the car fell into the forest only one kilometer from the runway near the high-speed A-67 highway.

In Moscow, unknown criminals stole a car with drugs worth a few million rubles, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. According to him, the Mercedes-Benz truck was loaded with drugs at the Pharma-Koptevo plant in a pharmaceutical passage. “As soon as the car drove outside the enterprise, it was stopped by unknown criminals dressed in the form of traffic police officers.

The apartment renovation leads in the rating of consumer plans of Russians for the current year. As evidenced by the survey data of the All -Russian Center for Study public opinion (VTsIOM), in 2010 they plan to make it 22% of respondents. In second place is a tourist trip (13%). Closes Three of the most popular expenses, training fees (10%).

A tour of the State Duma, participation in parliamentary hearings and a solemn dinner in the banquet hall for only 8 thousand rubles. The little -known LLC "Absolute Center" has offered these services on its website on the Internet for several months. Deputies consider this fraud and warn against such proposals, reports RBC Daily . According to the publication, parliamentary hearings - an event, as a rule, attracts many interested parties.