Sberbank refuses the idea of ​​the release of Sbercart microprocessor cards and plans to release a new product in May using the Pro100 chip technology, the acting director of the Sberbank Sberbank Calculum Service Department Igor Lipanov said. "Sbercartics" we close. This technology does not meet modern requirements, ”he explained. The number of Sberbank microprocessor cards issued by Sberbank, according to January 1, 2010, was 3.1 million units, recalls Interfax .

The Turkish media continue to argue that the current head coach of the Russian national football team of GUS Hiddink will become a mentor of their national team. This, in particular, on Wednesday, reports a number of leading local newspapers, including the Sabah, noting that Hiddink refused to head the Netherlands team in connection with the proposal from the Turks.

The German army has a new scandal: one of the soldiers filed a complaint to the authorized Bundestag for defense Rainhold Robbe, in which he described humiliating tests of courage, as well as the rituals of recruiting recruits in the mining troops serving in Mittenvald. This city is located in Bavaria near the German-Austrian border. According to him, the soldiers were forced to drink alcohol to nausea and there is a raw pork liver.

Negotiations on the release from the pirate captivity of the Thai Union-3 vessel with 23 Russians on board came to a dead end. This was announced by the non-governmental organization "Ecoterra International, which was based in Nairobi, ITAR-TASS reports. “The negotiations were promoted very slowly, and now they have completely come to a standstill,” the organization noted.

In the Perm Territory, a sentence was sentenced to the former colleges Alexander Shurman, who was recognized as the main organizer of the record robbery, when 250 million rubles were stolen from Sberbank. By eight years of imprisonment, a 36-year-old former collector Alexander Shurman, who committed the theft of the century "in June 2009, was sentenced to a colony of strict regime. Such a decision was made on Wednesday by the Leninsky court of Perm, ITAR-TASS reports.

EU industry ministers have called on the European Commission to develop a pan-European strategy for developing the production of electric vehicles in Europe in the face of growing competition in this sector from the United States and China, European media reported on Wednesday.

The metropolitan policemen neutralized the gang of robbers, whose members were employees of the criminal investigation department. During the detention, the criminals resisted. The detained robbers attacked the carriers of money. Moreover, two of them are the current police officers of the Presnensky police department, Life News reports with reference to a law enforcement source. Four attackers were detained just at the moment when they were going to make another attack on the collectors.

More than 150 people died as a result of a series of avalanches in the north of Afghanistan. This was reported by the British television and radio corporation BBC with reference to these Afghan officials. 157 bodies were extracted from under snow blocks, said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan Zemeri Bashari. According to him, the number of victims may increase. More than 20 avalanches have come down from Monday in the region, which blocked 3.5 km of roads.

The ex-head of the ORDI-Tsaritsyno Department of Internal Affairs Denis Evsyukov was not under hypnosis on the night of April 27, 2009, when he shot people in the capital's supermarket. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday at the interrogation in the Moscow City Court member of the examined Major Evsyukov Commission, an expert psychiatrist from the Center of Serbian Andrei Grigorov.

The number of hospitalized with acute intestinal poisoning in Yakutsk hospitals has increased by 116 people over the past day and reached 270, Interfax reports with reference to the city health department. They clarified that among the hospitalized 179 children and 91 adult patients.

In the Moscow region, police officers seized a young man who is suspected of a series of cold -blooded killings of passengers of electric trains. With the help of psychotropic drugs, the recidivist brought victims to an unconscious state, and then robbed. Most of the victims died, only 12 people managed to save. Investigators of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department investigate a series of wild murders, which suspect a 23-year-old resident of the Moscow Region Alexei Vygovsky.

The explosion on the railway in Makhachkala: according to preliminary data, one person died, this is exactly the one who tried to lay the bomb. The explosive device worked on the Baku-on-Don railway on the Makhachkala, Rostov-on-Don, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The weighted average US dollar 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, fell by 12.73 kopecks and amounted to 30.2462 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

The Russian team at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver can count on awards in about 30 disciplines, the Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of Russia Vitaly Mutko said shortly before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games. According to him, unlike the games in Turin in 2006 (the Russians became fourth there), this time the Russian Olympic team can make more serious competition to other teams. “Unlike Turin, we have a wider competition today.

The Russian stock market tried on Wednesday to demonstrate optimism, which was caused by news about the possible provision of Greece credit guarantees and other Eurozone countries. However, all growth disappeared with the opening of trading in the United States, where indices began to decline on weak statistics on the foreign trade balance and statements of the head of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) Ben Bennanke about a probable survey of bets, Interfax reports.