Moscow is going to allocate $ 4.2 million for food for residents of Haiti, who suffered from the January earthquake . This was announced by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Yakovenko in an interview with Interfax . All funds will be transferred through the UN World Food Program, the donor of which Russia has been since 2002. According to the deputy minister, in 2010 the annual contribution from Russia was increased to $ 20 million.

For three hours, the Israeli police interrogated Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The accusations "in corruption and laundering of money" added "fraudulent actions" and "interference in the course of a judicial investigation." Lieberman is suspected that he received confidential information from his own criminal case through the former Israeli ambassador to Belarus Zeve Ben-Arya, ITAR-TASS reports.

The construction industry experts warn: with a further decrease in mortgage rates, it is possible to inflate a new "bubble" in the market. In addition, in this case, the state system of stimulating mortgage lending in Russia can simply stop working. Such statements were made on Tuesday by the Vice-President of the Association of Builders of Russia and the Chairman of the Association of Participants of the Mortgage Market Vladimir Ponomarev, writes Bfm.ru.

On Wednesday morning, about 20 activists of the Yabloko party held an unauthorized picket near the building of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, in Bolshoi Cherkasy Lane, in protest against the lack of candidates of this party to participate in the elections in the Kaluga and Sverdlovsk regions, the Freedom radio station reports. Supporters of Yabloko chanted: “Churov, shake a beard! Stop shooting us from the elections!

The leadership of the International Football Federation (FIFA) is considering the possibility of making the most radical change in the rules for several decades - the cancellation of the "outside" position, the website of the Russia -2 channel reports with reference to the newspaper The Times. The head of FIFA Joseph Blatter has already consulted with a colleague from the international hockey federation on Leyandro Podgra grass.

The Mitsubishi Lancer sedan and Toyota Land Cruiser SUV led the rating of the most steady cars in Russia, insured last year in CASCO in Rosgosstrakh. According to the company's statistics, the list of the most stolen brands in Russia in the vulgar year headed Mitsubishi - 213 stolen cars of various models. At the same time, in the group of cars of this brand, Lancer (153 cars) became the absolute leader in popularity.

Capital doctors are fighting for the life of a young child who, during the game, shot himself in the head from a traumatic pistol. The weapon belongs to his father, a working guard. The tragedy occurred in the South Butovo microdistrict, the Vesti-Moscow.Ru television company reports with reference to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate. In serious condition, the victim was taken to the Morozov hospital, where he had surgery.

Legislators supported the idea of ​​including transport tax in the retail value of gasoline. This will lead to an increase in fuel prices by at least 50 kopecks per liter, reports the Bfm.ru business portal. Amendments to the Tax Code received support in the Committee on Industrial Policy of the Federation Council and their concept has already been submitted to the State Duma.

The Italian border police arrested nine people in Milan on suspicion of illegal transportation of weapons to Iran bypassing the UN embargo. According to BBC , the police do not call the names of the arrested. However, it is known that among the detainees under the operation, under the code name "Sniper" - five Italians and four Iranians, presumably, special services agents. Two of the Iranians live in Italy, reports Newsru Israel .

In 2009, against the backdrop of a sharp reduction in lending to the population, the demand for pawnshop services increased, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to the “review of financial stability” of the Bank of Russia.

The Japanese Auto -Building Giant - Nissan Corporation - calls around the world 539 thousand 864 of its cars due to a number of discovered defects, including a defect in the brake pedal. The cause of a large -scale service campaign is problems with the brake system and the fuel sensor. The following models: Titan, Armada, Quest, Infiniti QX56, which found a defect in the brake pedal mount, fell.

In the capital, the victims of the robbers became a retired police general and Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Ochirov. The criminals spoiled his Mercedes SUV and stole a portfolio with documents. The attack on the hero of the war in Afghanistan occurred in the west of Moscow in the Ramenka microdistrict, Life News reports. At that moment, the 58-year-old lieutenant general was near his car Mercedes-Benz GS 550, which was parked on Druzhba Street.

The Legislative Assembly (SKS) of St. Petersburg at a meeting on Wednesday again spoke out against the holding of the construction of the Okhta Center. 26 deputies voted against the referendum, seven spoke out "for", there were no abstained, Interfax reports. As part of the implementation of the Okhta-Center project, it is planned to build a social and business area, the main element of which should be a building with a height of 396 meters.

At the International Aviation Exhibition in Khaidrabad, the aircraft of the Naval Forces of India crashed. According to the latest data, this is the HJT-16 Kiran MK2 produced by Hindustan Aeronautics. According to Interfax , both pilots and another person who was in the building where the plane crashed. “The body of one of them (pilots) was found and also found fragments of the second body, so there is no doubt about this,” said Admiral Nirmal Vermal, chief of staff of the Indian Air Force.

Men with a high intellectual level are less prone to marital treason. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph , this fact was established by a scientific group from the famous London School of Economics. During the analysis of two large and detailed sociological studies conducted in the United States, LSE experts found that the higher the mental coefficient of a man, the more strictly he adheres to the principle of monogamy.