President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych plans to hold a meeting on pension reform next week. He stated this at a meeting with the regional asset of Crimea in Simferopol, RBC Ukraine reports with reference to the press service of the head of state. "Pension reform has been stopped, and the last five years this area has not been reformed. I think that next week I will hold such a meeting," Yanukovych said.

The court of London at the request of Yukos Capital (former "" Daughter "of Yukos) issued an order to impose an arrest on part of Rosneft's property in England and Wales. This was made as a security measure to the claim for the execution of some arbitration decisions canceled by Russian courts of all instances, the Rosneft press service reports.

The Department for the Investigation of Particularly important cases of the SCP of the Russian Federation for Bashkiria made a final charge of initiating hatred, public calls to extremism and violence of citizens of five residents of Ufa , who published their comments on the Internet.

In Yekaterinburg, on Thursday, an exhibition of the worst gifts that locals received on different holidays began its work on Thursday. As ITAR-TASS was reported by the organizers of the event, it turned out that women hate to receive towels as a gift, men do not like it when they are given socks and underwear. Also on the first day of the exhibition, the results of the previously announced competition for the most original gift will be summed up.

The state for the first time sells strategic oil fields - the name of Trebs and the name of Titov in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) with total reserves of more than 200 million tons. According to experts, the main applicants will be Rosneft and Lukoil, which can perform in the Alliance with Gazprom Neft, Kommersant writes.

In Rostov, several dozen motorists at once suffered from the actions of unknown people who painted, scratched cars, and also pierced their tires. It was not possible to detain the hooligans in hot pursuit. The incident occurred on the night of Tuesday, at this time the car jurns were pleasing over cars parked in the courtyards of the Soviet district of the city. In some cars, tires were pierced, others were scratched or painted with a body paint.

Bobsleist Irina Skvortsova, who was seriously injured in Germany in November 2009, will be able to continue his career in Paralympic sports, the senior coach of the Russian national race and biathlon for athletes with the defeat of the musculoskeletal system Irina Gromova believes. “I think we will somehow take Irina Skvortsov to him, we will help if she really has a problem with her leg,” RIA Novosti quotes Gromov.

France does not intend to establish diplomatic relations with the DPRK and will not open the Humanitarian Assistance Center in this country until Pyongyang removes issues related to its nuclear program. This was stated by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kushner. “In the current conditions, we will not establish a diplomatic mission with the DPRK,” he said.

The statements of the Turkish prime minister about the deportation of Armenians working in the country without the necessary documents are unacceptable and do not contribute to the promotion of the Armenian-Turkish dialogue. This was announced on Thursday by the Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandan, with the Slovak colleague Miroslav Laiceck. Recall that Turkish Prime Minister in an interview with BBC television, threatened to deport all Armenians who are illegally living in Turkey.

In the United States, it will be possible to learn at the Imam in the Christian Hartford Seminary, where representatives of the congregationists (one of the many Protestant denominations) have been preparing pastors and other clergy from the 19th century. They decided to develop Christian Muslim ties in Hartford back in the 1990s, and this spring a new specialty will open in the seminary, and graduates will be able to receive an imam diploma.

During the traditional audience in the Vatican, which was attended by 11 thousand people (it takes place on the Square of Peter on Wednesdays), Papa Benedict XVI announced that he would send the message to the Catholics of Ireland - the country that was most involved in the scandal with pedephile priests, Inopressa.ru reports today with reference to the publication in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica .

The DPRK informed Seoul on Thursday about plans to consider the issue of all real estate owned by South Koreans in the mountains Kimansan. Here this is considered the response of Pyongyan, showing impatience in connection with the prohibition of Seoul to his tourists Visit this mountain resort, reports ITAR-TASS with reference to the Renhap agency.

The capsule of the Soyuz spacecraft landed on the ground with the Russian -American team on board - the astronauts worked on the ISS for more than 169 days. At 14:25 Moscow time, the Union TMA-16 was delivered by the ISS 21/22 crew, Maxim Suraev and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, and ITAR-TASS reports to a given area-northeast of the Kazakh city of Arkalyk. Specialists of the search and rescue groups evacuated them from the apparatus, the flight control center near Moscow reported.

China completed the gasket under the Amur Tunnel, which will take a pipeline for the import of Russian oil, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the Sinhua agency. Construction work under the channel of the largest river on the Russian-Chinese border began on September 1, 2009. The tunnel 1.9 thousand meters long drilled more than 80 workers.

The press service of the United Russia faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation stated that the "personal pages" of the chairman of the State Duma and the leader of United Russia Boris Gryzlov, who appeared on the social networks Facebook and Twitter, have nothing to do with him, ITAR-TASS reports.