On March 22, the new container line "Ecubex" on the route Guayakil (Ecuador) - St. Petersburg presented the largest Maersk container operator in the world, the business Petersburg container operator. There are six ships on the line that get from Ecuador to St. Petersburg in three weeks. The capacity of the first Maersk Niamey vessel, which arrived on March 22, is 2.5 thousand standard containers. Thus, weekly from Ecuador to St. Petersburg, Maersk will bring 30 million bananas each.

The lower house of the US Congress approved a bill on reforming the national healthcare system. For the sake of considering a key document for the current American administration, legislators specially gathered on Sunday on the Capitol Hill, ITAR-TASS reports. Voting in the House of Representatives took place at about 23:00 local time. 219 members of the chamber voted for reforms, 212 spoke out against.

Employees law enforcement agencies neutralized the criminal group in St. Petersburg, suspected of abductions of people, the press service of the main Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the North -Westure Federal District. As stated in a press release, gang members acting under covering the real estate agency, abducted people to take possession of them housing. "The victims were selected from among the socially unprotected ones, Lonely people abusing alcohol.

A powerful cyclone, which dominated Sakhalin on Sunday, provoked a gathering of 10 avalanches in the south of the island, an employee of the regional anti -vanity center of the Sahhydrometeorological Center said. According to weather forecasters, on Sunday, a cyclone from the Yellow Sea approached the island. In the morning in the south of the island there was heavy snow, a blizzard, a wind, the impulses of which were 25 meters per second. Daytime temperatures reached three degrees of heat.

Investigators of the prosecutor's office subjected the beating and bullying of the special forces fighters, knocking out their recognition of the murder of a colleague. The detectives did not even stop the official conclusion about the causes of death, according to which the soldier Sergei Shcherbakov died due to pneumonia, writes the Moscow Komsomolets . According to the publication, Sergey Shcherbakov died in November last year. On November 23, 2009, Shcherbakov felt unwell.

In Yekaterinburg, the prosecutor's office demanded to provide housing for social hiring to the 100-year-old veteran Semen Shumakov, who fought in the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Finnish wars, And also in battles on Khalkhin-Gol. The supervisory authority filed a lawsuit in The court writes ITAR-TASS.

The host of Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, in connection with the 70th anniversary of the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, published a scenario of a modern armed conflict with Russia. HS employees tried to imagine how military operations would have developed in the current situation, for which they turned to anonymous experts from the Higher Military School, says Komsomolskaya Pravda .

The Swiss pilot Riccardo Mortar and his crew beat the world record, flying around the globe in less than 58 hours. Thus, they won in the category of aircraft weighing from 9,000 to 12,000 kilograms, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the 24 Heures Swiss newspaper. The Rockwell Sabeliner 65 business class plane flew out of Geneva from Airport on Friday at 7:12 am local time (5:12 Moscow time) and, flying around the planet, landed there on Sunday at 17:06 (15:06).

The Zenit football club filed a complaint against the judges of Stanislav Sukhina in the Sunday match of the Russian Championship with the Moscow Spartak, which ended with a score of 1: 1. The St. Petersburg team protested the actions of the arbitrator for the first time in three seasons. The complaint contains two points. According to the St.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications is considering the possibility of creating experimental zones of the LTE standard without the participation of cellular operators; the organization of testing may be entrusted to one of the specialized institutes. Thus, it is believed that the department hopes to ensure equal conditions during future tenders for 4th generation wireless communications licenses, RBC daily reports.

Doctors say that in Russia there is no rise in the incidence of influenza and acute respiratory infections. “The situation with incidence is now going well, it does not cause any anxiety,” said Gennady Onishchenko, head of Rospotrebnadzor on Monday, head of the Rospotrebnadzor, chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation. According to him, in more than 80 Russian regions, the incidence of influenza is below the epidemic threshold.

The number of passengers of the Mi-8 helicopter, who made an emergency landing in Kamchatka on Friday March 19, who turned to doctors for help, increased to 8 people. They with various bruises were delivered to the Central District Hospital of the village of Sobolevo. There are no injuries that are life-threatening people, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka Territory.

Ukrainian policemen detained the criminal who, robberies "fought for the purity of youth customs." The victims of the attacker were the long -haired representatives of informal movements, who, with their appearance, allegedly offended criminal bosses. The 20-year-old serial robber Dmitry was detained by operatives of the Zheleznodorozhny district internal affairs department of Simferopol.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill discussed today with the wife of the President of the Russian Federation Svetlana Medvedeva issues of restoring the sea cathedral in Kronstadt. The sea cathedral should be restored by 2013, when the 100th anniversary of its consecration will be celebrated. Svetlana Medvedeva, who initiated the creation of a charitable foundation for the restoration of the temple, is a member of the Board of Trustees.

Cyprus police detained a 34-year-old foreigner who admitted to desecrate the graves of the three hierarchs of the Cyprus Orthodox Church. At first, the police said that the tombs came to the cemetery at night, which is literally a few meters from the police station, opened the tombstones of three Cyprus archbishops and stole the bodies of two of them - Sophronius III and Kirillos II. This was reported by New York Times .