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.

In the Western Administrative District of Moscow, the unknown person burned four expensive jeeps at once, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. According to him, in the courtyard of house No. 8, K.2 on Novorlovskaya Street at about 6:00 a.m., an unknown person set fire to four prestigious jeeps - three Toyota and one Land Rover. The machines are caused by significant damage.

The corruption scandal flared up in the UK: former ministers and other politicians agreed to provide patronage for private companies for money. Thus, the former British Minister of Trade and Transport, Labor Stephen Bayers proposed a journalist who spoke under the guise of the head of the company seeking patronage for 5 thousand pounds a day to take advantage of his connections in the government, writes The Sunday Times .

The famous Russian snowboarder Ekaterina Tudegeshev was robbed in Spain. Tudeegesheva won at the stage of the World Snowboarding Cup, which was held in Spanish La Molina. After the competition on the night of March 21-22, the athlete went from Barcelona to Madrid for departure to Russia. “For moving to Madrid, we rented a car.

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 .

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.

The State Duma offers the Moscow government to reduce communal tariffs. About the same 2-3%that banks are going to take from Muscovites when paying for housing and communal services. At the end of last week, the State Duma financial committee made this recommendation. Meanwhile, among the capital banks, competition for communal financial flows is aggravated, writes Independent Gazeta .

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 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.

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 American Mark Road Spirit, stuck in the sands of the Red Planet, has not yet fallen into the "hibernation", but has already cooled to a record low temperature. According to NASA reports, to which ITAR-TASS, Spirit refers in early February, in preparation for the winter in the southern hemisphere of Mars, was deployed in a special way. Now he was faced with the lowest temperatures for the entire time of his expedition.