From July 1, when checking a car at a technical inspection station in the traffic police, each driver will have to present a newly -sample first -a -sample in addition to the sign of emergency stop and fire extinguisher. The first -aid kits of the old -style will be valid before the end of the year, experts say, but they are afraid that some not too honest state inspectors can turn a new rule against the driver.

According to the forecasts of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, over the next decade due to the growth of food needs of developing countries and increasing the demand for biofueling, food products in real calculation will rise in price by 15-40%, writes Inopressa with reference to the publication in Guardian . The period from 1997 to 2006 was taken as a reference - it preceded a jump in food prices in 2007-2008.

The Spanish police conducted an unprecedented raid for the international grouping of scammers who made fake plastic cards. During the special operation, 76 people were arrested only in Spain, and the total number of detainees is approaching two hundred. Fraudsters who made fake credit cards and stole more than 20 million euros from citizens from citizens of different countries of the world are captured in the process of large -scale police raid on Tuesday.

France transfers military technologies to Russia and will in the near future conclude several contracts for the licensed production of thermal imagers, Avionics elements and the construction of three Mistral helicopters. An agreement has already been signed between Rosoboronexport and Thales on the production of elements of French thermal imagers at the Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant. The amount of the transaction is unknown.

The wife of the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkova, Elena Baturina, applied to the police with a statement that accused of the executive director of her "Moscow Sports Club" Nikolai Bondarenko of illegally selling 20 elite horses and assigning money. According to Baturina, who takes third place in the ranking of the richest business women of the world, due to the fraudulent actions of the manager, she lost 1.2 million rubles (40 thousand dollars).

The project frozen last year, creating a racing track for "Formula 1" in the Moscow Region again gives signs of life. The Austrian company Strabag International, which at the height of the crisis, was unable to start building a multifunctional automotive industry, came the Russian-German joint venture "Avtoban", writes RBC Daily . The project for the construction of the racing highway in the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow region was discussed back in 2005.

The European commission recommended that three more countries have been controlled in which the state budget deficit exceeded 3% of GDP, the Finmarket agency reports. "The European commission has established today the presence of excessive shortages for Cyprus, Denmark and Finland," the EU executive body said on Tuesday.

The Daewoo car of the investigator of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Alexander Kharchenko was “rammed” with the Mercedes jeep, which after that disappeared from the scene. Kharchenko in Ukraine is known for conducting the case of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze . An informed source of the UNIAN agency reported the investigator’s attack, NEWSRU.ua reports. The accident happened on June 14, on the left bank of Kyiv. As a result of the accident, the investigator was not injured.

The authorities of the Latvian capital are preparing to hold an unusual competition - for the best way to repel beavers living in the city channel. The idea of ​​the competition local newspaper "Hour" formulated this: "Bobrov should be scared by something, but not to death." The discontent of the Riga authorities was caused by the fact that the animals that settled on the banks of the canal destroyed several trees and had already undertook to nibble the wooden foundations of the city ducts.

In the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, work was temporarily discontinued to collect spilled oil. The reason for this was a small fire on board the neuftsiber operating in the area of ​​the oil spill, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. According to the agency, representatives of the BP company, the fire occurred at the Discover Enterprise vessel. The flame managed to quickly put out, there were no injured. According to the company, a fire could occur as a result of a lightning strike.

The State Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted in third reading the presidential law aimed at counteracting raider seizures. The law is amended by the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, Interfax reports. As the law enforcement practice shows, the current criminal norms do not fully correspond to the specifics of this category of crimes, the explanatory note to the document is noted.

Strong showers that hit the southeast of France caused a flood. According to Wednesday data, 10 people became victims of the elements, four more were missing in the Var Department. This was announced by the subsistence of Draginyan Korinna Orzhekhovsky, who guides the work of rescuers. The pouring rains, which began on the night of Monday on Tuesday, caused an emergency in the entire region of the Provence Lazurn coast.

For the first time in Russia, the full translation of "Saturnali" (Convivia Saturnalia) of the Latin author Ambrose Macrobia was published for the first time. From Latin into a Russian unique book of 370 pages, the professor of the Ural State University named after Gorky Vitold Zvirevich. At the same time, the university was published by a circulation of only 300 copies.

The State Duma on Wednesday adopted in the third reading amendments to the legislation on the extension of the period of "low privatization", when small and medium -sized businesses can redeem the area rented from the state, for three years - until July 1, 2013.

From June 26, it will be forbidden to sell cigarette products throughout Russia without well -prominent inscriptions about the dangers of smoking, the first deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Health, Academician of the RAMS Nikolai Gerasimenko said on Wednesday. According to him, “instead of the usual packs of cigarettes, packs will appear, where in large letters almost 60% of the surface will be written:“ Smoking causes premature skin aging ”and on the other side:“ Smoking kills ”.