The US administration will "make everything necessary" to ratify the START agreement, today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters on the results of the meeting with the leadership of both chambers of the Congress. When asked whether the administration has a sufficient number of votes to approve the contract in the Senate and whether she considers the opposition’s approach excessively politicized, Clinton did not directly answer, ITAR-TASS reports.

In New York, the process began over the Russian entrepreneur Viktor Buto extradited in the United States from Thailand. As ITAR-TASS reports, he himself had already spoke and said that he did not plead guilty to any of the charges of the Southern District of New York presented to him by the federal court.

Around the "rescued" from the orphanage in the Dominican Republic and the 12-year-old Denis Khokhryakov returned to Russia, a scandal erupted. Sergey Albertov, director of a social shelter for children and adolescents, where Denis is now, is forced to refute the statements of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper that the boy does not like in Russia and he wants to go back to the Dominican Republic.

The American-Russian Treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons ( START ) collided with a new obstacle. A prominent resort-republican John Kyle unexpectedly opposed the ratification of the document before the end of this year, striking the highest priority of the foreign policy of the White House and, possibly, on relations with Russia.

The assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich did not like the proposal of the head of the Federal Agency for Youth (Rosmolodezh) Vasily Yakemenko to replace physical education lessons at school lessons for a healthy lifestyle skills.

Ford delivered to a car dealership in Los Angeles one of the most exciting cars, created recently. This is the concept of the next generation Focus, designed to participate in professional car racing. The developers keep the specifications of the car secret, but the journalists still managed to look into the car and find out about some of its features. According to Autoevolutuon , the Ford Racing sports unit was engaged in the creation of a track concept car.

Members of the jury, which from August 2009 to May 2010 examined in the Moscow City Court a case of an ex-seenator of Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev , visited the investigative authorities, found out the newspaper The New York Times . At least two former jury reported that they tried to convince them to put out the indictment or stop going to meetings.

Banker Matvey Urin, whose security was beaten on Rublevskoye Shosse in Moscow, according to some reports, a senior employee of Gazprom, said in court about his non -involvement in the incident. According to the adviser to the chairman of the board of Prado-Bank, he has nothing to do with the action of the Chop, Life News reports. “I am not a decree for them,” the banker said in court.

At Morshow in Los Angeles, Mercedes-Benz conducted a new generation of the new generation of the new generation of the Sports Sedan CLS 63 AMG, which is the most powerful modification of the CLS line. The car is equipped with a new eight -cylinder engine with two 5.5 liters with a capacity of 520 and 550 hp, its maximum speed is limited by electronics at a mark of 300 km/h, reports WorldCarfans . A powerful engine is paired with a seven -speed "automatic" AGM SpeedShift MCT.

The Fiat automaker is considering the possibility of selling auto component manufacturer Magneti Marelli and part of the shares of Ferrari in order to increase its stake in Chrysler from 20 to 35%. The head of the Fiat concern, Sergio Marchionne, spoke about this at a meeting with analysts in Turin a few days ago, Bloomberg reports. Marchionne did not give specific dates for the sale, said one of the analysts who participated in the meeting.

In the Far East, a trial begins on a gang made of former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and military personnel. The criminals committed about two dozen attacks on foreigners with the aim of robbery, and one victim was killed. Among the victims of the gang was even the son of the ex-president of the Republic of Korea. The group participants are accused of banditry and robberies on citizens of China and Korea.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the volume of mortgage loans issued over the course of a year has more than doubled, and emphasized that the subjects of the Federation should simplify the procedure for providing land for housing construction. It is reported by "Interfax." "Let me remind you that during the crisis, about 1 trillion rubles were invested in the housing sphere. And this is only federal resources," Putin said at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Japanese Prime Minister Natot Ka Kan defeated the initiative of one of the deputies on Wednesday, who invited him to visit the Southern Kurils to demonstrate Tokyo’s position in negotiations with Russia, ITAR-TASS reports. “I have no specific plans for this kind,” the prime minister said in response at the plenary meeting of the upper house of the parliament. “Trips of the head of government should be treated with caution,” Kan reminded.

The famous businessman Tamerlan Dzabiev was killed in North Ossetia on Wednesday evening in the center of Vladikavkaz, at the Central Universal Store. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the republic. Dzabiev, presumably, left the entrance of one of the houses along General Pliev Street, when an unknown person opened fire on him. The businessman tried to hide in nearby garages, but the attacking him overtook.

Ukraine is trying to resolve a multi -month dispute with Russia regarding the formula for which the price of gas is determined. Sources close to the government told the independent newspaper that Kiev’s offensive in Gazprom will take place in Brussels at a meeting dedicated to the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transmission system. In addition to the Ukrainian and Russian delegations, representatives of the EU will take part in it.