The Moscow authorities are not going to lower the transport tax rates, despite the possibility that the law approved on the eve of the Federation Council in the near future will provide them with. This document provides for a reduction in the basic tax rates by half, as well as the possibility of local authorities to independently regulate it. The Moscow City Duma will retain in 2011 the size of the transport tax at the 2010 level.

Firefighters in Los Angeles were raised by alarm to save a mannequin from the River. The 911 service received a bell about a sinking person. A team of rescuers on the waters arrived at the concrete river river, named after the largest city in California, and a helicopter hung over the scene of the incident.

The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) was forced to urgently declare certain “preliminary results” of the All-Russian census 2010 in order to fight off the accusations of the full failure of this fabulously expensive event. Some experts came to this conclusion, analyzing the announced result according to which a million Russians were simply lost.

The head coach of the Kazan Rubin, Kurban Berdyev, was pleased with the game and dedication of the wards in the match of the fifth round of the Champions League group stage against Copenhagen (1: 0), the victory in which closely brought the team to the second place in the quarter of D. Having achieved the first household success in this European competition, Kazan people are now behind the Danes. “In general, there is satisfaction from the game, from dedication,” the UEFA.com coach quotes.

Sergey Tsoi, a press secretary of the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, may soon be appointed deputy chairman of the board of the RusHydro energy company, Interfax told several sources in the company. According to one of them, Tsoi will be represented by the company's employees on the next Monday. The board of directors may consider the appointment of Tsoi at a meeting on Tuesday, November 30.

On Wednesday, seven more teams made their way to the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League. They were the current winner of the Inter tournament, ex-champions of Barcelona and Manchester United, the debutant of the Tottenham group stage, as well as Schalke 04, Lyon and Valencia. The Kazan Rubin deprived the “Copenhagen” to follow the example of the Grandes, and now both teams retain the chances of breaking through the playoffs.

A criminal case was opened against the detained police chief from the village of Kushchevskaya. The case against the head of the department for the fight against extremism of the regional police department Alexander Khodych was opened under Part 1 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("excess of official powers"), Interfax reports. Lieutenant Colonel Khodych is suspected of extorting 6 million rubles from an entrepreneur.

The Turkish authorities want to beg the procedure for selling real estate to certain categories of foreign citizens, but for citizens of some countries, the procedure, on the contrary, will become more complicated. However, possible innovations will not be reflected in the Russians, notes "prian.ru." . According to the draft new decree, citizens of Israel and Greece will not be able to buy land in Turkey.

Despite the fact that the media with reference to political scientists and experts for recent months regularly write about the contradictions and the brewing conflict within the ruling tandem in Russia, the Foreign Policy publication does not believe in such messages.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Yusuf Reza Gilani held bilateral negotiations in Dushanbe as part of a meeting of the chairmen of the Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries, Finmarket reports. Russian companies show interest in expanding their presence in the Pakistani market, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf, Damage Gilani in Dushanbe.

Representatives of the unsystematic opposition will hold a rally on Saturday in the center of Moscow in support of their supporter, the activist of the “Left Front” Grigory Torbeev, who will be charged with the use of violence in relation to the policeman after the detention of “anger” in November. The rally will begin at 16 o’clock on Pushkinskaya Square. He is consistent with the Moscow government, told Interfax the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov.

In Egypt, there was a clash between representatives of the country's security forces and believers of the Coptic Church. The conflict happened on the construction site, where the new temple of the Coptic Church is being built, near the famous pyramids in Giza, reports Sedmitsa.Ru with reference to Catholic World News (CWN). Defenders of the rights of Egyptian Christians accused local officials of preventing the construction of the temple and inciting inter -religious clashes.

The US state court of Virginia issued the first sentence for almost 200 years on charges of piracy. Five Somalians were sentenced to life imprisonment, Interfax reports on Thursday with reference to the American CNN television company. On the eve of the federal large jury in the city of Norfolk (Virginia) found five Somalians guilty of piracy.

Two people died in the frontal clash of the Toyota passenger car with KamAZ on the night of Thursday in the south of Moscow, near the Nagatinskaya metro station, a law enforcement source said. "The frontal clash of Toyota and KamAZ occurred opposite House 36 on the Warsaw Highway at 02:30 in the morning.

The Paris prosecutor's office began a preliminary investigation into the claim of the Cameroon diaspora in France against the president of Cameroon Biya, who they accuse of the purchase of real estate in France at the expense of state funds, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. In February, the Association "Council of Camerunts Diaspora" (CCD) already applied to the prosecutor with a similar complaint, which was rejected due to the presidential immunity of Biyya.