The Board of Directors of the Bank of Moscow approved a number of VTB representatives to the new composition of the council, a member of the Council Yuri Roslyak told reporters. In particular, according to him, the head of VTB Andrei Kostin and the first deputy chairman of the Board of VTB Mikhail Kuzovlev were approved, the Finmarket reports.

The independent European organization EURONCAP named the safest cars that have passed crash tests in 2010. EURONCAP experts recognized the BMW 5 -Series sedan, the compact family car - Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a small -class car - the Honda Cr -Z hybrid, compact crossover - Kia Sportage, and Toyota - Toyota. Verso.

A serious scandal is flared up in Moscow - in Gum, instead of mineral water, a woman sold a bottle of acid, after which she was urgently hospitalized with a burn of the esophagus and larynx. The victim was the journalist of Kommersant, Karina Orlova, she received burns of the second and third degree after she drank Bon Aqua water. Now Karin has already been transferred from resuscitation to an ordinary chamber at the Sklifosovsky Institute.

Russian mobile operators justify the prices of intra -meter roaming and warn that its cancellation will lead to an increase in tariffs, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, representatives of the Big Troika interviewed by the agency refer to the rules of the intercity and zone completion of the call, approved by the government, implying additional expenses from the operator.

At the E-Bay Internet asociation, the GAZ-21 car, converted to the Volga from the Jaguar sedan, is put up for sale. The Western media write that the “Russian” craftsmen gave a second life to an old boring car, turning it into a rather interesting exotic car, which, in the dark, squinted, can be mistaken for some luxurious rare instance, writes Carscoop .

Scientists taught plants to respond to explosives - they synthesized special proteins that will lead to a change in the color of the leaves if there are certain chemicals in the room, the British newspaper The Daily Mail writes. For example, when installing these plants at the airport checkpoint, they will determine a terrorist with a "hunger belt": their leaves will turn white.

In Stavropol, Roman Gubarev, one of the drivers of the local criminal authority, Vladimir Ulizaev, who was killed with his family on January 21, was taken into custody. He was detained the day after the murder, and now the Leninsky District Court has decided on a preliminary conclusion, ITAR-TASS reports citing local law enforcement agencies.

The investigation determined two versions of an accident on the Rublevo-Uspensky highway of the capital on January 19, which as a result of which the BMW driver of the president’s plenipotentiary in the State Duma of Harry Mingha died and 23-year-old Elena Yarosh, who was driving the Opel car, suffered.

The new press secretary of the White House will be the former correspondent of the Moscow Bureau of the weekly Time Jay Carney. According to a number of US media, this personnel decision has already received the approval of President Barack Obama. It is assumed that it will be officially announced in the very near future, and the current official representative of the American leader Robert Gibbs will leave his post in mid-February, ITAR-TASS reports.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation on Friday adopted in the third, final reading the presidential law "On the Police", Interfax reports. Thus, the deputies completed the work on the document, which for the first time, even before the official entering the project in the parliament, was proposed for wide public discussion, including via the Internet. Opposition fractions voted against. Thus, from March 1, instead of the police in Russia, the police will operate.

Actor Benjamin Walker will play the role of Abraham Lincoln in the new picture of the Russian director Timur Bekmambetov based on the Graham Smith's book Abraham Lincoln: Variety hunter. Five actors, among whom Edrian Brody, Josh Lucas, James d'Arcy and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, tried to the role of Lincoln.

The fire that arose after the riots in the area of ​​the Central Cairo Square Tahrir in the office of the ruling National Democratic Party spread to the building adjacent to the National Museum of Egypt. This is reported from the scene by RIA Novosti correspondent. A powerful explosion also thundered in the area. The museum contains thousands of unique exhibits, including the treasury of the tomb of Faral Tutankhamun and the Mumiy Hall.

The famous Italian designer Georgio Armani, who opened the first hotel under the Armani Hotel brand almost a year ago in Dubai, can implement the second such project in Russia. His company Giorgio Armani SPA, together with other investors, plans to build a designer hotel with a hundred rooms in the resort area of ​​the Stavropol Territory, Kommersant writes.

The Chinese press hastened to refute the information that has agitated the rest of the world that in the south of the country it is planned to create the largest metropolis in the world with a population of 42 million people. Messages that the largest city on Earth will appear in the Zhuzzyan River Delte in southern China, the news of the essence of the news arose due to “misunderstanding”, writes Diya Tsaitszin Zhibao on Friday.

In the Republic of Tuva, police detained four employees of control and law enforcement agencies, who are suspected of beating and abduction of two taxi drivers. Among the detainees was an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two warders and a tax authority. The criminal case was instituted against the 24-year-old inspector of a separate company traffic police Vladimir Mongush, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Republican Investigation Department.