In Finland, they decided to restore the recipe for beer discovered among the remains of the ship sank 200 years ago. Finnish researchers believe that the main difficulty will represent the definition of the type of hops used, the Air Force reports. The discovery of the Swedish and Finnish divers-amateurs of the sea alcoholic treasury became known in mid-July 2010.

Residents of Reutov, Denis and Inga Chudykina Reutov ( Life News publication gives other names - Olga and Denis Radulov), who recently had a child, suspect doctors of substitution: instead of a healthy girl, who were promised, the unfortunate parents received a disabled person, the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets writes. 28-year-old Inga became pregnant in early May 2010.

The Government of Pakistan, led by the prime minister of the country, Yusuf Rez Gilani on Wednesday resigned. This was announced by the official representative of the ruling People's Party of Pakistan Farakhnaz Isfahani, noting that the Cabinet of Ministers went to such a step to reduce the expenses of the government apparatus and bring them "in line with the realities of the country." Isfahani stated that the country needs a “less cost cabinet”, and the number of ministers will be reduced.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya spent a creative evening in Moscow on Tuesday, on which she introduced the Green Tenter, a preliminary book for those who are nostalgic for the “glorious Soviet past”, and told why this novel can become the last for her, RIA Novosti reports. "Green Tent" is a novel about dissidents. In the center of it is the story of three childhood friends born in the mid -1940s: Mikhail, Ilya and Sani.

Catholic clergymen of Great Britain and the USA approved the creation of a new application for iPhone mobile phones, which will help believers confess. The application "Confession: A Roman Catholic App", which the developers call the "ideal assistant to each repenting sinner", can be bought in the ITNES online store for 1 dollar 19 cents.

Expert expectations that the State Bank of the Moscow Bank of VTB would seem to be fully justified as the sole buyer of the capital's “Bank of Moscow”. The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia received a “VTB” petition for the acquisition of a 100% shares of Bank of Moscow, according to RIA Novosti on Wednesday, citing a representative of the department. At the same time, he specified that the petition was received by the FAS on February 1.

In Tbilisi, they say that in Moscow, the call of the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili incorrectly understood in Moscow to celebrate the next New Year in Sukhumi. This is stated in the response of the Georgian Foreign Ministry to the statement of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation of February 1, in which the Russian side criticized this call of the Georgian leader.

The number of mortgage transactions according to the results of 2010 increased in Moscow more than doubled - up to almost 20 thousand transactions, said Sergey Denisenko in an interview with Rosreestr in Moscow. "This is a very eloquent indicator for the economy. If a citizen went to the bank to take a loan and buy an apartment, then he is sure in his future, that he will have a job and there will be an opportunity to pay a loan," he said.

The Minister of Development of rural areas and cooperation of a new independent state, which was decided to form in the south of Sudan, was shot in the building of the Ministry, reports Reuters. Jimmy Lemi Mill was killed by the driver of the ministry, who then shot the guard at the door and shot himself, said the representative of the army of South Sudan, Philip Aguer.

The court forbade a resident of Great Britain to have sex due to an excessively low intellectual level - its IQ amounted to only 48 points. The judge, however, admitted that the case raises questions about civic freedoms and personal independence, the newspaper The Daily Telegraph writes. The case was obeyed in a court in cases of trusteeship - a little -known institution that is engaged in the affairs of mentally inferior citizens. Cases are considered behind closed doors.

The Russian government can make a change in legislation if Gazprom, a Russian monopolist in the field of gas transportation through trunk pipelines, will not allow independent gas producers to his transport capacities, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at a meeting based on the results of the fuel and energy complex for 2010. "Either you will work effectively, or we will be forced to change the current rules, to make a change in the law," RIA Novosti quotes the Prime Minister.

The ranks of cultural figures who have abandoned their signatures under the so-called "letter of fifty" , supporting the first sentence of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was replenished with the actress of Soviet cinema Svetlana Svetlichina, reports Radio "Freedom" . In an interview with the radio station, Svetlichny said that "she does not remember that she participated in these games." “You know, we can substitute. Honestly, I always feel sorry for people like Khodorkovsky.

The national team of Russia on Wednesday at the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi held a friendly match against the Iranian team. With this game, the wards of a lawyer opened a new season. He was supposed to be a decisive check before a very important meeting of the qualifying tournament of the European Championship with Armenians on March 26 in Yerevan.

Somali pirates captured on Wednesday off the coast of Oman Irene SL, ITAR-TASS reports. On board the super -tanker is the crew consisting of 7 citizens of Greece, 17 - the Philippines and one - Georgia. According to a shipowner, a ship with a load of about 2 million barrels of crude oil came from Kuwait to the United States. Currently, the shipowner has no connection with the tanker.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "Questions of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation", in accordance with which Rososhranchulture is abolished, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the head of state. "To abolish the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Legislation in the field of cultural heritage protection," the decree said.