In Japan, trying to recover after a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, a series of new strong underground shocks is recorded. In the Tokyo area, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred, and the night before, in the prefecture of the Sizuoka, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4. The epicenter of today's morning earthquake was located at the northern tip of the Boso Peninsula to the east of Tokyo, and the hearth lay at a depth of 10 km.

The authorities believe that all three explosions organized by the FSB of objects belonging to the FSB in Moscow were prepared by the same terrorists. Criminal cases of explosion near the FSB Academy in the west of Moscow and two explosions near a residential building in the north of the capital intended for the FSB officers are combined into one criminal case.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin is waiting for the short-term speculative increase in world oil prices to $ 150-200 per barrel due to events in Japan and in the Middle East, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, the zone, which suffered from the disaster in Japan, provided 6-7% of the country's GDP, as a result of its growth rate, 2-3 percentage points can decrease.

Yandex launched the Yandex.Piral service based on its own machine translation system. With the help of a new service, you can quickly translate any text or web page from the English or Ukrainian language into Russian or vice versa, reports Cybersecurity.ru . The service is still in beta testing mode. Yandex will improve the quality and speed of translation, as well as add other language pairs, they say in the company.

The Russian mobile operator took out all Russian employees from Turkmenistan, the company representative Elena Kokhanovskaya told RIA Novosti . "We completed the export of Russian employees from Turkmenistan in connection with the forced suspension of business by decision of the Turkmen authorities," she said.

The State Duma intends to amend the housing code designed to protect the rights to housing for former spouses. According to the amendments, the family family members, including former spouses (only registered in the apartment), are proposed to maintain the right to live in the apartment even in the case of the sale of real estate, writes "squares.ru" .

The Italian police arrested a nurse who is accused of brutal murder of their ward. The woman-hastarbaiter committed the crime due to the fact that she wanted to go to Ukraine for a long time. The detainee was placed in a psychiatric hospital. The tragedy broke out on March 14 in the city of Ravenna. The alarm was raised by the residents of one of the houses along Santi Baldini Street.

The founder of Mirax Group, Sergei Polonsky, who said goodbye to the business in early March, managed to attach his largest developmental asset in Europe, writes RBC Daily . The project of the 323-meter Hermitage Plaza in the Parisian district of La Defans, which Polonsky began with the head of the building Montaur, Arthur Kirilenko, was consolidated by the General Director of Hermitage Group Emin of Perfoners.

Colleagues and friends said goodbye to the famous TV presenter, theater expert Vitaliy Wulf, who died on Sunday in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. The civilian memorial service was held on Wednesday in the central house of a writer. In the Great Hall of the CDL, mourning music sounded, on the screen above the stage there was a slide show with photos of Wulf. Vitaly Wulf was buried in the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of instructions following a meeting of the Commission for the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economics on February 28, 2011, the Kremlin press service reports on Wednesday. In particular, the Government of the Russian Federation is entrusted with issuing regulatory legal acts, and, if necessary, submit bills to the State Duma in order to ensure the issue and use of universal electronic cards.

Libya will give all its oil contracts to Russian, Chinese and Indian companies, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in an interview with RTL. “We no longer believe Western companies, they participated in a conspiracy against us,” he said. “Our oil contracts will conclude with Russian, Chinese and Indian firms.

The new head coach of the Khimki basketball club was appointed Rimas Kurtinaitis. The famous Lithuanian specialist, who inflicted the most painful defeat in their history, signed the contract with the team near Moscow until the end of the season with the possibility of extending for another year. According to the club’s press service , on Wednesday a new mentor will come to the team in Tallinn for a game with Kalev.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal approved on Wednesday the verdict issued by the former director of the branch of the Central Specialized Construction Management of the Ukroboronstroy Ministry of Defense Vladimir Melnik. Earlier, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of the capital sentenced the defendant to eight years in prison in a penal colony.

The deceived equity holders who overwhelmed the road in the city of Yubileiny near Moscow was fined 40 thousand rubles, Interfax reports with reference to the coordinator of the one -dodium movement Igor Gulyev. "By the decision of the justice of the peace, 20 participants in the road ceiling on the street of the city of Yubileiny were fined 2 thousand rubles each," Golyev said on Wednesday. He noted that the justice of the peace considered only the charges of blocking the road.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service on Tuesday received confirmation of payment of Gazprom Neft OJSC, a fine of 4.65 billion rubles for abuse of dominant position in the wholesale market of oil products. “We received confirmation of payment,” Interfax told the Deputy Head of the Service Anatoly Golomolzin. The press service of Gazprom Neft also reported that the company has been fulfilled, the money was transferred. The company confirmed that the payment was transferred on Wednesday.