The general director of St. Petersburg Zenit Maxim Mitrofanov said that the club managed to establish the personality of a man who extended a cleared banana to the captain of Anji Roberto Carlos before the team of teams in the second round of the championship of the country.

Portugal Prime Minister Jose Socrates announced a resignation . He did this in a special appeal to the country after a brief meeting with the President of the Republic Anibal Kavak Silva. The day before, the politician said that he would be forced to leave if the plan for saving is not approved by parliamentarians, Bfm.ru business portal reports.

Investigators carefully study the diary entries in the Karima of the El-Milia, nicknamed Rubi , the main character of the last sex scandal with the participation of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Moroccan under the protocol says one thing, but in the records made on the computer, the same, but not quite, reports on Thursday La Repubblica . “It is necessary to look for confirmation of what she says,” they decided in the Milan prosecutor’s office in July last year.

In the metropolitan region on Thursday, inclement, uncomfortable weather is expected. According to Roshydromet, on Thursday in Moscow and the surroundings it will be cloudy, at times wet snow will begin to be taken, turning into the rain. The conditions for the formation of ice, ice and icicles will remain. In the suburbs will be 0 - plus 5 degrees. It will be quite windy - the speed of the western wind will leave 5-10 m/s, its gusts can reach 15 m/s.

In Israel, they reject any links between the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the transfer of Russia to Sergiev of the Compound in Jerusalem to Moscow. “On the eve of the visit on this issue, almost a hysteria was really observed in some media outlets. There was supposedly some ultimatum of the Russian side regarding the fact that if Israel did not transmit the courtyard, then the visit would not take place.

On Thursday, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court sentenced a loud criminal case on the seizure of the ARCTIC SEA dry cargo in the summer of 2009. The court found all six defendants guilty of piracy and sentenced them to terms from 12 to 7 years in prison.

Every fifth Russian hopes for improving his financial situation, optimists in the country today 19% against 13% two years ago. This is mainly young people 18-24 years old (33%). The share of pessimists is 21% (32% in 2009), and most of them are older than 45 years. Almost half of the country (47%) does not expect any changes. These are the latest data from the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, which lead to "New Izvestia" .

Portugal will require financial assistance in the amount of 50 to 70 billion euros, Bloomberg reports with reference to two representatives of the European Union, who wished to remain unknown, since the information is confidential. Meanwhile, Portugal has not yet asked for help. In Brussels on Thursday, a two -day summit of the heads of the European Union countries opens, at which, as expected, the issue of allocating the assistance of Portugal will be discussed.

RF President Dmitry Medvedev said that in the investigation of the case of beating Kommersant's journalist Oleg Kashin, there is progress, and promised to submit the results of the investigation of the public, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the President with cultural figures in the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, writer and publicist Sergei Shargunov asked how the investigation of the attack on his friend Kashin was going on.

The largest Russian housing developers, the sales of which in the crisis fell ten times, found how to load idle power. As Kommersant calculated, in 2009-2010 they built about 2.6 million square meters for the Ministry of Defense. m, helping almost 90 billion rubles (3.2 billion dollars). According to the newspaper’s estimates, Mikhail Balakina (21.2 billion rubles, or $ 747.3 million), MSM-5 Office Yasinov (16.45 billion rubles, or $ 580 million) and the St.

Ukrainian doctors who still remain in Libya confirm the data of the Libyan leadership about victims among the civilian population as a result of air strikes of the international coalition forces. According to doctors working in Tajur, the eastern suburb of Tripoli, over the past day, tens of civilians were injured there and was injured, ITAR-TASS reports. According to them, significant damage is caused by civilians, including hospitals.

Residential real estate in the Chechen capital of the city of Grozny is the most underestimated among all regional centers in Russia. Penny Lane Realty experts came to such conclusions, which compiled the rating of the regional and republican centers of Russia with the lowest cost of housing, writes RBC Daily . The North Caucasian capitals took almost all the first places of the rating of the lowest market value of residential real estate.

The Pentagon began to send training materials to the troops to communicate with the homosexual military personnel. Materials are sent to more than 2 million military personnel and reservists as a preparation for a practical cancellation of a ban on the service of homosexuals in the army. These materials include, for example, instructions on what to do if the officer sees two male males during a trip to the store, The Washington Times writes.

The fifth version of the iPhone smartphone will appear no earlier than the third quarter of this year, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the China Times Chinese newspaper. Sources among the Chinese manufacturers of electronics told reporters that the first trial parties of the new smartphone are already in production, but the assembly will not be released at full capacity of the third quarter of the current year.

The Government of the Russian Federation is going to extend the state program for the disposal of auto -chlot until the end of 2011 - in the near future, another 5 billion rubles should be allocated for it, Kommersant reports with reference to its sources. The main lobbyist of the extension was AvtoVAZ, the sales of which are strongly dependent on the program, even against the backdrop of the restoration of the car market.