At the IAZ (IAZ) in the anode-machine workshop on the imported line of coating on Tuesday, a technological failure occurred, as a result of which there was a chemical reaction with the release of nitrogen oxides. The incident occurred at 17:00 local time (12:00 in Moscow), the IAZ press service said.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MMEVB as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day took place, decreased by 6.74 kopecks and amounted to 28.3436 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Today" grew by 9.1 kopecks - to 40.0289 rubles. The ruble is stable.

The United States does not set itself the goal of overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi, resorting to military invasion. On Monday, President Barack Obama again assured this on Monday in a television show, noting that the United States did not want to receive a second Iraq.

The largest world online store Amazon.com launched the online storage of music and other multimedia files Cloud Drive, Vesti.ru reports. This service is based on the so -called "cloud" technologies - it allows you to download your collection of music to Amazon servers and lose it from any device that has access to the network - from a smartphone, PC, laptop or tablet. At the moment, the Cloud Drive service is working only for US residents.

According to the VTIIMI survey, 68% of citizens believe that the state in the person of federal authorities is responsible for the growth of unemployment. The relative majority of respondents (28%) believes that the authorities are not interested in solving the problem of employment. According to Kommersant , there have been no significant changes in the assessment of the problem of unemployment by citizens over the past year.

Sources in power structures find new confirmations that during the special operation on March 28 in Ingushetia, the leader of the North Caucasian militants of Dokarov Umarov and his associate Aslan Butukaev (Amir Khamzat) were destroyed in Ingushetia, who was responsible for the training of suicide bombers. A source in the power structures of the North Caucasus Federal District told Interfax that, according to preliminary information, both of them were killed.

The island of Samui, a well-known international resort in the south of Thailand, was completely isolated from the outside world by Tuesday morning due to lasting abnormal rainfall and strong storm. The airport does not work on the island. Thousands of tourists were trapped. The authorities evacuate the local population. According to reports, one and a half thousand Russians stuck on Samui.

The city authorities determined the list of the first investors who will continue to work in Moscow under previously imprisoned investment contracts. Such investment contracts are also determined by which the city does not intend to work in the future. About this writes "Interfax." Recall, at a press conference on March 24, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Proceedings and Construction, Marat Khusnullin, said that 270 investment contracts were currently revised.

In the register of occupational diseases of Great Britain, a “BlackBerry Thumbing Smartfon Bulf” may appear - soreness in the wrist and thumb, associated with the constant use of a mobile phone.

The prolonged Moscow winter will end with night 15-degree frosts on April 1, on Friday, and then, finally, spring will come, ITAR-TASS reported on Tuesday in the capital's hydrometeorological unit. "A very long metropolitan winter will go from March to April.

The German concern Volkswagen AG announced the recall of 71 thousand Jetta sedan due to alarm problems. For the review, the sixth generation Jetta cars produced in the period from March last year to March 2011 fell. According to company representatives, cars respond to reconfigure alarms, Autoblog reports. Recall that in December, the German Auto Concert revoked more than 413 thousand cars in the USA and Canada due to the risk of fuel leakage.

In the zoo of the New York District, Bronx from the terrarium fled the poisonous Egyptian cobra. After that, the zoo had to be partially closed for visits. The local leadership warns that the search for a “teenage snake” can take several weeks, but advises residents of the district not to look for a deadly reptile under their bed: zoologists are convinced that the cobra did not leave the limits of the room where they hold reptiles.

Three personal letters of the Japanese TEPCO company have leaked to the press, which owns the Fukushima emergency NPP, reports The Wall Street Journal . The authenticity of these letters was already recognized by the company representative.

Several powerful explosions thundered on Tuesday in the capital of Libya the city of Tripoli in the area where a complex of government buildings is located, including the residence of the Libyan leader of Muammar Gaddafi, Western news agencies report. According to AFP, there were two explosions, at the same time Reuters, citing eyewitnesses, reports three explosions.

Deputies of the Duma of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug on Tuesday approved the billionaire Roman Abramovich as their chairman, the representative of the region’s parliament said. Since October 2008, Abramovich was the chairman of the Duma of the Chukchi AO, where he was elected at the electrical goods in one of the majority districts three months after the President of the Russian Federation signed a statement about his voluntary resignation from the post of Governor of Chukotka.