The sixteen -kilogram Pacific Osminog Iker, which lives in the oceanarium of the Spanish city of Benalmaden, predicted the Madrid's Real Madrid to the final of the Champions Football League. On Wednesday, Real Madrid in the first semifinal match of the European Main Tournament in its field will accept its eternal opponent - Barcelona. Earlier, the octopus has already correctly predicted the outcome of the last two matches with the participation of Spanish grandi.

The buildings that were used to conduct ski competitions in the Bittsevsky Forest Moscow Park and which the Moscow authorities consider illegal, will not be demolished until the territory of the Bitz recreation area will be landscaped, the press service of the capital's department of environmental management and environmental protection said on Wednesday.

In the Samara region, a criminal case has been instituted on the murder of a retired officer of the Federal Security Service, which went to commerce. The entrepreneur was shot by killers on a motorcycle. The attempt on the 49-year-old ex-employee of the FSB department in the city of Togliatti Vladimir Vladimirovich Manyshkin was committed on Monday. Kommersant was shot in broad daylight at the intersection of Sovetskaya Streets and Peace in the Central District of Togliatti, TLT.ru reports.

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev after a flurry of messages on the Internet about the new Potemkin village in Lytkarino near Moscow, where he was going on a visit, decided to check everything personally and chat with local residents. He changed the program of his visit and remained extremely dissatisfied with what he saw, ITAR-TASS reports. The presidential motorcade stopped at the house number 2 on Ukhtomskaya Street.

Experts record new trends in the real estate market in Latvia. After the adoption of amendments to the law on immigration in the country, foreign buyers were added. These are mainly Russians who purchase a business class housing, writes Prian.ru . The last quarter of 2010 was marked for Latvia by a drop in the market by 3.5%. This happened after the period (which lasted from September 2009 to September 2010), when real estate prices rose by 27%.

On Wednesday, the Standard and Poor's rating agency reduced the forecast of the Japan rating to the negative due to the effects of the country's catastrophe , while the sovereign rating of Japan was confirmed at the AA-, Reuters reports. "The agency expects that the cost of the disaster on March 11 will increase the budget deficit in 2013 to the level above the previous estimates of 3.7% of GDP," the Standard and Poor's statement said.

The head of the Kaspersky Laboratory, Evgeny Kaspersky, first personally commented on the story with the abduction of his 20 son Ivan. According to him, this crime was committed not only against his family. “This crime, it directly affects the image of Russia ... as a state that wants to be innovative,” the entrepreneur said on Wednesday in the program “Live” on the Russia -1 television channel.

Foreign media reports scandalous rivalry between representatives of Russia and Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest-2011 music contest, Newsru Israel reports. Recall that for Russia at this prestigious competition in May, 23-year-old Alexei Vorobyov will play in May, for Sweden-20-year-old singer of Lebanese descent Eric Saade.

Dmitry Medvedev has not yet instructed to initiate an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council in Libya. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Prikhodko.

It turned out that the Microsoft Corporation uses its Windows Phone 7 operating system to collect the location of smartphone users - like its competitors in the mobile and Google market, RIA Novosti reports with reference to CNET News . Phones with the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system are collected and sent to the corporation information about wireless access points found from a smartphone.

At the St. Petersburg plant, the Hyundai Motor 28 Korean workers were poisoned by products that organize lunch for employees. The victims undergo a medical examination. The exact diagnosis of poisoned at present has not been made. The cause of poisoning could be rolls.

In the suburbs last night, two arson were committed at once, directed against local officials. One of them lost a car and got into intensive care with severe burns, the second was left without a house. Whether both incidents are related, law enforcement agencies have not yet been said. On Wednesday night, unknown people set fire to a garage in the courtyard of a private house belonging to the deputy head of the Shatursky district of the Moscow region.

US President Barack Obama in a special memorandum instructed the heads of the State Department and the Pentagon to provide the Libyan opposition with non -enlightenment assistance worth $ 25 million to support the Libyan opposition, which is now fighting the Libyan leader of Muammar Gaddafi, RIA Novosti reports.

The main owner of the AFC System Vladimir Yevtushenkov proposed to the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov to work in the petrochemical unit of his investment holding. “I made him such an offer, if he wants to work,” Yevtushenkov said on the air of the Echo Moskvy radio station during the Great Watch of the Vedomosti newspaper Vedomosti. According to him, he made the corresponding proposal to Luzhkov, a chemist by education, a few months ago.

According to the results of the annual survey conducted by the British radio station Classic FM, the most popular classic work was called the second piano concert of Sergei Rachmaninov, OpenSpace reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph . He managed to get ahead of the work of Ralph Woan-Wilems, the flying lark, which gained the most votes for four years in a row.