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%.

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.

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.

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.

There is no "war of compromises" between the Prosecutor General and the Russian Investigative Committee, "if there is any roughness, then they relate to the balance of powers," said the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika on Wednesday, answering questions after a annual report on the Federation Council. “In fact, the prosecutor’s office gave rise to the Investigative Committee. This is a mother for the Investigative Committee, and we are careful about this,” Interfax quotes him.

The co-owner of the Russian-British TNK-BP Viktor Vekselberg, who owns 12.5% ​​of the company's shares, does not exclude that Russian shareholders can sell their share in the company, RIA Novosti reports. "Of course, this can happen. If it is an interesting proposal for us in accordance with our understanding of the assessment of this company, of course, we can accept it. But so far we have not received such an offer," he said in an interview with the Air Force.

Sony said that during the last week a massive hacker attack on the network of the PlayStation Network (PSN) game console, attackers managed to steal the personal data of users. In particular, as Polit.ru writes with reference to Reuters, hackers gained access to the names of 77 million accounts, passwords for entering the PlayStation Network or Qriocity system, their birth dates, electronic and postal addresses and, possibly, credit cards.

Two road conflicts ended with traumatic weapons shooting in the south of Moscow. Two VAZ cars are shot by the owners of SUVs who did not like the manner of driving their owners. A visiting one from Dagestan was hospitalized with legs injuries, the driver of the second “Lada” was not injured.

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.

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.

The Twitter microblogging service received an official Russian version of the interface, RIA Novosti reports. The emergence of the Russian -language version of the service should significantly increase its popularity in Russia and other CIS countries. At the moment, the service officially supports eight languages ​​- English, Spanish, Italian, Korean, German, Turkish, French and Japanese.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who left the post of Governor of California in January, is going to star in the role of a terminator, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deadline film resource. Talking about this went back in February, then the now approved candidate for the fifth part of the franchise appeared - a native of Taiwan Justin Lin, in whose account the last three Fast and 5 should be released on April 28) and the Army Drama "Stug".

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.

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.