On Thursday, third international Zavolokin readings open in Latvia. This time, the conference under the motto "from the past to the future" will be held in Riga and Liepae. During the readings, it is supposed to discuss, in particular, the following topics: “Faith and theology. The spiritual values ​​of Old Believer”, “I.N. Zavolko: the path from the past to the future”, “Old faith as a way of life”, “Language and peace”, “Old faith in the legal field. History, development prospects”.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts the growth of the European economy in 2011 at 2.4%, as in 2010, and the acceleration of GDP increase in 2012 to 2.6%, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Report of the IMF Regional Economic Forecast.

The United States did not support Japan in a dispute with Russia because of the Kuril Islands, the US Tokyo Embassy said to Washington, sent in 2009. The day before, these documents were published by Wikileaks, writes The Japan Times in an article prepared by Kyodo . Then the country's prime minister was Tarot ASO.

Due to the inaction of the authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory, Russia is rapidly losing its territory in the area of ​​the border with China. We are talking about the Bolshoi Ussuriyan island on the Amur River adjacent to Khabarovsk. Its western half in 2008 was transferred free of charge, and since then the Chinese authorities have been actively increasing and strengthening their part of the coast.

In the Krasnodar Territory on Thursday there was a large accident involving a passenger bus that transported children. According to the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia, seven people were injured in the Kuban’s head-on collision of the bus and the UAZ car, including five schoolchildren. According to the traffic police of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Krasnodar Territory, only two were injured.

In Kamchatka, the Volcano Karymsky threw the ashes to a height of 1 to 6 km above sea level. There are no threats to settlements. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. About 60 local earthquakes are registered on the volcano. Due to increased activity, Karymsky assigned an "orange" aviation code. He warns of the danger that ashes and gases thrown into the atmosphere can represent for aviation.

The Ministry of Communications, together with Roskomnadzor, can, by the end of 2011, develop a legislative norm obliging the providers of the Internet access to indicate in the conditions of the provision of services the minimum possible speed, and not the maximum, as is accepted now. Thus, officials hope to force Internet providers to observe the access speed indicated in the contract - or at least tell the truth, RIA Novosti reports.

Scientists from the University of Washington filmed in the depths of the ocean of octopus of a poorly studied type of Grimpoteuthis Bathynectes, freely moving in the natural environment, while their movements resemble dances, writes the British newspaper The Daily Mail . The uniqueness of the personnel is that the shooting was made in high resolution at a depth of about 2 km. The work was carried out in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, which is in the north-west of the United States.

The fuel rods in the first reactor of the emergency Japanese NPP Fukushima-1 were completely melted due to overheating, since they were not completely covered with water. Now the melted mass is apparently located at the bottom of the reactor in the water and is cooled, the station operator said on Thursday - Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco). The company first recognized the fact of the complete melting of nuclear fuel in one of the 3 affected reactors of the Fukushima -1 NPP - complete Meltdown .

The Italian authorities closed on Thursday the airport of the city of skating, which on the island of Sicily, due to the awakened volcano Etna, reports Interfax . The volcano began to erupt a large amount of lava and ash, the cloud of which reached skating. The decision to close the airport was made by the heads of the civil aviation service of the country and the company Fontanarossa, which controls the airport of Katania. Seven specialized machines remove ash from the runways.

The call of the Chairman of the European Parliament of Buzek cancel the holding of the 2014 World Hockey Championship in Belarus is its political self-officer and self-promotion, the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Savinov said. “This is strange behavior. Mr. Buzek should be known that since ancient Greece, sport has been outside politics,” the Savini reminded at a briefing on Thursday in Minsk.

Some members of the US Congress were allowed to see photos of the dead head of Al-Qaeda Osama Ben Laden . Republican Senator James Inhof, who was among the elect, said that he was shown 15 pictures of the corpse of a terrorist number one. 12 of them were made in the mansion in Abbottabad, where he was hiding, and the remaining three on the American ship from which Ben Laden's body was dropped into the sea, CNN reports.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the night before, upon completion of a working trip to Samara and Tolyatti, he arrived in Sochi and went to one of the city restaurants, where a rather large company was already waiting for him. At this informal meeting in the circle of like -minded people, the prime minister discussed the urgent issues of creating the All -Russian Popular Front, which he stated last week at the regional conference "EP" in Volgograd.

In Belarus, several participants in the mass riots were sentenced to imprisonment, which occurred in the center of the Belarusian capital on December 19, 2010 in connection with the re -election of Alexander Lukashenko to the post of president of the republic. The Court of the Moscow District of Minsk considered proven guilt of six accused of participating in the riots and sentenced them to deprivation of liberty for a term of three to three and a half years, Interfax reports.

Based on the results of the analysis of the regional database of Empirica, a list of 15 cities of Germany was compiled, where the number of residents renting housing, in percentage ratio, significantly exceeds the number of registered owners living in their own houses or apartments, writes Prian.ru . Despite the low interest rates on mortgages, German citizens, it seems, do not seek at all to settle in one place as soon as possible and get their own housing.