The International Monetary Fund (IMF) fully fulfills its functions, and the resignation of Dominic Struss-Kana did not interfere with this, the acting head of the Foundation John Lipski said on Thursday evening. “This is an illusion - to believe that the whole institute (IMF) was an organization of one person, no matter how talented he was,” Lipski said, answering questions after a speech on Thursday evening at the Peterson Washington Institute, RIA Novosti reports.

In the jungle of the Amazon, a tribe was found, which has no idea about time - the corresponding words are simply absent in the language of the Amondava Indians. The language of the Indians of Amondava can describe the events taking place in time, but it is powerless to describe the time itself as a separate concept, explains the BBC .

The Presidential Affairs Management will not pay compensation on the pre -trial order Elena Yarosh, who recently was officially recognized as the victim in an accident with the participation of the Monk President of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of Harry Minh in January of this year.

In the Chunsky district of the Irkutsk region, the metal tears were detained who disassembled the bridge. According to the press service of the district police department, two local residents, deciding to earn money on the surrender of scrap metal, arrived at the bridge over the Chuksha River and began to remove cast-iron lattices installed on the drainage holes of the bridge one after another.

The creation of an emergency call system for operational services on a single number 112 in Russia was actually broken, said Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov at a meeting of the Government Commission on Transport and Communications on Friday. It was not the first time that the deputy Putin had an unpleasant duty to announce the next collapse of the country's ambitious plans.

Today, the Court of the Leninsky district of the city of Kirov passed a conviction against the driver of the trolleybus of the first route Marina Nogina. She was found guilty of an accident, as a result of which 13-year-old Alisa Suvorov died, and was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in a colony-settlement, reports Newsler.ru .

The President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) Joseph Blatter admitted that the results of the investigation within the organization can lead to a revision of voting results to determine the country - mistress of the World Cup 2022, where Qatar defeated. This is written by the newspaper Independent .

The candidates of experts capable of heading the Russian national hockey team have already been discussed, but the final decision will remain for the executive committee of the Russian Hockey Federation (FCH).

The Omsk miniaturist Anatoly Konenko and his son Stanislav made a miniature copy of the Bas-guitars of the Scorpions group from unusual materials, Interfax reports. The size of the model itself is 9.9 mm, the guitar body is made of a mammoth tusk, the vulture is from a cactus needle, a string - from gold. Metal details of the guitar are made of gold and silver, according to a miniaturist in his blog . The SCORPIONs logo is lined with gold balls.

NATO fighters last night destroyed eight ships of the Libyan Navy. This is stated in today's statement of the North Atlantic Alliance. The ships were attacked in the ports of Tripoli, El Hums and Sirte. The NATO statement states that this operation was carried out "to protect the civilian population and ensure the security of the alliance at sea." Meanwhile, the regular troops of Libya continue to shell the positions of the rebels in the third largest city in the country of Misurata.

The international team of scientists approached the disclosure of the greatest astronomical riddle: specialists have proved the presence of dark energy, which, as previously, was established, about 74% of the entire universe, the BBS reports. The first results of their research, which covered more than 200 galaxies, were published in the monthly notes of the British Royal Astronomical Society Bulletin.

In the State Duma, within a month, the chamber of amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offenses aimed at combating hooligan antics at football matches will be prepared and submitted to the Chamber. “In my opinion, the government could be the subject of the legislative initiative, ” Interfax quotes the chairman of the mass football committee and the development programs of the RFU Sergey Shishkarev.

In Minsk, the next former presidential candidates was sentenced to rivals Alexander Lukashenko. If last week Andrei Sannikov received five years of a strengthened regime, then this Friday the verdict came out not so harsh. According to Interfax , the famous poet Vladimir Neklyaev, as well as the political and public figure Vitaly Rymashevsky, were sentenced to each to two years in prison - with a delay of two years.

Archnadzor’s public movement proposes to allocate the Middle Rails located between Varvarka and Ilyinka under the depository of the Moscow Kremlin (MMK). Archnadzor offers a very specific site, in our opinion, convenient. These are the middle shops on Red Square in the quarter between Ilyinka and Barbarka, ”said the coordinator of the movement of Rustam Rakhmatullin on Friday at a press conference. His words are given by Interfax agency.

Manual price management in the fuel market does not help stabilize the situation, no matter how much this would like. The day before, the head of the government of the Republic of Tuva called on the Federal Center to assist and solve the problems of providing the region with gasoline. The cost of automobile fuel in the republic jumped up to 50 rubles per liter . But even at such prices, local restrictions on gasoline vacation were introduced, Independent Gazeta writes on Friday.