On the Internet there was a video with threats to destroy Facebook, the world's largest social network, for an irresponsible attitude to personal data of users, RIA Novosti reports. The authors of the video are allegedly hackers from the Anonymous group, who was known thanks to the active support provided by the WikiLeaks scandalous website last year. How exactly they intend to destroy Facebook is not specified.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev requires all ministries and departments to post all the information on the Internet, this even applies to the Ministry of Defense, the FSB and the FSO. The head of state instructed the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications to Igor Schegolev to follow how officials post information about their work on the Internet, and signed decrees regulating access to information, Interfax reports.

The Gomez Research Center, the Compuware division, called Chrome the fastest browser, reports CNews.ru . The browser from Google took first place in the real speed of downloading sites during a new study to measure the speed of downloading websites from users of various browsers. Within a month, researchers have analyzed more than 1.8 billion downloads of about 200 resources. Experts emphasize that they analyzed, based on how browsers work for real users, and not in laboratory conditions.

These days, the visible part of the work on the roof of the "ominous" building of the FSB on Lubyanskaya Square is ending. The seriousness of the institution prevents even the most daring defenders of the capital to ask if the Federal Service has permission to carry out work on this architectural monument. An independent newspaper tells about an attempt to find out.

A huge block of ice, which suddenly began to fall into the water on the coast of Alaska, frightened tourists who were on board the yacht running in those places, nearly damaging the ship, the British newspaper The Daily Mail reports. Cruises along the coast of Alaska, as well as swimming in the warm waters of the Caribbean, are popular among wealthy tourists - not everyone choose the warm sea and the sun of the southern seas, many are attracted to the inexpressible charm of the North.

The volatile state of financial markets should be perceived as normal in the foreseeable future, commented on the air of RIA Novosti on the world's radio station on the world's stock markets, and Russia in particular, the director of macroeconomic research of the Higher School of Economics, the former first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Aleksashenko.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International recognized the Russian opposition Sergei Udaltsov , sentenced by the Moscow court to 15 days of arrest, a prisoner of conscience. Human rights activists demand his immediate release, BBC reports.

The chairman of the Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) on ethics, ex-president of Chechnya ALU Alkhanov resigned from his post due to lack of time. According to him, about a week ago, he sent the corresponding letter to the President of the RFU Sergey Fursenko.

A resident of Vancouver posted on the Internet portal of free ads Craigslist a message that he was ready to become a personal dinosaur for a person who would give him his house. The announcement is worthy to bring it entirely, writes Prian.ru , quoting the text: “This proposal is not for everyone. Those who have put it all your life on a penny for the initial contribution and work around the clock for the sake of payments on a mortgage, I praise for efforts - however, this post is not for you.

The Russian national team on Wednesday in a friendly match at the metropolitan stadium Lokomotiv with a minimum score replayed the national team of Serbia. The only ball in this meeting in the 53rd minute was scored by the forward of the German Stuttgart Pavel Pogrebnyak. In general, the game went in an equal struggle, while the rivals failed to create a large number of dangerous moments.

In the UK, Wednesday night has become the first relatively calm lately. The streets of London, where 16 thousand police officers were brought to the hooligans and looters, was relatively calm, although it was reported about explosions of unknown origin in the Tottenham area, where last Saturday and unrest began. Sporadic riots flashed in the areas and suburbs of Manchester and Birmingham, as well as in Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Liverpool, Leicester and Gloucester.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday during a visit to the archaeological excavation on the site of the ancient Greek city of Fanagoria helped science - he sank to the bottom of the Taman Bay, from where he immediately raised two amphoras, Interfax reports. Note that the prime minister was incredibly lucky, and now it is difficult to overestimate his contribution to science.

The twenty -second participant in the competition of the Venice Film Festival will be Life Without Principle Hong Kong Johnny, RIA Novosti reports. The director announced his new film as follows: "There is only one way to survive in this raging world - to accept the rules of the game.

The ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, unable to get release from arrest in the court, equips life in Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center and establishes contacts with his cellmates. According to her wife Alexander Tymoshenko, she has no personal conflicts with women who are sitting with her in the same cell. Moreover, she already weaned one of them to smoke. Earlier it was reported that Tymoshenko very annoyed tobacco smoke.

The states that are part of the Association of Southeast Asian states (ASEAN) have every chance of becoming engines of the world economy instead of experiencing economic problems of the United States and Europe, said Chairman ASEAN BUDONO. In his opinion, RIA Novosti reports, ASEAN countries are now in a much better position.