There is no reason to consider the ruble to be underestimated or overvalued, said the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev.

Law enforcement agencies of the People's Republic of China conduct a large -scale special operation to combat the mafia. The raids are held in 11 provinces. Thousands of bandits have already been arrested and 300 criminal groups have been eliminated, writes The China Daily with reference to the official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The level of drop in housing prices in Russia in the period from July 2010 to June 2011 was one of the most significant in the world: on average, residential real estate in Russia fell into a fellow 12.1%, losing to this indicator only the Irish market, the Knight Frank international consulting company says.

The famous French novelist Michel Welbek, the author of the "elementary particles", "Opportunities of the island" and awarded the Goncur Prize "Card and Territory", did not appear on the planned tour in the Netherlands and Belgium, RIA Novosti reports. The organizers of the writer’s tour hastened to declare his disappearance, but representatives of the Flamarion publishing house said they managed to contact Welbek, the Izvestia newspaper writes.

In Tver, the conference of the Fair Russia party at the Volga Hotel was disrupted. According to Rosbalt with reference to the press service of the local party department, on Friday in the afternoon the unknown called the regional department of the FSB and announced the terrorist attack in the hotel building.

On Friday in Russia, the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mobile platform will officially debut - sales of the first smartphone on this operating system begin. This is HTC Mozart, which appeared in Europe and the USA back in October 2010. The price of the device will be about 13 thousand rubles, at first it will be possible to buy it at MTS or Svyaznoy companies, RIA Novosti reports.

The new authorities of Libya said that their troops entered Sirt, the hometown of the overthrown leader of Jamahiria Muammar Gaddafi and one of the last strongholds of his supporters, BBC reports. The fighters broke through the defense of the city in the south and the west, about 8 km from the center, but, having met the serious resistance of the forces faithful to the colonel, retreated.

Unknown people stole three icons from the church located on the territory of the Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum in the Taldomsky district of the Moscow Region.

On Tuesday, in the south-west of Moscow, a student of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University Irina Artemova disappeared. After class, the girl had to go home, and since then no one has seen her. At the moment, volunteers are engaged in the searches of the missing Muscovite, who primarily comb the territories adjacent to the prestigious metropolitan university on the Sparrow Hills.

The NTV channel hastily released a special release of the emergency program. The investigation that devoted to a person who has split the party "right business". The film is called "Unprofitable." Famous in the Urals, Yevgeny Roizman, the head of the city without drugs, is a supporter of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.

Representatives of the Syrian opposition formed the authority to overthrow the current president of the country Bashar al -Assad. According to the satellite television channel AL-JAZeera, the new authority was called the "Syrian National Council". The decision on his institution was made following four-day negotiations in the Turkish city of Istanbul, ITAR-TASS reports. The Syrian National Council was created as a united opposition front front to Bashar al -Assad.

According to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, it is impossible without religion, but it should not command and intervene in political affairs. The head of the republic expressed this opinion in an interview published on Friday in an appendix to the Rossiy newspaper RG-Nedel, ITAR-TASS reports. “When religious figures begin to engage in politics,” said Minnikhanov.

Ilya Averbukh, a well -known skater, winner of the Olympic Games, was fined by employees of the metropolitan traffic police for 500 rubles for violation of traffic rules. As the press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said today, for riding with a copy of the CTP policy.

The European Research Company InSitesconsulting.eu calculated that more than 1 billion people now use various social networks around the world, or more than 70% of all Internet users, Prime-Tass reports with reference to Techniccrunch Technoblog. Therefore, analysts say, it will be difficult to attract users with new social media - about 60% of the participants of existing social networks said that they were not needed, and about 93% express their satisfaction with existing services.

In Magadan, the court found the blogger Pavel Konkov guilty of publicly inciting interethnic enmity on the Internet and sentenced him to 120 hours of mandatory public work, RIA Novosti told on Friday the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Magadan region.