The balance between the number of universities produced by universities and market needs in labor resources should be determined by the government together with the Ministry of Education and Science, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday during communication with regional journalists.

The Japanese loner Mao Assada became the best at the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix series on figure skating, ahead of three Russians - Alena Leonov, Adelina Sotnikova and Sofu Biryukova. The Japanese woman, who was leading after the short program, showed the best result - 118.96 points - both in an arbitrary and a total amount of 183.25 points took first place.

For a decade, a fraudster lived calmly in the UK, who pretended to be a disabled person chained for bed. In total, the 37-year-old Mohamed Buzalim managed to get almost 400 thousand pounds in the form of social benefits from the state (about 640 thousand dollars), as well as a three-room apartment in London. Arriving in June 2001 at Khitrovo airport from Morocco, Buzalim introduced himself to the British authorities as a native of Afghanistan.

At least 24 people were hospitalized and several arrested in the United States as a result of incidents and brawls in supermarkets on the occasion of unprecedented trade discounts, known as Black Friday, the American media reported. The US retail chains of this Friday opened the doors earlier than usual - most at midnight, while others even at 10 o’clock in the evening of Thursday.

In the most popular Russian social network "VKontakte" a group was created for those who want to sang Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a concert in St. Petersburg "Boys, you do not need it." It is assumed that the prime minister will visit him on Saturday evening, although the prime minister did not come to a similar campaign in the Moscow Olympic.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, contrary to previously declared plans, did not come to St. Petersburg for the concert "No drugs! No to anabolics!". But the hall whistled without this - the deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak welcomed those who wanted to. According to Fontanka.ru , during his performance in the CC Hall, filled with youth, unknown unexpectedly began to scatter leaflets, a whistle was heard from all sides.

The Moscow City Court removed the arrest from the property of Anastasia Kaganskaya - the wife of the former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and now the entrepreneur Maxim Kagansky . At the same time, the court forbade her and other parties to dispose of the apartment No.

Players of the National Basketball Association and club owners reached an agreement and in the near future will sign a new collective agreement, said NBA commissioner David Stern, quoted by AR. On Friday, representatives of the Trade Union of players and club owners held another round of negotiations, which lasted more than 15 hours.

In the 32nd round of the country's football championship in Krasnodar, the local Kuban and the capital's “Spartak” tied with a score of 1: 1. The owners were ahead after the first half: in the 37th minute, Traore was a great blow. However, the guests managed to recoup: when the arbiter of the meeting was already stealthily glancing at a stopwatch, the defender of Spartak, Evgeny Makeev, restored equality with a spectacular blow through himself.

The Zagreb house of the attacker of the Croatian national football team and the Donetsk Shakhtar, Eduardo da Silva, was arrested by bailiffs, and the football player’s accounts are frozen, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the Croatian publication Sportske Novosti .

The European Estrack network tracking station, located in the Australian city of Peret, once again failed to contact the Fobos-Grunnt, which was stuck in the near-Earth orbit of the Russian interplanetary station. “We did not receive telemetry,” the head of the representative office of the European Space Agency in Russia Rene Pishel told Interfax . The attempt to communicate with the spacecraft undertaken on Saturday was the last one this week, Pishel said.

The driver of the presidential assistant, Jakhan Pollyeva, 47-year-old Yuri Novoseltsev gave the first interview after the accident on the Warsaw highway, which was killed by 19-year-old student Albert Salchak. Novoseltsev claims that he got into such a serious accident for the first time in 30 years, was sober, and there was no chance to prevent the accident. But Salchak could be saved.

The official contract for holding a match for a chess crown between the world champion Indian Vishwanatan Anand and a contender from Israel Boris Gelfand was signed in the capital of Russia in Moscow, the R-Sport agency reports. The document was signed by the President of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the head of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Chess Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, world champion Vishvanatan Anand and a contender for the title Boris Gelfand.

Before the match “Kuban” - “Spartak” (Moscow) in Krasnodar, which will take place today, weather forecasters are unanimous in their forecast: football players and fans are waiting for the minus air temperature. But this fact, judging by the dynamics of the sale of tickets, will not become an obstacle to the arrival of a large number of fans, especially since everyone in the stands is waiting for a small bonus from the club: free hot tea.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened with dismissal for employees of the Ministry of Defense and defense enterprises, if in 2012 they again delayed the formation of a state defense order. The president called for stiffness in a different field of high technology, saying that for space accidents it can be held accountable up to criminal, if there is a clear fault.