Residents of Moscow and the region will have a new test of traffic jams: from February 15, the reconstruction of the Baltic federal highway will begin - it is also the Novorizhskoye Shosse. The site from the Moscow Ring Road to the Moscow Small Ring with a length of 33 kilometers will be repaired and expanded for three years - until the end of March 2015.

In the third quarter of last year, 25 thousand fakes were identified, in the second quarter - 24.13 thousand, in the first quarter - 22.8 thousand, that is, in 2011 94.57 thousand fake bills were identified. Earlier it was reported that in 2010, the banks of the Russian Federation revealed 128.7 thousand fake banknotes, so in 2011 this indicator fell by 26.5% after a decrease by 17% in 2010 and 16% growth in 2009, the website "Personal Money" notes.

The largest social network of the VKontakte Runet will finally move to the vk.com domain in the very near future. A few days earlier, the social network changed its logo on VK.com to a more modern website, and its creator and leader Pavel Durov, during her recent performance in Munich at the Digital Life Design conference, called his social network a new name - VK, pronouncing it as “Vikei”. Users entering the "old" address vkontakte.ru will soon begin to automatically redirect to vk.com.

AvtoVAZ will increase the recommended retail prices for LADA cars on January 30, the company's press service reports. On average, the increase will be 2.4%. It is due to the increase in costs last year, when AvtoVAZ has prepared production for the transition to the production of LADA cars that meet the ecological standard Euro-4. In addition, excise taxes associated with the power of the engines used have increased.

During the autumn call of 2011 (however, like the spring), not a single conscript from the Chechen Republic was included in the army, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vasily Smirnov. But the military is still satisfied - there are more soldiers with higher education.

The structures of entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov, who are running for president of Russia , continue to consolidate the banking business of Renaissance Group. Following the 50 percent package in the Investbank "Renaissance Capital", a 30 percent package in the Renaissance Credit retail bank also departs to them.

The passenger of flight 806 Novosibirsk - Moscow, who in the evening of January 25 went from the Tolmachevo International Airport, accused Aeroflot of willingness to detain ordinary citizens for the convenience of a senior federal official. That flight, as it turned out, was flew by the Minister of Communications Igor Schegolev, but he was late by the beginning of the landing, which is why the plane was idle on the field.

The midfielder of the Kazan Rubin Christian Noboa moved to the Moscow Dynamo. The official website of the team from the capital of Tatarstan informed about signing the transfer agreement between the Premier League clubs. The financial aspects of the deal do not cover the financial aspects of the transaction. According to media reports, the market value of this player is about 8 million euros . It is expected that he will sign a contract with a new club for three years.

A source from among the employees of the contracting company Foxconn, which assembles Apple mobile devices, told Taiwanese journalists that production of the new iPhone will begin in the very near future, and the launch of the new model is possible in the summer, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the tech blog 9to5mac . According to the source, there are several ready-made samples of the gadget, and which of them will be put into production is still unknown.

The costs of preparing the 2012 Olympic Games in London are five times higher than the figures initially specified in the victory of the application in 2005. This follows from the financial investigation released on Thursday by Sky News . According to the channel, the cost of games will be more than 12 billion pounds. At the same time, additional expenses can increase this figure to 24 billion, which will 10 times higher than the initial information.

In the Republic of Dagestan, a man taken hostage himself dealt with one of the criminals, killing him from his own pistol. The victim of the abductors was a resident of Derbent born in 1977, which was held in one of the city sports halls, according to the official website of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was established that the man was stolen on Tuesday by two attackers of 1971 and 1985. The criminals expected to receive a ransom of 2 million rubles for his release.

The online publication Life News provoked a new conflict with the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov had to comment on a new article about how he rested on the New Year's holidays in the company of a young girl had time to deal with his offenders about the publication of his “abnormal” telephone conversations .

The organizers of the “White Ring” campaign - “Voter League”, promised to present the prize for the best design of the car on the rally “for fair elections!”, Which will be held on Sunday on January 29 in Moscow. The initiator was the famous blogger Ilya Varlamov . To participate in the action, you need to decorate the car with white and go to the garden ring on January 29 from 14:00 to 16:00. “Unfortunately, it is likely that the action will not be spectacular enough.

Recently, protectionist sentiments have increased significantly in the global economy, which are harmful to the interests of free trade, said the CEO of the WTO Pascal Lami in Davos. According to him, in the coming year, serious efforts will be required to fight protectionism, which only increases nervousness in the global economy, which is already suffering from the growth of unemployment and other negative factors, the Banka.Ru portal reports.

The Moscow authorities agreed on two more many thousands of shares on Saturday, February 4 - on Poklonnaya Gora and Sakharov Avenue, with a total number of participants up to 45 thousand people. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said on Thursday the deputy mayor of the capital, Alexander Gorbenko. Earlier, the Moscow City Hall allowed representatives of the opposition on February 4 to hold the next campaign "For honest elections".