The sports arbitration court (CAS) disqualified for two years the famous bike lover, Yana Ulrich for his participation in a doping scandal. According to the decision published on Thursday, the 38-year-old athlete was disqualified for 2 years since August 22, 2011.

The voice assistant Siri, to which Apple equips the iPhone 4s smartphones, is about to learn new languages. Among them, Russian, Japanese, as well as the Mandarinsky dialect of the Chinese language, reports Vesti.ru . According to some reports, the Siri linguistic abilities will expand in the next month. Such data was informally shared by one of the Apple specialists working on the implementation of Chinese support. Currently, Siri "knows" only English, German and French.

On Wednesday evening, a metropolitan car service broke out on Antonov -Ovsienko Street. In a matter of minutes, the flame was seized not only by the first floor, where there was actually a repair workshop and a car dealership, but also four more floors of the building that were given to offices. The fire flared up after the end of the working day, so there were no casualties. But new cars could not be saved, according to KP .

The Russian media commented on the on the eve of Moscow, the meeting of the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin with representatives of various religions of Russia. Recall that the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill suggested organizing such a meeting.

China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia are no longer related to developing countries, as the head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management Jim O'NIN, who once came up with the term Bric. These markets, which so far, however, cannot be attributed to industrial powers, he proposes to name Growth 8. According to O'Nele, the aggregate GDP of these eight countries will be about a third of the world economy by 2020.

The borrower who received a consumer loan will be able to change his mind and return the money to the bank after two weeks, paying the interest on the days past from the moment the loan is received. Such an opportunity is provided for by amendments to the Civil Code, Interfax reports.

The situation in the Russian army, despite the reform , continues to be difficult. Crime is growing, and the damage from corruption over the past year exceeded three billion rubles. Each third criminal act committed by the military in 2011 is associated with corruption. Almost half of them are fraud and officials, more than a third - bribery, abuse and abuse of authority, said the deputy general of the prosecutor of the Russian Federation - the chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky.

The Supreme Court of Spain found guilty of illegal listening to telephone conversations by Judge Balthasar Garson and forbade him to engage in legal activities for 11 years, Reuters reports. The decision was made unanimously, and he will not be able to appeal to this sentence.

The governor of the Assumption Pochaevsky Lavra, Archbishop of Pochaevsky, visited Vladimir Pochaevsky on the eve of the first hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir (Sabodan) in the hospital, where he undergoes a rehabilitation course.

The decision of the head coach of the England national football team Fabio Capello to leave his post with dignity admiration, said the former Vice President of FIFA and ex-president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov. On Wednesday evening, at the Wembley stadium, a meeting of Capello, the head of the Football Association of England (FA) David Bernstine and the Secretary General of Alex Khorn, took place.

The mission of observers of the League of the Arab states (LAG) will return to Syria to continue work. This was announced on Thursday by the Secretary General of the UN Pan Hi Moon, speaking to journalists. According to him, he had a telephone conversation with the head of Lag Nabil al-Arabi, during which they discussed the situation in Syria, ITAR-TASS reports. "Al -Arabi said that the mission of observers will return to Syria. For this, he turned to the UN for help," said pan Gi Moon.

The Ukrainian Milk Alliance Holding declares production stopping at one of its enterprises - the Piryatinsky cheese in the Poltava region - after its products were banned in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. Rospotrebnadzor instructed its territorial departments to seize the cheeses of three Ukrainian manufacturers from the turnover, which do not correspond to the technical regulations of the Russian Federation for milk and dairy products.

The traffic police published an accident rate for 2011. For the first time in five years in Russia, mortality in accidents began to increase - growth amounted to 5.2% compared to 2010. The number of accidents increased by 0.2%, the number of wounded in accidents is 0.5%. "Kommersant" recalls that the emergency on the roads began to drop sharply after 2007, when fines for traffic violations were tightened.

The head of the Department of Information Security of DigitalSecurity, Alexei Sintsov, spoke about the vulnerability in the postal service of the company "Yandex", found during the competition declared by the Rossiyan search engine last fall.

In the Ulyanovsk region, a sentenger is sentenced to a fraudster, who received insurance payments by staging his own injuries. For this, an entrepreneurial doctor used X -ray pictures of his patients. By a court decision, the doctor Igor Kubasov from Ulyanovsk was sentenced to one year and 10 months of restriction of freedom, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Vasily region.