The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, increased by 4.27 kopecks and amounted to 29.2079 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 grew by 16.67 kopecks - to 38,7666 rubles.

The Frenchman Jean-Marie Geneto was appointed deputy special representative of the UN and the League of the Arab states (LAG) for the Syrian settlement of Kofi Annan . This was reported by the UN press service. From 2000 to 2008, Geno was Deputy Secretary General of the UN for peacekeeping operations, and then taught at the Columbia University in New York, ITAR-TASS reports. Now Annan will have two deputies.

Investigators are trying to establish all the circumstances of the death of a 14-year-old student of the ninth grade of one of the capital's schools of Juliana Shekov, who went out of the 12th floor of a residential building on the eight of the night on a Molodogvardeiskaya street in the west of Moscow. Eyewitnesses of the tragedy argue that three teenagers who arranged violent showdowns came to the body of an instantly deceased girl from the entrance.

A decrease in duties on used foreign cars in connection with Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization will lead to a decline in sales of new budget cars in domestic assembly. AvtoVAZ will suffer the most, and the total demand will decrease by 20%, Vedomosti reports with reference to the forecast of the general director of the Russian office Renault Bruno Anseline.

Recently, the Russian authorities have started talking about the need to develop tourism in Russia. One of the most ambitious plans is the project established in 2010 in 2010 by the development of the North Caucasian cluster worth more than 600 billion rubles and designed for nine years. Within the framework of the program, six world -class resorts in different regions of the Caucasus should be built.

In the Assumption Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, on the eve of the blessing of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Vladimir, chaired by the Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol Ilarion, took place the first meeting of the Commission for the preparation of changes and additions to the charter on the management of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (editors of 2007).

Politicians and the media discussed by the State Duma in the second - mainly - reading amendments to the Law "On Political Parties", initiated by the departing president. Representatives of the opposition factions in the Duma are confident that such a radical decrease in the bar for the creation and registration of the party (from 40 thousand to 500 people) will destroy the existing political system of the country, since it will lead to the emergence of "parties-clones" .

In the Stavropol Territory, the police detained the Mattery Criminal, who was arranged by a brawl in the Pokrovsky Cathedral of Nevinnomyssk. The aggressive parishioner burst into the church monastery with a knife in his hands, began to destroy icons and religious relics, and also defeated the clergyman. A 22-year-old non-working local resident is suspected of hooliganism, who is charged with Article 330 ("Arcting") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, NTV reports.

In Nikolaev, the investigators searched the apartment where the rape of the 18-year-old Oksana Makar, which they then tried to burn alive, occurred. As a result, important evidence was obtained against the alleged rapists with ties in political circles. Most of the suspects were initially released and only a scandal that rose due to public protests led to the activation of the investigation.

Activist of the Blue Vederok, whom the driver of the head of the Ministry of Emergencies by car with a miletka demanded to let himself forward on a speakerphone, threatening to shoot in the head, deprived the driver’s license for two months. He did not go forward a police car with a milek turned on. Andrei himself claims that he was taken into a “box”, and he simply could not let the police pass. The court’s decision is reported in his Livejournal Coordinator of Daniil Lindel.

A native of Sierra Leone John Onhez , who recently received citizenship of Moldova, temporarily turned into a sight of the capital. According to Reuters, he settled in bed in front of the government building demanding to give him housing. A supporter of the unification of Moldova and Romania, 53-year-old, was covered by a banner of the Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Vladimir Filat and threatens to sleep here until he achieved the desired.

The Italian real estate market doused the next wave of a debt crisis, which extremely increased the attractiveness of the minimum meter in the central regions of large cities. As Prian.ru notes with reference to the publication Corriere Della Sera. In the center of Rome, the cost of mini-studios, with an area of ​​not more than 10 square meters. m, can be from 40,000 to 70,000 euros.

The New York court issued the “last warning” to the winner of the Miss Russia-98 Beauty contest and the semi-finalist of the Miss Universe competition, Anna Malova, accused of fake medical prescriptions and store thefts. Currently, Malova is undergoing a 18-month course of treatment for drug addiction in a rehabilitation clinic in the New York district of Bronx, if the criminal case may be terminated against it in case of successful passage.

26-year-old Regina Shimkut, on the account of which 28 official matches and 102 abandoned balls for the national team of Ukraine, decided to play for the Russian national team. The head coach of the Ukrainian national team Leonid Ratner, commenting on the situation with Regina, told the press service of the Russian Handball Federation (FSU) that she was lost for the Shimkuta team - she became a Russian woman, reports Newsru.ua .

Two weeks passed after the presidential election on March 4, but in addition to talking about mass violations, no significant attempts to challenge their results in court are observed. The complaints are filed, but the number of “stolen” or “drawn” votes in an all -Russian scale indicated in them has no weight and is incapable of radically to influence the election result.