The Russian aviation leasing company Ilyushin Finance KO (IFK) signed an agreement on Wednesday with the Canadian Bombardier Corporation on the purchase of 32 CS300 airliners with an option for another 10 of the same aircraft. The amount of the current contract is $ 2.56 billion. In the case of the implementation of the option, it will amount to $ 3.42 billion, the report on the website of the Canadian aircraft manufacturer said. The agreement was signed on the intent agreement in August 2011.

AMD has developed a TURBO DOCK technology designed to increase the performance of hybrid computers, which are a combination of a tablet and laptop, IXBT.com reports. When a hybrid computer operates in a tablet mode, Turbo Dock automatically reduces its power consumption to increase autonomous operation, and when connecting to the docking station and working in the AMD Turbo Dock desktop PC mode, the APU performance so that the user can run more demanding applications.

The 31-year-old Slovenian Admir Sulich, who has been on the run for more than a year in connection with charges of organizing contractual matches around the world, was arrested on Thursday by the police at Milan airport. According to Reuters, citing a statement by local law enforcement agencies, Sulich, who is considered an accomplice of the head of the syndicate for organizing contractual matches, did not buy a return ticket and arrived in Italy in order to surrender to the authorities.

A study conducted in the USA, Canada and Great Britain, which was attended by about 4,500 respondents, showed that the vast majority of consumers before buying goods or before applying for services to a particular company are studying reviews on the Internet, Interfax reports. 72% of respondents said they trusted the reviews and reviews posted on the Internet to the same extent as personal recommendations.

The operation of the King of Spain Juan Carlos I is scheduled for March 3. Spanish doctors will have to operate on the hernia of the intervertebral disk discovered by him, Interfax reports with reference to AP. Surgical treatment of intervertebral hernia is an extreme measure used in case of failure of conservative treatment, which is designed to take control of the pain syndrome. The operation will take place in one of Madrid's hospitals under the supervision of experienced surgeons.

One of the founders of the legendary rock band Soft Machine British musician Kevin Eyers died in France at the age of 68, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. The Soft Machine group, named after the novel by William Burrose, Soft Machine, was founded in 1966 and became one of the pioneers of psychedelic rock. In the first composition of this team, Eyers played on a bass guitar and acted as a vocalist. Two years after the American tour, he left the group and took up solo projects.

As a result of the mortar shelling of the stadium in Damascus, a 19-year-old Syrian football player, playing for the youth team of the country, died. A few more players were injured as a result of the attack of the "terrorists", the SANA state news agency reports. According to the Air Force , two shells on the eve exploded near the Tishrin stadium, at which the Al-Vathba and Al-Nvair teams were preparing to conduct a training session before the meeting as part of the League of Professionals.

The players of the Kazan Rubin on Thursday won a ticket to the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Europa League. In the return match against the Madrid "Atletico", which took place on the field of the Moscow Luzhniki stadium, the wards of Kurban Berdyev lost with a minimum account, but in the sum of two meetings were held the next round. The only goal in the return meeting after the solo passage of Adrian Lopez in the 84th minute was held by Radamel Falcao.

The Investigative Committee of Russia began a pre -investigation of the possible participation of two judges of the Moscow Arbitration Court in the raider seizure of the building in the center of the CTolitsa.

In the center of Damascus, the Russian embassy exploded a car that claimed the lives of dozens of people - according to Reuters, 31 civilians. The police managed to detain another alleged terrorist - a driver in a car full of heating batteries with explosives, Syrian agency Sana reports. The detainee found five explosive devices, each - weighing 300 kilograms, also reports SANA . The victims of the attack were passers -by, drivers of neighboring cars and schoolchildren.

Russian Nikita Kryukov became the owner of the gold medal of the world championship in ski sports, which started in the Italian Wil-Di-Femm. On Thursday, the Vancouver Olympic champion excited in an individual sprint race a classic style. The silver medal went to the Norwegian Peter Northugu, and the bronze was Canadian to Alex Harvey.

The ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma had to refute rumors about the detention at the airport. It turned out that the journalists faded not only the reason for the delay, but also the name of the airport. But this is smoke, and the fire is a statement by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office that Kuchma is still involved in the murder of opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000.

In the Kirov region, the murder of a newborn girl was revealed, whose body was found at a solid household waste training ground. Under suspicion - the 29 -year -old mother of the girl, who was allowed about the burden in the collector, after which she put the child on the angle of concrete overlap and threw the body to the landfill. It took three months to search for the alleged killer, according to the website of the Investigative Committee in the Kirov Region.

The frank statement of the head of the Russian Central Bank Sergey Ignatiev that 49 billion dollars had illegally flowed from the Russian Federation last year from the Russian Federation, caused interest in the West. The Financial Times recalls that, according to Ignatiev, more than half of the operations was controlled by a "well -organized group of persons." Ignatiev did not name the names of these faces.

The US postal service will begin to release its own fashionable fashion line. Thus, the department intends to at least partially cover the gigantic losses associated with its main activity, according to The Washington Post . It is assumed that clothes under the postal service brand will be called "Rain, Heat and Snow" (Rain, Heat & Snow). In all likelihood, this implies its compliance with any weather, ITAR-TASS notes.