World car sales in 2014 will rise to 85 million units from 82 million expected this year, Finmarket reports with reference to the IHS Automotive forecast. In the next few years, the car concerns, which have practically recovered after a great recession, will be able to take advantage of both the increase in demand in the United States and a faster growth beyond their borders, the Detroit News publication notes.

The leader of the Corrosion of Metal group Sergei Pauk Troitsky, who recently announced his intention to run for mayor of Novosibirsk after an unsuccessful attempt to become mayor of Moscow , was removed from the train in Ukraine along with the cats, with which he planned to carry out a very unusual action - to release the convicted ex -Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko from the Kharkov hospital, according to the blog of the musical collective.

“Friday evening, an expensive gas station, me, getting out of a brand new Range Rover. Well, how can you not help in such a situation? There’s already a line behind me, the decision needs to be made quickly, and not stand on the street between the gas station and the cash register. Shake your head and walk past ? Or... On Tverskaya I promised half a kingdom for a glass of gasoline, it could happen to everyone. Eh, I wasn’t, I’ll give the man a chance. - Refuel or money?

Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko announced his intention to win the title of heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Council (WBC), which until recently belonged to his older brother Vitaly. “Of course, my goal is to return the WBC title to Klitschko’s family,” the 37 -year -old heavyweight champion in the other four prestigious versions of professional boxing said in an interview with Bild’s newspaper.

As soon as Vladimir Putin announced a course to deofshorization of the economy in his message to the Federal Assembly , as large Russian companies made statements that fit into a new state concept. We are talking about Rusal, RusHydro and Kamaz.

In Europe, they do not interfere with the signing of an agreement on the Association with Ukraine in the recent agreements of Kiev and Moscow. According to the head of European diplomacy, Katherine Ashton, the agreements reached during the negotiations of the presidents Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin will not affect the signing of the association document. She noted that the EU is still waiting for Ukraine’s actions, Interfax reports. Meanwhile, protest promotions continue on the Maidan.

The Pension Fund of Russia reported on the results of 2013. Unexpected in the FIU report were indicators on the state pension co -financing program. It turned out that this year the average payment for one participant amounted to 12,576 rubles. According to Kommersant , before citizens have not paid so much: the average payment for all the years of the program existed (since 2009) is 6.2 thousand rubles.

In 2014, Ukraine intends to import 30-33 billion cubic meters of gas, it is now more profitable for the country to buy it from Russia, the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Eduard Stavitsky said. At the same time, Ukraine reserves the right to raise the issue of reducing the price of Russian gas. "Regarding the issue of revising the quarterly - we reserved the right to discuss this issue to reduce the price.

In the Chelyabinsk region, two law enforcement officers were sentenced to death in the death of a man who suffered from a disorder of the psyche. Trying to detain the mentally ill, barricaded in the bathhouse, the police began to smoke him with "Nazi methods." As a result, the victim was mortally poisoned in an impromptu gas chamber.

The Federal Police of Australia froze more than 29 million Australian dollars (approximately $ 26 million), transferred to the accounts of the country's banks by citizens of Russia. According to investigators, these funds were received by criminal means, the Australian television and radio corporation ABC reports. According to police, money was transferred from Siberia to accounts of 24 Australia banks through China and Hong Kong since 2011.

The metropolitan police detained a man suspected of beating a foreigner. A senior employee of the diplomatic department of Spain is undergoing victims of the criminal case. It also turned out that the attacker arranged a brawl right at the embassy after he was deported from the Pyrenee Peninsula. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . A 42-year-old resident of the Bryansk region is suspected of an attack on the chief of protection of the Spanish embassy.

The debt for electricity consumption in the North Caucasus increased in 2013 by 5 billion rubles to 24 billion rubles, and for gas-up to 50 billion rubles, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the Government Commission on the Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District. "The total debt of guaranteeing suppliers to suppliers of the wholesale electricity market is 24 billion rubles. The growth is almost 5 billion rubles.

Former Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, who began to get acquainted with the criminal case on the negligence of negligence on the eve, may not bother himself with reading - the interest of the investigation towards him will still be faded away. About this, as the Kommersant newspaper writes, sources informed about the progress of the investigation are said.

The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu commented on the recent news in the German press that Russia had placed about a dozen Iskander-M missile systems in Kaliningrad in Kaliningrad, as well as along the border with the Baltic countries. “Where we want, we put it there,” the minister said. According to Shoigu, Iskander OTRK can be placed in Russia in absolutely any place, Interfax reports.

17-year-old student Sam McNair from the American city of Duluth (Georgia) was suspended for a year from classes for “sexual harassment” of a teacher whom he hugged. The student himself explained his action with kindness. "You never know what's going on in someone's mind. Even a hug can help," McNair said in an interview with CNN . CCTV footage released to the public shows the student hugging the teacher, but she immediately pushes him away.