The abolition of "mobile slavery" exacerbated the struggle between the largest communication operators for users - including state ones. According to Fontanka.Ru , from the summer of 2014, about 7.3 thousand Smolny officials will begin to serve MTS for the first time, who reduced the price of 77%to win in the corresponding order. In the Federation Council, the situation is the opposite - its members from the New Year are transferred from MTS to Megaphone.

Arkady Babchenko “The person who will give a press conference today is as straightforward as two or two. And just as predictable. Every step of his is predictable six months in advance. Everything with the amnesty was clear long before this amnesty appeared. Well, no one I really expected that Khodorkovsky would be released under an amnesty, right? And they were waiting for a third term. And a man with the straightforwardness of an ensign did not disappoint our expectations.

Angela Merkel, the other day for the third time fixing the chair of the German Chancellor, does not exclude the opportunity to come to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The final decision has not yet been made, they say in the apparatus of the head of Germany, but there is such a probability. If Frau Merkel nevertheless cuts in his working schedule for several days to visit Sochi games, then this trip will be her first visit to one of the most significant world sporting events as a chancellor.

In Moscow-City, the construction of the Vostok Tower of the Complex "Federation" was resumed. The project investor is Aeon Corporation (the main shareholder is Roman Trotsenko), and the lender is Sberbank. It is planned to finish the project by 2015, the Vedomosti reports. The Tower "The Federation" is one of the most famous projects of the Potok group (former Mirax Group), the founder of which was Sergey Polonsky.

"All this is happening against the backdrop of the fact that... the price of one trip on public transport (in particular, the metro) does not make any practical and economic sense. Are you surprised by this point of view? Surely it seems absurd to you. By the end of the post, you can change your opinion. But first, tell me the price of one trip by taxi, train or plane. You will say that this request is absurd, because the price of a trip on these types of transport depends on the distance.

The court found the two British Nigerian origin of Michael Adebodjo and Michael Adeboval guilty of a resonant case of the brutal murder of the British soldier Lee Rigby in London. The jury took their verdict in an hour and a half. Relatives of the deceased stated that they were satisfied with their decision, but noted that no justice would return their son, reports Sky News . Adebodjo and adode, however, were justified on charges of attempting a policeman who arrived at the place of tragedy.

To the joy of bold and self -critical users striving to self -improve in the social sphere, a unique application appeared - a controller of emotions and behavior during communication in the Google video chat. It is designed to make a person a less boring and not so bad interlocutor. An appendix called US+ analyzes what and how the user pronounces, quickly signaling if he does not hit any incorrect verbal wilds that reduce the overall quality of communication.

The Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory fined VKontakte for 4 thousand rubles for negative reviews of users about Oscar-Sib. The court decision is published in the file cabinet. In addition to the appointment of a fine, the court ordered VKontakte to delete records that defeat the business reputation of the ITS company. The posts were published in the Oscar -Sib communities - scammers and business ideas in March 2012, Tjournal reports.

The teenager Jordan Cox from the British county Essex gathered hundreds of coupons with which he bought products for 600 pounds, while paying only four pence. On the eve of Christmas, the 16-year-old Briton decided to transfer products to the organization that supports poor families, Mirror reports. The "Dome Hunter" picked up discounts, the total number of which was 99.9%. To do this, Cokes plowed the open spaces of the Internet and participated in the promotions held by shops.

The 41-year-old New Jersey veteran Yaromir Yagr in the match against Ottawa (5: 2) abandoned the puck in the majority, which became victorious, and at the same time “moved” the current General Manager of Tampa and Canada of Steve Aizerman in the list of the best snipers. Now the YAGR takes the eighth line of this rating, having 693 goals on the account, and Yaromir can rise in seventh place very soon - he lacks only one goal to Messias Mess.

The Russian scientist and teacher Viktor Grokhovsky is included in an honorary list of 10 people who conducted significant research for science in 2013, compiled by one of the most authoritative public -scientific journals of the world Nature . The Ural scientist was awarded such an honor for the study of the Chebarkul meteorite.

The Bereznikovsky City Court of the Perm Territory found guilty of the propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi attributes the editorial office of the Bereznikovsky Worker newspaper, in one of the issues of which an article was posted with a photograph of girls from Hitler Yugen, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office said.

“The father of the young ruler, who died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il, did not like public trials. However, in 1997, he executed the Secretary of the Central Committee for Agriculture, holding him responsible for the massive famine in the country, as a result of which, according to an estimated million people died. The purges and executions in this case continued, according to some sources, until 2000.

Investigators of the Pskov region opened a criminal case against the villager, who is suspected of killing their daughter. The attacker brutally beat the girl right on the street. From the injuries she died at the scene. Under the investigation was a 40-year-old resident of the village of Kunya, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation. The suspect is married and is a large father, but lives separately from relatives.

The monument to the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is opened on Wednesday evening in Cairo. A bust of the work of the Egyptian sculptor of Osama al-series is installed in the garden of the Egyptian opera, ITAR-TASS reports. On the stage of this largest theater in the Middle East, in the troupe and in the orchestra of which many Russians and citizens of the CIS work, the ballets "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty" are regularly placed.