In accordance with the adopted law regulating the work of casinos and slot machines halls, more than 500 gambling establishments will be closed in Moscow in the next two months. According to the deputy metropolitan mayor Joseph Ordzhonikidze, more than 80% of all such metropolitan institutions, and there are more than 1.3 thousand of them, function in violation of the corresponding procedure.

Parents of the murdered nine -year -old Tajik girl of Khurshed Sultonova filed a cassation complaint about the verdict of the City Court of St. Petersburg. “Throughout the process, the lawyers of the defendants constantly stated that evidence of the guilt of their clients were obtained illegally. The jury seemed to be the idea that law enforcement agencies simply knocked out evidence and recognition.

Israeli doctors decided to postpone the surgical operation to the country's prime minister Ariel Sharon, planned for today, the Air Force reports. The operation should have been carried out to restore the fragment of the skull removed during the previous surgery. However, it was postponed due to an infection found in the respiratory tract of Sharon 78-year-old Ariel Sharon is still in a coma from January 4, when he suffered a severe stroke; There are no significant changes in its state.

Today, the 7th International Conference “Modernization of the Economics and the State” was held in the State Unitary Enterprise . The reporting Minister of Education and Science, Andrei Fursenko, said that the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation plans to increase the financing of research and development work (R&D) to the level of 2% of GDP by 2009. It reports about it Rosbalt .

World sales of digital music continue to grow - in 2005, the income of recording companies from the sale of this type of product through the Internet reached $ 1.1 billion. According to the report of the International Alliance of Babert's Manufacturers (IFPI), in 2004 this figure was $ 400 million, writes Company . The total number of tracks sold through the network and services for mobile phones increased from 160 million pieces to 470 million units.

"Pragmatist of culture" on Polit.ru opens a new topic of the month - the market of educational services. The comprehensive school and the Institute of Private Tutivation, the publication of training manuals and the production of stationery, school uniforms and software, international and Russian language tests - about all these types of services, up to musical education, will be discussed in April materials from Polit.ru.

Today, Gazprom once again confirmed the seriousness of its intentions regarding the increase in gas prices for Belarus. The deputy chairman of Gazprom’s board Alexander Ryazanov said that since 2007 the company will increase the price of gas for Belarus by 3 times (now it is $ 46.68 per thousand cubic meters). Ryazanov noted that among the CIS countries, Belarus remains the only state to which Gazprom supplies gas at a price equal to the conditions of 2005.

Grigory Gritsenko Within the framework of the “Public Lectures“ Polit.ru ”cycle, without exaggeration, one of the most interesting economic reports was held without exaggeration. Its author, Leonid Waldman, lives and works in the United States for a long time, therefore it has the most complete information about the state of this world's largest market, the dynamics of which affects all other local markets.

Previously, doctors believed that the cause of glaucoma is high eye pressure, squeezing the visual nerve. But, as it turned out, the fault of the neurodegenerative process, spreading from the patient's optic nerve to healthy brain cells. This means that it can be dealt with with the help of autoimmune mechanisms that are effective in the case of neurodegenerative disorders. Scientists are experimenting on the creation of a vaccine based on an autoimmune mechanism.

April 11 this year at 18.00. at the “President Hotel” (B. Yakimanka St., 24, “Blue Living Room” hall) there will be a lecture by Vivek Chibber, professor of sociology at New York University, on the topic “States, entrepreneurs and national development strategies.” Vivek Chibber is today recognized as one of the leaders of a new generation of experts on the political economy of development and government-business relations.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder won his case in a Hamburg court, which found nothing reprehensible in the fact that he accepted the offer to head the committee of shareholders of the North European Gas Pipeline, RIA Novosti reports .

The head of the Federal Agency for Industry Boris Aleshin arrived in Brazil, where A working meeting of the co-chairs of the Russian-Brazilian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation will be held, RIA Novosti reports. On the Russian side, the co -chair of the commission is Boris Aleshin. On the Brazilian side - General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Samuel Pignier Himarens.

The deputies did not support a single decision on the recount of votes in the parliamentary elections, Ukrainian Pravda reports. So on the second attempt, the largest number of votes - 199 gained a bill proposed by Yuri Karmazin and deputies of the fraction of the People’s Party Igor Yeremeyev and Vasily Naduga. This bill provided for re -recalculation of votes and the ban on the publication of official elections results until the results of the re -recalculation of the votes are obtained.

Julia Idlis Nevzlin stumbled me. No, not even like that: I was fried non -Zaprevlin. I and another one hundred people with something. “As long as the quota of 750 frands has not been exhausted,” he writes, “I have the opportunity to add those with whom I personally know, and those whose records or comments seemed interesting to me, and simply by any recommendation.” So there are still places, fly. But I'm not talking about that.

Today, France is waiting for a new “black Tuesday”, since the next day of protest will be held against the “first hiring agreement” - a new type of labor contract for youth under the age of 26, the appearance of which caused a powerful wave of protests in French society, RIA Novosti recalls.