An additional funds were allocated from the central budget of China in the amount of $ 966 million to combat natural disasters, Duta.ru reports. This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council of China Khoy Lyanyuy. “The relevant authorities and areas should, if possible, provide everything necessary for the victims of snowfalls and frosts, along with this to establish work to combat natural disasters,” the official said on the air of one of the local radio stations.

Among the academic programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was one, which the academics themselves were very proud and which had every chance of becoming an important factor in the revival of Russian science and an instrument of returning Russian scientists who left for the West - the Molecular and Cellular Biology program (ICD). However, now Russian fundamental studies in the field of molecular cell biology are threatened.

The Financial Committee of the American Senate approved a plan for stimulating the US economy worth $ 157 billion, Reuters reports. It involves smaller tax benefits to a larger number of people than a plan worth $ 146 billion, approved by the lower house of the US Congress on Tuesday. The plan provides for tax benefits up to $ 500 for each, up to $ 1 thousand for steam in marriage, as well as up to $ 300 per child.

The soup tanker, which was part of the Peruvian Navy, sank near the American oil producing platform in the territorial waters of Peru, the Vesti channel reports. This was preceded by a series of explosions that occurred aboard the ship. Hundreds of tons of oil fell from the holds of the sunken tanker in the ocean, the oil spot is growing rapidly.

More than twenty -five employees of the Kyrgyz state television channel (NTRK) announced an indefinite hunger strike with the resignation of the head of the channel, ex -deputy and oppositionist Melis Eshimkanov, reported news agencies with reference to one of the initiators of the hunger strike - Azima Rasulova.

The George Bush administration changed its position in connection with the upcoming expiration of the START-1 agreement. The White House agreed to the conclusion with Russia of such a new regime in the field of control over nuclear weapons, which will be legally binding. This was stated by the deputy chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator-Republican Richard Lugar.

France President Nikola Sarkozy and Karl Bruni sued the Irish Airline Ryanair for the illegal use of his image, Reuters reports. The airline used a photo of a couple in their advertisements. Sarkozy demands to compensate him with a symbolic one euro, while his girlfriend is € 500 thousand. The consideration of the case should begin today in the Paris court.

According to preliminary data, a fire at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant OJSC Severstal could be caused by a failure in equipment. This was stated by the head of the Department of Technological and Environmental Supervision of Rostekhnadzor in the Vologda Oblast Eduard Bogomolov, Vesti.Ru reports. According to the initial estimates of the department’s specialists, a violation of safety regulations could not cause the incident at the factory.

Today, the Georgian parliament approved the new composition of the country's government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze, news agencies report. David Bakradze, who previously held the post of state minister for conflict settlement, was the head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry. The Ministry of Justice was headed by the former deputy prosecutor General Nikoloz Gvaray, and the ex-minister of justice Eka Tkeshelashvili was appointed Prosecutor General.

In the Soviet years, in the study of any scientific problem, scientists were forced to take into account the ideological perspective of events, always remembering the ratio of the described material with the modern socio-political situation within the country. The exception was not made even for very far from the ideological conjuncture of topics.

According to BBC News , the American company Ambient has developed an umbrella, which itself can warn its owner about rain. A receiver is built into the handle of such an umbrella, which "catches" weather forecasts from local weather stations. If it is expected to rain or snow, a light bulb lights up in the umbrella handle - the more likely the precipitation, the more often and brighter the light flashes.

The fire in the Moscow Cashir Dvor building materials market was awarded the second complexity number on a five -point scale, Echo Moscow reports. The fire began in the evening in one of the buildings. A total of 20 fire brigades have already gone to the fire site. The fire area has already reached 600 square meters. m, and the fire intensifies. There was no information about the victims.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Bujet Government The government will consider the issue of increasing the salaries of state employees and military personnel and indexing pensions. The Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova and the deputy focus, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin will make reports. Migration-FMS The priorities of the migration policy in 2008 will determine at an expanded meeting the board of the Federal Migration Service.

In the Simonovsky court of Moscow, preliminary hearings continued in the case of Vasily Aleksanyan, a former vice president of Yukos, Echo Moscow reports. Aleksanyan was taken to court, despite poor health. The container himself said that he was brought to the process, despite the "pulse of 100 beats per minute and very high pressure." “I need urgent treatment, as it turned out today, I suffer from cancer of the lymph glands,” said Aleksanyan.

The Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Saratov Regional Court removed the charges from the newspaper Saratov reporter, which at one time to Ollage with the image of Vladimir Putin in the image of Stirlitz, Echo Moscow reports. The regional department of Rooshran culture filed a lawsuit with a lawsuit. The department insisted on the termination of the publication on the basis of the law on countering extremism.