Specialists of the Japanese company NTT Communications have developed fuel elements based on Lantan-Nicel-Yelent Oxide, which can work for several years without recharging, Techradar reports . It is assumed that power sources built on the basis of such fuel elements with a capacity of one kilowatts will be able to provide energy offices and industrial enterprises, writes Lenta.ru . Their use in housing and communal services is not excluded.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev admits that there is a huge problem in the country with the selection of candidates for the positions of governors. At a meeting on the formation of a reserve of managerial personnel, the head of state reminded of the existing personnel hunger. “This also applies to regional leaders,” he said. According to the president, "there is no bench." "Each time we rack their heads how to find personnel for replacing senior posts in the regions," Medvedev said.

In the next two weeks, the Ministry of Health and Social Development will announce the budget of domestic health care until 2012. Representatives of the ministry promise to increase health expenses and pay regions of premiums for reducing mortality. To fulfill all these tasks, the department itself will have to reorganize, writes "News Time" . The department of Tatyana Golikova should submit to the Ministry of Finance a medium -term health program for the Ministry of Finance.

Yesterday in Sochi there was a clash of living in the Imereti lowland, where it is planned to build objects of the 2014 Olympic Games, with bailiffs and police. About two hundred local residents defended their houses with sticks and bottles of incendiary mixture. Yesterday, early in the morning, agricultural experts, accompanied by bailiffs, tried to penetrate into the territory of house N 115 on Nizhneimeretinskaya Street.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rashid Nurgaliev, does not exclude that Russians will be obliged to register bicycles and receive state license plates on them. The numbers, according to Nurgaliev, will help to simplify control over this mode of transport. He referred to European countries, where there are already numbers on bicycle leasing.

Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov, a well-known Russian physicist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IYAI), a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, talks about the new Adrone Super-Colleider, about the anthropic principle. The conversation was conducted by the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, the editor-in-chief of Trinity Option Boris Stern and journalist Natalia Demina.

The Russian Consul in Antalya Mirzhalol Khusanov denied information about the death of the Russian last night in one of the hotels in this Turkish resort. “As a result of a short circuit, two Israeli citizens and one Turkish citizen died during the party. There are no Russians among the victims, ”Husanov said the words of the general director of the hotel in which the incident occurred.

We are talking about the main financial document of Russia for 2009 and the planning period of 2010-2011. During a painful discussion on the points of the long list in the working group on the draft budget "United Russia", the key for itself the question: to get from the cursed Ministry of Finance an increase in both expenditure items of the type of housing for veterans and direct financing of some regional projects. Having levers of legislation, it is possible to report to voters with promises.

Gazprom Neft is ready to offer the American Chevron deposit in Western Siberia for joint development, reports Newsru.com , citing a statement by the chairman of the board of the company Alexander Dyukov. What kind of deposit is in question - is not mentioned. Dyukov has already stated the possibility of expanding cooperation with the American Chevron. According to him, it was about the joint development of one of the deposits in Western Siberia.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov considers it likely to increase state prize payments for Russian athletes for gold medals at the Olympics in China from 50 thousand dollars to 100 thousand euros. “So far, this decision has not been finally made, but there is a chance,” Zhukov noted, answering a question from journalists. But the question of how many medals Russian athletes can win at the Beijing Olympics, Zhukov did not answer.

The Russian Minister of Defense will appoint a new military representative of the country at NATO. They will become the commander in the ground forces, Alexei Maslov, writes Kommersant with reference to sources in diplomatic circles. The appointment of Maslov is either a certificate that Russia pays great attention to relations with NATO, or simply honorary resignation.

Yesterday, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko testified in the case of his poisoning, which occurred in the midst of the 2004 election campaign. "I am very interested in the investigation of this case to be completed as soon as possible," said Ukrainian to the Borisoglebskaya Street of Borisoglebskaya to the Borisoglebskaya Street. - The Prosecutor General’s Office has recently been working quite professionally and actively.

Today, the court of law ended in the case of the former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta in Samara Sergei Kurt-Ajiev. The prosecutor asked to impose a penalty of 40 thousand rubles of a fine to the accused, lawyers insist on the complete innocence of their client. Recall that the journalist is accused of using an ADOBE, Microsoft and 1C unlicensed software for the newspaper. The interests of Kurt-Ajiev in court are represented by the Interregional Human Rights Association "Agora.

BP reported yesterday that she was recalling from Russia 60 remaining technical specialists who worked in TNK-Br. There were 148 of them in total, most of them had already left the country earlier, they say in the company. These employees will continue to work in BP, but in other regions.

The net profit of the American Internet company Yahoo! Inc. In the first half of 2008 It increased 2.2 times and amounted to $ 673.4 million. For the same period last year, the company earned $ 302.9. Revenue increased by 7% - from $ 3.37 billion for the first half of 2007. up to $ 3.62 billion this year. The operating profit amounted to $ 221.1 million, which is 47% less than the I half of 2007, recorded at $ 353.9 million. Such data are contained in the company's report published today.