Yesterday, at the age of 96, Baroness Margaret de Reuters, the last representative of the family, who founded the same British world information agency Reuetrs in London, died. According to Baroness's friends, she died in the French boarding house, located on the border with the principality of Monaco, news agencies report. The last representative of the Reiter family will be buried in Lausanne next to her husband Oliver.

History from the newspaper "Life". Information occasion - from the Tver hospital called a veterinary hospital and asked to send a specialist to open the raccoon who was suppressed by a male member. The incident that led to hospitalization occurred at the cottage near Lake Senezh in the Tver region. 44-year-old Alexander K., while relaxing in the country with friends in the suburbs, naturally, in a drunken state, tried to have sex with a wild raccoon.

The remuneration is promised for information that will help detain the organizer and executor of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, Echo of Moscow reports. According to lawyer Alexander Gusak, this initiative comes from a group of like -minded Markelov, which includes lawyers, law enforcement agencies and some politicians. He did not call the amount of remuneration.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia accuses the Russian Foreign Ministry of demagogy and distorting the position of Georgia, reports News-Larzia.

The Russian scientific citation index (RSCI) is a new interesting project that started in 2005 . Any Internet user can test the created system . To do this, you need to go to the website of the Scientific Electronic Library ( www.elibary.ru ), register in its database, then go to the "Citation Index" section, where to select "Search for Journals" .

The decision of Benedict XVI on the abolition of the decision on the excommunication of the four bishops, ordained in 1988 by the French bishop Marseille Lefebvere without the sanction of the Vatican, broke out a new gap in the relationship of Catholics and Jews and even caused criticism in Catholic circles that called this decision “monstrous,” writes El País .

The investigation in the case of Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergey Storchak was resumed, Russian Newspaper reports. Recall that Sergey Storchak and other persons involved in the criminal case were arrested in the fall of 2007 at the initiative of the FSB and SCP.

Suspects in the case of an attempt by the explosion in Moscow McDonald's were detained during the preparation of a new terrorist attack, the Kommersant newspaper writes today. Stanislav Lukhmyrin and David Bashelutov, who ranked themselves to the so -called Rodnovovers - the admirers of the pagan gods of the ancient Slavs, were detained near the mosque on Poklonnaya Hill. During interrogation, they admitted that they examined the place of the future attack.

Rosstat and European Eurostat Agency published joint final data on the rise in price of products in 2008. Russia was in the first place in Europe with record indicators of –17.7% of the annual increase in food prices, New Izvestia writes. In Europe, since autumn in many countries, prices began to decline, and the total annual result of the rise in price of food was 4.1%. According to the statistics of December both in Russia and the EU, the pace of inflation slowed down a little.

The bill on the creation of the state -owned company Rosavtodor, which was introduced by the chairman of the Duma committee on construction and land relations, Martin Shakkum, will not be considered. As the chairman of the Duma Transport Committee Sergey Shishkarev, as a result of a meeting of the Presidium of the United Russia faction on Monday, told our correspondent to Lev Finberg, the author of the initiative admitted that the bill is bad.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the responsibility of President Viktor Yushchenko for the situation in the financial and credit sphere of Ukraine, UNIAN reports. The draft resolution on Yushchenko’s responsibility for the situation in the financial and credit sphere of Ukraine was registered by a deputy from the Bloc faction Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) Svyatoslav Oliynyk. 227 out of 248 deputies registered in the hall voted.

The Czech PPF Group will not demand $ 500 million from the Eldorado retail network. Instead of money, the group decided to pick up the retailer’s control package, the Vedomosti writes. The transaction will be issued as a loan write -off for $ 500 million issued to the PPF to the retailer in September 2008 on security of 51% of the shares. So far, there have been no applications from PPF to buy a share in Eldorado to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

The duration of the treatment of the Chairman of the Board of NAC Naftogaz Ukraine Oleg Dubina in the clinical hospital Feofania will be approximately 2-3 weeks, the website of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko said.

Dmitry Rustamov, assistant to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine, the first deputy head of the BUT faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrei Kozhemyakin, was killed in Odessa, UNIAN reports. According to the representative of the Center for Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa region, the body of Rustamov was found at the crossroads of French Boulevard and Seminarskaya Street.

The former chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a member of the Board of Directors of VTB Capital Sergey Dubinin, commenting on the message that the Bank of Russia had completed the process of smooth devaluation of the ruble and recorded the boundaries of the bivalyut corridor, said that the Central Bank would be able to change the currency courses, Echo Moscow reports.