Dollars added to the American economy The US Federal Reserve surprised the market with an unexpected decision to inject over a trillion fresh dollars into the economy. It will buy government bonds for $300 billion, and $750 billion will go towards lowering interest rates on mortgage loans. Investors enthusiastically accepted such a generous gift, stock markets and oil prices went up sharply, but the dollar, of course, had a hard time.

Josef Fritzl received a life sentence The district court of the Austrian city of St. Pölten yesterday sentenced 73-year-old maniac Josef Fritzl to life imprisonment. The court rendered the verdict based on the jury's verdict, which on the same day found Fritzl guilty on all counts: rape, incest, false imprisonment, slavery, cruelty and negligent homicide. The “Amstetten maniac” will serve his sentence in a special prison medical facility for the mentally ill.

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Foreign experts wrote scenarios for the development of the Russian automobile market During the crisis, the automobile market in Russia may roll back to the level of 2006 - from 2.8 million to 1.8 million cars sold. This conclusion is contained in the study “Russian car market: localization, partnership or production reduction?”, published by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Their former owners will be responsible for problem banks In the near future, the State Duma should receive a bill providing for subsidiary liability for owners of banks that are being rehabilitated by the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). “It is necessary that all awards find their heroes,” Mikhail Sukhov, director of the department of licensing activities and financial rehabilitation of credit organizations of the Central Bank, said yesterday.

The state will not enter into the capital of RUSAL to restructure debts First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov outlined the boundaries of possible state assistance to the Russian aluminum giant. He stated that the government is not going to restructure RUSAL's debt to creditors by entering into the capital of this company. “Perhaps the creditors expected to hear from us that we were ready to buy a share or restructure the debt.

The law on bondholders will go to the State Duma in March The government's anti-crisis action plan, announced yesterday, provides for the legislative introduction in Russia of the institution of a general meeting of bondholders. The corresponding bill, as Pavel Filimoshin, deputy head of the securities department of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), said yesterday, can be submitted to the State Duma before the end of March. The new law should protect the rights of debt holders.

The traffic police is looking for broadcasters for tough social advertising Federal channels refused to broadcast public service announcements prepared by the Department of Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Union of the Russian Film Industry. The material seemed cruel to the television crew.

Power in Dagestan is personified by three buildings on the main square of Makhachkala: the White House, where the People's Assembly meets and the president works, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan and the Makhachkala City Hall. The configuration of relationships sometimes changes - when the republic was headed by Dargin Magomedali Magomedov, an invisible bridge was thrown to the mayor's office, where Dargin Said Amirov also sat.

Safina will not yet be the first racket of the world Russian tennis player Dinara Safina missed an excellent chance to climb to the top of the world classification for the first time in her life. In order to be on the top line of the BTA ranking, which will be published early next week, the Muscovite needed to reach the final of the major Premier Mandatory tournament currently taking place in Indian Wells (USA) with a prize fund of $4.5 million.

IX Mariinsky Festival continues Everything is going according to routine. The premiere of “The Little Humpbacked Horse” took place, followed by the St. Petersburg premiere of Diana Vishneva’s project “Beauty in Motion” (a year ago it was shown in New York, and then in Moscow, and will also be shown in the capital on April 5 and 6 at the Golden mask"). The obligatory program will also include a creative evening by Ulyana Lopatkina.

Poland muted the voice of the Belarusian opposition Yesterday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski threw a financial lifeline to the independent satellite TV channel Belsat, which has been broadcasting to Belarus since December 10, 2007. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs allocated about $6 million from its reserve, which covers 80% of the budget of television opposition to the Belarusian authorities.

Rectors of Russian universities gathered for a “crisis” congress The ninth congress of the Russian Union of Rectors, which began its work on Thursday, started at a very opportune moment. Now, when government ministers and leaders of United Russia regularly report on the implementation of presidential initiatives to support domestic higher education during the crisis, the dialogue between the authorities and the scientific and teaching community promises to be useful.

Zaitseva won Trondheim's debut World Cup stage The subpolar Norwegian city of Trondheim has repeatedly hosted major international competitions in cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined. But the strongest biathletes on the planet had never started here until yesterday.

The anti-crisis program can be discussed with the government now “After ten years of continuous economic growth and improved human well-being, Russia is faced with serious economic challenges. The global economic crisis is leading to a drop in production in all countries of the world, an increase in unemployment, and a decrease in household incomes,” the government’s Anti-Crisis Measures Program for 2009 begins with such an alarming phrase.