People from the Caucasus seized a train in Poland Yesterday, a train heading from Wroclaw, Poland to Dresden, Germany, found itself at the center of a scandalous story. The train traveled about 70 kilometers and stopped at the station in Legnica - more than 200 stowaways unanimously refused to pay the fare, citing lack of money. The head of the train detained the train, and the police appeared.

One of the main ideologists of economic reforms in Russia has passed away The famous economist and politician Yegor Gaidar died suddenly at the age of 54. According to Gaidar’s assistant Gennady Volkov, Yegor Timurovich died due to a detached blood clot. Yegor Gaidar is considered one of the main ideologists of economic reforms in Russia.

While the state decides how to save the existing single -industry towns, the business creates new It is unlikely that it will be possible to create a unified state program for solving the problems of settlements that arose around the only city -forming enterprise. Each single -winger requires an individual approach and special recipes for solving accumulated problems.

Global aviation losses in 2010 will amount to $5.6 billion “It looks like we are past the worst,” Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said at its annual final press conference in Geneva yesterday. IATA unites the world's largest airlines, so the picture it paints based on its members' reporting reflects the situation in civil aviation on all five continents as a whole. The prospects for global aviation, according to Mr.

Dmitry Medvedev reproached the Russian Academy of Sciences for the lack of an innovative breakthrough Presidential grants for young scientists will be increased, and the long-standing but “absolutely solvable” problem of providing housing for research workers should soon become a thing of the past.

More and more governors are trying to establish a dialogue with the people via the Internet In the past year, more than twenty governors signed up for bloggers. This is what a first person of the state means for Russian bureaucracy. It is not clear, however, what a lot of citizens can be extracted from this. In October 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev began conducting a video blog. In April 2009, the head of state acquired a community in LJ.

Innovative firms can do without financial support of the state Russian President Dmitry Medvedev does not get tired of repeating that the archaic raw material economy of Russia needs urgent modernization due to innovative technologies. For 20 years, we have been trying to implement this thesis in practice as part of our own enterprise. In 1989, there were six of us. We decided to create our own enterprise. They wanted to engage in vibration diagnostics.

Abkhazia has found a friend in the Pacific Ocean Sergei Bagapsh, re-elected President of Abkhazia on December 12, yesterday received a valuable political gift from the authorities of the coral island in the Pacific Ocean, on which the world's smallest republic with a population of 14 thousand people is located - Nauru.

In Moscow, on December 13, the film director, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Honored Artist of Russia and Honored Worker of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Isaac Semenovich Magiton, died. Isaac Magiton was 86 years old. Few believed that this was so.

The economic crisis has reached the courts The Moscow Arbitration Court is facing a “man-made” disaster - the judges may not be able to cope with the number of cases that come before them in the hundreds every day. This conclusion follows from the speech at yesterday’s press conference by the chairman of this court, Oleg Sviridenko.

Obama continues his fight against bankers US President Barack Obama once again scolded big Wall Street bankers, demanding increased lending. The heads of the three largest US banks did not dare to attend a meeting with him, citing fog, which made it difficult to fly to Washington. Although the financial condition of banks is improving, dissatisfaction with them is growing. Goldman Sachs will have to sue the pension fund in connection with the notorious bonuses.

Lukashenko asks Moscow to help Belarusian factories Minsk will seek a national regime to support Belarusian enterprises in Russia. “We produce a common product, and in this situation there should be no difficulties in accessing goods to each other’s markets...

Why Mao Zedong did not sign the treaty with the USSR Sixty years ago, on December 16, 1949, negotiations between Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong began in Moscow, which lasted 65 days. They culminated in the signing of a historic treaty of friendship, alliance and mutual assistance, which became the basis for close cooperation between the two countries in the 1950s. It was not easy for politicians, each of whom claimed to be unique, to get along with each other.

Microsoft introduced a new school computerization program The education system is a large and tidbit piece for IT suppliers. Firstly, the giant market (in Russia it is more than 50 thousand schools and more than 2.5 thousand universities). Secondly, this market is important to IT companies from the point of view of strategic, long-term tasks (however, only for those who have a long-term strategy)-to accustom schoolchildren and students to their technologies is beneficial.

Boris Gelfand won the World Cup The final match of the World Chess Cup between Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomarev ended in Khanty-Mansiysk, in which the more experienced Israeli was stronger. The intrigue of the match in many ways looked like a battle of generations: 41-year-old veteran Gelfand, who had played in the top league of the USSR championship 20 years ago, against 26-year-old Ponomarev, the 2002 FIDE world champion, who had embarked on the championship path already in Ukraine.