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.

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.

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.

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.

Medvedtseva received a suspended sentence in Italy One of the leaders of the Russian women's biathlon team, Olga Medvedtseva (pictured), was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of one year, reports La Gazzetta dello Sport. This decision was made by the Municipal Court of Turin, where the Winter Olympic Games took place in 2006. The athlete, who then competed under the name Pylev, was found guilty of using the banned drug carphedon.

Israeli politicians may be banned from traveling The scandalous story surrounding the attempt of British justice to arrest the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, head of the opposition party Kadima, 51-year-old Tzipi Livni (pictured), shook up Israeli society.

The Russian Energy Minister introduced the Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum The head of the Ministry of Energy, Sergei Shmatko, yesterday introduced to the press the first ever Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Leonid Bokhanovsky. “We are proud,” the minister said, “that it was Russia that received the post of head of such an important and ambitious international organization.

The famous house with lions will be decorated with a picturesque "veil" Yesterday, an unusual open-air exhibition began in the center of St. Petersburg. Reproductions of paintings by famous painters will become a kind of bedspread of a house with lions on Isaakievskaya Square, which will be removed at the end of restoration work in 2011. The work of Auguste Montferrand was built in 1820 and was originally designed as an apartment building.

The Russian men's team recognized their opponents at the World Championships The draw for the 2010 World Championship among men's teams, which will take place from August 28 to September 12 next year in Turkey, took place in Istanbul yesterday.

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.

Exhibition of Alexey Politov and Marina Belova “Petroglyphs” at Winzavod The Aidan Gallery of the Winzavod Center is hosting an exhibition of one of the best art duets of modern Russia - Marina Belova and Alexei Politov. The program is called “Petroglyphs. 2000 BC." The masters of wonderful performances with shadow play did not disappoint expectations this time either. On the walls, in black and white projection, mysterious scenes from the heritage of the Bronze Age culture come to life.

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.

Concerts Elena Kamburova. CDH , 19.00. Trio Daniil Kramer with the Jazz Games program. Club Igor Butman , 20.30. CLASSIC Christmas in the music of great composers. D. Wo Park (South Korea, Organ) acts. Roman Catholic Cathedral , 19.30. Theaters "Boys" according to F. Dostoevsky. Director Sergey Zhenovach. Cast Alexander Koruchekov, Anna Rud, Maria Shashulova, Alexey Vertkov, Sergey Pirnyak, Andrey Shibarshin. “Boys” is a special storyline in the novel “Brothers Karamazov”.

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.