US intelligence agencies are ready to kill Americans U.S. intelligence agencies will be focused on the following threats in the coming years: attempts by the al-Qaeda terrorist network to re-attack U.S. assets, Iran's growing ability to develop nuclear weapons, and hacking attacks on U.S. computer networks. This was stated by the country's chief intelligence officer - US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair (pictured) , who oversees the work of all 16 American intelligence agencies.

RusHydro and RUSAL will divide business Deputy Chairman of the Board of RusHydro George Rizhinashvili announced yesterday that the company plans to sign an adjusted agreement with its partners in the Boguchansky Energy and Metallurgical Association (BEMO) within the next two months, according to which Oleg Deripaska’s company would have to, in particular, guarantee the purchase of electricity produced at the Boguchanskaya HPP.

Alberto Giacometti's bronze sculpture Walking Man I sold on Wednesday at Sotheby's in London for £65 million, breaking all records for value and becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The original price of 28.6 million pounds was exceeded almost three times. In dollar terms, it is $104.4 million. “Walking Man I” managed to break the record of one of the most expensive artists - Pablo Picasso, set in 2004.

A famous Iranian nuclear scientist and professor at the capital's university, 50-year-old Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was killed yesterday in the center of Tehran. He was getting into his car near his house when a motorcycle bomb exploded nearby. The investigation established that the bomb was detonated using a remote fuse.

Leading Israeli media published yesterday photographs of the scandalous meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister of the Jewish State Dani Ayalon and Turkish Ambassador to Israel Ahmet Oguz Celikkol that took place on Monday. The Israeli diplomat first made the ambassador wait for a long time outside the office doors, and then seated the Turk on a low sofa, remaining seated on a high chair.

Toll roads start small By 2015, the state company Russian Highways (Avtodor) plans to manage 3,044 km of Russian roads, 1,412 km of which will be toll roads, Avtodor's board chairman Sergei Kostin (pictured) said yesterday. Already this year, the company intends to put into operation three sections on the M-4 Don federal highway - this is 108 toll kilometers.

The teams of Serbia and Russia will compete in the quarterfinals of the Federation Cup This weekend marks the start of the first round of the women's Fed Cup tennis team championship, which is attended by 90 countries each year. True, only eight of the teams are included in the elite “World Group”, one of the pairs of which this time was made up of the national teams of Russia and Serbia.

In most of the European territory of Russia, the weather these days will be dictated by the Asian anticyclone, which has occupied almost the entire country. Therefore, moderate frost is expected, strong at night, and sunny during the day. But in the south, under the influence of the cyclone, it is cloudy and damp. On Friday in the central regions there will be mostly no precipitation, -8...-15оС.

Residents of Rechnik filed a lawsuit against Yuri Luzhkov Residents of the ill-fated village of Rechnik estimated the damage from the demolition of their houses, located in a specially protected natural area, at 100 billion rubles. This is exactly the amount they expect to recover through the courts from those who, in their opinion, are to blame for the scandalous demolition of illegally erected residential buildings on plots intended exclusively for growing plants.

Major Evsyukov stated that he does not remember how and why he shot at people The former head of the Tsaritsyno police department, Major Denis Evsyukov, whose trial is ongoing in the Moscow City Court, yesterday outlined his version of the events of the night of April 27 last year, when he shot several people in a store for no reason .

For the first time, the Bank of Russia revoked a bank’s license for insufficient capital. Minimum capitalization restrictions have been in effect since the beginning of the year, but most small credit institutions get around the ban by artificially inflating the size of their capital. The number of banks will be significantly reduced only with increased control and stricter regulatory requirements, experts say.

The Double Sextet of a living American classic was performed in Moscow for the first time The Moscow Credo Quartet (formed at the Conservatory in 2000), which gave a whole series of concerts in the capital over the course of a week, is notable for the fact that it actively includes in its repertoire not only Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Dvorak, but also later authors - Walton , Schnittke, Kancheli, Desyatnikova.

The Federal Financial Markets Service is ready to meet the issuer halfway The head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), Vladimir Milovidov, spoke about the advantages of Russian platforms over foreign ones, trying to combat the misconception about the risks for issuers present on domestic markets.

The world premiere of the play “Donka” was performed at the Chekhov Anniversary Week They say different things about the Moscow public - some consider it snobbish, some too demanding, while others, on the contrary, are rude, ill-mannered, and do not understand art.

Russian national team leader Dmitry Vasiliev will not compete at the Olympics Flying skiers have the shortest break between the end of the pre-Olympic session of the World Cup stages and the start of the Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. The ski jumping masters will hold team competitions next Sunday in Willingen, Germany, and next Friday they will compete in the qualifications on the middle hill of the Olympic Park in Whistler.