candidate left the ruling National Liberation Laura Chinchilla Miranda won the presidential election in Costa Rica, the Central Electoral Commission. Chinchilla gaining 48.66%, RIA Novosti. It will be the first in the history of Costa Rican woman president. Her nearest rival, 49-year-old Otto Guevara of the right-wing liberation movement, has 22.46%. Head of the center-left Party of the civil action, 55-year-old Otton Solis, is supported by over 21% of voters. Solis acknowledged its defeat on the outcome of the country"s elections and announced his decision on Sunday, without waiting for the final results of vote counting. He prematurely congratulates Laura Chinchilla, ITAR-TASS. According to local law, the presidential election in Costa Rica, a candidate for the presidency is enough to overcome the mark of 40% of the votes to get elected in the first round. Chairman of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica Luis Antonio Sobrado told reporters that the elections once again demonstrated the commitment of Costa Ricans "to democracy and harmony in so1000ciety. Supporters Chinchilla took to the streets of cities and celebrating victory. The elections were followed more than 200 international observers, who note that the voting took place peacefully and without major violations. Laura Chinchilla graduated from State University of Costa Rica and Georgetown University in the U.S., the specialty is political scientist.
      08.02.10 09:59 ;  Friday, February 5, 2010, trading on Russian stock exchanges culminated in the fall of the major indices on a background of panic sales of shares on world platforms. By the end of the trading session, the MICEX index lost 2.88% to 1355.64 points. RTS Index concluded the session lower at 3.55% to 1,411.14 points. Trading volume in shares on the MICEX SE reached 80 billion rubles. Sales were observed across the spectrum of liquid securities. worst market traded shares of oil and gas sector, which was associated with a collapse of prices in the oil market. Quotes Rosneft declined by 2.84%, Surgutneftegaz - by 2.91%, LUKoil - on 2,65%. substantially minus also closed the paper the metallurgical industry. Capitalization CMI decreased by 3,36%, TMK - 3,6%, Severstal - on 5,52%, Norilsk Nickel - on 2,28%, Mechel - 4%, Raspadskaya - on 3,99%. growth was observed only in actions "KAMAZ" (5,4%), Uralsvyazinform (0,55%) and Rostelecom (1,71%). The papers of the latter company grew on news that after the consolidation of assets "Svyazinvest" on the basis of "Rostelecom" will be located on the western markets 25% of the merged company in April 2011. In the evening session on FORTS futures on the RTS index rose by 0.449% and amounted to 142,180 points. Futures for shares of Gazprom, Lukoil, Sberbank added 0.153%, 0.477% and 0.395% respectively. As a result of ADR trading prices on Russian stocks were (per receipt): VTB (Eng) -4.73, Gazprom (Eng) - 23.76, Lukoil (Eng) - 53, Nor. Nickel (Eng) - 14,71, Rosneft (Eng) - 7,24, Surgutnfgz (Eng) - 8,02, Mobil TeleSystem (USA) - 44.59, Rostelecom (USA) - 27.35, Vimpelcom (USA) - 17,2, Mechel Steel (USA) - 19,72. On Friday, U.S. stock indices closed in positive area on the background of encouraging statistics from the labor market. The unemployment rate declined from 10,1% to 9,7%.
leading Muslim scholars and experts from Arab countries have expressed confidence that Islamic bankig can be successfully implemented in India, where the second largest in the world Muslim community. Explaining the decline in the global economy "greed and lack of principle" Western financiers, advisor of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah Umar Chapra said that the direct cause of the crisis was "excessive and imprudent lending." "Islamic finance rely on justice and equality. Islam forbids usury," - he said during the Indo-Arab conference organized by the Forum of Indo-Arab economic cooperation. calling for the development of Islamic banking in India, a member of Islamic Economic Center at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Abdul Azim Islah, said that most earlier studies in the field of Islamic banking was undertaken by scientists from India Osmania University in Hyderabad and the University of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.
Of the 18 applicants who participated in the vote on January 17 in the final of the race went Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko. Polling stations opened at 08:00 local time and will run until 20:00. The number of polling stations reaches 33.5 thousand Vote may be 36.6 million Ukrainian citizens. In order to assist citizens in the exercise of their constitutional rights on the day of the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs organized the work of passport offices in the strong mode. So, February 7, the relevant parts of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry will be working from 08:00 to 20:00. Also at the State Department for Citizenship, Immigration and Registration of individuals to customize your phone hotline. Kiev police also available in enhanced mode of service. Around one thousand five hundred police officers provide security office buildings. Voting in the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine held at 29 overseas locations. The first opened overseas polling station in Australia before voting began in Vladivostok, Seoul (Korea), Tokyo (Japan), China and Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam. T1000his information leads MFA of Ukraine at the time of the opening of polling stations in Ukraine (8:00 Kiev time). The situation in the overseas polling stations calm, emergencies arise. Work Commission was held in accordance with the electoral legislation of Ukraine. Central Election Commission of Ukraine adopted during the morning session a decision on the clarification of issues the organization of the precinct election commissions during the election day. On told journalists CEC member Michael Ohendovsky, reports RBC-Ukraine. According to him, except for clarification, the commission also decided to transport the documents to the OIC PEC. "The need for such an explanation was due to the fact that, in particular, individual members of the PSC erroneously believe that because under the law to vote outside the voting room must organize at least three members - representatives from the different presidential candidates, and we have representatives only two Presidential candidates, then voting outside the voting room practically prohibited.
The survey, conducted by the Research Centre recruitment portal SuperJob.ru, almost one in three Russians have a situation where he had to face the employer his departure from work. If all the ways to achieve better working conditions have been exhausted, one thing remains: the employer to threaten their care. This measure, though not devoid of risk, but in many cases helps to achieve the desired. This opinion is shared by 31% of Russians who have a life already lived through such situations. Men go to such a move more frequently than women (36% versus 27%). The greatest number of those who ever put the employer a choice, is observed among respondents from 30 to 40 years (38%). You may also be noted that attempts to improve the way their position increasingly being participants of the survey of middle and high income than workers with modest wages. However, many respondents are aware of the fact that, firstly, the use of blackmail does not characterize the employee with the best hand, and secondly, after such a demarche could lose his seat: "blackmailing the employer - is not an option.
Without serious reform of the tax system structure of the domestic economy will continue to be ineffective, and the budget system - unbalanced, convinced the director of the Department of Macroeconomic Forecasting, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine Vladimir Parnyuk. According to him, to date the budget process is a hostage situation, when the budget is formed on an outdated tax and legislative framework. "In Parliament there is little legislation that would provide for reform as social workers, and budget revenues. This means that 2010 will be formed already on the old tax base, and the old social sphere", - he emphasized in During the meeting, the Finance Press Club. Parnyuk noted that in such a situation to talk about any reform will be, at best, only in 2011. In addition, the expert stressed that the causes of "distortions" and the huge budget deficit in 2009 lie in the absence of a clear and coherent work of all branches of government. "This - the main reason why we have today a budget that is why such a duty, to why such a system. There is no clear understanding of the Verkhovna Rada, there is no understanding with the president, the government actually left alone with the problem", - stressed said. Parnyuk convinced that it is necessary, without waiting for the presidential elections, to prepare packages of reforms that would conceptually change the economic situation.
State Automobile Inspectorate is conducting an experiment to pay the drivers of the fines for violation of traffic rules through payment terminals directly into the patrol car. According to the press service of the Department of Traffic Police of MIA of Ukraine, Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk earlier this year introduced the use of payment terminals, through which the fines for violating traffic rules, you can pay on-site were drawn up. The address of Traffic Police received complaints that the procedure for payment of fines for violation of traffic rules imperfect. It was to simplify the payment of fines for traffic violations committed in an experiment introduced the use of gowns State Patrol GAI payment terminals, which allow the payment of a fine by the payment card in place a ruling on the payment of fines for administrative violations in the field of road safety . As noted in the SAI, the innovation is first of all drivers. Convenience of this method of payment of fines for the driver is that he does not waste time waiting in queues banking institution, and then - to give a receipt in the SAI. Payment of the fine on the spot, the driver is sure that he will not wait for an unpleasant "surprise" when he would contact the traffic1000police, in particular, to pass inspection or deregistration of the vehicle. Collection fine GAI employees may be held directly in the official vehicle, DPS traffic police. To do this, the driver who violated traffic rules, you must have a cash card.
Latvia plans to refinance a large part of the international loan of 7.5 billion euros, said the1000country"s prime BNS Valdis Dombrovskis. "The loan can be returned only from the state budget. If we are in 2012 will come to the 3% deficit, then, under the most optimistic scenarios, perhaps in 2013 in Latvia will be a balanced budget, and only in 2014 could be talk about some surplus. But this surplus is also conditioned - 1-2%. These amounts will not be so great that we can regain much of the international loan "- said the prime minister. According to him, lately appeared a lot of speculation around the issue of Latvia"s ability to repay that loan. "On this issue a lot of speculation, but at the same time, international lenders - the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission - it has recently repeatedly expressed a positive attitude towards Latvia"s achievements in implementing the program to stabilize the economy. With regard to financial stability, at least, themselves creditors to lend us money, too, there is no such fear. In my opinion, this is quite an important factor ", - underlined the prime minister. He noted that the recent decision of the Commission on Economy and Finance of the EC to approve an additional memorandum conciliation to Latvia is a confirmation of the ability of creditors of the State to honor their commitments. At the same time V. Dombrovskis acknowledged that the timetable for the return of international loans is very stressful. "In fact, basically a graph of refinancing. If you look, but now there are many countries that borrow in international financial markets. This is because many countries have a large budget deficit. In Greece and Ireland, for example, the budget deficit much more than in Latvia, while Spain and Lithuania - are about as in Latvia. In this regard, many countries now have a large budget deficit and, consequently, there is great demand for government borrowing. In accordance with its credit ratings of the country and pay for the money. Lithuania borrowing on international markets three times more than we lend from international lenders.
Betting on 5 February evaluate your chances of winning a presidential candidate, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych in presidential elections is much higher than its opponentki presidential candidate, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and take bets on the victory of Yanukovych with the coefficients a ,25-1, 45, to win Tymoshenko - 2,5-3,55. This is evidenced by the line of bookmakers" betting line ", BetCity," Team ", bwin. In particular, the Russian betting company "bets" takes bets on the victory of Yanukovych with a coefficient of 1.3, to win Tymoshenko - 3,2. Russian betting company BetCity higher the chances Yanukovich"s victory and takes bets on him with a coefficient of 1.25, on Tymoshenko - 3,55. slightly higher than the above-mentioned company, the chances of winning Tymoshenko Ukrainian betting office "team" - it takes a bet on the victory of Yanukovych with a coefficient of 1.45, winning Tymoshenko - 2,5.
NAC "Energy Company of Ukraine" predicts shortage of 1.5 million tonnes of thermal coal gas group in 2010, told reporters yesterday president Vladimir Zinevich. According to him, the operator of the wholesale market of coal production - SE "Coal of Ukraine" - is now unable to provide necessary volumes of its coal power plants. "The causes of decline in production and two - an increase in coal consumption metallurgists and reducing production company" Coal of Ukraine ", - explained Mr. Zinevich. He noted that the company will be forced to use gas instead of coal, which is significantly (by almost a third) will increase the production cost of electricity and lead to losses for the year. According to Mr. Zinevich, the company could buy coal from private miners, or import it, but this is prohibited Cabinet decision, which is required to purchase raw materials only from SE "Ukrainian Coal." In January, the volume of coal production over the same period last year fell by 6%. It is, moreover, that in 2009 coal production declined by 7% compared with 2008 - up to 72.219 million tons of coking coal from them - on 4,3%, energy - by 8,4%. Dragon Capital analyst Sergey Gaida binds decrease production enterprise "Coal of Ukraine" with the reduction of investment in the coal industry and the high depreciation of fixed assets, which, according to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, more than 87%.