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The EU reached a tentative agreement on its proposals for the summit financial

Ministers of Economy of the Twenty-seven have reached a tentative agreement on proposals to be presented by the European Union in the financial summit to be held in Washington next November 15. Among the measures agreed upon include the strengthening of the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, attendees have downgraded the claim of France to regulate all actors and financial instruments.

The French Minister of Finance and chairman in office of the Ecofin, Christine Lagarde, said that proposals from the presidency gala had received a "massive support" of the Twenty-seven. "We should not over-regulate, but clearly we want to ensure that they do not leave black holes in regulation," said Lagarde, who has stressed that the IMF must be the "centerpiece" of the new financial architecture.

However, the second vice president of government and minister of Economy and Finance Pedro Solbes, has said that the French document "has been corrected in a very substantial" by the contributions of other member states. "At the end there is no requirement to submit the financial world that has now worked off the balance sheets of banks to these accounts in results," he explained.

"Yes it is emphasized that there are codes of conduct to avoid undue risk to the financial industry," said the minister. He also explained that "everybody agrees" on the need to strengthen the IMF to play "a key role in terms of control." He also stressed that given a greater role in the Financial Stability Forum linked to the IMF.

In his speech behind closed doors during the Ecofin, Solbes has also advocated that the reform of the financial architecture does not affect the free trade nor to the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty and to take into account the points of view of the emerging countries, according to diplomatic sources.

For his part, present "a common and unified position" on the summit of Economic Affairs, Joaquin Almunia, has bet that the G-20 and in Washington. "We must strengthen the effectiveness of the actions of the IMF, to align its priorities and instruments of action to match the needs of the global economy," he insisted.

The French presidency will now amend its proposals paper taking into account the suggestions of the finance ministers and submit it for discussion at the summit of heads of State and Government to be held on November 7 in Brussels to prepare The financial conference in Washington.

Reform of the IMF and the G8

France proposes reforming the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the G-8 to emerging countries like China or India to have greater representation. The aim of these changes is to enhance the legitimacy of the international financial architecture to achieve greater coordination to prevent future crises.

The EU also wants to introduce other reforms in the IMF so that this body is better equipped to give financial assistance to its members in situations of lack of liquidity or as the crisis they are experiencing such countries as Hungary or Ukraine.

Moreover, the paper said that the president "should be studied further reforms of the G-8 to make this group better represents the emerging countries".

Proposals for Brown and Sarkozy

The French

Document contains a number of proposals to reform the international financial system that have made over the past few weeks both the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, as the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

From

Brown comes the idea of creating an early warning system that would allow early identification of risks to global economic and financial stability and making quick decisions to mitigate them. In this system would involve the IMF, supervisors, central banks and regulators, and it would be one way to ensure that the information arrives on time for the political authorities.

The French presidency is proposing to create "quickly" colleges of supervisors to improve the monitoring of all major cross-border banks. This measure has also been the flags of the British prime minister, who asked that before the end of the 30 largest financial institutions in the world are monitored by supervisors in the schools of involving the authorities of all countries where these banks having activities.

The text also calls for intensifying the fight against tax and financial matters. Another proposal by the French president who will take the Washington Summit is to develop codes of conduct to ensure that the salaries of managers push to take excessive risks. Twenty-seven bet on the strengthening mechanisms for dealing with risks in financial institutions and they are directly dependent on the direction of the company, especially to avoid "incidents operating in market operations."

Japan and France help their banks, by FinancialMirror.tv

Defenders: growth of xenophobia due to preparations for the "Russian march"

Russian human rights activists concerned about the increasing attacks on the grounds of national intolerance in Russia. According to the staff of information-analytical center "Sova", the rise of xenophobia is directly related to preparations for the "Russian March", writes Interfax.

"Since the beginning of the year, according to our data, as a result of these attacks killed 75 people, nearly 300 injured," - told the deputy director of the center "Sova" Galina Kozhevnikova. According to her, this year at attacks by xenophobic human rights record in 37 Russian regions. "The most frequent targets of attacks this year are from Central Asia, as well as those related to the anti-fascist organizations", - said human rights activist.

Remember that more than a week ago, the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights circulated a report that since early this year, xenophobia has led to the deaths of 108 people. In total, according to the organization of national intolerance in this year affected about 238 people, accountable for crimes be brought only 138 people. What is important, for the last time in Moscow, the number of racist attacks has fallen almost 2 times, but in St. Petersburg remain the same.

"We note the increase in attacks against it in October. Now it is linked to preparations for the" Russian March "- noted human rights activist Kozhevnikova.

As reported, on 4 November, the Day of National Unity, a number of nationalist organizations are planning to hold in the Russian cities of the so-called "Russian March".

"Extreme rightist organizations monopolized Unity Day. That year they hold" Russian March ". Deny it can not, it is illegal.'s Another matter if they read slogans inciting inter-ethnic strife, prosecutors and police had every right to suspend the action. So far this has not been done "- Employees feel" Owl ".

The Colombian Congress rejected the second re-election of Uribe

The Colombian Congress on Wednesday rejected the proposed constitutional reform that would allow the president Uribe a second reelection in 2010.

After a heated discussion among members of the Conservative Party after two votes, the House of Representatives denied this possibility, according to an official communique.

In any case, Uribe could be eligible for re-election if a second call a popular referendum and win this option, whose conclusion has already been collected the necessary signatures.

Some sectors

Uribe had to pose an article on the political reform debate that Congress, which would enable the current president to run the elections in 2014, but the article was rejected.

The Liberal Party

Sank the initiative of Article 19 of the Political Reform to point out that the continuation "of authority in one individual has frequently been the end of democratic governments."

Liberals cited the Charter of the Congress of Angostura's liberator Simn Bolvar in which notes that "repeated elections are essential in popular systems, because nothing is as dangerous as leaving a long time to stay the same citizen in power" .

For his part, also opposition Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) expressed its "satisfaction" with the decision of the House of Representatives rejected that initiative.

Option of a referendum

The party of

The U of Uribe, considered that the best thing is to exclude the issue of re-election of the political reform debate that Congress and raise it in another way, through a referendum.

Under the current constitution, amended in 2005 at the initiative of Uribe, a president can only apply to the Head of State for a second term.

For this reason, it is only to Uribe the option of convening an inquiry and make available his popular candidacy for 2010.

The Colombian president in 2005 and managed to carry out a reform of the Colombian Constitution, which was adopted by the Constitutional Court, to be able to stand for his second term in 2006.

Uribe was elected president of Colombia in 2002, for a term of four years.

Colombia's indigenous protest against Uribe

The authorities in the provincial cities of Russia "inhabit" their "dead souls" literary heroes to attract tourists

Small cities Russia wants to entrap a tourist, no less than mega-cities, and more recently the most creative local governments have enmesh their towns legends associated with the popular favorite literary characters, write "Novye Izvestia".

As a result, residents cool in the Kabardino-Balkaria are confident that here, not anywhere else, landed Baron Munchausen cannon at the kernel. Inhabitants of the town Kozmodemyanska in Mari El prefer to call their city Vasyukami, believing that it is in this region Ostap Bender given conversation local chess players simultaneously play. A Uryupinske (Volgograd region) can go to a tea where driver Sokolov of "The destinies of man."

Tourists do not confuse that literary characters actually never existed, a place of their eventual habitation - only a figment of the imagination classics, said publication.

New Vasyuki

City Kozmodemyansk, the administrative center Gornomariyskogo area was overlooked attention of tourists at some point flooded with rumors: judging from the novel Ilfa Petrova and 12 chairs, a prototype of the legendary Vasyukov was exactly Kozmodemyansk. Perhaps rumors through the creative thinking of its leadership or by a tourist, but now tourists coming from the motor ship directly to the dock meets the inscription "Kish and Osya there were."

Rising above the city, instead of the customary for the of advertising everywhere you can see chess boards painted directly on walls and signs of interplanetary chess tournament. In addition to chess battles in the city passes and comedy Benderiana. Above the food shop for some time, cut a wide swath plate, "Beer is released only to members of the union", however, it soon shifted to the existing museum here Ostapa Bender. The city also has shops "Master Gumbs," "Father Fyodor," "Madam Gritsatsueva."

At a depth of "wood" part of the city, you can come across a monument to twelve chairs, full of metal, and in good shape can climb to the top chair and photographed. A souvenir shop are in demand caps a la Bender and chessboard.

However, nowhere in the notes Ilfa and Petrova did not say that the prototype of the city Vasyuki was Kozmodemyansk, said the newspaper. Old Factory club, logs folded along the coast, ramshackle - these are the first signs of human settlement, as described in "12 chairs." But there are more accurate facts. When Ostapa and Kisa Vorobyaninova ship for badly drawn poster sower, Bender read about it in the tourist guide in 1926: "On the right bank of the Volga River is situated high city Vasyuki. It sent wood materials, resin, bass, bass, but here brought the subject of extensive consumption for the province, 50 kilometers from the railway. "

According , in the novel, there are other signs Kozmodemyanska. For example, Ilf and Petrov wrote that inhabit Vasyukah 8 thousand people (about as many were in Kozmodemyanske in 1926), and the factory employed 320 workers. And that from the "12 chairs" straight and clear that Kozmodemyansk can not be Vasyukami (captain of the ship, which sailed Ostap, announcing the next stop, dictated: "Yurino, then Kozmodemyansk, then Vasyuki, Marian Posad, Kozlovka "), It chose not to focus.

Local authorities and residents, apparently, does not confuse the fact that the notes to the novel there is a note: "Vasyuki - fictitious name, a description of the city borrowed from the guide, where it refers to Vetluga city that is located upstream the same the flow of the Volga. "

Uryupinsk and Sholokhov

The name of this city is often used in as a synonym for "Depth", where innocent people. However, local administration decided to correct the i of local cities. Officials ordered to close to the central square of the city was set unusual sculptural group: bench, her broad man in boots and quilted jacket, is the boy next five years with in hand, beside them - three chicken. This composition - a monument to Andrei Sokolov and Vanyushke, heroes story of Mikhail Sholokhov "The fate of man."

According to the mayor Uryupinska writer Sholokhov in this city in 1946 met with a prototype of his hero and hear his story, which formed the basis for the work. The name of the city has been mentioned in the story: According to the book, Andrei Sokolov came to Uryupinsk after the death of a son, was in the house of a friend on the outskirts of the city, with the transport of goods, grain elevator on. Here he met the boy Vaney. In the story, the meeting took place near a tea, which frequented the protagonist: "From the journey there, return to the city - understandably, the first case of tea ..." Therefore, near the monument on the wall of an adjacent building, enhanced sign "tea".

Munchausen descendant living in Kabardino-Balkaria

The most stunning monuments of literary heroes often arise where there for this very reason, continued publication. For example, several years ago in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the shores of Blue Lake, a house-museum of Baron Munchausen.

Sign a form of a disclosed feed the bear, but in a cafe on the first floor of a large fireplace, where the "off" roasted duck. On holidays in the yard of a gun and firing salt cucumbers to the North Pole. At the same time, some visitors may cast a golden kernel of Blue Lake, and others - to monitor this through the largest in the world "" glasses. Their width is 310 cm and height of lenses - 54 see curators created from the front glasses "Zhiguli."

Today, this museum is hardly the most visited in Kabardino-Balkaria: the home of the famous inventor tourists come from different regions of the country, he appeared on the map of tour routes and makes a good profit.

There was all this initiative because a local resident, Vladimir Nagovitsyna. He in books that the 1738 and 1739 years of German Baron Karl Hieronymus von Munchausen visited in St. Petersburg, where he met with Russian Princess. As a result, the light came extramarital daughter that in order to avoid scandal transferred to the family of Cossack Nagovitsyna. This kind of branch and went Munchausen, which is representative of Vladimir Nagovicyn.

In 2004, he petitioned the court to allow him to be called only in Russia descendant of Munchausen. And in March 2005, a court correct in the Nagovicyn name on the passport Nagovo-Munchausen.

In Petushki route Venichki

Some more recent literary works that have become classics, no need for any monuments, but rather a pretext for . In the train, next on the route from Moscow to Petushki, often to be found MSU students from the famous book of the same Venedikta Yerofeeva.

The heads of the poem takes the name of stations. While the train was moving to the next station, students read the corresponding passage in the poem. At the same time as heroes of the book, they were escorted to visit the reception of alcoholic beverages. However, unlike Venechki, trying to do is not as active, to get to the final station in mind.

In the West lure tourists Juliet, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter

In the West, the various "literary places" has long attracted tourists continued publication. Thus, in Verona, Italy have Juliet balconies - fictional heroine of Shakespeare. City authorities skill people allowed in the legend that this is the same balcony, described in works of the great playwright. The reason for the legend has only the fact that the house with a balcony was built in XII century and has long belonged to the family of Capello, whose name is similar to the name of Kapuletti.

However, tourists in particular are not dealt with in the historical truth: every year millions of lovers come here to leave a message on the walls of the house. As a result, Verona came home and Romeo, and each shop here in one way or another linked to tragedy.

No less popular flat Sherlock Holmes in London. Tourists do not confuse that detectives really did not exist - they come in Victorian house, located at Baker Street, 221b.

In place of literary pilgri has become even tobacco factory in Seville (Spain), which supposedly wring cigar and cigarette Gypsy Carmen - heroine of the same novel by Prosper Merimee.

But especially popular in recent years enjoyed a tourist sites related to the life of the young magician Harry Potter from the book by Joan Rouling. One of the attractions was a British railway station "King Crosse, where Harry went to school and magic Hogvarts.

And in a suburb of Tel Aviv fans of the books on the adventures of boy- beset pit full namesake main character - a British soldier who died in the 19 years of age: Corporal Harry Potter served in the Royal Regiment and was killed in battle in the West Bank.