Champion of Europe to become a chess Rossiyanka Tatiana Kosintseva

The Russian grandmaster from Arkhangelsk Tatiana Kosintseva won the Tenth European Chess Championship held in St. Petersburg.

In the final meeting Kosintseva won the first installment from Lilit Mkrtchyan of Armenia, and completed the second draw. For Tatjana Kosintsevoy it was the second victory in the championship of the continent - first, she won two years ago.

Champion will be awarded the gold medal, the Cup champion and a monetary prize of 10 thousand euros, said .

Bronze medal contest contest Rossiyanka Natalia Pogonina (in the semifinal with the score 3-1 victory Monica Sochko from Poland) and the Georgian Lomineishvili Maya (with the score 2,5-1,5 Russians have won the Eugenia ).

Recall that the winner of the European Championships for men held in Budva (Montenegro), Saratov became a grandmaster Eugene Tomaszewski.

PETITION: No illegal referendum in Mayotte, occupied territory!

Petition to ladies and gentlemen. Javier Solana, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Danuta Hbner, Louis Michel and members of the European Parliament
France intends to organize the 29 March 2009 Maor (Mayotte) a referendum on the departmentalization of the community overseas, after which France intends to make access to the status of the outermost regions (ORs) of the Union Europe.
Summit in Addis Ababa in January 2009, the 53 countries of the African Union have agreed to condemn once again the referendum and the registration of Mayotte in the French constitution.
Besides France, the EU countries have adopted almost all the twenty UN resolutions as recognizing Mayotte Comoros, and strongly condemning France since 1975.
We ask the European Union bodies, governments and elected representatives of member countries to require the French government that respects international law and UN resolutions in:
- Repealing the illegal referendum of March 29,
- Repealing the visa Balladur in 1995,
- And opening up real negotiations under the arbitration of international forums for the return of Maori to the Union of Comoros.
To sign the petition: http://www..es/detail_.asp?lg=fr&ref_=11

Mayotte, porte d'entrée vers la France et l'Europe.

In the U.S., according to the census, 46 million people remain without health insurance

As cases in 2007 in the U.S., there were 46 million Americans who do not have health insurance. The alarming fact - are the most numerous group were 13.2 million people age 19 to 29 years. This is evidenced by widespread today, the statistics the United States Census Bureau.

According to these data, the second largest age group (23 percent) of not having health insurance for Americans are the inhabitants of 30-35 years. Then there were people 36-49 years old - 17 percent 50-64 years - 13 percent and below 19 years (11 percent).

President Barack Obama, one of the priorities of its Administration made a decrease in the number of uninsured young people. "Reform of the health care system is no longer a moral necessity, it is fiscal necessity", - stressed the head of state last week.

According to experts, in the context of global economic crisis of the young Americans who have completed their studies and enter the workforce, have become most vulnerable, in terms of insurance. Age does not allow them to use the policy of their parents. And the income is too high to qualify for preferential state insurance, but not high enough for privacy.

Insured But Poorly Protected: Number Up 60 Percent in 4 Years