Ilya Arkhipov The logic of work The Moscow government awarded annual prizes to a young scientist. Among the laureates was the candidate of historical sciences, a researcher at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ilya Arkhipov, who has been studying for more than 15 years. The theme of his work: “The material culture of the ancient Mesopotamia of the first half of the II millennium BC”. We publish an interview with a scientist.

Newsweek correspondents spent its worst night in Bishkek - along with the wounded, the dead, doctors, looters and opposition leaders Wednesday, April 7 18.30 Moscow-Bishkek flight of Kyrgyz Airlines landed at Manas airport. This is the last plane to Bishkek. Aeroflot's night flight is said to have been cancelled.

On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, after Bishkek passed to the opposition, the opposition appointed an interim people's government. It was headed by Roza Otunbayeva. In the parliament building, where the opposition leadership gathered, Otunbayeva gave one of her first interviews to Newsweek correspondent Ilya Arkhipov. After this conversation, Otunbaeva went out to her supporters, who gathered around the parliament. Rosa, are you prime minister now?

In January, Kyrgyz Defense Minister Ismail Isakov was sentenced to eight years in prison and stripped of his rank of lieutenant general. The criminal prosecution of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president's closest ally in the Tulip Revolution, began after Isakov wrote a scandalous letter to the president in October 2008 about abuses in his entourage. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the disgraced leader of the Kyrgyz opposition unexpectedly left prison and became defense minister again.

There were no explosions in Moscow for six years. Now officials understand that the work to prevent terrorist attacks must again be started from scratch. The message that the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, informed the president about the attacks, appeared on the Kremlin website on Monday at nine in the morning. Federal TV channels were also silent for almost an hour after the explosion, and the President and Prime Minister did not react until after noon.