The American company NeoStem has entered into an unprecedented contract in the field of research on stem cells obtained from adult humans. Its partner was the Roman Catholic Church, known for its wary attitude towards such research, the MedMedia portal reports, citing the Los Angeles Times.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced activists of the Other Russia to various prison terms for participating in the riots on Manezhnaya Square. All the accused were found guilty. The longest sentence - five and a half years - was given to Igor Berezyuk. Ruslan Khubaev was sentenced to four years. Alexander Kozevin received two and a half years. All three are in high security. Kirill Unchuk received three years in prison, Leonid Panin received two years.

The logic of the Holy See is clear. You can condemn as harshly and uncompromisingly as you like the practice of destroying human embryos in order to obtain stem cells. But if these cells actually provide a breakthrough in the treatment of a number of diseases that concern society (and apparently, this is what is going on), the intransigent position of the Vatican is unlikely to affect the public’s attitude towards cell therapy - but it may well harm its attitude towards the Vatican itself .

In the Kremlin The results of the week. The links of one elevator October 28, 2011 Alexander Golts No, in vain, we in every possible way foamed the prime minister, when he directly and frankly told that in the Brezhnev rule there was a lot of good, for example, achievements in agriculture. As befits a press secretary, Mr. Peskov warned us about the approach of the inevitable. Namely, the severe form of state insanity. And then the insanity has come.

In the Kremlin Children like ancestors October 28, 2011 Dmitry Oreshkin "The press secretary of V. Putin D. Peskov explained that the Brezhnev era was a huge plus for Russia, not a minus." (From the heroic epic cast in granite) It was a long time. A lot of moons ago. People then played badminton with wooden rackets and went on wooden skis. Instead of money, there were wooden rubles.

The elections in Tunisia, the first free elections in the country over the past 42 years, held the victory of the Islamists. The Nahda party received more than 40% of the vote and nominated a candidate for the post of head of the transition government. There is no speech about the coming to power of the radicals - “Nahda” is considered a moderate organization insisting on a combination of traditional Islamic values ​​and principles of Western democracy.

Aslan Cherkesov, found guilty of murdering Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to 20 years in a maximum security colony. The prosecutor's office demanded that he be sentenced to 23 years. Cherkesov’s accomplices, who took part in the fight in which Sviridov died, received from five to ten years in prison. They were accused of hooliganism and causing harm to health. Lawyers for the accused intend to appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court.