More than a month has passed since the day that the main period of the NASA (Primary Mission) mission was announced on the completion of the main period of the Martian Mission , however, Rovers still successfully continue their research. The Americans call this enterprise already "Bonus-Time Mission".

Today in the State Duma a meeting of representatives of public organizations with the chairman of the security committee Vladimir Vasiliev took place.

Meeting George Bush with Pope. Photo AP On Friday, President Bush, who was in Italy with a three -day official visit, met with Pope John Paul II. According to BBC, dad called Bush to the "speedy return of the sovereignty of Iraq." Bush awarded the Pontiff to the American medal of freedom, calling John Paul II "the son of Poland, who became the Roman bishop and the hero of our time." This medal is the highest US award for civilians.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was indignant at the fact that the Freedom of Speech program on the NTV channel was hosted by a "citizen of a foreign state" Savik Shuster (a native of the Lithuanian SSR, has Canadian citizenship. - Ed.). The mayor's anger stemmed from recent statements by a TV presenter who allegedly questioned the wisdom of hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

In Moscow, on the territory of the Ivanovskoye police department, a prisoner of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, suspected of robberies, escaped, Interfax reports, citing sources from the capital's police department. The escape was made around 21.00 Moscow time Thursday.

On Friday afternoon, an elderly man died at the Kitai-Gorod metro station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax. According to the Moscow police department, the man fell on the rails at about two o'clock in the afternoon. Details are still unknown, the causes of the incident are being investigated. Traffic from the station "Barrikadnaya" to the station "Taganskaya" was interrupted for some time, now it has already been restored.

Tajikistan flag from Strani.ru The territory for the deployment of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, as well as the territories that are now used for military training grounds in the interests of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, will be transferred free of charge for the unlimited use of the Russian Federation. As RIA Novosti reports, this decision was made at a meeting of Presidentials of Russia and Tajikistan Vladimir Putin and Emomali Rakhmonov.

IL-76TD plane. The latest employees of the Interenergoservis company who worked in Iraq will be evacuated on Friday. Behind them from Ramensky near Moscow early in the morning the Il-76TD of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies flew out in the morning. This was reported by RIA Novosti in the information department of the Ministry. In Baghdad, the plane is expected to arrive at 11.00 Moscow time, and will return to Moscow in the afternoon with 47 specialists of the company on board.

Picket at the Duma. Photo from the website of the 'Apple' On Friday, the State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the draft law "On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets," ITAR-TASS reports. The bill approves the notification nature of the mass events, which should change the so far that has existed. The time of public events is stipulated - from 7 a.m.

Vladislav Uspensky. Photo from the site www.radiomaria.ru On the night of Thursday to Friday in St. Petersburg, composer Vladislav Uspensky died, RIA Novosti reports. He was 66 years old. The composer was a graduate, and then the teacher and dean of the theoretical and composer Faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, one of the leaders of the Union of Composers of St. Petersburg, the festival "Musical Spring" and the International Musical Children's Festival.

The power of the explosion at the market in Samara was at least one kilogram of TNT. This was stated at a press conference by the prosecutor of the Samara region Alexander Efremov. The explosive device, according to him, was planted between two tents on a concrete fence overlooking the railway. The prosecutor noted that the explosion was directed towards the railway, where there were tanks with diesel fuel. These tanks reflected the blast wave. There was no ignition.

An outbreak of an unknown enterovirus infection was registered in the villages of Sorok and Orlik, Okinsky district of Buryatia. As reported by ITAR-TASS On Friday, 38 children fell ill at the republican center for sanitary and epidemiological supervision, mostly of preschool age. In children, the temperature rises, a rash appears, signs of stomatitis. Severe forms of the disease have not yet been noted. Quarantine has been introduced in the kindergartens of the villages.

US Congress. Photo from the site correspondent. On June 7, a group of leading Russian human rights defenders will perform at a briefing at the US Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The performance is dedicated to the beginning of a visit to the United States President Putin, where he will take part in the Summit of the Big Eight.

Epidemiologists have established that a woman hairdresser was the source of the measles outbreak in Veliky Novgorod, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of the press secretary of the Novgorod Regional Center for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision (TSGSEN) Marina Pribytkina. It is assumed that all patients caught measles by airborne droplets through contact with a hairdresser. Epidemiologists have not yet been able to eliminate the outbreak.

Another suspect in the murder of a Tajik girl in St. Petersburg has been detained. Petersburg prosecutor Nikolai Vinnichenko told journalists about this on Friday. "In the near future, the issue of bringing charges against him and applying a measure of restraint will be resolved," the prosecutor said. According to him, five participants in the attack have already been charged with a crime.