Metallurgists. Sculpture in Novokuznetsk. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru Alisher Usmanov and Vladimir Potanin intend to create a global mining and metallurgical holding. According to the “Vedomosti” on Thursday, the first step should be the purchase of “Interros” 25 percent of the shares of Metalloinvest, Usmanov should buy up to 10 percent of the Norilsk Nickel shares. The companies of Usmanov and Potanin - Gallagher Holdings and Interros - the day before signed a memorandum of cooperation.

Arctic Ocean. Photo from the site club.itdrom.com Russia, the USA, Canada, Norway and Denmark do not see the need for a new regime for managing the Northern Arctic Ocean and will cooperate on the basis of international law. According to ITAR-TASS, this is stated in a joint declaration adopted by the results of the international conference of the five coastal states of the region.

Alexander Koptsev. Frame NTV Alexander Kopsev, convicted of attacking Jews in the Moscow synagogue, died in a colony. According to Echo of Moscow, lawyer Vitaliy Khavkin, who represented the interests of the victims, said that Kopsev, apparently, committed suicide. FSIN comments have not yet been received. Meanwhile, according to Gazeta.ru, Koptsev’s lawyer Vladimir Kirsanov denied information about the death of his client.

Sergey Naryshkin. Photo from the site www.tvzvezda.ru The Russian government will be able to turn the ruble into a world reserve currency. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin. “We are very seriously worried about the situation in world markets, the threat of a global recession.

Sinai. The female skeleton found in the grave near the military fortress. Photo The New York Times Egyptian archaeologists discovered on the Sinai Peninsula the place of the headquarters of the army of the pharaoh, which guarded the external borders of the empire. This, according to the report of RIA Novosti and the agency of Mena, said the General Secretary of the Egyptian Higher Council for Antiquities Zahi Havass.

RNDS leader Mikhail Kasyanov, in an interview with the editor-in-chief of Graney.Ru Vladimir Korsunsky, comments on the political situation. Full text of the interview See also: Mikhail Kasyanov on the unification of democrats (video) Roman Dobrokhotov and Yulia Malysheva argue about the "Medvedev thaw" (video) Medvedev and the fate of the regime: opinions (video)

National patriots are opposed to conduct a gay parade in Moscow. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru A gay unauthorized action will be held on June 1 at the Moscow City Hall, the organizers of the gay parade reported.

Boris Shtern is a senior researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the Troitsky Variant newspaper .

Moscow, Novopushkinsky Square, May 29, 2008. A picket against the escalation of tension in Ingushetia and the closure of the website Ingushetia.Ru . Photographed by Dmitry Borko. Ingushetia.ru continues to work despite the court decision The court suspended the activity of the site Ingushetia.ru

Nicolas Sarkozi and Vladimir Putin. Photo by ar Vladimir Putin begins his first visit to Western Europe as a prime minister. According to Kommersant on Thursday, in Paris he will meet with French Prime Minister Francois Fiion and his former colleague President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Transbaikalia. Photo from the site Nature.baikal.ru The police of Transbaikalia during a second examination of the territories in search of two boys missing on March 16 in the Karymsky district, discovered their bodies. As RIA Novosti reports, the prosecutor of the Karymsky district Denis Kurochkin announced this. "The bodies of the boys were found in treatment facilities, about one and a half kilometers from the district center.

Reconstruction of pterosaurus. Photo from the site www-news.uchicago.edu The largest of the once existing winged lizards preferred to walk and grab prey from the ground with their giant beak. This conclusion was reached by the authors of the study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Earlier, paleontologists believed that all ancient giant flying reptiles - pterosaurs - behaved like seagulls or pelicans that soar over lakes or seas, grabbing fish out of the water on the fly, RIA Novosti clarifies.

Aman Tuleyev. Photo from the site www.ikvo.vrn.ru The Central District Court of Kemerova satisfied the lawsuit of the governor of Kuzbass Aman Tuleyev against the leader of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov to protect honor, dignity and business reputation and decided to recover 500 thousand rubles from the defendant. As RIA Novosti reports, the representative of the plaintiff said this.

Photographer Vladimir Pavlenko In the Moscow Center for Contemporary Art of M'ars, the exhibition of photorepector Vladimir Pavlenko "Status of the War" opens. In the exposition of 37 color works shot in different countries of the world. Pavlenko is famous mainly by military photographs. He visited many "hot spots", worked in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and shot the Beslan tragedy.

Putin and Schroeder. Photo by RIA '' News '' The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to RIA Novosti, among the 14 new foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in addition to Schroeder, six representatives of the United States, two - China and Italy and one at a time - Finland, France, Ukraine.