KAMAZ plant. Naberezhnye Chelny. Frame '' Vesti '' In April, the Industrial Roading Index, calculated by Rosstat, showed a deepening of the industrial recession, which compared 16.9 percent compared to April 2008. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, formally the fall turned out to be the most significant since February 2009, when it reached 16 percent, and the most noticeable over the past 15 years - in 1994, industry decreased by 18 percent.

Plato Lebedev. Photo by the Favorites.ru The former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev asked to hold the investigators to be held accountable, who fought the second criminal case of the ex-head of the Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, RIA Novosti reports. According to Lebedev, the employees of the Prosecutor General and the UPP falsified the data during its investigation.

Alexander Zarubin. Photo from Newsru.com In Portugal, a citizen of Russia Natalya Zarubina, through a court, returned her daughter, who was trying to deprive her of the Portuguese married couple. According to ITAR-TASS, six-year-old Alexander was handed over to the mother in the building of the social security service of the Portuguese city of Braga in the presence of the vice-consul of Russia Oleg Sotnikov.

Nikita Mikhalkov. Photo ruskino.ru The Union of Cinematographers of Russia will develop an ethical code for members of the organization, the violation of which can threaten various sanctions up to the exception of the Suuza, the chairman of the SK Nikita Mikhalkov told Interfax. According to Mikhalkov, the code will prohibit SK members offend each other. “For actions that contradict the ethical norms prescribed in the Code, from warning to exception from the Union,” the film director added.

Victory Parade on Red Square. Photo petrysha.narod.ru “The Russian government, as a reverse providence, is not a better for the better, but past,” Herzen once remarked. So Dmitry Medvedev created the commission "to counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia." The historical initiative of the head of state is commented by Irina Karatsuba, Nikita Sokolov, Fedor Lukyanov, Igor Dolutsky.

Elena Bonner. Photo from the personal archive Speech on the Freedom forum in Oslo Ladies and gentlemen! Dear friends! In an invitation to this conference, her President Mr. Tor Halvorsssen asked me to tell about my life, the suffering that I suffered, and how it happened that I endured it all. But it seems to me today not very necessary. Therefore, it is very brief. At the age of 14 she was left without parents. Father was shot, mother was sent to prison and exile for 18 years.

The tunnel of the accelerator of the large Adron Collider. Photo from the site CERN Austrian Chancellor Werner Fayman denied rumors, according to which the Alpine Republic plans to leave the European Nuclear Studies Organization ( Cern , Cern), which oversees the work of the Great Hadron Collider - LHC , RIA Novosti reports. “Austria has been a member of Cern for 50 years,” the Chancellor said at a press conference in Vienna.

Space Telescope "Hubble". Photo NASA from the site www.science-explorer.de/astronomie/astro.htm Space Telescope "Hubble". Photo NASA from the site www.science-explorer.de American astronauts completed the repair of the Hubble orbital telescope ( Hubble ), writes Computer with reference to AP . The human hand from now on the apparatus will not touch. The fifth (and last) exit to space, the Atlantis shuttle crew took an hour earlier than planned.

Pills. Photo from the site www.mmbrana.ru Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the regions to fight unreasonable margins for medicines that establish pharmaceutical companies, RIA Novosti reports. "It is necessary to ensure that the pharmacy networks do not create all kinds of corporations so that there are no monopoly agreements on the prices of medicines," Medvedev said.

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Checkpoint. Abkhazia. Photo: frame NTV The number of Russian troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, where Russian military bases will be located, will be less than planned. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the first deputy minister of defense, Colonel General Alexander Kolmakov. Earlier it was reported that the number of military personnel of each of the bases will be 3,700 people.

Mammoth The Yamalo-Henets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I.S.Shemansky in Salekhard decided to plasticize (drying out) of the carcass of the Yamal Mammont Lyuba, the head of the Zoological Museum RAH Alexei Tikhonov told Interfax. "It was decided not to freeze the carcass, but to dry it and exhibit a museum in the window. The corresponding request has already been sent to the Ministry of Culture.

Dmitry Medvedev. Frame from the video blog of the president Russian President Dmitry Medvedev created the commission "On counteracting attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia." According to RIA Novosti, citing the Kremlin press service, Medvedev signed a decree on Tuesday. Earlier, Medvedev repeatedly spoke of the "inadmissibility of falsification of history", including the Great Patriotic War.

Andrey Piontkovsky A wonderful thought hit the head of one of the leaders of our Chekist nobility - director of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky. He was concerned about the prospects for national security in the Far East in connection with the growing Chinese immigration and decrease in the Russian population. An effective middle -level manager immediately found a solution to the problem - we will send Armenians and Kyrgyz there.

The head of the company "Social Initiative" Nikolai Karasev. Photo from the site www.riarealty.ru The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced the head of the Social Initiative of Nikolai Karasev to 10 years in a colony of strict regime, found guilty of fraud and legalization of funds in the case of deception of housing construction, RIA Novosti reports.