Students of the American College helped scientists to prove that the human sense of smell is much better than it seems to be believed that a person is deprived of the ability to identify smells, but the experiment of American scientists proves the opposite. The unique abilities of the human smell helped them were helped by college students who agreed to crawl along the grass with blindfolded eyes, trying to track the traces of chocolate.

Professional cycling is time for a funeral - to be different in a shroud and with weeping to see in another world. The notorious shepherd shouted the “wolf” already a million two thousand times - the listeners are completely unconscious and no longer understand who the wolf is and who should eat. Doping scandals have long been scumbaging the reputation of cycles, but for some time the situation still did not get out of control.

The investigation of the high -profile criminal case was resumed as it became known to the "Gazeta", the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office in the Southern Federal District resumed a previously suspended investigation in the criminal case against Ahmed Zakaev, initiated back in 2001.

12:50 // 12/19/2006 The director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev held a traditional meeting on Lubyanka on the eve of the festival of security agencies with the leaders of leading Russian media, ITAR-TASS reports. "Our meetings have become regular, we exchange views on issues of issues of greatest interest to society," said the head of the FSB.

The metropolitan freight market will be cleaned from private traders yesterday by the Moscow government approved the city targeted program for the implementation of transport policy in the field of freight road transport for 2007-2009. Officials promise to significantly reduce the number of trucks running around the capital. The reduction will occur at the expense of numerous private traders who are now serious competition for large carriers.

20:26 // 12/19/2006 Armenia can be left without gas reserves in underground storage facilities this winter if repairs are being delayed on the gas pipeline, according to which Russian gas is supplied, said Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov, RIA Novosti reports. "Obviously, if the repair work drags on for a long time, Armenia risks being left without stocks in underground gas storages this winter," Kupriyanov said. The situation, according to him, is alarming.

The first suspect was the former constable on Monday on suspicion of the murder of five prostitutes, whose naked bodies were discovered in early December, a former constable, 37-year-old supermarket worker Tom Stevens. Before the arrest, the police interrogated him several times, and for the first time in early November - after 19 -year -old Tanya Nichols disappeared on October 31.

The head of the Georgian Foreign Ministry explained the reasons for the confrontation with Russia, Gela Trahzhashvili, believes that the unresolved conflicts around Abkhazia and South Ossetia interferes with the stable development of Georgia, and Russia is to blame. “This is the main obstacle that Russia uses to stop the movement of Georgia forward,” said Philohashvili.

It was still believed that a person is deprived of the ability to identify odors, but the experiment of American scientists proves the opposite. The unique abilities of the human smell helped them were helped by college students who agreed to crawl along the grass with blindfolded eyes, trying to track the traces of chocolate. The study proved that the human brain processes and compares the information received from each nostril separately - in order to understand where the smell comes from.

The Moscow Military District reports on the fulfillment of the draft plan for military commissions called for 100% of the planned number of recruits, that is, 25.8 thousand people. Of these, 86% - 22 thousand people have already been sent to the troops, the rest will be sent until December 31 of this year.

The investigation of the Litvinenko case will continue in Germany British police officers, who were in Moscow for two weeks and attended during interrogations of Dmitry Kovtun, Andrei Lugovoi, Vyacheslav Sokolenko, “some of their families, the lawyer of one of them and the attending physician,” “consider the idea” to visit Germany for further investigative actions in the case of Alexander Litvinenko. This was reported on Tuesday by the British edition of The Independent.

And the head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev presented them to the Russian media at an annual meeting with the leaders of the leading Russian media accused the Danish refugee Council of Intelligence in the North Caucasus. Representatives of this humanitarian organization reject all claims. “The claims are absolutely groundless. We do not know any grounds for them,” said the director of the International Division of the Danish Council for refugees Arne Vaigen.

Independent experts offer Russian development scenarios the closer a large electoral cycle, the louder the pre -election promises. At the same time, independent experts from the Center for the Development of the Information Society (Rio Center) develop scenarios for the development of the country for the future president. Whoever he is.

It became very difficult for Russian tourists to get a German visa is not lucky with New Year's tours to Europe. The scandal with the refusal of the French consulate in Moscow did not have time to accept applications for visas for bus tours, as a New Year's surprise presented the German embassy. Yesterday it became known that it unexpectedly tightened the rules for drawing up visas. And the largest tour operators in Germany in the embassies hung thousands of passports of their customers.

Yesterday, Mosgorsud Andrei Anokhin, the last accused in the case of an explosion in the Kotlyakovsky cemetery on November 10, 1996, sentenced the Mosgorsud to the 15 years in prison. As the court established, it was he who brought the hellish machine when dozens of people gathered at the grave of the former head of the Russian Fund for War Disabled in Afghanistan (RFiva) by Mikhail LISTRACT. Then 14 people were killed and 24 were injured.