The young Mironovites selected from their ranks of the candidates for the State Duma in Belgorod on Thursday the first congress of the Youth Wing of the Fair Russia (SR) of the Hurray! At the opening of the congress, the chairman of the Federation Council and the leader of the SR Sergey Mironov, the head of "Hurray!" Sergey Shargunov and Governor of the Belgorod Region Yevgeny Savchenko.

19:44 // 12.07.2007 The European Commission has adopted a new EU program for the exchange of students with third countries, called "Erasmus Mundus - 2". This was announced by the European Commissioner for Education, Jan Figel. According to him, this program covers the period from 2009 to 2013 and is aimed at developing cooperation between universities of the EU countries and foreign states and active exchange of students and teachers.

11:00 // 12.07.2007 The Russian oceanologists will install the flag of Russia at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at a depth of about 4.3 thousand meters, said RIA Novosti , the head of the laboratory of deep -sea dedicated devices of the Institute of Oceanology named after Shirshov, Anatoly Sagalevich.

12:49 // 12.07.2007 The Government of the Russian Federation is currently discussing the need to introduce seasonal winter import duties on sugar at the rate of $ 240-250 per ton. “I hope this decision will be made,” said the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexei Gordeev to reporters.

Brian May became Dr. Astrophysics Brian May, the guitarist of the legendary group of Queen, returned to the scientific work that he abandoned more than thirty years ago, and received the degree of Doctor of Astrophysics. May was engaged in the theme of interplanetary dust clouds, which he safely abandoned 33 years ago, when the group arose in front of the real prospects of world fame. His dissertation all this time dusted in the attic of his house in the county of Surrey.

Fedor Yaroshevich was invited to resign until the end of the week the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Georgy Boos, officially announced his intention to change the head of the Baltic City District of Fedor Yaroshevich. This was reported in the government of the region. "The head of the region, the head of the region, offered the head of the municipality F. Yaroshevich, to resign voluntarily until the end of the week.

Outside the solar system, there are all conditions for life “in vapor -shaped” astronomers received the first convincing evidence of the presence of water on the planet located far beyond the solar system. This planet, called by scientists HD 189733b, is a giant hot gas ball with evaporation rising above its surface.

11:56 // 12.07.2007 In the Savelovsky Court of Moscow, the absentee process began in the case of entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky hiding in the UK about the theft of Aeroflot funds, the lawyer intended to ask the businessman to ask to postpone the process for a month. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation accuses Berezovsky of embezzlement of more than 214 million rubles of Aeroflot.

13:51 // 12.07.2007 The clashes between deceived investors and bailiffs in Shcherbinka near Moscow, apparently, managed to avoid. The planned arrest of seven unfinished houses will not take place. As the correspondent of "Echo of Moscow" reported from the scene, about 300 people gathered at the disputed houses, but the mayor of the city with papers on the postponement of the execution of court decisions came to them. According to local authorities, people calmed down and should soon disperse.

18:02 // 12.07.2007 The Russian Bank of VTB is considering the possibility of selling for $ 1.2 billion dollars owned by its stake in the European Aircosomic Concern of the EADS, ITAR-TASS reports. The VTB controlled stake in the EADS, which reaches about 5% of the capital of this group, can be sold already at the end of this year.

Following Ketamin, the FSKN announced a group of coughing tablets from the coughing of famous human rights activists on Thursday defending Belarusian Pavel Zhdanovich, accused of illegal sale of psychotropic substances on an especially large scale, as well as several other citizens of Belarusia, detained in Moscow, allegedly for participation in drug trafficking. Pavel Zhdanovich was detained on September 12, 2006.

Outside the solar system, water was detected using a powerful telescope Spitzer Astronomer NASA discovered water vapors in the atmosphere of the giant planet HD 189733B outside the solar system. The discovery was made by chance - when the planet passed through the orbit in such a way that it could be seen by an observer from the earth's orbit, the astronomers recorded minor evaporations that go beyond the atmosphere of the planet, RIA Novosti reports.

In South Ossetia, the crew of the Russian television channel Georgian police detained the crew (second channel) under the leadership of Andrei Chistyakov in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. Later, the detainees were transferred to the representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Georgia. However, the Russian embassy has not yet confirmed information about the transfer of Russian journalists.

13:11 // 12.07.2007 The “International Amnesty” called on the UN to investigate war crimes that were committed by Israel and the Hezbollah movement during a conflict in Lebanon last summer, BBC reports. In a report dedicated to the anniversary of the war, the human rights organization indicated that without such an investigation, the danger of a new conflict remains.

The Strasbourg court ordered to pay more than 40 thousand euros to relatives of the missing resident of Chechnya, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg decided to pay more than 40 thousand euros to relatives of Chechnya resident Ayubhan Magomadov, who was missing.