The virus of pork flu A/H1N1 has changed. This was discovered by Japanese doctors who analyzed the genetic code of the virus taken from the patient in Tokyo. However, there are no reasons for panic - H1N1 is not a new threat. Thanks to the centralized storage and processing system for genetic data on the fact of the mutation and its nature, experts around the world learned in a timely manner.

The deputy chairman of the State Duma Svetlana Zhurova voiced plans to introduce administrative responsibility for the use of prohibited drugs in sports. The proposal for the criminal prosecution of people guilty of doping scandals is still rejected. Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Administrative Offenses) are going to accept the responsibility for doping in the fall of this year.

American sociologists from the University of South California came to the conclusion that 28% of the US residents began to spend less time with their family. By joint pastime, researchers also understood the joint viewing of television programs, and they associated the observed reduction of joint leisure with the spread of the Internet. About 28% also believe that their children "too much" spend time behind the computer connected to the network.

General Motors signed a preliminary agreement on the sale of the SAAB brand of Koenigseg, a Swedish manufacturer of sports cars. The GM company reported that the current transaction was supported by a state loan of $ 600 million by the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) Bank and is guaranteed by the Swedish government, writes the Air Force . This Agreement will be the last stage of GM reorganization, which also transferred the brands of Opel and Vauxhall the Canadian company Magna.

The former SCP employee Alexander Maz was sentenced to two years conditionally. For two years, a former employee of the National Council of the Russian Federation was conditionally received, who, in January 2009, being drunk, shot down a woman to death at a pedestrian crossing in Moscow. Parents of MAZ before the court paid the relatives of the deceased a million rubles. The verdict of the Nikulinsky court of Moscow issued on Thursday, June 11, but it has become known only now.

Historians from the British Museum received confirmation that the statues of Parthenon were painted in bright colors. Such a conclusion was made during the last study of sculptures taken out of Greece at the beginning of the 19th century. Despite many studies conducted at different times by scientists, it was not possible to find traces of the dye on statues.

The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service of the MI-6 will be the UK representative at the UN UN John Sowers. This was announced on Tuesday, June 16, a representative of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. SOURS will become a successor to the post of head of the MI6 of John Scarlett, retired last November, writes The Independent . The appointment has already been approved by the Minister of Foreign Affairs David Miliband. Sowers worked as an ambassador to Baghdad, Washington and Cairo.

The Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) does not see the prerequisites for investigating the circumstances of the Terek-“Wings of the Soviets”, in respect of which there are suspicions of the contractual nature of the game, the head of the Premier League press service Igor Budnikov told RIA Novosti . "There are no prerequisites for the investigation of this match. And then, the Premier League is not the organization to conduct an investigation, special authorities should do this.

Gennady Onishchenko suspended negotiations with Belarus on the dairy problem. Meanwhile, the day before, the Russian side announced the intention to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Moscow does not make sense to complete the conflict without getting concessions from Minsk, experts say.

The Moscow authorities "will try to close the Cherkizov market this year," Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, said on the air of the TVC of Moscow. According to Luzhkov, the Cherkizov market is 80 percent located on federal land, which belongs to the University of Physical Culture. “But the physical education facilities took up trade, then I turned to them-they didn’t put it on the charter. They went to court, the court supported them, and twice now.

The drop in production in Russia broke the next anti -record. In May, it accelerated and reached 17.1% compared to the same period last year. Experts explain the recent forecasts of officials about achieving the “bottom” and the beginning of revitalization by the fact that people are simply tired of bad news. The volume of industrial production in Russia in May decreased by 17.1% compared to May 2008, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said .

In the City Court of St. Petersburg, the process began in the case of an attempt to hijack the Antalya aircraft-St. Petersburg in the fall of 2008. In the bench of the defendants Yashar Pasha-Ogly Rashidov, who is called himself Russian-Turkish subject and leader of the Radical-Kemalian party of Turkey.

The number of deaths in an accident around the world is growing every year, the WHO report testifies. And he warns: if this process does not slow down, by 2030, more people will die from an accident than from AIDS or cancer. Russia has a key role in this sad statistics. Transport incidents annually take away the lives of over 1.2 million people around the world.

The virus of pork flu A/H1N1 has changed. This was discovered by Japanese doctors who analyzed the genetic code of the virus taken from the patient in Tokyo. However, there are no reasons for panic - H1N1 is not a new threat. Thanks to the centralized storage and processing system for genetic data on the fact of the mutation and its nature, experts around the world learned in a timely manner.

Large-scale searches took place on Tuesday in the capital's business centers “Romanes Courtyard” and “Daev-Plaza”. They are connected with the case of the theft of $ 87 million in the construction of the Moscow Hotel. Law enforcement officers came to the Romanov Courtyard (4) Romanov (4) and "Daev-Plaza" (Daev per., 20) at 7 a.m. and immediately began a search with a notch of documents.