Exhibition The Moscow private Museum of Russian Icons will send part of its collection to Rome as part of the Year of Russian-Italian Culture. In exchange, a private Italian collection of crosses and crucifixes from the 8th-18th centuries will come to St. Petersburg, to the halls of the Hermitage. About forty works from the private Museum of Russian Icons, founded by Russian businessman Mikhail Abramov, were selected by Italian curators themselves.

University of Utrecht (Netherlands) 123 1 min. ... An innovative component of the project to identify colonies of the great gerbil using remote sensing is the development of an algorithm for their automatic recognition in satellite images. Colony density is an indicator of the number of large gerbils, hence the possibility of an outbreak of plague epizootic.

Botany 459 1 min. ... Ekaterina Sytnik This was established by a group of British and German scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Ulm. Biologist Ralph Simon noticed the vine Marcgravia evenia , which has a concave leaf next to its flowers, reminiscent of a radar. The acoustic "bait" reflects the ultrasound emitted by bats. Its signal serves as a reliable beacon for pollinating animals.

Dmitry Butrin, head of the economic policy department, guesses Often we have to do something that no economic analyst would ever do - forecasts with obvious incomplete information.

Failures plague the rocket and space industry: in nine months, Russia has lost a whole galaxy of satellites and spacecraft. And this is not a series of tragic accidents, but a systemic crisis in the industry, which threatens not only large-scale projects of the Russian government, without which the planned modernization of the country is impossible, but also the implementation of the most expensive contract in history between Roscosmos and NASA. IVAN SAFRONOV JR.

On Monday, an expert group of the Russian Jewish community presented a report “Anti-Semitism in Russia in 2010.” The main conclusion of the document: over the past year in Russia there has been a decrease in manifestations of anti-Semitism. However, the authors admit that there are more cases of anti-Semitism in Russia than are recorded by monitoring, and compare the situation to a smoldering peat bog.

Vladimir Dubyansky, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Epidemiology Laboratory of the Stavropol Research Anti-Plague Institute of Rospotrebnadzor I started preparing the text of this article directly on the expedition and thought that we were presenting a rather unusual phenomenon for these places. Hot, sometimes scorching sun and sand - after four hours of continuous work, the stereotypical idea of ​​the desert fully corresponds to the sensations.

What Ogonyok correspondent Konstantin Eggert learned about monarchies after talking with the Queen of Denmark On the eve of the state visit of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Moscow and St. Petersburg, an Ogonyok correspondent had the honor of talking with Her Majesty Konstantin Eggert, Copenhagen-Moscow Plastic lamp shades, apparently from IKEA, were the first thing I noticed at the royal family's summer residence, Grosten Palace in southern Denmark.

1K 1 min. ... Having absorbed a quantum of light—a photon—the electron bound in the substance becomes free. An electron-hole pair is formed (a hole is a vacant space, an unoccupied valence bond). In general, a negative electron-positive hole pair immediately recombines, returning excess energy in the form of a photon or transferring it to other particles. However, in specially organized structures, recombination can be blocked by spatially separating free electrons and holes.

Small but real Range Rover Igor Shein, editor-in-chief of Interni magazine, photo Nick Dimbleby So, in the beginning there was a kiss, and not a word, as is commonly believed. At least that's what Jerry McGovern says when talking about the idea of ​​creating a Range Rover Evoque. But who kissed him and where, Land Rover's design director diplomatically does not specify. Maybe it was God's kiss?

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An auction dedicated to the Queen vocalist will be held in London. The musical instruments of the leader of the British band will be offered at a charity auction, and the proceeds will go to the AIDS fund. An auction will be held in memory of Freddie Mercury. A charity auction will take place today in London, where the items on offer will be Queen's leader's musical instruments and the right to take part in the musical We Will Rock You.

On September 5, a Boeing 737 of Sakhalin Airlines made an emergency landing at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport. There were no casualties. “The crew of the plane, flying along the route Petropavlovsk - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, immediately after takeoff discovered a malfunction of the airliner. It was decided to return to Petropavlovsk airport,” a representative of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka airline told RIA Novosti . According to him, the landing went well.

This academic year, 1 million 465 thousand first-graders went to 47 thousand schools in Russia - 33 thousand more than last year. As VTsIOM sociologists found out, the average Russian family spent almost 13 thousand rubles on preparing for school, which is 12% more than in the last school year. The main part of the costs was the student's uniform.

1K 1 min. ... In each of the five previous State Duma election campaigns there was something particularly remarkable and even outstanding. Moreover, most of these records will no longer be broken in the era of developed sovereign democracy. The main sensation of the first elections in 1993 was the victory of the LDPR in the party list vote.