Expertise 354 1 min. ... Sergei Rakhlin, executive secretary of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) Last week, the Golden Globes, a prestigious award preceding the Oscars, took place. You can already take a risk and, based on the results of the Globe, note a number of trends for this year, because it is known that Globe winners often receive Oscars.

Perspective 198 1 min. ... What tools for early detection of diseases will be at hand in a couple of decades? We have selected the most promising and most unexpected directions Biochips These tiny devices combine electronics and organic proteins. Now they are used to detect various pathogenic microbes in the body, and in the future, according to American doctors, they will detect viruses in the environment in advance and signal about it.

Andrey Norkin. The number of tests per year is 40. The average mileage per week is 360 km. For him, the car became not a means of transportation, but a necessity of life. The car on test drive is a Volvo XC90 D5 AWD. My next meeting with Volvo, according to the already established tradition, turned out to be much longer than our Autopilot program envisages. Accordingly, the story about this car will be more detailed.

GENRE CRISIS 304 1 min. ... The concert of Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas was almost disrupted due to a protest organized by the student corporation Neo-Lithuania. The Lithuanian public was outraged by the fact that the announced concert program contained, in Gergiev’s own words, “merry works”: the conductor hoped that such a touring repertoire would be suitable for celebrating the old New Year and Christmastide.

Representatives of the Foreign Ministries of 27 European Union countries agreed on a decision to tighten sanctions against Syria, AFP reports, citing a diplomatic source. It was previously reported that as part of the new, 11th, package of sanctions, which provides for the application of so-called “restrictive measures” against another 8 Syrian companies and 22 Syrian senior officials.

By order of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Valery Podgainy was appointed to the post of prosecutor of the Perm region. Previously, Mr. Podgainy served as prosecutor of Gubakha. According to the regional prosecutor's office, Valery Podgainy began his career in the prosecutor's office in 2000. He held the position of investigator of the investigative department of the regional prosecutor's office, deputy prosecutor of the Nytvensky district.

Background 320 1 min. ... In 2003, the Ministry of Economic Development made a proposal, as part of the administrative reform, to transfer the right to technical inspection (TO) of cars from the traffic police to commercial organizations. However, due to the resistance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was not possible to implement the initiative within the planned time frame (since October 2004).

Having been eliminated in the first group stage, she was left without a ticket to the Olympics European Handball Championship The Russian men's handball team experienced a crushing failure at the European Championships in Serbia. She was eliminated already at the first group stage, gaining only one point in three matches, and thus lost her chances of getting to the London Olympics. And its head coach Vladimir Maksimov announced yesterday that he was resigning.

On January 17, 2012, the Perm Regional Court partially changed the sentence of the owner of the Alendvik fast food chain, Alexander Nikiforov. The court of first instance sentenced the businessman to four years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of two years. Let us recall that on October 28, 2011, Mr. Nikiforov was found guilty of committing crimes under paragraph “d”, part 2 of Art.

The incidence of influenza and ARVI in Ukraine in the 3rd week of 2012 (January 13-19) increased compared to the 2nd week of 2012 (January 6-12) by 29.8%, to 147.956 thousand patients. During the 3rd week of 2012, throughout Ukraine, the incidence rates of influenza and ARVI were below epidemic thresholds.

The column is led by Dmitry Polonsky The country's largest retail bank fixed the maximum rate on ruble deposits at 8% per annum. As a result, the interest rate on Sberbank deposits for the first time in many years became equal to the refinancing rate of the Bank of Russia. And the rate on Sberbank savings certificates, which are virtually no different from a deposit, reached a recent record 9.45%.

655 1 min. ... On February 4, a peaceful march for fair elections will take place in Moscow and many other cities. It is common to think that the latest mass protests are caused solely by dissatisfaction with the political system, and the welfare of the middle class that takes part in them is all right. Why this is not so and what are the economic prerequisites for the protest, read in the next issue.

Viktor Vyshinsky became a member of the regional parliament Last Friday, according to the decree of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the administration of the Caucasian Mineral Waters, Viktor Vyshinsky, was relieved of his post. As follows from the official message posted on the Kremlin website, this is due to his election as a deputy of the Stavropol Territory Duma. Viktor Vyshinsky worked in the KMS administration for more than 14 years.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has threatened Scotland that British embassies will stop advertising and promoting famous Scotch whiskey free of charge if Edinburgh gains independence from London. According to the Daily Mail newspaper on January 23, the Foreign Minister made this statement at a “private meeting”, the details of which were not reported.

The foreign ministers of 27 EU countries, meeting on January 23 in Brussels, approved tougher sanctions against Syria. As reported by RIA Novosti , the new, eleventh package of sanctions provides for the application of so-called “restrictive measures” against another eight Syrian companies and 22 Syrian senior officials. Their assets in Europe will be frozen, and individuals will be prohibited from entering the territory of the European Union.