From 2015, the Georgian military will perform “non-combat functions” The Georgian government, without prior consultation with the president, decided to withdraw half of the troops there under NATO command as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan by the end of the year. Starting next year, about 800 Georgian military personnel will carry out a “non-combat mission” in a new format.

Dmitry Gubin talks with neuroscientist Dick Swaab Everything you wanted to know about the brain, but didn’t know who to ask, Ogonyok found out from the world star - neuroscientist Dick Swaab Photo: Fotolia / PhotoXPress.ru — I would like to start with a selection of the most popular questions of the “scientist - from layman” type. For example: after death, when I die, where will my “I” go? Will there be something left after me?

Member of the federal civil committee of the “Civil Platform”, member of the Human Rights Council Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, got in touch again. Spokesperson for the Fair Aid Foundation Lana Zhurkina wrote about this on Twitter . Earlier, Ms. Zhurkina reported on Facebook that contact with the human rights activist had been lost. Elizaveta Glinka was in Donetsk and collected medicines and humanitarian aid for those affected by the clashes in south-eastern Ukraine.

Elena Pushkarskaya looked around at the Architecture Biennale in Venice Russia's past is the best gift, including for the centenary of the Russian pavilion in Venice Previous photo Next photo 1 / 2 "Monditalia" is the name of the exposition of the Italian pavilion. It's almost "Made in Italy" - everything it's rich in Elena Pushkarskaya, Venice The Italians began announcing the Architectural Biennale, which opened on June 7 in Venice, with the prefix “super” long before the vernissage days.

Ilya Zinoviev got acquainted with the new products of the car market Sometimes cars attract not so much with powerful engines and comfortable bodies, but with unusual shapes and bright colors Previous photo Next photo 1 / 8 Material prepared by Ilya Zinoviev KIA Soul. Korean fashionista The new KIA Soul is, first of all, an unusual body design with two-tone paint, complemented by non-standard solutions in the interior.

Decisive passes 78 1 min. ... the 9th of June Basketball. VTB United League. The final "Russia-2", 19:55 June 10th Basketball. NBA Playoffs. The final. "Miami" - "San Antonio" "Sports TV channel Viasat", 05:00 June 11 Auto racing. 25 hours of Le Mans. Practice Eurosport-2, 20:00 12 June Football. World Championship. Brazil - Croatia "Russia-1", 23:45 Rates*: Brazil 1.3 Croatia 10 Draw 5.2 June 13 Football. World Championship.

What kings today can't afford Last week, King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated the throne in favor of his son, Prince Felipe of Asturias. Most modern monarchs do not have the power, wealth and economic influence that royalty had two hundred years ago, but this institution cannot be called a rudiment.

The Bank of Moscow will provide JSC New Fitting Technologies (Perm Region) with two loans totaling 1.4 billion rubles. for the construction of a plant for the production of pipeline fittings (CPF), the bank said in a statement. The total capital expenditure budget for the plant construction project is about 3 billion rubles. New Fitting Technologies LLC, according to kartoteka.ru , was created in Tchaikovsky in 2012 with an authorized capital of 100 thousand rubles.

The demographic decline may affect the level of GDP in Russia. Experts from the Center for Labor Research at the Higher School of Economics came to this conclusion. The director of the center, Vladimir Gimpelson, and Doctor of Economics, Chairman of the Expert Council of Opora Russia, Nikita Krichevsky, discussed the topic with Kommersant FM host Andrei Norkin.

The Kinotavr film festival has ended in Sochi. The main prize was awarded to the film “Test” directed by Alexander Kott. According to the creator and producer of the film festival, Mark Rudinshtein, Kinotavr gives young directors a start in life. Directed by Alexander Kott Photo: Natalya Loginova, Kommersant / buy photo The main prize of Kinotavr was won by the film “Test” by Alexander Kott. On June 8, the anniversary 25th Open Russian Film Festival ended in Sochi.

Candidate for the post of President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker accused his British colleague of blackmail. In fact, David Cameron seems to want nothing more than to preserve the European Union.

Survey 46 1 min. ... The two percent of sympathy that Yuri Andropov received is not a small figure at all, considering that he competed with Peter I If you imagine an ideal president of the Russian Federation, which historical hero should he be like? (multiple answers allowed) Peter I - 16% I. Stalin - 12% V. Lenin - 4% V. Putin - 4% P. Stolypin - 3% Nicholas II - 2% L. Brezhnev - 2% Yu. Andropov - 2% G. Zhukov - 1% Alexander II -1% A. Suvorov - 1% Ivan the Terrible - 1% N. Khrushchev -1% M.

Russia celebrated the 100th anniversary of the national pavilion in Venice Last week, the XIV Architectural Biennale opened in Venice, where the Russian project Fair Enough received a special prize, and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the curator of the project, the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design, hosted a private dinner in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Pavilion.

Companies are in no hurry to launch LTE on 2G frequencies Kommersant found out which companies have expressed a desire to build LTE networks in the 1800 MHz GSM band (2G). Six months after the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) allowed technological neutrality, MTS, subsidiaries of MegaFon, Tattelecom, the regional group Motiv, as well as SMARTS notified Roskomnadzor of plans to build 4G networks.

The legendary businessman, founder of the Virgin empire, Richard Branson, showed interest in entrepreneurship during his student years, say Yuri Mitin and Mikhail Khomich. However, neither the sale of Christmas trees nor the breeding of budgies brought success, unlike the sale of music CDs, with which his success story began. Mikhail Khomich, teacher of economics of innovation, Moscow State University.