The Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, Tatyana Golikova, opposed the division of her department into two ministries. According to RIA Novosti , she stated this on Thursday at a briefing following a government meeting. The Ministry of Health and Social Development was created in 2004 by merging the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development.

In the city of Dagestan Lights, a special operation was completed to destroy a group of militants in the apartment of a residential building, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Dagestan FSB Directorate. A group of militants, consisting of three or four people, was blocked in an apartment on the second floor of a five-story building. It is known that three militants were killed. Interfax .

On March 26, ComputerWorld published an article that analyzed possible options for the evolution of laptops. The material contains design and engineering concepts of several laptops, showing what portable computers could become by 2015. One of the options for laptops of the future is The Compenion laptop slider, the lid of which does not need to be lifted, but moved, as owners of some cell phones now do. In this case, it is proposed to replace the keyboard with an OLED display.

On the evening of March 26, England midfielder David Beckham played his 100th match for his national team, which was defeated by the French (0:1). The meeting had the status of a friendly and took place at the Parisian stadium "Stade de France". The only goal was scored from the penalty spot by Franck Ribery, Eurosport reports. The French midfielder of Bayern scored in the 32nd minute, converting a penalty kick awarded for a foul by English team goalkeeper David James against Nicolas Anelka.

The President of the Russian Television Academy, famous television journalist Vladimir Pozner , said that there is no freedom of speech in the Russian media. This opinion, as Interfax reports , he expressed on Thursday at a round table meeting, where, in particular, issues of morality and morality on Russian television, possible additions to the law on media and other topics were discussed.

In a correctional colony located in the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov region, a group of prisoners cut themselves. As Interfax reports , citing the regional prosecutor's office, three prisoners of colony number five disobeyed during a search in the premises of the strict conditions detachment. When they tried to escort them for a full search, they used blades from disposable machines to inflict cuts on themselves in the area of ​​the elbow joints.

The Federation Council has proposed introducing a new public holiday to supplant the Western Valentine's Day, Interfax reports . The Day of Married Love and Family Happiness is proposed to be celebrated on July 8th. This date was chosen because July 8 is the day of the patron saints Peter and Fevronia. The initiator of the establishment of the holiday was the head of the upper house committee on social policy Valentina Petrenko.

The first modernized MiG-29 fighter will soon enter service with the Serbian Air Force, Interfax-AVN reports . The modification and restoration of the airworthiness of combat aircraft is carried out by the Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG. In total, the contract provides for the modernization of four combat and one combat training aircraft. New aviation, navigation and radar equipment is being installed on the fighters, and the weapons control system is being improved.

On Wednesday, March 26, the Russian national football team played its first friendly match this year. In Bucharest at the Steaua stadium, Guus Hiddink's team lost to the Romanian team in all respects with a score of 0:3. After the end of the match, the head coach of the Russian team called the game of his players “naive” and emphasized that this meeting showed the difference in class between the players playing in foreign championships and in the Russian championship.

27.03.2008, 18:13:34 version Print | PDA/PDA Siafu laptop concept for the blind from dailyyeah.com Pussies of the future What will laptops be like in 2015? On March 26, ComputerWorld published a review article about what laptops could become by 2015. To do this, the authors interviewed designers, engineers and marketing specialists, armed themselves with the opinions of analysts, made a couple of forecasts and showed several concepts.

At the site of the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian border service, which fell into the Black Sea on Thursday morning, the bodies of seven victims were found, Interfax reports . Five people are still considered missing. Earlier, rescuers managed to find one surviving helicopter passenger; doctors assess his condition as serious. The Mi-8 helicopter, carrying three crew members and 10 passengers, was heading from Odessa airport to Zmeiny Island.

One of the owners of Ukrainian Privatbank, Igor Kolomoisky , said that he is negotiating the purchase of 50 percent of RosUkrEnergo, reports Ukrayinska Pravda . According to Kolomoisky, a month ago he began negotiations with Dmitry Firtash (the owner of the international holding company Group DF) on the sale of his share, as well as the share of the owner of Odessa Misto Bank Ivan Fursin in RosUkrEnergo, which total 50 percent. The other half of the company is owned by Gazprom .

Former Alabama Compass Bank programmer James Kevin Real was sentenced in state court to 42 months in prison for stealing a hard drive containing a million bank records and using some of that information to commit bank card fraud, ComputerWorld writes. Reel will have to repay more than $32,000 that he and co-conspirator Laray Byrd withdrew from user accounts between May and July 2007 using counterfeit debit cards.

By 2020, Russian geological exploration will receive more than four trillion rubles. It is this amount that the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation estimated the volume of investments in the exploration of natural resources, reports RIA Novosti with reference to a statement by the head of the ministry Yuri Trutnev . These figures are given in the updated program for the reproduction of the country's mineral resource base.

The head of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Fisheries (Goskomrybolovstvo) Andrei Krainy proposes to introduce a moratorium on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea for a period of five years, covering all Caspian states. reports this RIA Novosti . According to Krainey, the losses of sturgeon fishing countries will be insignificant compared to the benefits in the future.