Scientific tests revealed the “internal vision” in the brain of the blind artist from Turkey Esref Armagan, who has not even seen light from birth, but with amazing realism draws houses, animals and landscapes that he has never seen, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the British New Scientist magazine. Scanning of the brain of the armored brain showed that during the drawing process, the visual region of the cerebral cortex is "turned on" almost the same extent as that of a sighted person.

On Monday, the law chamber number two international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) of the 71-year-old retired General Pavel Strugar sentenced on Monday. In 1991-1992, he was the commander of the second operational group of the Yugoslav People's Army, which conducted a military operation in the area of ​​the city of Dubrovnik, who was populated mainly.

Former head of the oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was languishing in one of the Moscow investigative insulators for the second year, in his first interview, in his opinion, said that, in his opinion, he was arrested that he showed political ambitions and tried to help some of his allies go to the Duma, the British newspaper The Times (translation of the article publishes the site (translation of the article publishes Inopressa.ru ).

Prices in the secondary housing market in Moscow for the first time in four years began to decline. Although the decrease in the last quarter of 2004 is within the statistical error and is about 1%, many experts are sure that housing will be cheaper throughout 2005. As the "News Time" notes, the reduction of prices was not universal.

In China, the railway worker Juang Yajou purchased chicken in the market, and two months later she demolished him an egg in the shape of a spoon. Waking up once in the morning, the worker heard the crushing chicken. When Juang went to the hen, he found a egg of a completely unusual shape under it - spoon -like, reports Ananova . The egg weighs 35 grams and has 8.5 cm in length. As far as you know, before, no one has ever seen such eggs.

In the north of Moscow, the body of a native of Chechnya with 30 stab wounds was found. According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, on the eve of 23:00 near house 22, building 2 on Belomorskaya Street, passers -by found a murdered man on a pedestrian path. The police and police officers who arrived at the scene stated that the 41-year-old native of Chechnya was killed 30 minutes before his body was discovered.

In the Sverdlovsk region, in one of the abandoned village schools, corpses of 5 people with firearms were found. According to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, the bodies of three women and two men with gunshot wounds were found in the premises of an abandoned school in the village of Gaeva of the Irbit district. According to preliminary data, the crime could be committed by a locksmith of one of the local enterprises.

The Bishop Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCS) approved the documents adopted by the oncoming church commissions on the rapprochement of the ROCZ and the Moscow Patriarchate during the third joint meeting held in November last year. According to RIA Novosti, citing the official website of the Russian foreign church, the Winter session of the Bishop Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, chaired by Metropolitan Lavra, ended last week in New York.

In the city of Santa Maria (California) on January 31, a trial begins on Michael Jackson. The process was preceded by long pre -trial hearings, stretched for more than a year. The singer was charged with 10 points, including committing immoral and depraved actions against a child under the age of 14, in criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, extortion, illegal deprivation of liberty, as well as the provision of alcoholic beverages to a young child.

The holiday of March 8 should not be canceled - it is much better to fill it with new content, according to the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev) . “In general, in the light of the Christian doctrine of a person, the holidays on a sexual basis are nonsense.

The fruitful dialogue of the population and the authorities in Russia is obtained mainly when citizens lead it from roads of federal significance. In 1998, the Russians successfully agreed with President Yeltsin on the return of wage debts from the railway highways. This year began with negotiations on the return of free travel in city transport: pensioners led them right from the Leningradskoye Shosse and, it seems, practically agreed.

From the appeal of the senators to the Federal Tax Service with a request to check whether the TNC taxes paid correctly , embarrassment came out. Almost half of the senators recalled their signatures under the appeal. In TNK-BP, now they say with confidence that the second “case of Yukos” will not be. Recall that the senators suspected TNC of creating 8 companies to optimize tax burden, which allowed the oilmen to save 22 billion rubles.

An unexpected turnover adopted the investigation of the case of the former submariner Alexander Puman. The investigation came to the conclusion that the detainee did not plan to commit any terrorist attack in the capital. According to the new version, the car stuffed with explosives was intended to keep accounts with a kind of businessman, writes gzt.ru.

Ukraine has submitted an application to the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) to jointly with Poland holding the 2012 European Football Championship. As the first vice-president of the Football Federation (FFU) Alexander Bandurko said at a press conference on Monday in Kyiv, the application was submitted on January 28. According to Bandurko, the National Football Association of Poland intends to submit its application on January 31, Interfax reports.

The Communist Party faction in the State Duma collected the necessary 90 signatures to make a question of distrust of the government of Mikhail Fradkov, the coordinator of the Communist faction Sergey Reshulsky told RIA Novosti . The deputy said that even more a minimum of 90 votes necessary for making such a question was collected, but refused to name the exact number of signatures. According to Resulsky, among the signed there are deputies from all Duma factions, except for the LDPR.