A telescope will be created in Russia, superior to the American telescope Hubble. This was stated on Tuesday at a press conference, director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Shustov, RIA Novosti reports. Shustov recalled that Hubble is the most successful and expensive in history project in the field of space astrophysics, worth more than $ 6 billion. Each third astronomical opening of the last decade has been made thanks to the unique space observatory.

In Kamchatka in the Ust-Kamchatka district, a monstrous murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl took place. During the investigation, it turned out that a 45-year-old man was shot down on his all-terrain vehicle by a high school student Krutobertovo. According to the prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka region, the incident occurred on November 11. The loss of the girl became known after her parents turned to the police the next day.

On November 21, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict of the life imprisonment of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Yuri Shutov, thus refusing the cassation appeal of Shutov’s lawyers who insisted on revising the case in connection with the numerous, in their opinion, procedural violations, Interfax reports. "The judicial board determined the verdict of the St.

With the audience, Queen Elizabeth II began on Tuesday, the official visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev to the UK, which takes place at the invitation of the British government. The capital met the President of Kazakhstan with billboards with the image of the "Kazakh" Borat reporter, whose image has recently haunted Kazakh officials abroad.

In the case of the murder of the former commander of the Highlander Special Party, the FSB Lieutenant Colonel Movladi Baysarov appeared new unexpected data. As it turned out, Baisarov, who was killed by the Chechen special forces in Moscow, was not put on the wanted list of the Chechnya prosecutor’s office, where he was considered a witness, and not the accused.

In the north of Moscow, on Tuesday evening, a fire occurred in a warehouse of drugs at the 2nd output, house 8, building 1. It was extinguished for about seven hours. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. According to Evgeny Bobylev, the official representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in Moscow, a signal of fire in a warehouse at the address 2nd output, house 8, building 1 entered the service "01" at 17:05.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 18-19 was in the capital of Vietnam Hanoi, where he took part in the summit of the forum of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation . Following this, his official visit to Vietnam, which ended on November 20, began.

In response to the possible rise in price of domestic gas prices for industrial consumers, the company RAO "UES of Russia" will raise electricity prices, the technical director of the company Boris Vainzihar said on Tuesday on November 21. According to him, the company will always be able to provide fuel for power plants, including at the expense of state reserves. Meanwhile, representatives of the Patriots of Russia party opposed the plans to increase gas prices, ITAR-TASS reports.

The management of the traffic police of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory appealed to the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region with a proposal to discuss the possibility of introducing exams for knowledge of the road traffic rules for cyclists.

The explosion of methane occurred on Tuesday in the Haleba coal mine in Poland. Two miners were killed, there are "numerous wounded", said the chairman of the company "Venglov company, which owns the mine, Grzegozh Pavyshka. About 20 more miners were covered in the rope, there is no connection with them and their fate is unknown, ITAR-TASS reports. The explosion occurred at a depth of 1030 meters.

In the USA, the death sentence to the US Army to the US Army, who killed two higher officers on the second day after the start of the invasion of Iraq, was approved. Lieutenant General John Weinns, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, signed the sentence to the highest degree of punishment issued by a military court in April 2005 with respect to the sergeant-Muslim Hassan Akbar, who threw a grenade in a tent where officers were sleeping.

The EU plans to prohibit cat trafficking - and at the same time their skins - for considerations of consumer and animal rights, reports Die Welt (full text on the website inopressa.ru ). Animal defenders believe that only in China annually, for the sake of skins, kill on average from 2 to 4 million dogs and cats. For the German market, this figure is 500 thousand. Animals are specially grown for this, often in terrible conditions.

The leadership of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit will not interfere with the transition of his striker Alexander Kerzhakov to the Spanish Seville. The decision to give a football player a chance to try himself in Europe was made by club president Sergey Fursenko. This "Fontanka" was reported by the sports director of Zenit, Konstantin Sarsania.

Iraq and Syria announced the restoration of diplomatic relations in full after an almost 25-year break. According to the official representatives of the Iraqi government today, the relevant agreement was signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria Valid Al-Miallem and his Iraqi colleague Hoshiyar Zibari, ITAR-TASS reports during an unprecedented visit to Baghdad of Syrian diplomats.

Russian businessman Maxim Kurochkin , who was detained on Monday by law enforcement agencies of Ukraine on suspicion of a number of crimes, was found. He is in jail of the city of Kyiv. This was announced by the head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in Ukraine Boris Zubkov. “He did not disappear anywhere. The Main Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv informed us that it was detained and contained.