The Center for the Study of the Manuscripts of the New Testament ( CSNTM ) has discovered a large collection of ancient manuscripts in Albania, the Invictory.org portal with reference to Christian Telegraph and Assist News Service reports. Scientists of the Center are engaged in the fact that they retain high -quality digital pictures of the early texts of the New Testament.

The French Pernod Ricard SA won the auction for the purchase of the Swedish company VIN & Sprit AB and will be, therefore, the new owner of the ABSOLUT vodka brand, said The Wall Street Journal. According to Bloomberg, the transaction amount will amount to 5.28 billion euros. In addition, Pernod Ricard will take on VIN & Sprit debts for 346 million euros. Closing the transaction is scheduled for mid -2008.

The structure of the body and the muscle power of dolphins would allow these rapid animals to develop almost cosmic speed in water, if not for one "but". As Israeli scientists found out, setting high -speed records among marine animals and fish interferes with dolphins ... pain. The maximum speed that these whaling are capable of reaching water is 54 km per hour. To swim faster than dolphins, unlike, for example, from the tuna, it simply hurts, ITAR-TASS reports.

Arkhangelsk, who was left without the mayor after the investigation Alexander Donskoy “overgrown” criminal cases and resigned, is preparing for the elections. The election commission of Arkhangelsk receive documents from a wide variety of people. So, three people named Sergey Moiseev wished the candidates. All of them are self -nominated, RIA Novosti reports.

The US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice, leading with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, negotiations on the resumption of the peace process could not achieve a real breakthrough, state the Israeli and Western media. Monday is the final day of the next Rice trip to the Middle East. She had already met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehuda Olmert, and he agreed to a practically symbolic measure, designed to slightly facilitate the life of the Palestinians on the west coast of Jordan, Interfax reports.

The restored Bolshoi Theater will stand for at least a hundred years, according to the results of the collegium, which discussed the restoration and reconstruction of Gabt, Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov. And this despite the fact that, as noted by Sokolov, the very center of Moscow is a very difficult zone for restoration. “There, in particular, there are many underground rivers, the behavior of which is unpredictable,” he remarked.

In Formula 1, a grandiose scandal arose around the president of the International Motorsport Federation (FIA) Max Mosley. The British Boulevard newspaper News of the World has published details of the adventures of a gentleman, outwardly similar to the President of Mosley, who took part in the sadomasochist orgy in the Nazi style with the participation of five prostitutes. Moreover, the reporters of the tabloid photographed everything in the video (or fabricated it).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that "the time of tough, unquestioningly relying on the block discipline of alliances is taking place." The head of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation said this in an interview with Izvestia newspaper, published on the eve of the NATO summit, which will be held on April 2-4 in Bucharest. “Today we need network diplomacy, diplomacy of flexible alliances, which can be modified depending on what problem is solved,” Lavrov believes.

Almost 100 miners of the Red Red Hat mine OJSC Sevuralboxyturus (Subr, Sverdlovsk Region, enters OK "RUSAL") continue the strike on the fifth day, demanding an increase in wages. Representatives of the regional authorities and the chairman of the independent trade union of the miners (NPG) of Russia Alexander Sergeyev met with the miners. They refused to raise the salary of miners by 50%, citing the lack of financial resources.

Ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Monday will go to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation as a witness in a criminal case instituted in 2005, the adviser to the ex-prime minister for media work Elena Dikun. “Kasyanov received the appropriate agenda at his home address. He is called to the prosecutor’s office on March 31 as a criminal case witness in 2005. It is assumed that this concerns the so-called“ case of Sosnovka-1 and Sosnovka-3, ” she said.

The Moscow City Duma rejected the proposal of the Art4.ru museum to build a surrealist monument to the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin on Lubyanskaya Square, RIA Novosti reports. In September 2007, Art4.ru announced the competition for the project of the monument to Boris Yeltsin, which was planned to be installed on Lubyanskaya Square.

By 2010, with the beginning of the release of the new, fourth generation, all communication systems in Japan will be unified, and consumers will be able to use the services of various providers, without changing their apparatus. This decision was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the country, RIA Novosti reports. To date, moving from one service plan to the one provided by another company, you can save your phone number, but the device itself has to be changed.

On the eve of a visit to Kyiv, George Bush signed a contract for the supply of heat-eating assemblies of three Ukrainian nuclear power plants (South Ukrainian, Rivne and Khmelnitsky) manufactured by the American Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB since 2011. By this time, a contract with the Russian enterprise TVEL should end. According to the "News Time" , the president of the Ukrainian "Energoatom" Yuri Kovrizhkin intends to reduce the storage of the spent nuclear fuel in Russia.

Perm Muslims express concern about the plans for the construction of the Center for Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of Solikamsk, Perm Territory. This was reported on March 31 by the REGNUM correspondent in the spiritual department of Muslims of the Perm Territory.

Maria Sharapova was not part of the Russian national tennis team for the semifinal match of the Federation Cup with the US team, which will be held on April 26-27 in the Luzhnikov small sports arena in Moscow. In the capital, Svetlana Kuznetsova (4th place in the world ranking), Anna Chakvetadze (6), Dinara Safina (13), Vera Zvonareva (20) and Elena Vesnina (53) will resist the Americans.