One of the founders of the Google’s search giant, a native of the USSR Sergey Brin intends to fly to the international space station by a tourist in 2011. According to The New York Times , Brin made a deposit of $ 5 million to the expense of Space Adventures, which is based in Virginia and, by agreement with the Federal Space Agency, is engaged in the selection of private passengers on board the Soyuz missiles.

A resident of Great Britain forgave his wife, who intended to kill him for the sake of insurance payment. An entrepreneurial woman even took a loan from the bank to carry out the conceived villainy. When a sentence in the London Court of Old-Bayly, the defendant's husband forgave her and promised to support her while she was in prison. The 44-year-old mother of the six children of Zoe Kenili was sentenced to seven years in prison for organizing the murder of her faithful, Skynews reports.

Gennady Timchenko, the most influential independent Russian oil merchant, is too busy to meet his old acquaintance Vladimir Putin - the most influential person in Russia, writes Wall Street Journal , preceding the interview with Timchenko. But recently they were together in St. Petersburg at a private banquet. Both of them turned out to be guests of the Judo club Javara-Neva: Timchenko is one of the founders of the club, and Putin is his honorary president.

Moscow is ready to adopt the Eurovision music contest in 2009 if the city is chosen by the venue for this event, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a statement on the TV channel of the first deputy mayor of Moscow Yuri Roslyak. Russia received the right to hold Eurovision next year after the victory of the domestic singer Dima Bilan. However, the city where Eurovision 2009 will be held is not yet defined. Among the possible candidates for the adoption of the competition are Moscow, St.

Groups of priests of the Romanian Patriarchate in various regions of the country began to unite into trade unions to protect their own interests in the face of church leadership, Interfax-religion reports. Some time ago, 20 clergymen filed charter documents to the Yasky court on the registration of the "Trade Union of the Protection of the Mother of God".

Pakistan accused the United States headed by the coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan that 13 Pakistani border guards were killed on Wednesday night, AP reports.

The Vologda prosecutor’s office will not initiate the case of the death of a schoolgirl after the exam, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, as specified, this was not a single state exam (exam), but a single municipal exam of EME, which is passed by the nine -graders. It could have been re -re -re -re -re -re. "The tragedy occurred in the village of Bereznik in the Vologda region on June 2.

Early in the morning in the center of the Lazarevsky district of Sochi, an explosive device worked on Victory Street. According to the Interfax agency in the press service of the city Internal Affairs Directorate, as a result of the explosion, one person was injured, from which he subsequently died.

On the eve of Russia, VTsIOM presented data on whether our compatriots know the state symbols of the country well. The survey was conducted on June 7-8: 1,600 people were interviewed in 153 settlements. It turned out that of the main state symbols of Russia, respondents best know the coat of arms: 85% of respondents correctly called what it was depicted.

The reason for the erupted discussion about wealth and poverty on the air of the Soyuz television channel was a beautiful chair, on which the head of the Yekaterinburg diocese, Vladyka Vincent, was sitting. The Archbishop told the Archbishop who was calling for the studio: “Around, such poverty in Russia as you can sit in such a royal chair in the studio now?”, The New Region reports.

The police of the Moscow Region detained two employees of the territorial department of the Federal District Department of the Federal District in the Mozhaysky Municipal District. They were seized at the time of receiving a large bribe, Rosbalt reports. According to law enforcement agencies, leading experts at the Rosnedvivisiness Department in the Mozhaysky District were detained right in their working office at the time of receipt of 122 thousand rubles from a citizen.

Independent laboratory tests carried out in many certified laboratories in the world confirmed the presence of extremely high concentrations of dioxin in the body of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko after his poisoning.

Russian combat aircraft of Russia conducted a successful patrol of the Arctic Ocean, a representative of the information and public relations of the Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Drik, told ITAR-TASS. According to him, the four strategic supersonic Tu-160 bomber returned to the Engels air base in the Saratov region. It was a planned flight in the framework of air patrols, Drik noted.

The second reading of the full text of the resolution demanding the impeachment of US President George Bush ended in the House of Representatives of the US Congress on Wednesday after midnight (08:25 Moscow time), voting on this document is expected at the day of the house, RIA Novosti reports.

A large fire, which has already destroyed seven houses, extinguished in the village of Primorsky in the Irkutsk region in the territory of the former Ust-Ordinsky Autonomous Okrug, Interfax reports. According to the Siberian regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the fire began at about 12:00 Moscow time on Wednesday on the territory of the sawmill.