By 2050, the population of Russia will decrease to 110.1 million people. According to ITAR-TASS, this conclusion was reached by specialists from the Population Reference Bureau research organization. Her report was published on Wednesday. According to the organization, in mid -2008, the population of Russia was 141.9 million people.

A ship arrived in the Spanish port of San Sebastian, corresponding in its parameters to the missing dry carrier Arctic Sea with a Russian crew on board. This was announced by the editor -in -chief of the Naval Bulletin - Council of Mikhail Voitenko. In the Ministry of Naval of Spain, information on the arrival of the missing dry cargo is refuted to the port of the country.

Cosmonauts on the ISS began a new experiment to determine what dose of neutron the person working in orbit receives. The Radi-N experiment is attended by Russian Romanenko and Canadian Robert Tirsk, and the Canadian astronaut will become a kind of "experimental rabbit", ITAR-TASS reports. The-astronaut Tirsk will carry a sensor with him that measures the dose of the received neutrons, he will place another sensor at his workplace.

In the meetings of the participants in the public hearings of the Moscow Development General Plan of the Moscow Development, until 2025, which took place last Wednesday, 29 thousand citizens took part, said Sergey Zverev, head of the Department of Territorial Executive authorities of the capital, at a press conference on Thursday.

The best-selling model of the Ford-Focus brand, assembled near St. Petersburg, in the Ambiente configuration in September 2009 will rise in price by a third: from 345,000 to 476,000 rubles. The Russian representative of the company said that this is due to additional equipment - now the ABS and the anterior passenger pillow will include this configuration.

In Khabarovsk, Lightning struck a group of teenagers playing at the stadium. As a representative of the city department of the Civil Defense and emergency department said on Thursday, as a result of the incident, one person died, ten more were injured, RIA Novosti reports. “The incident happened in the afternoon in Khabarovsk during a thunderstorm. Teenagers played at the stadium in the area of ​​Pavel Morozov Street.

Member of the Board of Directors of Gazprom, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Energositanism, Igor Yusufov made an offer to the owner of the Wadan Yars shipbuilding group Andrei Burlakov to sell business. The Angels Merkel shipyard are now on the verge of bankruptcy, located in the territory of the German Electoral District, are now on the verge of bankruptcy.

On Thursday in Italy, the world's largest draw in the lottery will be held. Jackpot is 131.5 million euros. The Roman Catholic Church called the game of so immoral money. “This has become a form of idolatry, because people serve money, not God,” one of the bishops of the Vatican radio said. To disrupt the jackpot in the Superenalotto lottery, having guessing 6 out of 90 numbers, no one has succeeded in January, although the draw is held three times a week.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin watched the broadcast of a football match between Russia and Argentina in a dress from a cafe on the Sochi embankment. In this resort city, the head of state and the head of government held a working meeting at which they discussed Putin’s trip to Abkhazia. The prime minister came to the city center a little earlier than the president. After a couple of minutes, Medvedev at the wheel of a car came to the summer theater.

The St. Petersburg Diocese and the Committee of General and Professional Education of the Leningrad Region agreed to cooperate in teaching the foundations of Orthodox culture in schools. In their statement, the parties promised to organize "the free and voluntary introduction of children to the values ​​and traditions of Orthodox culture." Only those who wish will teach an additional course, Interfax reports.

Scientists have created an image of an animal, which, according to public opinion polls, should be a collective image of the ideal pet of a British family - a creature with a rabbit ears, a cat's face, a golden retriever body and a horse's tail, Inopressa.ru reports with reference to the Daily Mail . Researchers called their creature, worthy of space in the laboratory of Dr.

The Russians again increased in the second quarter of 2009, that is, on the eve of the summer vacation season, the amount of cash withdrawal from their bank cards in the total turnover of cards, according to the Bank of Russia, which is quoted by RIA Novosti . So, according to the results of April-June, the share of cash removal increased to 90% from 89% in the first quarter and from 89.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008.

The Russian Jewish Congress (rivers) calls on to create a Holocaust Museum in the Russian Federation and intends to assist in resolving this issue. “Our task is to make this museum not only by exhibition, but also by the scientific, educational, information center,” said the President of the river, Yuri Kanner, in the evening on Wednesday at a briefing in a memorial synagogue on the worship of Moscow.

The organizer of the explosion of the aircraft over the Scottish locker in 1988, Abdel Basit al-Migrahi, serving a lifelong imprisonment in the Glago prison, will be issued to the Libya authorities next week, British media reported with reference to Schotland government. In 2001, al-Migrahi was found guilty of organizing an explosion on board the Boeing-747 aircraft, as a result of which 259 passengers and 11 people were killed on Earth.

The Spanish court will make a decision today in relation to three Russian yachtsmen. The meeting will be held in the city of Palma on the island of Mallorca. The thing concerns athletes from the team of the sailboat "RUS-7" Denis Rozhkov, Nikita Khrekova and Roman Konstantinov, who arrived at the Mallorca at the end of July to participate in the prestigious regatta of Copa del Rey. On July 28, an incident occurred in Palm between the yachtsmen and the police.