Experts cannot yet come to a consensus about what exactly exploded in Voronezh in a warehouse of pyrotechnics. The incident occurred on Wednesday, one person died, dozens were injured. It is believed that not fireworks, but real ammunition soared into the air. According to another version, 12-inch balls for large fireworks exploded. The investigation believes that the rules for storing explosives were violated. I.O.

The Helmsley hotel administration in New York canceled the Iranian students planned for September 24. According to Newsru Israel , this happened due to the fact that one of the invited to this event was Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad. Representatives of the hotel leadership emphasized that when they consent to the banquet, they were not aware of the scandalous GOST.

A native of St. Petersburg Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom, which this week received the consent of the city government to build a scandalous Okhta Center with a 403-meter skyscraper, defended it to opponents, giving similar examples of violent public resistance to the famous architectural objects of the Northern capital. His article was printed in the journal Russian Pioneer, the next number of which will go on sale on September 28, RIA Novosti reports.

The largest social networks on the Internet do not ensure the safety of personal information of their participants and often intentionally provide it with advertising agencies. This conclusion was reached by the authors of the study conducted by At & T Labs and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ITODAY.RU reports. Researchers checked the twelve largest social networks.

The Prime Ministers of Russia and Italy Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi decided to buy an island together. This was reported by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph with reference to an anonymous Kremlin source. In turn, in Moscow, these messages called nothing more than a newspaper "duck".

The artist from Benin, Romuald Azuma became the laureate of a very unusual prize of the Moscow Biennale of Modern Art. This was in an interview with RIA "Novosti" was told by the author of the award, the Moscow conceptualist artist Yuri Albert. The reward itself consists of two parts - a diploma and 450 thousand rubles. And if the diploma of Azum is transferred, then he better never get this money.

The victory of Kasparov with a total score of 9-3 ended a three-day supermatch between ex-champions of the world in chess Anatoly Karpov and Harry Kasparov. From September 22 to 24, the grandmasters played in the Spanish Valencia four batches of quick chess control 25 minutes + five seconds and eight blitz-partys in five minutes + two seconds each. In a series of four batches of quick chess, who held grandmasters on Tuesday and Wednesday, with a score of 3-1 led Kasparov.

Car owners in Komi will now be held administratively liable if the alarms on their cars disturb the peace of residents at night. Deputies of the republic's parliament voted for this decision on Thursday, reports RIA Novosti correspondent. The head of Komi, Vladimir Torlopov, made adjustments to the republican law “On Administrative Responsibility”.

The Supreme Spiritual Council of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) will discuss the process of resolving Armenian-Turkish relations at its next meeting, get acquainted with the relevant documents and will make a statement after. This was stated by the head of the AAC Catholicos Garein II at a meeting with Armenian President Sergei Sargsyan.

Representatives of the youth movement "Our" were in the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in the hope of "understanding" with the journalist Alexander Podrabinek, who published a controversial article in another edition. However, they failed to meet the author, and after a conversation with the editor -in -chief, activists left the editorial office, according to the Novaya Gazeta blog .

The police of the Moscow region are searching for a womanizer who robbed his passion for 300 thousand rubles. As a prey, the criminal did not bend to pick up even gold crowns stored in a casket with family jewelry. So far, Balashikha operatives managed to only establish that the missing young man is a native of the Samara region.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the University of Pittsburgh. In particular, the head of the Russian state visited the so -called Russian room, where literature was held with university students. The teacher who conducted the lesson introduced the students to the president and talked about them. According to her, in the lesson there are not philologists, but students of faculties of anthropology, philosophy, linguistics.

Belarusian youth leaders expressed fears that the presence of Russian military in Belarus in connection with the conduct of large-scale Russian-Belarusian exercises threatens the country's security, the Charter97.org website reports.

The Russian Sberbank can sell its share in Opel to Gaza or, in the absence of a Russian industrial partner, Vnesheconombank - such an opportunity is laid down in a transaction on the purchase of a German car manufacturer of the Canadian Magna and the Russian Sberbank, the president of the largest Russian bank German Gref said. “We do not consider this investment as a strategic one.

Russia and the United States will exchange examples of drugs produced in Afghanistan in order to increase the efficiency of operational work of their law enforcement agencies. This was announced in Washington by the director of the Federal Service for Russian Drug Control (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov upon completion of negotiations with colleagues in the US administration.