Flexible, lightweight, thinner than a mobile phone, vandal-proof - this is what an ideal e-reader for schoolchildren should probably look like. Actually, why "should" - here it is, at the end of August, the head of Rosnano, Anatoly Chubais, showed it to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Publishers that publish officially approved textbooks have already uploaded their content to the reader.

Viktor Yushchenko — The New Times "An unscrupulous official will always end up in court." The revision of gas agreements is the main thing that the Ukrainian authorities are seeking in the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is sure. He shares his opinion in an exclusive interview with The New Times on the sidelines of the economic forum in Krynica, Poland.

Yulia Tymoshenko and Andrey Portnov: once they were together Explaining themselves like human beings. February 7, 2010 Yulia Tymoshenko did not become president of Ukraine. And a few months after the defeat, she was under investigation. True, for the time being, she was allowed to air on the central channels, they were allowed to organize rallies and pickets, and she was allowed to threaten the Yanukovych regime. And they constantly offered to go abroad, completing political activities.

Report from the wedding of the head of the House of Hohenzollern Normal couple. How to officially marry a Protestant and a Catholic? On August 18, 1572, the Protestant Henry of Navarre and the Catholic Marguerite of Valois tied the knot in Paris. And although the groom, by mutual agreement, was not present at the mass, a few days later the St. Bartholomew night happened: fanatics brutally dealt with the invited Protestant guests.

Russia and Ukraine quarrel Vladimir Putin and the ex-Chancellor of Germany, and now the top manager of Gazprom, Gerhard Schroeder (left), have a reason to drink: Potok has started. What will Viktor Yanukovych say now? Strange war. Russia and Ukraine gave each other another slap in the face. On September 6, with the personal participation of Vladimir Putin, the Nord Stream gas pipeline was launched, through which Russian gas will go to Europe, bypassing Ukraine.

In Paris, everyone was waiting for the resumption of the trial of ex-president Jacques Chirac - he is accused of "embezzlement of public funds" and "breach of trust" while he was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. Chirac is charged with many other things, from creating “fictitious positions” in the city hall to paying salaries to prominent party members from the municipal budget.