Billions from the state budget are spent on repairing Mercedes, snowmobiles, hunting rifles, diamond cufflinks, tie clips... On Wednesday, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika addressed the Federation Council with his annual report on the state of law and order. Noting the successes achieved over the year in this direction, the Prosecutor General spoke about his immediate creative plans.

Icelandic scientists have made another discovery. It turns out that volcanoes, unlike people, do not fall asleep immediately after an eruption, and they like to smoke not for five minutes, but for several decades. It turned out why AVTOVAZ assembles cars so poorly. The fact is that workers get together in the evenings and drink to the factory's products. At 21.01 they raise a toast to a “kopek”, at 21.02 - to a “kopeck piece”, and then down the list.

Eco-friendly hair gel or nail polish? Don't believe this is possible? But new eco-cosmetics enthusiasts are confident that not only these products themselves, but also their packaging can be environmentally friendly. The fate of an empty eyeshadow box is no less important to them than the quality of the shadows themselves. What happens to a shampoo bottle after the last drop is squeezed out of it? This is very important!

Michael KIMMELMAN Eric Zemmour speaks so fast that he stumbles over every word. He talks about his latest book, French Melancholy, which reached the top of the bestseller list in Paris. “The death of French political influence led to the death of the French language,” says Zemmour. “Even the French elite are no longer interested in him, they all speak English.” And the working class doesn’t even think about the purity of language.” Zemmour is a controversial figure.

Veterans of the Russian Arctic convoys performed feats for the sake of common victory. But Great Britain has forgotten about veterans. They think so... But they were invited to the parade in Moscow Surrounded by bleak mountains, Lough Ewe in north-west Scotland is the end of the earth by modern British standards. Seven decades ago, the bay bristled with anti-aircraft guns, fenced off with floating booms and minefields... Convoys with cargo for the Soviet Union were formed here.

ANDREA HELLIOTT When President Obama called for a new relationship with the Islamic world last June in Cairo, American Muslims asked, partly jokingly, whether the call applied to them. During his election campaign, Obama never visited a mosque, and on his website he called false claims that he allegedly practices Islam “dirt.” In the year since then, Obama has never visited a mosque or met with American Muslim leaders and Obama is collaborating with Muslims.

The decision to shoot Polish officers appeared on the official website of Rosarkhiv Why is this so important if only Novaya published Beria’s note twice? Here are the data from a poll conducted in March of this year by the Levada Center. When asked whether you had heard about the Katyn tragedy, about the execution of Polish officers who were in the Soviet camp, only 43% of respondents out of 1,600 respondents in 127 settlements in 44 regions of Russia answered positively.

The Moscow City Court recognized the activities of the Slavic Union, whose leader made a report in the State Duma, as extremist On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court recognized the activities of the Slavic Union, an organization that openly professed “national socialist ideas similar to the ideology of fascist Germany,” as extremist. It was headed by Dmitry Demushkin, known for his ability to create an atmosphere of high-profile scandal around his organization.

"Iron Man 2" is coming out While the country's main film, "Burnt by the Sun 2: Imminence," is playing in half-empty theaters (film distributors' expectations for the first weekend were around 230 million rubles, the film collected about 110 million, which is half the box office of "Admiral"), Nikita Mikhalkov's film is being watched by "the last threat." “Iron Man” performed by Robert Downey Jr. is moving toward General Kotov, a valiant warrior with an iron fist.

ANALiz/Matthew Carr Sump of Europe For the past thirty years, European states have waged an increasingly ruthless campaign to prevent undocumented migrants from crossing or even reaching their borders. The city of Oujda in northeastern Morocco is one of many places where this struggle is having devastating consequences. Oujda, a bustling modern city with a population of 500 thousand people, is located just 15 kilometers from the Algerian border.

DAVID BARBOSA The daily Internet habits of a typical 18-year-old student named Li Yufei shed light on why U.S. tech companies are failing one by one in their efforts to gain a foothold in China, the world's most connected country. Lee blogs, downloads Korean TV dramas from the Internet, maintains two music websites and plays the online game "Rongguang Hospital" on Baidu.com "I've been doing all this since I was 11 years old," said Lee, a first-year student at Shanghai Maritime University.

STEPAN: Hello, dear newspaper readers! HRYUN: Happy holidays to you! STEPAN: I want to clarify, Hryun. Happy holidays! KHRYUN: Yes, and with the defenders too. I mean with those who have passed. We have them like fleas on Filka. Wow, what a holiday Mikhalkov gave us all with his premiere of “Burnt by the Sun-2”! STEPAN: I'm not so optimistic, Hryun. Nikita Sergeevich's film, unfortunately, is shown in half-empty theaters. HRYUN: Bullshit! Don't worry about it.

GINA KOLATA Dr Linda Griffith discovered she had a breast tumor in January while attending a conference in Singapore. At first she assumed it was just a cyst. But as soon as she got off the plane back home in the US, she immediately had a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. The result was the most unfavorable: cancer. Dr. Griffith, director of the Gynecological Research Center at MIT, did a test that would show whether her tumor had extra copies of the HER2 protein.

On April 27, the Ministry of Internal Affairs held a meeting of the expert council to prepare a draft of the new law “On the Police.” Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Bulavin said that as part of the reform, the Russian police will get rid of 40 “redundant functions.” He also said that the concept of the law “On the Police” provides for the introduction of mandatory standards when hiring new employees: personal guarantee, drug addiction test and psychophysiological examination.

GUY GAGLIOTTA The results of the flight of the Cassini spacecraft, NASA's risky project, exceed all expectations. In the six years that Cassini has been orbiting Saturn, two new rings of the planet, several new moons, and a new class of small satellites have been discovered. On one of the satellites, Titan, liquid lakes were found, on the other, Enceladus, geysers and water in the form of ice.