Today, the FSB celebrates the holiday-the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Andropov. A few years ago, this celebration was hard to imagine, then this year the anniversary of the former Secretary General and the chairman of the KGB passes almost throughout the country. In the capital of Karelia Petrozavodsk, a 3-meter monument has already been erected on this subject.

The process in the case of the organizers of the exhibition "Caution, religion!" It began today in the Tagan court of the capital. The prosecutor's office saw in last year’s exposition, which was exhibited in January in the center of Andrei Sakharov, signs of inciting national and religious enmity. The prosecution was brought against three, in particular, the director of the museum Yuri Samodurov. Today, a rally of the “For Human Rights” movement was held before the court building.

The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to support the re -election of George Bush for a second term. He will discuss this issue in August at the Republican Convention in New York, reports Lenta.ru . Arnie explained his decision by the low popularity of the current US president in California, where 54% of the population voted in April elections against Bush's candidacy. Previously, he rejected the proposal to conduct a campaign outside the state on behalf of the president.

Neither peace, no war

On June 23, an American entrepreneur and engineer Dennis Tito arrived in Moscow, known for the fact that in April 2001 he became the world's first space tourist. Since the beginning of the 1960s, Dennis Tito has worked as an engineer on aerospace equipment in NASA. There he was engaged in the calculation of the flights of interplanetary stations of the Mariner type, in particular, he participated in the program of flights of automatic stations to Mars and Venus.

In Russia, two vaccines were developed against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), almost ready for testing on volunteers. This was told by RIA Novosti by the Deputy General Director of the State Scientific Center for Virology and Biotechnology (GNC VB "Vector"), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Nusovov. According to him, work in this direction is conducting several institutions in Russia.

The dollar will decrease a little, the euro will return to 35 rubles, the Russian stock market will be careful. Yesterday, the United States statistical department published data on the April trade balance - 48.3 billion dollars of deficit. These data turned out to be significantly worse than forecasts, and as a result, the optimism of dollar “bulls” came to naught: the euro has grown to $ 1.207, this is the current level around which bidding is conducted this morning.

During the holidays, the Moscow police were engaged in intensive punishment of the abductors of the Russian state flags and the flags of Moscow on the streets. According to Newsru.com , a number of criminal cases were instituted. The most fresh example is the disappearance from the roof of the Pyaterochka store of the Russian tricolor and the flag of the capital, which occurred on the night of Monday on Tuesday.

Latvia of the first of the new members of the Alliance introduced visas and residence permit for the EU countries, Rosbalt reports. Their main feature is a photograph and a number of protective elements, thanks to which the documents are almost impossible to fake. In order to get a visa or residence permit of a new sample, a person, as usual, submits all the necessary documents, and directly on the day of issuance, the employee of the institution takes his digital picture.

Even if a person forgot about the danger that once threatened him, he remembers her subconsciously and reacts accordingly. This conclusion was reached by neurophysiologists from the University of London as a result of an experiment, the results of which were described in the journal Nature . Fourteen volunteers showed abstract pictures rapidly replacing each other in different sequences.

According to the estimates of the Minister of Information Technology and Communications, Leonid Reiman, the number of Russian Internet users in 2010 will be 50 million people. This statement is given by the Prime-Tass agency. In general, the minister estimates the growth of Internet users by 35-40% per year. Already this year, according to him, about 14 million Russians will use the “world web”, that is, every tenth citizen of the country. As L.

The Slavneft’s oil and gas company transfers the Slavneft-Yaroslavia sanatorium in Sochi in federal ownership. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . According to the publication, the transferred institution will go to the operational department of the neighboring GU “Central Clinical Sanatorium named after the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation”. Slavneft-Yaroslavia itself was also previously part of the Dzerzhinsky sanatorium, the source notes.

On June 15 (Tuesday) at 21.00 the jazz orchestra “SUNLIGHT” will perform at the Blingua club. All members of this group are recognized masters in the circle of jazz musicians, graduates of the Gnessin Academy, laureates of international competitions. Saxophonist (Nikolai Moiseenko) played in the orchestras of Igor Butman and Oleg Lundstrem. Drummer (Petr Ivshin, 18 years old) is one of the most sought-after jazz drummers. Address: Krivokolenny lane.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be transferred to the Iraqi authorities within two weeks. RIA Novosti transmits, according to the Katar satellite television channel Al-Jazira, that the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government Iraq Ayayad Alyavi announced this on Monday evening. “The former Iraqi president will be transferred to the Iraqi authorities for two weeks to prepare for the trial of him,” Alyavi said.

The British pharmaceutical company Xenova conducted in the United States clinical trials of one of its drugs and announced that it could save people who consumed cocaine from drug addiction. According to the head of David Okslade, almost half of the drug addicts who participated in the clinical trials of the Cocaine Vaccine Cocaine Vaccine, got rid of the addiction to the drug for six months.