On Wednesday, in St. Petersburg there will be events dedicated to the birthday of the famous St. Petersburg composer Sergei Kurekhin. According to RIA Novosti in the St. Petersburg Public Charity Fund Sergey Kurekhin, during the day relatives, friends and fans of his work will gather at the composer’s grave in Komarovo. Here, a memorial service will take place on the grave. Flowers will be laid. In the evening, the premiere of the documentary Kurekhin will be held at the Rodina cinema.

Australian archaeologists have discovered two burials in Egypt that are about 5 thousand years old. According to Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, they date back to the First and Second Dynasties of the Old Kingdom period. In one of the graves, bodies were found that apparently belonged to members of a poor family. The other grave belonged to a wealthy group. Numerous copper and ceramic objects, as well as jewelry, were found in it.

Japan received permission from Mongolia to collect and export the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in 1939 in battles by the Khalkhin-Gol River, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and well -being, the remains of about three and a half thousand military personnel of the Japanese Imperial Kwantun Army are considered unfinished.

Vimpelcom OJSC, known in the cell market under the Beeline trademark, may get a license in the Far Eastern region in the near future. This was announced by the Minister of Information Technology and Communications Leonid Reiman, writes Prime-Tass . According to the minister, Vimpelcom will receive a license if he implements his entire previously declared action plan.

The Brazilian government began an investigation in order to establish whether there is really a spy in the presidential palace that transmit secret information. This was announced on Tuesday by presidential adviser to Louis Ignasi Lula da Silva, General Horge Armand Felix in security. As “ Gazeta.ru ” reports with reference to Reuters’s message, the investigation has begun due to publication in Veja weekly.

Vasily Zubakin, a member of the board of RAO “UES”, said the market for free sale and purchase of electricity will be introduced no later than the winter of 2005. According to him, the energy market was supposed to earn earlier, but the work to introduce it out of the schedule. Zubakin explained this both with objective difficulties in solving the problem, and the slow course of negotiations with the main consumers of electricity - aluminum manufacturers.

The text of the American oath of fidelity to the flag is left unchanged, the Echo of Moscow reports. The country's Supreme Court on the eve of such a decision on the claim of a resident of California Michael Newdou.

Elizabeth Pleetin Yesterday, the presentation of the "National Corps of the Russian Language" was held at the Russian Language Institute named after V. Vinogradov. Linguists, literary scholars, and all humanities have finally received a convenient tool for research, and the Russian language got the merits-the buildings of most large literary languages ​​have long been open. The case is a collection of specially selected texts in a particular language.

Neither peace, no war

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Wednesday canceled the conclusion of the judges of the Saratov Regional Court and the determination of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Armed Forces in relation to the former first deputy chairman of the Saratov Region Government Sergei Shuvalov . According to RIA Novosti in the regional prosecutor's office, the court will again consider the submission of the regional prosecutor in this case.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia today has disseminated information about the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. The relevant document states that the Georgian side continues to build up its military presence in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. " It is reported by RBC .

The September 11 investigation commission has published a scandalous report today that there was no obvious evidence of Saddam Hussein with Al-Qaeda. The commission, in particular, believes that, according to her, Saddam did not help al-Qaeda prepare the attacks of 11th mes on the 11th. It is reported by AR . Recall that the Bush administration for a long time accused Saddam Hussein of relations with Al-Qaeda and called this connection one of the reasons for the invasion of Iraq.

Researchers found that male hormone testosterone serves as a natural painkiller. The team of a researcher from the University of Physiology and animal behavior in Princeton conducted a study in which the reaction of male individuals of sparrows to pain stimuli was revealed. The data obtained were compared with the results of similar experiments, but after the introduction of doughness injections to birds.

A 46-year-old resident of the South African Republic ... Vladimir Kotov won a supermarathon in his “” country, whose distance is 87 kilometers. This distance is between Durban and St. Petersburg - the South African of Russian origin overcame in 5 hours 31 minutes and 22 seconds. In addition, the second time in a row, the Russian woman Elena Nurgalieva successfully finished at these competitions - she again became the first. 6: 13.23 - this is the new higher world achievement.

Today at 22:45 Moscow time in Lisbon, one of the first decisive matches of the European Championship in Group A will begin, in which losers of the first round - Russia and Portugal will converge. The team that defeated in this match will lose the ability to continue participating in the next stage of the tournament. This became clear after the rivals in group A of the Greece and Spain played in the second round draw 1: 1.