The 2012 summer Olympics will be held in London. This decision was made by members of the International Olympic Committee, gathered at the 117th session in Singapore. The capital of the XXX Olympic Games was named at the voting results ceremony at about 16:00 Moscow time, after the President of the IOC Jacques Rogge solemnly, to the accompaniment of the Olympic anthem, handed an envelope with the name of the winner. Earlier, Moscow, New York, Madrid and Paris left for the Olympiad.

The Ministry of Education and Science in the near future intends to withdraw licenses from ten branches of state universities, said Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko on Wednesday at the "government hour" in the Federation Council, Gazeta.ru reports.

The famous American screenwriter, the author of the film version of the musicals "West Side Story", "Sounds of Music", as well as several scripts for Hitchcock films, Ernst Lahman, died. He was 89 years old, reports Reuters . Lahman was the owner of the seven Oscars, four of which were awarded to him for the best script, and two for the best film.

Near the hotel in Glenigls in Scotland, where the meeting of the "big eight" began, a collision between the police and the protesters began, the newspaper reports. ru , with reference to Reuters. Anti -globalists and anarchists tried to break through the fence built around the hotel, where all the leaders of the G8 countries have currently gathered. In a clash with the police, a march of protest spilled, whose participants were supposed to peacefully pass the town of Okhtererder to the hotel.

At the request of Rosneft, 20% of the shares of Sibneft belonging to Yukos were arrested, the president of Rosneft, Sergei Bogdanchikov, said on Wednesday. - This actually limits our interest in Sibneft - part of the Assets of Yukos. “We demanded to arrest assets in order to prevent the“ yukos ”of their property”. I am interested in returning $ 3.5 billion, preferably living money, ” RIA Novosti quoted Bogdanchikov.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) now represents half of humanity, writes " News Time ". According to the publication, this is the main result of the SCO meeting that ended yesterday in Astana. The owner of the summit, Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Russia and Chinese leader Hu Jintao, spoke about this with undisguised pride. This became possible after joining the organization as observers of Iran, Pakistan and India.

Two of the militants killed on Wednesday in Makhachkala, Gazeta.Ru reported on Wednesday. The information about the individuals of the dead is quite contradictory. As a source in the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, one of the killed, who had undermined on a grenade, was the leader of the extremist group "Jamaat Sharia," told the Russian information agency "Interfax". According to the source, it is identified by relatives, identification is backed up by a dactyloscopic examination.

Today in Astana, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Vladimir Schoolist and a member of the board of the RAO UES of Russia Andrei Rappoport signed a protocol on the creation of a joint Russian-Kazakh enterprise on the basis of OJSC Ekibastuzkaya GRES-2.

An exhibition has opened in the London National Portrait Gallery , which contains portraits of the most commonly photographed personalities in history. The goals and objectives of the exhibition are to present the ways used by celebrities to achieve the greatest effect from their photos, writes Reuters . For the exhibition, 10 characters were selected, from Queen Victoria to Muhammad Ali. “The exhibition is about how these people used the photograph for their own purposes.

Yesterday, Russian Deputy Prosecutor Vladimir Kolesnikov said that the investigation of the case was completed by which a former employee of the UKOS Security Service, Alexei Pichuginobinobin, has already been sentenced to 20 years in three assassination attempts and two murders, Kommersant writes. The customer of all these crimes of the Deputy Prosecutor of Kolesnikov called the shareholder of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin. Mr.

The word "marketing" is heard by everyone, but few people know what "marketing research" is. It is understandable: the first marketing research began to be carried out in Russia recently, in the early 1990s; By that time, in the West, not a single large company dared to launch a new product to the market, change packaging, and remove an advertising video without preliminary marketing research.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin completed participation in events as part of the SCO member summit, and left for the UK, where a summit of the General Eight countries (July 6-8) opens in the Scottish city of Glenigls. ** Federal Assembly ** State Duma The State Duma accepted ...

The famous Russian director Anatoly Vasiliev was awarded the French Order of Academic Palm, RIA Novosti reports. The award ceremony was held at the residence of the France Ambassador in Moscow. The award was awarded to him by the head of the French diplomatic mission to Jean Kada.

In the Glenigls hotel complex near Edinburgh (Scotland), on Wednesday evening, the Big Eight summit opens. It is planned that the leaders of eight leading countries of the world will arrive in Scotland in the afternoon, RIA Novosti reports. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the French president will fly to the summit directly from Singapore, where they took part in the 117th Session of the IOC by definition of the capital of the 2012 Olympics.

We have already written in previous articles that the power in Russia today is unacceptable archaic, that the country owes the country to such an obsolete structure of the authorities by the fact that many problems are not only not solved, but are not noticed or aggravated. We also wrote that what is called “politics” in Russia has nothing to do with real politics - politics (and executive bodies and administration) are engaged in either private or unimportant issues.