The head of the State Duma Committee, Vladimir Vasiliev, proposes to conduct the first parliamentary investigation in connection with the growth of the number of counterfeit products in Russia, RBC reports. Vasiliev expressed such a proposal during the parliamentary hearings on legislative measures to counteract the circulation of counterfeit and falsified products in the Russian Federation.

Anthony Remijan from the American National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Jan M. Hollis from the NASA ( Goddard Space Flight Center) Center for Space Flights found a new A star with two protoplanetary discs at once, which also rotate in opposite directions, reports Space.com . The open star is located in the constellation Zmeenosza, in 500 light years from the ground, in the region with intense star formation. According to modern theories, this is a young star.

Today, in the building of the Press Press on Pravda, 24, where a fire arose on the eve, the body of a missing woman was discovered, Gazeta.Ru reports. Earlier it was reported that as a result of the fire, the 51-year-old barrier Evgeny Karpova disappeared. In all likelihood, it was her body that was discovered.

Igor Shevelev The poet and writer Anatoly Nayman wrote an extremely unusual and curious book. The author of "Stories about Anna Akhmatova", Romanov "B. B. and others ”,“ All and everyone ”,“ Kablukov ”, collections of poetry and stories devoted his next work to the famous New York Russian restaurant“ Samovar ”. The book, half consisting of the author’s text, consists of photographs and autographs that have been gathered for years with the owner of the “samovar” - Roman Kaplan.

The authorities of Iran and Syria may not stand the attacks on the diplomatic mission in Tehran and Damascus, but this does not exempt them from liability for compensation for material damage caused by other countries. This was announced today by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. “Governments are required to prevent such riots. They had to stop this, not only in Iran and Syria, but also everywhere, ”Annan said.

In a fire in the building of the Press Publishing House, where the editorial board of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda was located, a woman disappeared, RIA Novosti reports. As the chief editor of the newspaper Alexei Ganelin told reporters on Tuesday, a woman named Evgeny, who worked in one of the buffets of a burnt building, did not return home last night.

The military prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk garrison again returned to the investigation of the criminal case on the death of a soldier from Kemerovo Yuri Anisimov in December 2002, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to the chairman of the committee of the soldiers' mothers of the Kemerovo region, Ramila Weits, the case resumes for the sixth time.

In Moscow, an explosion occurred on the territory of the Gorbushkin Court shopping center, which suffered three people. According to RBC with reference to the city fire service, the gas cylinder exploded in one of the prefabricated metallic containers adapted for the warehouse. At the scene of the explosion, a fire arose with a total area of ​​15 sq.m., with which firefighters who arrived at the scene of the incident quickly coped.

The US Department of Internal Security has completed the largest exercises on the Internet called Cyber ​​Storm , according to Slashdot and C-News . The IT specialists repelled the modeled network attacks on the US strategic objects by hackers around the world.

As a result of a large fire, which occurred yesterday in the building of the FSUE Press Press on Pravda Street in Moscow, the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Parliamentary newspaper, the stands and Soviet Russia burned out or were filled with water. Pogorelian journalists are convinced that the cause of the emergency became the "brood syndrome": in an old building with wooden ceilings, the owners gathered many tenants, and the dilapidated wiring could not withstand the load.

An illustration for the article "Racists is not a place in power" in the Volgograd newspaper "City Vesti" attracted the attention of the prosecutor's office in connection with a difficult inter -religious situation in the world and Russia, RIA Novosti reports. The caricature depicts Christ, Moses, Buddha and Muhammad, watching TV, on the screen of which are two groups ready for a fight.

Ukraine will invite Russia to abandon the mediation of Rosukrenergo in the field of transit and supply of Russian gas, reports As the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yingurov said today, speaking in the Verkhovna Rada: "Taking into account the emergence of certain remarks on the Russian side regarding the intermediary proposed by it, Rosukrenergo, the Government of Ukraine, a letter to the head of the Russian government will be sent today.

Iran, Syria and other countries whose authorities could not protect the embassies of Western countries that were attacked during recent protests against the publications of caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad should pay for the damage caused. This was stated by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the evening air of the CNN channel, writes Gazeta.ru . "Governments are obliged to warn such riots. They had to stop it, not only in Iran and Syria, but also everywhere," Annan said.

The accumulation of indirect, subtle signs occurring in the country and the world suggests that we are approaching some kind of barrier - and we can cross it, unnoticeably, at any moment.

“Polit.ru” publishes the article “Will the era“ after socialism ”come?” Professors of the University of Pennsylvania, the author of many books and scientific publications, a specialist in the history of communism and the creator of the public fund Fire, who protects freedom and individual rights of students and professors in the United States Alan Charles Cors .