Science, we must pay tribute to it, made a significant contribution to that world paper flow that humanity began to overwhelm, or rather, its educated part, after the invention of typography. One of the main laws of scientific activity, opened by R. Merton, was formulated by him in the form of instructions: “Publish or Perish” - “Publish or Pertini”.

Tonight in the Cinema "October" the premiere of the new film Besson "Angel-a" will be held. The director and the leading actor of Rasmussen came to Moscow for the premiere, reports radio "Culture" . “Angel A” is the first work of Luke Besson as a director over the past six years. He was engaged in writing children's books and producing films. The main roles in his new picture were played by Zhamel Debbuz ("Amelie") and Rasmussen ("Fatal Woman").

Today, three retaliatory matches of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League will be held on the football fields of Europe. The central of them is the confrontation between the Spanish Barcelona with the English Chelsea. The confrontation, which is worthy to be in the final of the main club tournament of the continent, and not at such a "early" stage. The ill -wishers of the Abramovich team (and there are enough) already rub their hands in anticipation of the potential failure of Chelsea.

This terrorist organization sent letters to the Basquekery businessmen demanding to pay the so -called "revolutionary tax", RIA Novosti reports. The messages noted that “this is the last warning,” the messages notes. Otherwise, terrorists threaten “troubles” to family members of businessmen, photos of relatives of entrepreneurs are attached to letters. This action held the same action in December last year, but the tone of previous messages was, according to experts, more restrained.

Large-scale exercises to counteract the distribution of “bird flu” will be held in the Sverdlovsk region on March 12, ”the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Vasily Lakhtyuk said at a press conference, Api-News reports.

Last night in the center of Tbilisi a homemade bomb was discovered. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. A bomb placed in a black cellophane bag was found in a territory adjacent to one of the hotels. The dubious package was discovered by local residents and reported to the patrol police. The press center notes that in view of the dangers of the explosion during transportation, experts decided to blow up the bomb on the spot.

The Chinese state media congratulated the director of the Ang Lee on Tuesday with his victory in the Oscar nomination "Best Director's Work" for the film "Gorbataya Gora". However, his performance at the presentation ceremony was censored, reports Reuters . Chinese censors cut the gratitude of the director to the residents of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, since Beijing does not recognize the state sovereignty of Taiwan, considering the island of one of the provinces of China.

The permanent crew of the International Space Station since 2009 will be increased from three to six people. Such an agreement has been reached in negotiations in the United States of the heads of space agencies, the head of Roscosmos Anatoly Perminov said on Tuesday. "At the suggestion of the Russian side, it was decided that since 2009 the crew of the International Space Station will be six people," he said. According to Perminov, Russian ships like Soyuz will deliver crews to the ISS.

“I am glad that I became the hate of the Barcelona fans,” said Chelsea head coach Jose Mourinho at the press conference before the reciprocal game of the Champions League 1/8 finals. Sky Sport reports that Mourinho believes that the concentration of his figure will help his players better prepare for the Champions League’s response. "It is not by chance that I went out to the first to the public at the airport and the hotel.

By March 10, the Stavropol Biofibrik plans to release the first batch of a vaccine against bird flu, Interfax reports. “The first batch of a vaccine in the amount of 1 million doses we will release by March 10. By March 30-31, we plan to release another 2 million doses of the vaccine,” said Alexei Surmilo, deputy director of the biofibrics. According to him, the first batches of drugs will be directed to vaccinate birds in the Stavropol Territory.

The Brazilian State Oil Company "Petrobraz" entered the record level of oil production. According to RIA Novosti in the company’s press service, daily oil production in February of this year amounted to 1 million 758 thousand barrels, which is 4.4% more than on average in 2005 (1 million 524 thousand barrels).

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko expressed confidence that after the parliamentary elections in the Verkhovna Rada, a coalition of democratic forces will be formed, which will gain at least 60% of votes. Yushchenko said this in an interview with UT-1 television channel on Monday, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the Ukrainian Truth.

Since the 1990s, the American government knew how Al-Qaida has been teaching future suicide bombers, but four years before the attacks of September 11, 2001 could not catch a man who was their main organizer, said the FBI agent Michael Antichev during the court hearing in the case of the only surviving terrorist of Zakarias Musaui, RIA Novosti reports. In the mid-1990s, Washington knew about the existence of several Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and other countries, he said.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow freed Mishiev Mishiev, who was accused of the collapse of the roof of the building, from the custody of the director of the Basmann market. Thus, the court refused the prosecutor's office to satisfy the application for the issuance of a sanction for the arrest of Mishiev.

The first meeting of the new Palestine Parliament ended in a major scandal, in which most places were taken by representatives of the Militarized Hamas group. Hamas representatives voted to cancel the additional powers granted to the head of the Palestinian National Administration (PNA), the leader of the Fath party, Mahmoud Abbas. Fath deputies in protest left the parliament building and accused the lawmakers from Hamas of trying to deprive him of the authorities.