Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov debuted as the head of the new permanent military-industrial commission under the government. Her first meeting in the White House was in emphasized strict style: the journalists were allowed only to the protocol shoot, during which Mr. Ivanov managed to promise that the Russian military budget “will never be militaristic,” and present five permanent members of the commission, Kommersant writes today.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized as legal a conviction in the case of three judges found guilty of fraud with Moscow apartments, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation complaints of lawyers and convicts. On August 1, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation sentenced the judge of the Babushkinsky court Nina Mishina to 11 years in prison, judges of the Butyrsky court Vasily Savelyuk and Nina Ivchenko - by 12 and 14 years, respectively.

Today, the State Duma deputies after a violent discussion rejected the legislative initiative of the Rodina faction, which proposed supplementing Article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a qualifying legal definition of the concept of “pornographic materials or objects”. The bill supported only 91 parliamentarians.

More than a hundred dead Magellan penguins covered with oil are thrown to the sea shore in the south of Argentina. About 200 birds are saved; Now they are cleaned and nursed, after which they will be released. According to BBC , local authorities are working according to a plan for emergency actions: employees of environmental organizations patrol the coast in search of other penguins.

With the help of the European Space Agency space telescope (EUROPEAN SPACE, ESA) XMM-Newton was compiled a 25% of the sky in the X-ray range, the ESA official website reports. The shooting was carried out for a course of 4 years during the telescope turns from one point of research to another.

Today, May 12, marks thirty years since the creation of the Moscow Helsinki Group - the Group for Assistance to the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR. More precisely, from the moment the creation of the MHG was announced. After all, consultations on the formation of this, as they would say now, non-governmental organization, its creator Yuri Orlov, had already been conducting long before this date.

The International Group of Researchers led by Kwanghee Lee from the Pusan ​​National University and Suck-Hyan Lee (Ajou University) and their American colleagues from California University to Santa to Santa Barbara (University of California at Santa Barbara) has developed a polymer material with certain properties of metals, in particular, high conductivity and metallic brilliance.

Medvedev inspects Stavropol. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who oversees the implementation of national projects, will hold meetings in Kislovodsk with the heads of the executive authorities of the Southern Federal District The first meeting will be devoted to the national project for the development of the agro -industrial complex, the second - the problem of gasification of the Stavropol Territory.

1. History of movement: Briefly Graffiti - painting and painting of city walls - as a special direction of artistic creation and the basis of the youth movement appeared in the seventies of the twentieth century.

The Primorsky Drug Control Department sent a criminal case to the court against a group of Botton maintenance on Russian Street. According to information from the press service of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Primorsky Territory, the Boodl has been operating from August last year to the present. During his action, a circle of regular customers managed to form in the brothel.

The Kalininsky District Court of the city of Ufa found three skinheads guilty of beating a citizen of Iraq and sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing Interfax. According to the Kalininsky District Court, the three Ufa residents 1984, 1987 and 1988 were detained in December last year on suspicion of an intentional attack on a student of the Ufa oil state university. Two detainees had previously had a criminal record.

The Middle East is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis, on Friday the Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights Louise Arbur said, calling for the authorities of Israel and the Palestinian administration to comply with the basic international standards of human rights. “The civilian population, especially the most vulnerable of them, such as children, women and elderly people, should not pay for neglect of human rights and humanitarian obligations,” Arbur said.

Leonid Klein Each word in the title of the film of the famous Czech director exactly, capaciously and stands in its place. Chronicles. The film begins with a documentary chronicle: Fidel Castro comes with a friendly visit to socialist Czechoslovakia. The Cuban leader welcomes the labor of the Czech people, the enthusiastic residents of Prague warmly meet the fighter with American imperialism. Stop frame. We are already in the modern Czech Republic.

To date, 115 letters of infection of people from 208 are registered in the world today. Such data from the World Health Organization (WHO) are published on the official website of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection (Rospotrebnadzor). Since 2003, poultry flu is registered in ten countries of the world. The attack of the H5N1 virus, which began in Vietnam, covered not only China, Indonesia, Iraq, Cambodia, but also Egypt, Turkey, Thailand.

Prices for oil products in Kiev will not rise until the end of May, and in the regions they will increase slightly, in some they can rise to the level of Kiev, in some they will be lower. Yesterday this was announced by Minister of Economy of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. According to Yatsenyuk, if the price grows above the level of consumption that can pay the population in the relevant area, then objectively oil companies are forced to reduce the price, Ukrainian Pravda reports.