On May 12, a press conference was held by the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education (Rosobrnadzor) Viktor Bolotov on the conduct of a single state exam (USE) in 2006. The press conference was organized by Rosbusinessconsulting . The system of a single state exam in Russia is in the status of an experiment and is carried out in a number of regions whose circle is expanding.

According to the assumptions of the victims, the final verdict to the participant of the school capture in Beslan Kulaev will be made on Friday. According to forecasts of deputy prosecutor Nikolai Shepel, the verdict will be issued tomorrow. However, the court announced a break in the announcement of the sentence until Friday, the Caucasian Knot reports.

The libretto for the opera of Iraida Yusupova “Einstein and Margarita, or the translated”, based on the real story from the newspaper “Russian Courier” about the late love of Einstein and the Russian spy of Margarita, the wife of the Soviet sculptor Konenkov, wrote the poetess Vera Pavlova.

If the authors of famous dystopian novels introduced the image of a television screen as an idol into their pictures of totalitarian states, then the icon of the 21st century is, of course, a computer screen. And there are more and more people for whom a computer is not only a gray box with wires, but also a hobby, a favorite work tool, or, indeed, a little god. The many fans of this new digital religion will be discussed in our article.

Leader Buts Yulia Tymoshenko and leader, Alexander Moroz, para) para) of an agreement on the coalition of democratic forces, Ukrainian Pravda reports. After signing the draft agreement, Tymoshenko said that this is only the approval of the document, and "we will sign the three of us to sign." In turn, the leader PA said that now this document needs to be appropriate with the draft coalition agreement from our Ukraine. Therefore, parties will look for a compromise.

The high -ranking diplomats of Russia, the USA, China and Eurotroshka - the UK, Germany, France - will meet today in London to find further ways to stop Iran’s activity in the field of enrichment of uranium, which can be used to create nuclear weapons. The Russian side at the meeting will be represented by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Kislyak.

The dinosaur, whose fossil skull was discovered by Steve Saulsbury, Patrick Saulsbury and Brian Buckmeier (Brian Buckmeier) in South Dakot 2 years ago and was transferred to the children (Children's Museum of Indianapolis), the largest in the USA, is officially described. It is named Dracorex Hogwartsia in honor of the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry school, which studied Harry Potter in popular children's books Joan K. Rowling.

** Themes of the day ** From the federal level, part of the central media reported that the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin introduced a bill "On the formation of a new constituent entity of the Russian Federation as a result of the unification of the Kamchatka region and the Koryak Autonomous Okrug" . After its acceptance by the State Duma on the map of Russia, a new education called the Kamchatka Territory will appear.

Today, the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) will hold in Kyiv an all -Ukrainian protest against raising gas tariffs and electricity. According to the chairman of the FPU, Alexander Yurkin, up to 50 thousand people from all regions of Ukraine will take part in this event in the central Square of Independence, which will be exclusively peaceful.

Nine players in the Moscow Spartak are fined by the strong -willed decision of the club’s leadership. The reason is the failure to appear a number of players for the awarding ceremony at the end of the final match of the Russian Cup with CSKA (lost 0: 3). So explained the decision in the press service of the club, and General Director Sergei Shavlo.

A serious scandal broke out in the Netherlands police after a new uniform was introduced for women policemen. Representatives of law enforcement agencies were obliged to wear transparent blouses. According to Ananova, dozens of police officers have already complained to the trade union that their new uniforms, namely, transparent blouses are too provocative.

Igor Veselov If the authors of the famous Antiutopia novels introduced into their paintings of totalitarian states the image of the television screen as an idol, then the XXI century icon is, of course, a computer screen. And people for whom a computer are not only a gray box with wires, but also a hobby, a favorite working tool or, indeed, a little god, there are more and more. The numerous fans of this new digital religion will be discussed in our article.

The American company M2Z Networks has announced its intention to deploy a nationwide WIMAX network, after which 95% of the US population will be provided with free, wireless broadband Internet access at a speed of about 384 kbit/s, reports Telecom TV The company plans to extract money to support this project from advertising and paid services.

The news of the hypothetical detection of the transmission of bird influenza H5N1 from man to the person we wrote about today , instantly overwhelmed the media. The fact is that the experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed in Indonesia the case of a disease of bird flu virus 7 members of the same family who did not have close contact with birds, 6 of them died. The currently known form of bird flu is believed to be not able to be transmitted from person to person.

According to the definition of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the concept of cultural capital includes three aspects: the presence of higher education, knowledge of cultural traditions and forms, and the possession of specific objects of cultural value. How does cultural capital influence access to higher education today? Who studies at universities in Moscow and Warsaw? And who finds it easier to go to university for free education?