The FSB presented prizes for the best works of literature and art in 2007 about the work of special services. In the nomination "Cinema and Telefilms", director Vadim Shmelev was awarded the award for the film "The Apocalypse Code". Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, who played in this film, received the second prize in the “Acting Work” nomination. The first went to the actor Alexander Dedyushko, who had recently died in a car accident, who played special services officers in television series.

Today, the US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice has arrived on an undeclared visit to Iraq. She flew immediately to the North Iraq city of Kirkuk, which is located in Iraqi Kurdistan. According to information, during the visit, Rice intends to discuss measures taken by the authorities in the fight against Kurdish separatists operating in the territory of Northern Kurdistan with the Iraqi leadership.

According to Nature , physicists under the leadership of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusets) discovered the theoretical possibility of creating very small “carpet carpets”. A group of scientists has investigated the aerodynamic properties of flexible oscillating sheets that can move in liquids. Calculations showed that such a movement is also possible in the air, only the size of the sheet should be small enough.

In the capital, an apartment of an employee of the French Embassy was robbed, RBC reports. According to law enforcement agencies in Moscow, the unknown, having selected the keys, penetrated the apartment of France citizen Nicole Moryamez, an employee of the Cooperation Service at the French Embassy. Jewelry was stolen as a result. It is also noted that the apartment is at the address: Leninsky Prospekt, house 13. At the moment, the amount of damage is established.

In the Republic of Congo, the Mi-8 helicopter of the JUT-Eir Airlines crashed, Echo Moscow reports. The flight was carried out at the request of the UN mission. The incident occurred at about an hour in the afternoon in Moscow. During the take -off, the “shavings in the main gearbox” worked. The crew decided to return to the airport, but after a few seconds there was an extraneous noise and a helicopter vibration, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement.

Today, the crew members of the International Space Station went into outer space to check two faulty mechanisms related to the work of the solar battery, news agencies report. Thus, the commander of Peggy Witson and astronaut Daniel Tanya made a hundredth exit beyond the station. Their first goal was to establish a problem in the mechanism of attaching one of the solar panels on the right side of the station.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the head of the Communists Gennady Zyuganov submitted to the CEC of the Russian Federation the documents necessary for the registration of each of them as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation, RBC reports. Earlier, Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky were nominated by the Congresses of the Communist Party and LDPR, respectively, as candidates from parties in the election of the head of state.

" Financial Izvestia " publish the article "Military Field capture" . The author of the article draws attention to the fact that law enforcement agencies are too delayed by conducting cases open against dubious entrepreneurs who assign state property. According to the newspaper, this is evidenced by the history of the Military Construction Directorate of the city of Moscow (OJSC "VSUM"), which has lost part of its property.

The arrested mayor of Vladivostok Vladimir Nikolaev paid 300 thousand rubles to the regional Department of Internal Affairs for illegal support of his service car by the traffic police officers, news agency reports with reference to the message of the lawyer Viktor Lutsenko. He was charged with the articles “Abuse of official powers” ​​and “abuse of authority” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Yesterday in Yakutia, the Semyon Dezhnev tanker caught fire with 300 tons of oil, reports Duta.ru. A message about the fire was received at 12.43. Nine AC cars with 32 firefighters took part in the extinguishing of fire. They managed to localize the fire by 13.47, and completely complete the extinguishing of the fire - by 14.17. The main version of the incident is a short circuit in the wiring. On the tanker, residential premises on an area of ​​60 square meters burned out. m.

The reduction in the interest rate of the Fed, which almost all analysts of the monetary and stock market expected, once once again showed that the interest and, in a broad sense, monetary policy, are quite limited in their capabilities. And that there can be no question of any stimulation of economic growth with their use. The best that these manipulations with interest rates are suitable is to reduce the costs of leaving the next crisis.

According to Reuters , researchers from Duke University (Duke University) found that, under certain conditions, chimpanzees are able to fold in the mind about the same as students. The experiment was attended by two female shimpanzes boxer (Boxer) and Feinstein, named after two California senators, as well as 14 students of the University of Duke. The task was to quickly fold two sets of points flashing on the computer screen.

The Objects of the US anti-missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic can become the new goals of Russian missiles, REGNUM reports, citing a statement by the commander of the Russian missile forces, Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov. “We are forced to take appropriate measures that will not allow any conditions to devalue the Russian potential of nuclear deterrence.

The deceased on the rails between the Sadovaya and Dostoevskaya metro stations was an employee of the metro, Fontanka.ru reports with reference to the message of the head of the State Unitary Enterprise “Petersburg Metro” by Vladimir Garyugin. According to him, the circumstances of his death are currently finding out the investigation. As Polit.ru already wrote, yesterday at 13.30 in the tunnel between the Sadovaya and Dostoevskaya stations, the driver discovered the body.

In the Verkhovna Rada, a draft resolution “On the formation of the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine” was registered, introduced by the new Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, UNIAN reports.