Polit.ru publishes excerpts from the books of Nikolai Leskov. This reading allows you to figure out what we have, and also ask the question-whether we can change something for some 100-150 years. From published already The town was spread out along the right high bank a rather large, but not at all a navigable river of the savanka, meaning under a different name among the most remarkable tributaries of the Oka.

... and finally stop fighting drunkenness. Moreover, this is not a struggle, and this is not a result. M. Zhvanetsky ... if you consider any of your own problem Close enough, it turns out that you yourself are part of this problem Axiom Ducharma In Soviet times, the state fought with speculators - it was believed that they were the main cause of the deficit.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk district of Perm in April 2008 verified the legality of the activities of a public organization specializing in yoga, the New Region reports. As it turned out during the audit, as a result of the creation and functioning of this public organization, the members included in it, under the influence of the mental influence of “teachers”, completely changed their attitude to the world around him and universal values.

According to Nature , the American chemist Antony Williams founded a publicly available free Chemspider database. While biologists have a huge free database of DNA and proteins, chemists until recently could use only paid services, the largest of which belongs to the American Chemical Society. This database has existed for more than a century and includes about 35 million molecules. But using this service costs thousands of dollars. Now the situation is changing.

The Argun Plant "Pishchemash" produced the first two cars of the VAZ-21074 brands. According to the press service of the President and the Government of the Chechen Republic, in the future, the plant plans to produce up to 20 cars per day. The first two vehicles will be donated to the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and the Governor of the Samara Region Vladimir Artyakov.

In one of the city’s stores, Chistopol in Tatarstan seized a glass bottle with a mercury weighing 250 g, RBC reports. According to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Tatarstan Andrei Rodygin, the report about the incident was received on the operational duty room at about 8 a.m. The bottle was seized. No mercury spills at the scene were found.

In India, the result of the fall of a passenger bus in the river, at least 28 people were killed, reports the Associated Press with reference to the application of the local police. According to preliminary data, the bus driver coped with the management, making a turn at high speed. The car flew out of the road and fell from a height of 90 meters. The work of rescuers is difficult to rocking.

According to an independent environmental audit, the Lukoil project for the development of the Karachagan gas condensate deposit in Kazakhstan may not meet environmental standards, the World Wide Foundation (WWF) said. The Karachagan gas condensate field located in the Ural River Valley in the north-west of Kazakhstan is mastered by the consortium of oil companies, including the Russian Lukoil.

The government of Myanmar (Burma) was under the fire of harsh criticism in connection with the actions to assist the victims of the Nargis, which suffered from past Saturday, as a result of which about 80 thousand people died. According to the head of the administrative district of the city of Labutta, the capital of the same region in the Iravadi River Delta, several dozen villages of 63, located in the vicinity, was completely washed away, reports AFP .

The supply of Azerbaijani gas to Georgia, as part of a contract signed the other day, between the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (GNCAR) and the Oil and Gas Corporation of Georgia, in 2008 they can reach 250 million cubic meters and will be carried out at a price of $ 261 per 1 thousand cubic meters, instead of $ 120, Rosbalt said with reference with reference. on a source in gas circles.

How to evaluate what happened in terms of its meaningful meaning? It is difficult to believe that the whole series of struggle with enemies, elections, disputes, discussions from Solovyov and Shevchenko, mental discussions in different places and, finally, the inauguration and statement in the Duma had the new prime minister that "the state would not spare money to combat smoking and alcoholism." It is clear that everything should not be reduced to abstract facts.

Italian archaeologists discovered 26 Etruscans in the Italian city of Tarquinia, reports the magazine “Around the World” with reference to RIA Novosti. Employees of the South Etruria inspection discovered a monument of archeology on a construction site located about 500 meters from Monterozzi Mountain. In the same place, many years earlier have already found a large necropolis with adorned tombstones, which is now under the protection of UNESCO.

The Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Khabarovsk Territory is concerned about the Entevirus epidemic in neighboring China, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda . According to the chief state doctor of the Khabarovsk Territory Vladimir Ott, at the moment in China, more than 20 thousand children under the age of six have become a dangerous virus. The epidemic has already been covered by eight provinces of China. The cause of the disease is aggressive enterovirus, which caused the death of 28 young children.

The State Duma today approves the ex-president, chairman of the United Russia party, Vladimir Putin, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers. The day before, the speaker Boris Gryzlov showed reporters a document that the third president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev introduced to the lower house immediately after his inauguration. In a letter from the Kremlin dated May 7, 2008 N Pr-911, signed by D.

On the site Scientific.ru on May 6, 2008, an e-mail vote on the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences began. The survey initiators report that his goal is to give everyone, even ordinary employees of the Academy of Sciences, to express their opinion about official candidates for the position of president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.