On April 15, 2008, the famous fiction writer Boris Strugatsky turned 75 years old. The work of the Strugatsky brothers is not only an important chapter in the history of Soviet and Russian literature, their novels and novels had a serious influence on the decision of many young people to connect their whole lives with science, infected with enthusiasm and thirst for discoveries.

Primorsky swamp During the coming week, clarity should emerge on the prospects for a power crisis in Primorye. Some media outlets not only rushed to announce the imminent resignation of Sergei Darkin, but also stated that a case had been opened against him. Contrary to rumors about flying to China, he ended up in Moscow, where he clearly had conversations at different levels.

In Belgrade, a presentation was held on the beginning of the broadcasting of the Russian information television channel Vesti in Serbia. During the year, Vesti TV channel will appear in 350 thousand households of Serbia. According to Dmitry Mednikov, editor -in -chief of the Vesti television channel, “We made a political decision: Serbia will currently become the only country in the world where the Vesti TV channel will spread for free.”

The world's largest silver producer Polymetal confirmed the information about the negotiations, which are conducted between the controlling shareholder of the company Suleiman Kerimov and a number of possible counterparties regarding the possibility of the possibility of acquiring each of these counterparties of the share of the controlling shareholder in Polymetal.

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While the office plankton, who probably haven't been on vacation yet, sits in a cool office, photographers and celebrities have to do photo shoots on hot, stuffy beaches. Nuts magazine provides readers with the opportunity to evaluate the TOP 50 sexiest celebrity beach photo shoots without leaving the office. Nuts generally likes to compile hit parades of all sorts of little-needed things (see, for example, Nuts has compiled a new hit parade of the breasts of Hollywood stars TOP 100: PHOTOS).

The world is experiencing a vodka boom. The ancient Slavic drink is becoming increasingly fashionable from America to China. Fashion is a capricious thing, but, in essence, it is only intended to brighten up the purely utilitarian nature of the material world around us. A jacket, a skirt, trousers, a dress - fashion can change their shape, but not their essence, they still won’t become a Roman toga. The laws of aerodynamics made cars from different companies similar to each other, like twins.

In St. Petersburg on Sunday evening in the Kalinin district at the traffic police inspector, did the Infiniti expensive foreign car? reports Fontanka.ru. At about 21 o'clock in the Infiniti under the control of the 26-year-old senior police lieutenant was blocked by two Mercedes and BMW foreign cars, inside of which there were four men of Caucasian appearance. The attackers landed the policeman from Infiniti by force and disappeared, kidnapping the car.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev at a meeting in the Kremlin on the problems of counteracting corruption: ... said that it is necessary to have a national plan for combating corruption in Russia. "We need a set of measures, not point decisions, in fact, we need a national plan for combating corruption," he said. ...

On May 16, 2008, in the building of the Fundamental Library of Moscow State University on the Lenin Mountains, the awarding ceremony of winners and prize-winners of the second All-Russian Internet Olympiad for nanotechnology “Nanotechnology-IV broke into the future!” Participants and winners were welcomed by the rector of Moscow State University Academician V.A. Sadovnichy, reports the site of Nanometer . This year the Olympics was held a second time.

The situation with the disgraced governor of Primorye Sergey Darkin remains incomprehensible. The governor, who, after an unexpected search and interrogation, got a hospital with complaints of his heart, flew to Moscow on a private plane on Friday - as reported, for treatment. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the governor flew to the Sheremetyevo airport on Friday evening, and was hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital (Central Design Bureau).

I highly appreciate the contribution of Jean Lemier as the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Reform of the Russian Electric power industry. I am convinced that my opinion is shared by everyone who at different times participated in the development and implementation of transformations.

To date, more than four hundred families from the village of Muslyumovo (Chelyabinsk region) have received compensation in the amount of 1 million rubles for their old households. In total, more than 626 families expressed a desire to move from the territory of the village, the press service of the State Corporation Rosatom said.

In Crimea near the village of Rosdolier on the Simferopol-Saki highway, a tourist bus "Ikarus" got into an accident. The bus, transporting 42 passengers, collided with two cars-Volkswagen-Toger and Opel. According to the news agencies, the blow was so force that the bus expanded 180 degrees. 18 people were injured in the accident: three Ukrainians and 15 citizens of Russia, including 11 children aged 3 to 9 years. Doctors evaluate the condition of several victims as serious.

Microsoft announced that it offered the Yahoo management an alternative transaction that does not imply complete absorption. The conditions of the new offer are not disclosed, however, according to Reuters, companies can sign an agreement on advertising in search systems in order to improve their positions in this market. In a response, representatives of Yahoo reported that they were considering several different proposals.