**May 26, Monday** The main events: The first meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation will take place. The agenda includes issues of state tax policy, social support for the population, and division of powers between ministries and departments.

On Sunday, May 25, the Phoenix spacecraft (Phoenix) must land on the surface of Mars, reports Reuters . Landing will occur in the North Pole of the planet, where in 2002, with the help of the Odyssey space orbital apparatus (Odyssey), large reserves of underground ice were discovered. Previously, five spacecraft performed research only in the equatorial regions of the planet. Phoenix was launched on August 4, 2007. Work on the surface of Mars should last at least three months.

In this text, I will have to touch on several questions at once: for the statute of limitations-the action itself to remind you, which is why the entire fuss has flared up; the fact that excites me in connection with this action and its consequences, as well as the nature of modern university philosophy; And - finally - conspiracy reconstruction of the seekers of the Orange Revolution.

Starting on May 22, after nineteen years of waiting, film fans can finally enjoy the fourth film about the adventures of a restless professor in a felt hat and with an unchanged whip-“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. So, America, 1957. Henry Jones teaches in college, has an authority in academic circles, paces in an elegant three-button tie-and nevertheless, at the very first minutes of the film, he manages to find the same adventure on his professor's ass.

The Stavropol Duma unanimously approved Valery Gaevsky as the governor of the region. Dmitry Medvedev submitted his candidacy for the local legislative assembly on May 20. Earlier, on May 16, Medvedev signed a decree “On the early termination of powers of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory”. The official reason for the departure of the governor is “personal issues”.

The Regulation on the creation of the Tutor Institute is under registration with the Ministry of Justice of Russia, said the general director of the Education publishing house, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Kondakov, writes Gazeta.ru “A fairly large event will occur in Russian education. Another position will appear in schools - a tutor, ”Kondakov said on the air of Vesti FM.

In Russia, a ban on blood donation to pensioners over 60 years old, homosexuals, prostitutes and drug addicts was canceled. Doctors assure that this is not associated with an acute shortage of donors in the country, or with the active struggle of gays for their rights. We are talking about eliminating a long -outed formulation. Control over the quality of blood donated will now completely fall on transfusiologists.

The Moscow City Court put on the wanted list of one of the accused of the murder of the head of the Almaz-Antei Air Defense Air Defense, Igor Klimov, news agency reports with reference to the head of the press service of the court Anna Usacheva. According to her, on Friday the court granted the request of the state prosecutor to declare the defendant Stanislav Tyurin on the wanted list. Tyurin, who is under the recognizance not to leave, did not appear several times on the trial.

** May 26, Monday ** The main events: The first meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation will be held. On the agenda - issues of the tax policy of the state, social support of the population, the delimitation of powers between ministries and departments.

Yuri Luzhkov should not publicly raise the issue of belonging to Sevastopol. This statement on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio was made by the Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. According to him, Luzhkov’s statement, “it was more advantageous than helped in our work. This can and is useful for achieving some kind of internal political result, but from the point of view of the external interests of the state it is better to chew than to speak.

On Tuesday May 21, the Governor of the Tomsk Region Viktor Kors approved the proposal for the construction of two power units in the Tomsk Region of the Seversky Nuclear Power. As reported by Polit.ru, in March 2008, the government approved the accumulation of generating capacities. According to plans until 2020, 11 new nuclear stations should appear in the country. 10 existing nuclear power plants will be modernized and expanded.

Following the results of the parliamentary elections in Georgia, the party “Unified National Movement” in Georgia will have a constitutional majority in parliament - 120 out of 150 deputy places. As a result of the elections according to the proportional system, the UND receives 49 deputy places, the 71st place has received the UDD as a result of the victory of its representatives in the elections in single -mandate districts.

The reduction in the inhumor tourist flow to Russia, which in 2007 decreased by more than 8%, forces the state to look for increasingly large -scale solutions. To overcome this negative trend, Rosturism developed a strategy for the development of the industry until 2015 - it is planned to distinguish 3 trillion for the development of tourism. rubles, while 30% of these funds will be sent from the federal budget, and about 60% from extrabudgetary sources.

Roman Abramovich at one time actually approved Vladimir Putin by the President of the Russian Federation, speaking in the interests of powerful Russian oligarchs, says the British The Times, referring to an unpolished interview with Alexander Litvinenko, which he gave two years before his death in 2006 (a full translation at Inopressa.ru ). Litvinenko said in an interview with Times in broken English: “Abramovich have good contact with Putin before Putin became president.

**Bad behavior** New power - new morals. Although the team of the new President Dmitry Medvedev is a slightly shuffled old Putin deck, and Vladimir Putin himself has not yet let go of the levers of control, that is, the power is not so new, the media still note certain innovations. Even during the election campaign, the press drew attention to the fact that the future president talks a lot about the lack of legal culture of the population.