TARAROS POPOV: “There is a wonderful series -“ How the idols left. ”Most are sad. Alma -Ata professor Marikovsky left the same way. You always think in such cases why fate is so unfair? Sometimes I wander around rich cemeteries, look at entire palaces erected to the deceased. Huge sculptures testify to a person’s enormous significance. смерти. Хотя им под землей всё равно. Не смотря на свою значимость в энтомологии Мариковскому приходилось трудно.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, the number of structural units of the central apparatus of Rostekhnadzor was reduced from 12 to 9. In addition to changes in the structure of the central apparatus of Rostekhnadzor, the staff of the territorial bodies of Rostekhnadzor will be reduced.

The Russian Automobile Company KAMAZ stops the conveyor from December 23, the official report on the website of the enterprise said. The work will be interrupted by almost a month and will resume only on January 19. Until that time, production at the enterprise will be stopped, and the bulk of the employees will go on vacation. During the break, regulatory, repair and preventive work will be carried out. The shipment of finished products from warehouses will continue.

On December 23, in Moscow, on the basis of Lyceum No. 1547 (an educational institution with a physical and mathematical bias that implements joint educational programs with the MEPhI), a training class on atomic energy was opened, the Department of Public Relations and the Media of Atomenergoprom OJSC reports.

Researchers from the University of Sydney Maccuori found that after the dose of cocaine, the bees make unusually energetic movements in the “dance”, they cannot resist “conversations” with their neighbors in the swarm, and when they are deprived of the drug, they even experience a breakdown, writes The Guardian, referring to the Journal of Experiental Biology (translation by Inopressa ).

Oil prices on Tuesday continued a rapid decrease and dropped below $ 40 per barrel, since signs of a decrease in world demand are becoming more obvious, reports Reuters . Today, the final data on the US GDP for the third quarter will be published, which is expected to confirm the deplorable state of the world economy, since numerous stimulating measures and the softening of monetary policy were not able to prevent the most serious recession in decades.

Lawyers of PSYSTAR, producing clones of MAC computers, said Apple did not belong to the right to the Mac OS X operating system, reports Lenta.ru with reference to AppleinSider. Apple cannot blame PsyStar of violating the copyright protection law, since the company has not fulfilled all the assigned instructions for registering copyright on Mac OS X, PsyStar lawyers believe.

Recently, some events have occurred that have become the subject of widespread non-public discussion. This refers to the awarding of the titles of Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts to former nonconformists Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin, Eduard Steinberg, Erik Bulatov, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, as well as the presentation of the Order of Friendship by the President of Russia to Ilya Kabakov.

A member of the Public Chamber, lawyer Henry Reznik, who oversees the Jury Club in the Chamber, said that he was preparing an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on behalf of the Public Chamber with a request to return the law to the Federal Assembly, which introducing restrictions on the competence of the jury.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili stated on December 22 that “hundreds of millions are spent on propaganda against Georgia,” reports civil.ge . “In the last days alone, Western journalists have been blown up by several scandals in Western media, as they are financed by Russian security services against Georgia by the hands of Western PR companies, the hands of some Western journalists,” Saakashvili said.

The Primorsky Prosecutor's Office began an investigation into the collection of evidence on the fact of the violent actions of riot police against coastal journalists, Vostok-Media reports. Yesterday, the Vostok public organization demanded an investigation about the detention and injuries to reporters who covered the protest of motorists in Vladivostok on December 21.

Victor Pivovarov Recently, some events have occurred that have become the subject of a wide non -public discussion. This refers to the award of the titles of honorary members of the Academy of Arts of Russia to the former non -conformists Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin, Eduard Steinberg, Eric Bulatov, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, as well as the presentation by the President of Russia by the Order of Friendship Ilya Kabakov.

American economist Robert Rich (University of California in Berkeley) extremely negatively speaks about the intention of US President George Bush Jr. to “save the big top three” of the collapse bypassing Congress. The analyst sees in this "last Christmas gift" an attempt to leave the outgoing president to leave a good impression of the last weeks of his reign in the masses.

The Chita Regional Court at the request of the SCP of the Russian Federation extended until March 17 the ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the term of detention in the investigative isolator, news agencies report. Thus, the total term of detention of Khodorkovsky will be 25 months and 10 days.

The Russian economy is in crisis, and investors assess the probability of the state bankruptcy of Russia higher than Turkey, the Philippines and Vietnam, writes Financial Times Deutschland (translation by Inopressa ). The Standard & Poor's (S&P) agency has lowered the country's credit rating. The main reason for this step, it calls the rapid leakage of capital in recent months. The price of oil in the world irresistibly rolls down.