The British Ministry of Defense closed the UFO study department, which has existed since 1950 and cost 50 thousand pounds a year, Daily Telegraph said. During his essence, this department submitted 12 thousand reports on unidentified flying objects, 135 of them last year.

“Conversation with Vladimir Putin. Continuation ”is the main political event of the country. At the same time, there was practically no public reaction to him. The duty political scientists attended duty at duty (the “image of the father of the native” commented on the “Vedomosti” usually alive Alexander Kynev). The deputies reacted sluggishly. Communist Soloviev expectedly said that Putin mentioned United Russia six times, the United Russia was praised by the President.

The bailiffs of the Bardymsky district of the Perm Territory, in order to recover the debt, about 67 thousand rubles arrested geese, reports Uralpolit.Ru . The arrest is imposed on 53 living goose and 20 carcasses of geese belonging to a resident. It is reported that the owner of the geese owed her fellow villager. The bailiffs found that the debtor woman is not officially employed anywhere, and the property that could be charged with is not registered for her.

At the end of October, the Zircon’s research group conducted polls by the population of the Bui district of the Kostroma region, as well as the Lyubimsky district of the Yaroslavl region and the Gryazovets district of the Vologda region (these areas are adjacent to the Bui district) in order to clarify the relationship of the central nuclear power plant in the Buysky district.

In connection with the expiration of December 5, the Russian-American agreement on reducing strategic offensive weapons (STARTS), American inspectors leave the Votkinsk plant in Udmurtia, where they make strategic missiles Topol-M and Bulava. The group of American inspectors includes 20 people who controlled the production of Russian strategic missiles. Now Moscow and Washington are continuing negotiations on the new agreement (START-2).

“Conversation with Vladimr Putin. Continuation” is the main political event of the country. At the same time, there was practically no public reaction to it. The same political scientists on duty expressed their opinions (“the image of one’s own father” was commented on by the usually lively Alexander Kynev to Vedomosti). The deputies reacted rather sluggishly.

After forced emigration in 1922, many Russian scientists, writers and poets could not adapt to new living conditions and realize their scientific and creative potential. Many were forced to abandon creativity and engage in unpleasant work in order to ensure their existence. One of them was historian Alexander Kizvetter (1866-1933).

Tatyana Shcherbina Immediately after a heavy sigh, “God forbid us to live in an era of change,” begins to fever: “Changes, we are waiting for change!”. Unbearable is "every day the same thing." And schoolchildren wait, do not wait for change, and adults during the time of stagnation-lack of change-changed husbands/wives, intrigued, drank-ducks, searched for blat, stood in lines, at worst, rearranged furniture in the apartment. They dreamed of abundance and the West and cursed a scoop.

Moscow and Washington will continue consultations under a new agreement on reducing strategic offensive weapons (START-2) and after December 5. Now in Geneva, the eighth of the round of negotiations is already ongoing. The Russian Foreign Ministry says that the parties are close to completing work, but it is possible that consultations will go next week.

The intergovernmental group of climate change experts (MGEIK) will conduct its investigation in connection with the scandal around the publication of the official correspondence of British scientists who were accused of falsifying scientific data on climate, BBC reports. The scandal erupted two weeks ago, after the electronic correspondence of researchers from the study of the climate of the University of East England was posted on the Internet.

On December 3, the winner of the Student Booker Prize was announced at the Booker Luncheon. Students and graduate students of Russian universities took part in a competition for the best essay about one of the modern Russian novels included in the “long list” of the Russian Booker Prize 2009. The essays were also nominations for novels to be included in the “long list” of the Student Booker Prize 2009.

The meeting of the Russian Council at the level of ministers gave a "good start" to the new relations of Russia and NATO. This was stated by the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen following a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of foreign ministers, Prime-Tass reports. “We agreed to begin the first joint analysis of security threats in history, which are facing all 29 CPN countries in the 21st century,” he emphasized.

On December 3, 2009, as part of the Non/Fiction Book Fair, a press conference was held by the Enlightener Award , at which its organizers recalled the results of 2009 and possible changes in 2010. The co -chair, one of the authors of the idea of ​​the Enlightener Award, TV presenter Alexander Arkhangelsky noted that it was created, first of all, for those who would come to science tomorrow. “The main laureate of our award is the reader,” he emphasized.

At the XI International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction, the winners of the Awards Andrei Bely are announced. - Nomination "Poetry": Nikolai Kononov (Petersburg). Pilot. M.: Argo-Risk; Book Review, 2009 - The nomination "Prose": Anatoly Barsah (Petersburg). Communion of the past vision. M.: Science / Russian Gulliver, 2009 - Nomination "Humanitarian Research": Natalia Autonomova (Moscow). Open structure: Jacobson - Bakhtin - Lotman - Gasparov. M.: Rosspen, 2009.

Expensible debts of banks on loans that they issued to companies, the population and other banks, by November 1 reached 1 trillion rubles, or 5.1% of the loan portfolio. Such data are given by the Central Bank. During the month, the delay increased by 4.3%, the Vedomosti notes. Since the beginning of the year, expired loans have become more than 582 billion rubles, or 2.4 times. At the same time, loan portfolios of banks continue to contract.