Egor, eight years old, asks the astronauts: "Do you think we can survive 2012?" Alexander Skvortsov: “Dear Yegor, for an 8-year-old boy this is a very serious question. I think his idea still belongs to your parents. Now they really say a lot and write about the “end of the world”, and they date this event in 2012. Why exactly? Indeed, in essence, there is no scientific evidence of this date. Apparently, as it often happens, one said: "2012!" - The rest picked up ...

The Moscow Arbitration Court today obliged the Rosneft NK to provide the minority shareholder Alexei Navalny Protocols for meetings of the board of directors for 2009. The judge also assigned expenses for a state fee of 4 thousand rubles to the company, Rapsei reports.

In the center of Pyatigorsk, a gas cylinder exploded in a cafe on Kirov Street. Five people were injured. According to the employees of the cafe, they felt a strong smell of methane and called the emergency service, but while the brigade was heading to the place of emergency, the explosion thundered, Lifenews reports citing law enforcement agencies of Pyatigorsk. Also, an explosive wave was damaged by 3 cars parked nearby. All operational services work at the scene.

To control the production and maintenance of universal electronic cards of citizens will be the Universal Electronic Map enterprise, created in June by Sberbank, banks Uralsib and Ak Bars, Kommersant writes. According to government plans, all financial flows between the budget and Russians will pass through these cards. At the end of last year, President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to create a national payment card system and organize the issuance of universal electronic cards.

Classical models of AvtoVAZ, with the beginning of the recycling program, were in short supply, reappeared at dealers, write Vedomosti . For the first time since the beginning of the year, they fell in price - for a month by 7-9% In the spring of 2010, the Vazovskaya “classic” arose exciting demand, which led to the rise in prices for these cars: in May-June, the retail cost of the Lada-21054 in Togliatti began at 180,000 rubles.

Irina Samakhova’s article “About scientists and donkeys” [1] is incredible popular on the Internet. It was originally written for the Greater Novosibirsk, it was reprinted in such polar editions as the liberal “Polit.ru” and the Stalinist “for science”, and even in the LJ-blog of a certain Maxim Kalashnikov, with the light hand of the presidential administration of a specialist in matters of scientific policy. Apparently, she answers with some deep string of public unconscious.

FIFA inspectors, who arrived to evaluate the readiness of Russian cities for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, visited St. Petersburg and, according to the chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, Vyacheslav Chazov, perceived the Northern capital extremely positively. “It is not fundamentally how it will look. FIFA inspectors understand that by 2018 it will be not just a stadium, but an arena with work experience, including the reception of champions League matches.

In Irkutsk, a court decision was made in relation to Anna Shavenkova - the daughter of the chairman of the Irkutsk election commission and consultant of the apparatus of the United Russia runner. “The court found Anna Shavenkova guilty and sentenced to three years in prison, serving sentences was sentenced in a colony-settlement.

The former military personnel of the Israeli army was strictly criticized for placing her photos with Palestinian prisoners on the Facebook social network. It is reported by the Air Force. Eden Aberdel, posting photos, called the album "Army: the best days of my life." There are 26 pictures in the album. On one of them, Eden is depicted with a smiling Rad with three prisoners with blindfolded eyes, and on her other face turned to one of them.

Fans of the Russian national football team are outraged by Oleg Deripaska’s demand for Norilsk Nickel to stop sponsoring the Russian team. According to Newsinfo.ru , the news that the owner of Rusal Oleg Deripaska opposed the sponsorship agreement between Norilsk Nickel and the Russian national football team caused a stormy discussion in the sports community. Numerous fans of the national team were not shy in the comments on the demand of one of the richest people in the country.

In the Donetsk branch of Sberbank, the manager of the department distributed loans to its friends, knowing that they were insolvent. This is written by Life News. The manager of the department Tatyana Sapilkina knew that the money would not be returned to the bank, but distributed more than 40 million rubles. According to investigators, for aiding in obtaining loans, the manager received a large interest from each transaction.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0”-a joint project of the information and analytical channel “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. The guest of the program is the dean of the faculty of applied political science, the leading researcher at the Laboratory of Political Studies of the State Unitary Enterprise, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Mark Yuryevich Urnov. You can hear us every Saturday after 23:00 on the wave of 97.6 FM.

P resident Dmitry Medvedev in a telephone conversation congratulated Oleg Tabakov on the 75th anniversary. According to the Kremlin press service, the president wished the anniversary of health and new creative achievements. The head of state noted the bright talent of Oleg Tabakov, his memorable roles in the cinema and theater, which enjoy unchanging love and success among the audience.

A suspect in espionage, an employee of the Romania Embassy in Russia, was declared Persona Non Grata and must leave the Russian territory within 48 hours. The Russian Foreign Ministry through diplomatic channels stated a protest of the Romanian side in connection with the activities of the Greek, incompatible with the status of a diplomat.

The current situation in the North Caucasus is 63% of the Levada Center responded, it remains the same as it was (55% of respondents) and will not change (53%). 15%are waiting for deteriorations, improvements - percent less. 22% say that stress is growing in the North Caucasus, 11% note the explosiveness of the situation, its "gradual reassurance" - 13%.