The Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (JIHT RAS, Moscow) and the Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics of the M. Planck Society (Munich, Germany) have been conducting joint research under the “Plasma Crystal” program with experiments on board the Russian segment of the ISS since 2001 . actively participate in this work.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has developed a system for evaluating the correction of convicts. This was announced by the director of the FSIN, Alexander Reimer, reports ITAR-TASS . According to him, this system will either improve the detention regime of the prisoner, recommend his parole, or vice versa, tighten the regime of content. Today, the convict may ask for parole (UDO) when there is a conclusion that he does not need re-education in the conditions that are contained.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, in connection with the increasing clashes between nationalists, ordered that transport prosecutors organize coordination between transport police and FSB units for “conducting operational-preventive and verification measures in order to suppress and prevent illegal actions of extremist groups and individuals, as well as ensuring the safety of the functioning of transport”, reports, reports . The press service of the department.

Hierarchs and clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church can receive the right to put forward their candidates in the elections, including the elections to the State Duma, but only in the case of "extreme church necessity." Such a decision was made at today's meeting of the Presidium of the Inter -Council presence of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was held by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.

The criminal case of excess of official powers was instituted against the deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet Farit Zinnatullin, ITAR-TASS reports. The case was also instituted against the head of the technical department of the fleet of the 1st rank Vasily Shevchenko and the former general director of the 178 Shipyard Viktor Dymov.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, preparations for the launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the European communications satellite KA-SAT (KA-SAT) are continuing, the press service of the M.V. Khrunichev GKNPC reports. Specialists of the Center for Khrunichev, the manufacturer of the Proton launch vehicle, and Astrium (Astrium, the manufacturer of the spacecraft), continued today, December 17, 2010, and the assembly of the cosmic head of the launch vehicle.

The government not only will not revise the decision to increase insurance premiums, but will also increase the tax burden on high salaries, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Since 2011, for most companies, the insurance premium rate will grow from 26 to 34%, entrepreneurs using a simplified system have threatened a more radical increase in load - now they pay only 14%.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced 45 minor pupils of the Kirovgrad colony for participating in the riot three years ago, ITAR-TASS reports. Young criminals received different deadlines, the largest received the instigator of the rebellion - 12 years. The convicts will have to pay 20 million rubles as a compensation for the damage caused by the colony. Recall that the riot in the colony flashed in October 2007.

Yesterday, in Polytechnic, Georgy Starostin talked about how a single classification of languages ​​is created. The lecture was amazing, the lecturer was endlessly sweet, and it is not surprising that a great many people instead of running shopping in search of New Year's gifts, gathered to listen to him. It is amazing that most of them were not young and dusty girls, but severe Orthodox men.

Elena Kolyadina received the Russian Booker Prize 2010 for her novel Flower Cross. Probably everyone who is at least a little interested in the modern literary process has read a couple of angry or mocking reviews of this work, and the unfortunate word “aphedron” is now most likely known to anyone who has the Internet. Watching such unanimous persecution of a novel that personally did not evoke anything in me except disgusted laughter, I even want to come to its defense.

Dmitry Medvedev proposes to fight interethnic clashes, working with youth and using the latest system control systems, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. At a meeting in Ryazan, the president positively appreciated the work of law enforcement agencies and said that the prosecutor’s case is now: “Everyone needs to be installed, investigated and planted.” However, Medvedev believes to work, not only prosecutors, but also police and governors should work.

Until there is a proper legal assessment of the fight that happened on Thursday in the Verkhovna Rada, the opposition will not return to the parliament hall. This was stated by the representative of "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" Anatoly Gritsenko.

Rebekah Frumkin In the ZhZL series in 2009, Igor Vishnevetsky’s book about Sergey Prokofiev was published. Volume of 700 pages could well claim the Big Book Award: this book is not just large, but very large , moreover, it was written tightly and not so that it is very popular. It is not just difficult to write in generally understanding about music - it seems to me that this is impossible - of course, if you are addressed to ordinary educated listeners.

The head of the Department of Health of the Ivanovo Region, Irina Atroshenko, named the name and surname of the doctor who reported yesterday to Vladimir Putin during his "television recovery" with the Russians about the "window dressing", arranged in one Ivanovo hospitals for the arrival of the prime minister.

Members of the Russian youth team in freestyle wrestling were detained on Wednesday during unrest in Moscow, the Kommersant newspaper writes. As one of the participants in the following participants told the publication, OMON fighters detained students of the State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism Askhab Abdulkarimov, Muslim Gabibov and Arthur Akhmedovboy near the Park Culture metro station when they beat the 25-year-old Muscovite, engineer of Paritri Zimin LLC.