In the continuation of the seminar of the Russian venture company on the problems of innovation in the energy sector, we talked with the deputy of the State Duma, adviser to the President of the Skolkovo Foundation for International Development and Commercialization of Technologies, the chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of Innovation Development Ilya Ponomarev . What areas of innovation in the energy sector do you consider the most promising?

Anomally warm and raw weather will last on the New Year holidays and Christmas holidays in the central regions of the European part of Russia, the Russian Hydrometeorological Center reports. “The last days of December and the beginning of January in the center of European Russia will continue the period of soft winter weather. Its character will continue to be determined by the predominant removal of warm and wet air masses, which are forming over the Atlantic or the Mediterranean Sea.

The head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov arrived at the shipyard in the village of Roslyakovo, Murmansk Region, where the fire extinguishing a fire on the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine continues, the RIA Novosti website with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense reports. On the morning of Friday, a group of officers of the Ministry of Defense arrived at the plant, along with Makarov.

No matter how we imagine a historical path-as a movement along a separate railway branch (by analogy with M. Weber metaphor) or as a sharp stop in a state of deep freezing (after K.N. Leontyev)-in the case of Russia, there is a temptation to introduce it to a special one, somehow not like the whole of Europe.

The investigating authorities check the circumstances of the death of the convicted person in one of the investigative insulators of St. Petersburg, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports . On December 29, the body of a 43-year-old convicted person without external signs of violent death was discovered in the cell of the SIZO-4 UFSIN in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Currently, investigators establish the circumstances in which the prisoner died.

This year, for the first time in 19 years, in Japan, no sentence was executed on the highest degree of punishment. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the local NHK television channel. The Ministry of Justice of Japan reported that in 2011 the judicial authorities decided to execute 21 people, but not a single sentence was executed for the first time in 19 years.

Evgeny Shevchuk, who won the presidential election of the self -proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR), took the oath on Friday and officially took office, Interfax reports.

Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri claims that the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko is really involved in improving the quality of Georgian wine. “Until the embargo has announced to us by Russia, we exported 40 million bottles of wine to the Russian market and made a profit of up to $ 45 million. Last year, Georgia exported up to 15 million bottles of wine and made a profit of $ 60 million.

Science and market. 2 We publish the second part of the transcript of the forum “Science and the market. Marketing and development trends of publishers of popular science literature in the framework of the Popular Science project-the performance of the chief editor of the journal Book Industry Elena Solovyova “Scientific and popular book in Russia: from space to nanotechnology. Dynamics of demand and sentences. " The action took place on November 29, 2011 as part of the Popular Science project.

Human rights activists are outraged by the sentence of the wife of one of the leaders of the Osipova Osipova’s opposition movement that accused ten years of the colony of one of the leaders of the Osipova’s opposition movement, RIA Novosti website reports. “I can say one thing - she will not sit for ten years. They themselves arranged another “heroine” ... We will seek a review until they let her go, ”said Lyudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinsky group.

Grigory Revzin Polit.ru continues to publish performances at expert seminars on the development of a Moscow strategy. Seminars are held in conjunction with the Russian Academy of the National Economy and the State Service under the President of the Russian Federation. A conversation dedicated to the problems of tourism development is continued by the art critic, special correspondent of the Kommersant Publishing House Grigory Revzin .

Boris Kupriyanov We publish the sixth part of the transcript of the forum “Science and the market. Marketing and development trends of publishers of popular science literature, which took place as part of the Popular Science project-a performance by the co-founder of the phanser store, the organizer of the Tsiolkovsky project Boris Kupriyanov “ Literature of the Scientific and Popular Direction: Danger of Fashion or a long-term trend?” .

Science and market. 4 We publish a fourth part of the transcript of the forum “Science and the market. Marketing and development trends of publishers of popular science literature in the framework of the Popular Science project - the performance of the head of the department “Chemistry. Magazines ”, vice president of the Wiley-Vch publishing house, Germany, Dr. Eve Ville“ Features of the publication of popular science literature and periodicals ”.

Polit.ru continues to publish performances at expert seminars on the development of a Moscow strategy. Seminars are held in conjunction with the Russian Academy of the National Economy and the State Service under the President of the Russian Federation.

Science and market. 3 We publish the third part of the transcript of the forum “Science and the market. Marketing and development trends of publishers of popular science literature in the framework of the Popular Science project-the performance of a leading specialist in public relations AST-Press Maxim Petrov “Modern Russian festivals of science as a tool for promoting popular science literature”. The action took place on November 29, 2011 as part of the Popular Science project.