The Russian scientific and educational field consists, as it seems, of three independent layers: futuristic, normative and, in the terminology of the observation S.G. Cordon, the layer "actually." The latter interests few people, because a priori is bad and needs cardinal reform. Waving his hand on a dull reality, experts draw the desired future, and lawmakers try to create a regulatory framework for it. Now the Fastsight fashion has gone.

The mayor of London Boris Johnson offended during the press priest at the local shipyard the inhabitants of Bristol, where he came to support his comrade in the conservative party before the election, writes Daily Mail . The angry residents of the city tried to get out of themselves the head of the capital. During Johnson’s conversation with reporters, a young man approached him and “showed his nose” to the mayor. The latter was not at a loss and repeated his gesture.

The heads of "Agora" Pavel Chikov and the director of the Voting Association Lilia Shibanova told Polit.ru about the inclusion of candidates in the expanded Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia. “ Oh , to live that the HRC will improve the human rights position in the country is not entirely adequate.

reported on Thursday, The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested the head of the engineering and technical department of the State Duma, Andrei Vostrov, who is suspected of trading positions in the apparatus of the lower house of parliament, RIA Novosti citing court press secretary Alexander Berezin. According to him, by court decision, Vostrov was arrested for two months, until December 31 of this year.

American actor George Clooney is a distant relative of the American President Abraham Lincoln. Their kinship was calculated by Ancestry.com, which is engaged in genealogical research, reports on Thursday Reuters . It is reported that the president and star of the film “11 Friends of Oshen” who lived in the 19th century are relatives in the fifth knee. Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks was the half -sister of the ancestor Clooney Mary Ann Sperm.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov categorically denies the information that Putin has health problems. Meanwhile, Vedomosti in the article “Why Putin doesn’t fly” (No. 208, dated November 1) compiled a list of Putin’s visits postponed to December, previously planned in October - November. The CIS summit in Ashgabat will take place on December 5, although before Tuesday, on the website of the executive committee, the preliminary date of the summit was listed on November 1-2.

The State Duma wants to eliminate intra -sneakers in the country. The author of the bill deputy from the LDPR, Yaroslav Nilov, proposes to supplement the law "on communication" with the amendment, according to which the payment of telephone formations between mobile phones within the territory of Russia is carried out at a single tariff, regardless of the location of both the defiant and the receiving subscriber within the territory of the Russian Federation.

Hurricane "Sandy" caused the death of 74 people. However, rescuers believe that the number of dead can increase as water disappears, the analysis of blockages, including from fallen trees, Fox News reports on Thursday. New York suffered the most strongly from the elements. According to the local Ny 1 television channel, 32 residents of the city were killed as a result of the disaster. This was announced to journalists by the police.

The midfielder of the St. Petersburg Zenit Igor Denisov, expelled from the main composition of the team for an ultimatical demand to increase his salary, met with the leadership of the club and recognized his wrong. In his official statement, he expressed a desire to continue the performance for Zenit. “It took me time to realize what happened.

The Basmanny Court extended the arrest of the first detainee in the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 19-year-old Alexander Dukhanina until March 6, 2012, the activist of the “Committee of May 6” Alexander Ivanov reports on Twitter . The term of her arrest expired on November 6.

Russian Anton Alferov, who is a former member of the Cirque du Soleil circus, died in the hospital of the Mexican city of Acapulco after being in the local KPZ, N Ovedades a Capulco reports. The 35-year-old man died due to a heavy traumatic brain injury, which he received in a police station. According to the police, Alferov, who organized his own show Extreme Cirque, was taken to the department on Friday, October 26, on charges of penetration of a private villa.

Former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko was released from Terminal Island prison in California, writes Ukrainian Pravda on Thursday. It is reported that Lazarenko released 4:00 local time (15:00 in Moscow), although this was supposed to happen four hours later. Recall that Pavel Lazarenko was detained in 1999 by the United States after he asked for political asylum in this country.

The FRGO final report on October 14, the election summed up, among others, and the disappointing result of the election Internet activity: the Internet is still not a competitor to “offline” agitation tools. The fund itself is sure that the heyday of the network as a tool is just around the corner. Independent political scientists are much more pessive.

The ex-deputy of the State Duma from “Fair Russia” Gennady Gudov, in an interview with the Polit.ru correspondent, confirmed that the Prosecutor General’s Office did not find violations in his activity and recognized the refusal to initiate criminal cases against him. “The Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case on those charges that sounded to me. And the prosecutor's office confirmed the competence of the actions of the Investigative Committee.

The Ministry of Education and Science according to the results of monitoring compiled a list of universities of the Central Federal District with signs of ineffective work. This was announced by the chairman of the Russian Student Union Artem Khromov, reports the RIA Novosti website.