A fragment of the screenshot of the site of the exhibition “Gulag, Soviet forced labor camps and the struggle for freedom”. In the lower part, the portrait of Varlam Shalamov. In the past 10-15 years, museums are not the main innovation in museum business, representing not exhibits, but experience, museums of emotional empathy, peculiar theaters museums, orchestral feelings of the visitor.

In Moscow, a meeting of foreign ministers of the Big Eight countries Alexander Grushko called on PACE to strengthen ties between European countries, oppositionists are ready to block the work of the Verkhovna Rada within 30 days

Romania President Trajan Basescu called the proposal of the Prime Minister of the country to withdraw the Romanian troops from Iraq unacceptable. According to Basesku, Romania must fulfill its international obligations. Earlier, the Prime Minister of Romania Kalin Popescu-Terichan asked the Ministry of Defense to prepare an offer to withdraw troops from Iraq in order to avoid losses among military personnel and reduce the costs of maintaining a military contingent.

In the Bryansk region, rescuers have not yet been able to get to the place of disaster of the Su-25 military aircraft, which broke up on Wednesday. The fate of the pilot is still unknown. It was previously assumed that he died. The preliminary version of what happened is a sudden deterioration in his well -being. In the Pskov region on Wednesday evening, when taking off, the Su-24 Navy bomber was damaged. The pilot instructor and trainee on board were not injured. Details are not reported.

The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Gogin takes part. Andrey Shary: Russian liberals continue political maneuvering. In Moscow, a meeting of the Council of the Political Party "Union of Right Forces" was held. The conversation was about unification with other partners in order to create a new organization of a liberal type.

At the Georgian-Abkhaz border, several dozen Georgian refugees gathered, announcing the intention to return to Abkhazia. They arrived in the Georgian city of Zugdidi from Adjara after they were evicted from hotels where they lived for the past 14 years. Investors who bought hotels in Batumi offered refugees to 7 thousand dollars per room, but not everyone agreed with the amount of compensation. During eviction in clashes with the police, dozens of people were injured.

The foreign ministers of the Big Eight countries called on the authorities of Israel and the Palestinian autonomy to return to negotiations and do everything possible to defuse the situation in the Middle Eastern region. At a meeting in Moscow, ministers discussed the problem of Iran, expressing the hope that Tehran would give a specific answer to international proposals to resolve the crisis around his nuclear program.

The Russian concern “Citronics”, the country's largest scientific and production complex in the field of microelectronics and electronic technology, controlled by the financial corporation “System”, signed an agreement on the acquisition of 51% of the Greek telecommunication holding Intracom Telecom, the parties said in a joint statement of the parties. The amount of the transaction will be $ 120 million.

Russian woman Maria Sharapova continues a successful performance at the Wimbledon tournament. On Thursday, she defeated the American Ashley Harkleroad - 6: 2, 6: 2.

At Cape Canveral (Florida), the pre -sample countdown of the time began - the launch of the American spacecraft "Discovery" is scheduled for Saturday. "Shattl" will deliver a crew of seven people to the international space station, including the German astronaut Thomas Ruter, and cargo.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, a criminal case has been instituted against the head of the Vaninsky customs. He is accused of abuse of power. The lawsuit was filed by two residents of the village of Vanino, to whom the head of the customs repaired the obstacles when registering a car imported from Japan, trying to write off his debt. At the same time, a fine was taken from the victims for storing a car in a warehouse.

In the boutique of Stella McCartney in London, awards were awarded to celebrities supporting the organization of Peta, which defends animal rights. Among the laureates are actresses Sadie Frost, Gillian Anderson and Sir Roger Moore, who participated in the ceremony of the video from Monaco. The tennis player Martin Navvatilova received a reward for the fight against fast food restaurants.

A group of Chinese researchers, led by Juanian Tang, from the Dalian University of Technology , found that people who speak different languages use different zones of the brain to solve the same arithmetic problems. Scientists with the help of tomograph have studied brain activity in two groups of subjects. The first group consisted of people whose native language was English, while the second was from native speakers of the Chinese language.

Guest in the studio - Andrei Ronzhin - head of the group of speech computer science of the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation. The theme of the conversation is when the computer will communicate with a person on an equal footing, using speech and why it is needed.