The head of the OSCE Commission on the issues of national minorities, Knut Vollebek, expressed regret due to the fact that the leadership of South Ossetia refused him to visit the republic and get acquainted with the situation on the spot. The State Minister of Reintegration of Georgia, Timur Jacobashvili, after a meeting with Mr.

Anthropologists from the University of Florida (University of Florida) nominated a version about the reasons for the disappearance of representatives of the Soup civilization. This South American people, who was engaged in agriculture in the Soup Valley in the territory of modern Peru, had mastered the construction of pyramids, the creation of irrigation systems for gardens and vegetable farms, fishing, and fishing. Suddenly, the soup disappeared about 3600 years ago.

In Kosovo, 11 months after the proclamation of independence, their own security forces were formed. As our Balkan correspondent Ayia Kuga reports, the Kosovo security forces were created at exactly midnight. It is stipulated that in the active composition of the new power structure there will be two and a half thousand military personnel, and in the reserve - eight hundred.

Irina Lagunina: Many of us are sure that they make decisions completely independently, considering conformism only a feature of the character of individuals. Nevertheless, experiments conducted by researchers from the University of Rotterdam Erasmus show that the tendency to conformism is widespread among people and animals, because it has a certain physiological basis. This was told by Olga Orlova, one of the authors of the experiments, neurobiologist Vasily Klyucharev.

DS: The microphone has your ds and “jazz at large” .. the melody that you just heard, the melody of the callsign “jazz at large”, was written by the tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson, who is 80 years old this week. On the cover of the newly released January issue of Daunbite, Golson looks 60, no more. John McDonof's article about him begins like this: “If you got to 80 and are still leading, you are lucky.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Kirill Kobrin: the Party of the “right business”, created on the basis of the self -emerging “Union of Right Forces”, “Civil Power” and the Democratic Party of Russia, submitted documents for registration to the Ministry of Justice. 56 thousand people who have entered the "right business" are reported.

Russian gas began to go through Ukraine to Europe. This was reported by oil companies in Bulgaria, Bosnia, Hungary of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Austria. The supply of Russian gas to Ukraine and Europe is resumed in accordance with a direct contract signed on Monday between Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine. Thus, price disagreements between Moscow and Kiev were settled, because of which a number of European countries were left without Russian gas for two weeks.

Australian scientists from the research laboratory of the Monash University of Micophysics (Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory At Australia's Monash University) have developed a micro -zone that is able to move through the human circulatory system. The robot is introduced into the vein with the help of a catheter and further advanced in the vessels autonomously. At the same time, the doctor is remotely controlled by the microcorobot. The robot is equipped with a piezoelectric engine.

In the north of Baghdad, four people were killed in an explosion of a mined car and ten were injured. The police said that the attack of the Islamic University of Islamic, Ziyada Al -Anni, was attacked. The rector himself was not injured. The militants in Iraq have repeatedly attacked scientists, doctors, journalists and politicians - due to their active work in religious groups or political parties.

The presidential administration does not touch thousands of signatures in defense of Bakhmina, nor the dedication of her supporters The State Duma adopted amendments to the Law “On Mass Media”, which regulate the provision of information about the activities of state authorities to journalists. To clarify the essence of these amendments Radio Liberty asked the director of the Moscow Institute of Information Law Andrei Richter.

Maria Gaidar with lawyer Alexander Glushenkov The Tagan court of Moscow, which today discussed the lawsuit of the self -growing ATP, refused the applicants, Maria Gaidar and the Moscow branch of the Union of Right Forces, and the satisfaction of their complaint. “To refuse the claims,” said Judge Mikhail Kazakov. The Moscow branch of the ATP and Maria Gaidar was asked to recognize the decision of the Right Forces Congress on November 15, illegal self -destruction.

The film by an American screenwriter, actor and director Michael Imperioli “Hunger Ghosts” will open on Wednesday the 38th International Film Festival in Rotterdam. There will be 43 world and 35 European premieres of full -length films. Among the Russian films at the festival are “one and a half rooms, or a sentimental trip to their homeland” by Andrei Khrzhanovsky and “Morphiy” by Alexei Balabanov, “Alexander” Alexander Sokurov, “Dawn/Sunset” by Vitaly Mansky and “Rerberg and Tarkovsky.

Irina Lagunina: Two days the topic of the murder of Stanislav Markelova occupied the first line in the top-jandex. Today, the search engine at the request of Markelov gives about 5 thousand links. The reaction to the monstrous murder of a lawyer and journalist shows how deep the split is inside Russian society. A significant part of the responses is the glee of the Nazis about the death of two people killed in the back of the head. A review of the blogosphere was prepared by Andrei Babitsky.

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