Glenn Cowen and Zhuan Zedong during the visit of the Chinese athlete in the United States in 1972 Everything came together here - a large sporting event, oriental hospitality, Western openness, political connotation and ... accident. On April 4, 1971, a member of the US Table Tennis team Glenn Cowen during the World Cup in the Japanese city of Nagoy was late for his bus, and the Chinese were brought up, one of whom was presented by Cowen Souvenir - a picture on silk.

Astaroid 2012da14: 27700 kilometers from the ground

Repair of windows broken by an explosive wave from a meteorite fall, in the hospital number nine Chelyabinsk, February 2013 Housing and communal services of Chelyabinsk by night, when minus 17 degrees are expected, intend to close the broken windows of all residential buildings that have suffered from an explosive wave today as a result of a meteorite fall. This was announced by Interfax in the city administration. It is not possible to glaze all these windows again in such a short time.

On the website of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, data were published on the victims as a result of the fall of the meteorite: "According to the latest information of the operational headquarters, created on behalf of the governor Mikhail Yurevich, a meteorite that passed over the territory of the Chelyabinsk region fell into a pond 1 km from the city of Chebarkul.

The cover of the textbook "Native Speech" On top of barriers with Igor Pomerantsev After the collapse of the British Empire, the English language only strengthened his position in the world, but he had a strong rear: highly developed English -speaking countries. The Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up in 1918, and the outskirts of the former empire gradually forgot German. How did the collapse of the USSR affect the attitude to the Russian language abroad?

For the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum that opened on Friday, the subject of special pride of the city and the tenth in a row, the topic was determined to match the anniversary: “Russia is a map of change”. And the main participant in the event was Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The first thing that caught my eye on the day of his arrival was clean streets.

Russia - Pavlova Svetlana, Rferl Employee, Moscow Bureau, undated In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, the process of Mikhail Kosenko, a disabled person of the second group, who was charged with participation in the riots and the use of force against police officers during the unrest that occurred in Moscow last May 6, continued. Irina Khalip received a temporary permit to travel to Russia and the UK in Belarus.

He found in the archive his interview with Elena Georgievna Bonner - in 2003 she came to Prague in connection with the 50th anniversary of the RS, and then we recorded a great conversation in the studio. Now I’m listening: the specific details of which we spoke, left, and the public context, problems - everything remains, and even worsened. Interesting and instructive.

Our correspondent Natalya Dzhanpoladova transmits from the court hearing in the case of Kosenko: the witnesses and the victims have not yet passed, the prosecutor reads the conclusions of the forensic experts. The prosecutor on #Cynsenko reads the docks of the court-medal. Expertise with the examinations of the victims #6 : chem. Faces, otolaryngitis due to inhalation of chem.

Elena Bonner - one of the leaders of the Soviet dissident movement, the wife of Andrei Sakharov - remains a symbol of the struggle for human rights. In the Sakharov Center on Friday - a round table of Bonner memory, which died a year and a half ago in Boston. The topic of discussion is this: "Human rights and politics are two inconvenient things?" In the context of Elena Bonner, I talked with the chairman of the board of the historical and educational society "Memorial" Alexander Cherkasov .

Five days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

After half an hour, an action against the state Duma of the Russian Federation will begin against the building of the State Duma in the first reading of the bill tightening the rules of registration. Activists of the “Reading. Non” movement intend to conduct a series of single pickets under the slogan: “Freedom of movement?

The current explosion of a meteorite over the Urals, which led to injuries (mainly fragments of glasses knocked out by a shock wave) of several hundred people, panic on social networks and conflicting statements by representatives of the Ministry of Emergencies, from the point of view of physics - a rather common phenomenon.