The only Russian orbital telescope Spectr-R has stopped working. This was announced by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev. According to the president, the mission of the Radio Astron project, within which the telescope was launched, ended, writes Medusa. The project was conceived back in the 70s of the XX century and was implemented in the early 2000s. In January, Russian scientists lost touch with the telescope.

Algeria President Abdelaziz Butflika, November 23, 2017 Algeria President Abdelaziz Buteflik will resign before his fourth mandate on April 28. This was announced the day before by the State Information Agency of Algeria APS with reference to the statement of the president’s office. Butflik made the decision to leave the post of head of state in conditions of mass protests in the country, which lasts more than a month.

US President Donald Trump, at a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Washington, said that Russia would cease to pose a threat to security for countries that are part of the North Atlantic Union. “We can get along with Russia,” Trump repeated the phrase, which he had previously said more than once, speaking of relations with Moscow. He added that he would like to "get along" with China and other countries.

A resident of Connecticut accused the former US Vice President Joe Biden of obscene behavior. The CNN channel noted that Biden allowed himself frivolousness, which can be characteristic only of the "father of the family", but not a politician during the performance of official duties. “There was no sexual connotation in this, but he grabbed my head, put his hand on my neck and pulled me to his nose to get lost,” 43-year-old Amy Lappos from Connecticut described the events of a ten-year ago.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan in recent days with difficulty holding heavy blows that pour in him from all sides, both inside his own country and abroad. At the last Sunday of the municipal elections, his batch of justice and development for the first time in a long time suffered a noticeable defeat, losing the opposition power in the largest cities, including Ankara and Istanbul.

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine supported the renaming of the Dnipropetrovsk region to the Sicheslav. This was reported by the Ukrainian News Agency with reference to a source in court. On Tuesday, the judges presented a conclusion according to which a change in the name of the region would not violate the provisions of the Basic Law. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine requested to consider the compliance of this initiative of the Constitution in February.

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The mirror of the spectr-r telescope in the open position The only Russian orbital telescope Spectr-R has stopped working. This was announced by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev. According to the president, the mission of the Radio Astron project, within which the telescope was launched, ended, writes Medusa. The project was conceived back in the 70s of the XX century and was implemented in the early 2000s.

On April 2, the day of the unity of the peoples of Russia and Belarus is celebrated. On this day in 1996, the presidents of Russia and Belarus Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Lukashenko signed an agreement "On the formation of the community of Russia and Belarus" in Moscow. According to many experts, this union is decorative. But recently, the prospects of the real unification of the two countries have increasingly discussed - up to the power option.

Evacuation from the Academy The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on attempting to kill two or more persons in a generally hazardous way in connection with an explosion at the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy in St. Petersburg. The report of the department says that on Tuesday, an explosion of an "unidentified bearing object" took place in one of the service premises of the Academy. As a result, four people were injured, their life is out of danger.

All you need to know early in the morning of April 2 Good morning! The era of Raviv was declared in Japan, but this is not what you thought about. The rave means “prosperity and harmony”, and in connection with which they suddenly covered Japan, is explained in an interview with orientalist Vasily Golovnin, the news after which you can no longer read. But they are: Ukrainian elections: after processing 97% of the ballots, Petro Poroshenko is approximately half the lags behind Vladimir Zelinsky.

The rapid growth of the share of elderly people leads to a sharp increase in the number of urban residents, which entails a variety of consequences , the UN Commission on Population and Development, whose annual session, takes place from April 1 to 5 in New York, says. Demographic processes associated with the growth of older people in many countries already lead to serious environmental loads, they are fraught with economic and social problems.

The government will cut off 140 hectares of land from the territory of the "moose island" reserve near the border of Moscow for the construction of a new road. A 19-kilometer segment of the understudy of the Shchelkovo highway will be built at this place. This was written by the newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to the draft resolution developed by the Ministry of Nature. The elk island is one of the first national parks in Russia. Most of the forest is located in Moscow, part in the region.

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