The American Association of Soundwriting Companies (RIAA) published a report in which it emphasizes that in Russia and China, the volume of sales of legal music is sharply falling due to the giant piracy growing.

Giant stones from outdoor space - this is not as fun as it seemed © Google This morning, on the main page of Google, Dudl flaunted, on which the second letter G “ran away” from a flying asteroid. Soon Dudl was removed . “Dudl, dedicated to the rapprochement of the asteroid 2012 DA14 with the Earth, was removed from the main page of Google throughout the world.

The head of Aeroflot Vitaly Savelyev gave an interview to Izvestia, in which he spoke about the immediate plans of the company. From the text of the conversation, we learn that the company is really going to introduce black passenger lists and make a full -fledged Russian low -cost airline. Slon chose important fragments of this conversation. About robs on board: The problem is relevant not only for Aeroflot. Every year, thousands of incidents with destructive air passengers are recorded.

In December 2011, then President Medvedev, addressing his final message to parliament, promised to reform the electoral system used in the Duma elections. In the last year’s message - already from President Putin - the promised reform finally gained contours. It turned out that the new system would not be so new. Most likely, we have to vote almost according to the same rules as before the transition to the polls exclusively on party lists. A mixed system used from 1993 to 2003 will be restored.

Is the protection of human rights by political activity? Does participation in political activity prevent the struggle for human rights? Does the entry into official advisory structures give new opportunities to the human rights activist? If so, under what conditions? Can authority within the framework of the state system provide the human rights activist with additional resources to fulfill his mission? Is this related to the political regime of the country, its state structure?

The head of the Ural Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies Yuri Naryshkin openly described his attitude to the fall of the meteorite and to the conclusions of scientists. Bonus: The most obscene video about meteorite Yuri Naryshkin © mchs.gov.ru Today, after an open selector meeting with the Minister of Emergency Situations, the head of the Ural Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies Yuri Naryshkin spoke with the correspondent of the portal Znak.com .

The Moscow Exchange completed the IPO, investors were found, everything is in order. The book of applications for the purchase of shares even had to be re -signed twice: the exchange raised about $ 1 billion against the initially planned $ 500 million. This is the most significant public placement on the Russian exchange after 2007 (then the placement of Polymetal OJSC amounted to $ 630 million).

The inhabitants of Chelyabinsk, I think, will now pay attention to information about the Earth flying by the Earth, since on the morning of February 15 a meteorite fell on the city. As a result of his fall , the wall of the warehouse at the zinc factory collapsed , at least four people were injured. The forces of the Ministry of Emergencies control the situation and do not expect the subsequent loss of meteorites in a given area. Radiation background is normal.

Norwegian scientists came up with how to use mobile applications to conduct experiments on people. Instead of looking for those who want to take part in laboratory tests, researchers from the Bergen University developed an EPP that allows anyone who wants to go on their own on their own smartphone. The application is called IDICHOTIC and emulates the so -called dichotic test .

On the evening of Friday February 15, a small asteroid under the DA14 number is once again getting closer to the ground. Not a single celestial body that astronomers can notice from afar, has yet passed so close to the surface of the planet: at the closest point, the distance will be 27,600 km. This is closer than geostationary satellites fly for communication and navigation (about 36 thousand km).

State Duma deputy, deputy chairman of the Science Committee Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR) complained today to parliamentary microphones. It turns out that they are unsuitable for the performances of high -growth speakers. On this occasion, he even wrote a letter to the head of the apparatus of the lower house, Jakhan Pollyeva. The deputy complains that he and his tall colleagues are “forced to bow” during his performances, but, of course, few people will like this.

- Russian Railways believes that it will be logical to unite the networks of high -speed railways of Russia and China. This was announced at the Economic Forum in Krasnoyarsk, the vice president of the company Alexander Misharin. True, Russia still has neither a network nor certain lines of high -speed railway (meaning the highlighted highways).

The guide for Russian anti -Americanism (AKA "Iron Curtain 2.0") is published by The Economist . “If America did not exist, Russia would have to come up with it. In some way, this has already happened: at first it was just a dream, now it’s just a nightmare. No other country occupies such a huge place in the Russian soul. For the Kremlin ideologists, the very idea of ​​Russia's independence means freedom from the influence of America, ”the editors begins.

The IPO of the largest exchange in Russia was held along the lower border of the previously declared price range. The price of the primary placement of shares in the Moscow Exchange amounted to 55 rubles per share. Initially declared IPO price range, within the framework of 55–63 rubles per share on Thursday, was narrowed to 55–57 rubles.

The publishing house "Institute for General Humanitarian Research" recently published a book by the French philosopher-Marxist, professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-8 Daniel Bensid "Marx. Instructions for use ”(translation by Dmitry Kralechkin). The book is dashingly illustrated by cartoonist Sharb. Bensid represents a German philosopher not at all as a “moldy founder of Marxism-Leninism”, but rather as our contemporary with fashionable ideas.