Sergey Guriev . Photo: PhotoxPress.ru Information agencies yesterday announced the resignation of Sergey Guriev from the post of rector of the Russian Economic School. Perhaps Guriev can completely leave Russia.

Politician Mark Feigin and lawyer Nikolai Polozov. Photo: Anton Tushin / Ridus.ru The ex-advocates of Pussy Riot, which promoted the process to the world level last summer, Mark Feigin and Nikolai Polozov now have taken up the protection of the nationalist Ilya Goryachev , accused of involvement in political murders.

Today, the Council of People's Commissars approved the law proposed by the Government to test minors to use narcotic substances. It is assumed that the innovation will protect the younger generation from drug addiction. The law introduces the concept of “early detection of illegal (non -medical) consumption of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances” and determines how “early detection” should be valid for education and healthcare.

The lessons of nature science Dzhanin Benyus founder and president of Biomimicry Institute, biologist, innovation consultant #Like-Top# The main ideologist of biomimimicry Dzhanin Benyus about how the place of historical managers are occupied by biologists Interview: Peter Birger Ecologist and specialist in English literature, Dzhanin Benyus, in the late 80s, realized that the wild nature is smarter than man and ideologically richer than any artistic or scientific book.

Apparently, Vladimir Fortov won the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This is evidenced by preliminary voting results, RIA Novosti reports. Voting took place today at closed doors at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to real academicians, corresponding members and delegates from academic institutions included in the RAS structure took part in it.

After Alexei Chesnakov left the United Russia party last week, leaving the post of secretary of the Presidium of the Secretary General, Kommersant announced a series of 12 articles from the former apparatchik, in which he promised to talk about the work of EP and its problems. Today, the first of the promised texts was published in the newspaper (though it is not in the electronic version for some reason, but it is available on the website “Actual Comments” ).

The organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD) has published an updated forecast of the state of the participating countries. The most attention in the report is paid to crisis Europe: economic activity is still falling there, reflecting the policy of “tightening the belts”. The experts revised the forecast for the most indicators for the current year.

The IAC/Interactive media company plans to sell Newsweek owned by it. The group acquired the publication in 2010 as part of an agreement with Sidney Harman investor, who also bought a Washington Post newspaper a little earlier. Harman then paid one dollar for Newsweek, but took on all the debt obligations of the publication. Similarly, the magazine resell the magazine now, writes Variety. True, they do not give official comments on this score.

Partner of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Foundation Mary Mary Micker published her next report on the main Internet trees. Miker is considered one of the most influential business analysts of the planet. In the mid-90s, she opened her eyes to investors for the prospects of the World Wide Web, actually giving the goom of the bomber of the dotcomes: therefore, today she is called the “queen Internet” and carefully listens to her observations.

The court of the city of Kirov recognized the wiretap of the subscriber numbers of Alexei Navalny legal, and all the evidence received with its help - acceptable.

Meg Whitman. Photo: Reuters / STEPHEN LAM In recent years, HP has not been lucky. Yesterday, the unattainable leader of the computer industry was on the periphery of trends. The business of the company was held on personal computers. But they began to give up their positions, and HP did not manage to compensate for losses in the market of mobile devices. It came to the point that the corporation had already begun to write off the accounts.

Why is it wrong that globally unresolved issues in physics remained only in extreme areas - in the micromy of elementary particles or in the macromir of the Universe. Self -organization: how to create a device that can create a kind? Why do not listen to physics all this and what kind of custody can be from humanity? You can register for a lecture here .

Prime Minister Medvedev today at a meeting with the participants of the federal program “Training and retraining of reserves of managerial personnel” called on to speak correctly. In the Russian language, a strange trend has recently been outlined: instead of the word “last” they use the word “extreme”, he noted. “The word“ extreme ”in Russian has a completely different meaning. Do not be afraid of the word "last". We have some strange philological trend. All are only extreme.

Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / EPA / ITAR-TASS As often happens, it all started with a banal household. One 69-year-old man, who lived in the emigrant suburb of Stockholm Husbu , decided to figure out his apartment with a woman, or a friend, or anyone else. What prompted him to this is difficult to say: maybe the salt in the house ended, maybe the answer was not the same, but maybe more.

He went to the press conference of the Organizing Committee of the ONF Congress to ITAR-TASS. The ONF organizing committee leads (nominally) a cheerful, continuously smiling Andrei Bocharov, Hero of Russia. In the first Chechen commanded the reconnaissance of paratroopers. Then he was a deputy of the State Duma. He did not get to the new Duma, in 2012 he worked as a federal inspector in the Bryansk region. Now successfully fit into the ONF organizing committee.