Scientists have found an effective remedy for autism. It turned out to be a long-known hormone The mice, born seven years ago in the laboratory of the American neurophysiologist James Winslow, looked completely normal. They were healthy and growing fast. The strange behavior of rodents made itself felt when the scientist placed the matured animals in a common cage. They had a hard time getting along.

Belka and Strelka help laughingly part with the socialist past The dogs Belka and Strelka, who once flew into space, simply had to become movie heroes. They were unique, they managed something, they became symbols. Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, like Jeeves and Wooster, like the hammer and sickle after all. It is surprising that the dogs-discoverers of space were awarded a full-length cartoon just now, on the 50th anniversary of their flight. Cartoon "Squirrel and Strelka.

The Ministry of Defense freezes the contract until the election of the Supreme Commander. Young men of military age will be responsible for this At the end of March, Colonel-General Vasily Smirnov will receive a golden sledgehammer as a gift. Such an anti-award for him was invented by the human rights coalition Citizen and Army.

People are investing everything they have accumulated over the years in the boycott of LUKOIL. If it were not for this accident or a human shield on the Moscow Ring Road, there would be another reason In the past, things were done slowly. Now quickly. A video appeared on YouTube last Tuesday morning. In it, motorist Stanislav Sutyagin was indignant at the impudence of traffic police inspectors who built a barrier of private cars on the Moscow ring road to catch criminals.

Natalia Portyakova The already rich political lexicon of Ukraine was replenished last week with a new term - "coalition of carcasses." So, at the suggestion of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, the media dubbed the union of the Party of Regions, the Lytvyn Bloc, the Communist Party and sixteen more now non-factional deputies who had previously broken away from the blocs of Tymoshenko herself and ex-president Viktor Yushchenko.

The state began to pay for old cars handed over for recycling. This is another way to support AvtoVAZ The state program for the recycling of cars older than 10 years started on March 8. The very next day, it became known about the arrest of a certain Mikhail Pankov in the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. An enterprising Siberian advertised in the newspaper about the acceptance of cars for recycling under the state program.

The Petr Nalich Musical Band will represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Oslo on May 25-29, with the song Lost and Forgotten. Petr Nalich is the first Russian musician who became famous thanks to the Internet. His song Gitar has collected almost 3 million views on YouTube. Now Nalich is one of the most sought-after performers at corporate parties. He was invited to support the Russian teams at the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics.

Diana Kulchitskaya Last Wednesday, the Moscow City Court upheld the arrest of the descendants of the famous German fairy tale writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. The great-great-granddaughter of the author of The Nutcracker, Elena Gofman, and her daughter ended up in a pre-trial detention center on charges of major fraud.

The Ministry of Defense wants to equip the army with force: the troops introduce physical training according to world standards The soldiers of the Soviet Army ran on wooden skis, which were attached to boots or felt boots with rubber bands. In the cold, rubber bands often burst. Since last year, semi-plastic skis have been issued to soldiers. They are fastened to the berets with a steel cable.

Stream gas project The South is practically dead. Gazprom loses control over the European gas market Last Tuesday, speaking at a conference in Houston, the head of the Italian oil and gas company ENI, Paolo Scaroni, proposed merging the Nabucco and South Stream gas pipeline projects. The top managers of Gazprom, having learned about this, were furious: until now, ENI has been Gazprom's partner in South Stream and the only true ally in the fight against the anti-Russian Nabucco.

Alexander Belyaev It's hard to even imagine how Madrid was waiting for this year's Champions League final. The dream team, which last summer was brought together for € 280 million by the new old president Florentino Perez, who lured Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, among others, to Madrid, according to all forecasts, was supposed to go to the “home” final - at the end, it was in the Spanish capital that the main club match of the year.

Daria Guseva On Friday, the Kuzbass deputies will approve Aman Tuleyev for the fourth governor's term. “I'm sure everything will be fine, the people here are happy,” says Sergei Cheremnov, Tuleyev's spokesman, adding that only formalities prevent the next inauguration date from being set. “Rather, the Tunguska meteorite will fall to the ground again than the deputies will vote against Tuleev,” laughs Nina Ostanina, first secretary of the Kemerovo regional committee of the Communist Party.