Interview with 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics Analysts' predictions came true last week. The Nobel Committee awarded the Physics Prize to Andrey Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester. Experts started talking about the fact that this could happen when immigrants from Russia received a new form of carbon - graphene. It is from it that the processors of the future will be made - fast and compact.

The Investigative Committee was separated from the prosecutor's office. But investigators will continue to work as before - for statistics On December 17, Moscow accountant Alexei Samsonov was returning home after a corporate party - along the deserted platform of the Yaroslavsky railway station.

The most high-profile criminal cases initiated against city officials over the past year and a half On July 23, 2009, Igor Gavrilov, head of the city advertising department of the city advertising and information department of the Moscow Advertising, Information and Design Committee, was charged under the fourth part of article 290 of the Criminal Code (“Receiving a bribe on a large scale”).

Everyone is accustomed to consider Yuri Luzhkov a business executive. This is very inaccurate. As soon as he stepped aside and Vladimir Resin came to the fore, it became clear: Luzhkov himself is an ideologist, politician, leader. Let the conservative and retrograde, but the leader. Modest business executives followed. It turned out that there is no Moscow team - at least as a group of people united by one idea.

The government has found a way to fight smoking: it is necessary that good cigarettes cost 100 rubles, and the cheapest - 70 rubles. Don't think about smuggling Last Tuesday at a government meeting discussed a new concept to combat smoking, at the same time, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked who among the members of the government smokes. Several hands went up in the hall, including Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

How to equip the Russian border Three years ago, the government realized that the country's borders, if locked, then rusty. There is no modern infrastructure, checkpoints across the state border may belong to private companies. As a result, a special Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border (Rosgranitsa) was created. There are many problems now.

The Internet is becoming a predictive tool. Now this fortune-telling ball is in the hands of special services and giants of the IT industry. When Right Round was first played on radio in 2009, American rapper Flo Rida was in trouble. Critics called his song shoddy and empty, and their devastating reviews foreshadowed failure.