On Thursday, early in the morning, Turkmen state television reported that in the 66th year of his life, the great Turkmenbashi, Saparmurat Niyazov, died of heart arrest. After that, all television channels stopped broadcasting and according to all programs you can observe only a mourning frame against the background of the state flag. Earlier it was known that Mr. Niyazov had heart problems. In 1997, in Germany, the Turkmen leader performed an operation on aorto -hunkering bypass.

The media should not mention the nationality of criminals and suspects. This decision was made today by the Moscow City Duma. According to Echo of Moscow, the MGD approved in the first reading the relevant legislative initiative, which will then be entered into the State Duma, since it is about the federal level, and not just about Moscow. The initiators of the amendments to the Law on the Media became the "United Russia".

The death of Saparmurat Niyazov was not unexpected. They prepared for it, and prepared for a long time. And the point is not that the owner of Turkmenistan did not die today, but supposedly three days ago. The Cardiocenter Niyazov has not left for a month. His death was a matter of time. And the time is short. Niyazov’s death revealed several problems. Firstly, this is gas. Turkmenistan is considered the second country in the post -Soviet space in terms of gas reserves.

Of course, when it will be reliably proven that the Americans did not fly to the moon, the world will turn over. But this will happen, apparently, very not for long. And not very noticeable. Because we will already be quite ready for the fact that we have not been furnished, but set up. And this will not be so important anymore, because from the moment of falsification of the “turning point of world history” it will pass enough time for the main participants in the events.

In the Russian Federation, a successful launch of the intercontinental missile RS-20V ("governor") has been made. According to the Service of Information and Public Relations of the Strategic Missile Forces, the launch was made today at 11:20 Moscow time from the positional area of ​​the former compliance in the Orenburg region. Training combat blocks of missiles with a given accuracy struck conditional targets at the landfill of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Putin congratulated Saakashvili on his birthday Vera Tumanova Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on the occasion of his birthday. This was reported by the press service of the head of the Russian state. "Accept congratulations on your birthday. I wish you and your family good health and prosperity," the Russian President says. Mikhail Saakashvili on Wednesday is 39 years old.

Lev Danovsky. Cast. - St. Petersburg. "Petersburg - XXI century", 2005. On December 30, 2006, it will turn exactly two years since the day the St. Petersburg poet Lev Danovsky (Aizenstat) passed away. He left at the age of 57, having managed to release two collections of poems - "Dotted line" (1998) and "Relief" (2004); Another - final - a collection called "cast" was compiled by friends and released posthumously. Is it a lot or little? How to see.

Artistic culture of Austria-Hungary: the art of a multinational empire. 1867-1918 / Otv. Ed. N.M. Vagapova, E.K. Vincogradova. - St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2005. 286 p.; [34 p.] Ill. The closer the sunset of the empire, the brighter its paint. The death of Austria-Hungary was accompanied by such a heyday of art that you involuntarily think: is it not to provoke such decays more often in order to release as much artistic energy as possible?

At the end of 2006, publications appeared in Russian and foreign media about the danger of a new Cold War between Russia and the USA. Among them there are original thoughts about growing contradictions in the field of energy. There are banal agites explaining the deterioration of Russian-American relations "coagulation of democratic" freedoms in the Russian Federation.

The book of Alexander Ilichevsky (1) "Bottle of Klein" , published in the series "Russian Gulliver" (M., "Science", 2005), opens up to us the original and large -scale writer's world. The novel "House in Meshchera" is a collection of dreams falling into each other and dreaming of realities (not so much, however, picturesque as linguistic).

The government implemented only half of the events planned in 2006, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref. "Of the 67 measures provided for, only 33 were performed, that is, exactly half," Gref said on Thursday at a government meeting. He explained this by the fact that the plan of the government this year was very saturated.

In Soviet times, the “personnel” of the speakers and high -ranking ideologists often partially coincided - large nomenclature workers of the level of Alexander Yakovlev or Vadim Zlagodin (one of the few consultants who rose to the hardware and political hierarchy of the position of Zamzov, and then the first zamvava of the international department) turned out to be simultaneously authors and, in their own way, customers Long party -government "arias" - speeches, reports, programs, articles.

The presidential election of Turkmenistan should be held no later than March 2007. In accordance with the 60th article of the Constitution of the country, until the election of the new president, his powers are transferred to the chairman of the Mejlis (parliament). On Thursday, it became known about the death of President Saparmurat Niyazov, who has been permanently ruled in Turkmenistan for more than twenty years.