The death of Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 from polonium-210 once again revived discussions about possible ways of using radioactive materials for criminal purposes. A report presented on the website of the Los Alamos National Laboratory [1] , based on an analysis of data from open sources, talks about similar cases in the past.

Don't tell anyone. All you saw - forget. O.M. Someone needs to scream. I'M WITH. Pavel Kvartalnov, Cand. Biol. sciences, Moscow State University There are stories that cannot be forgotten about, although it is very difficult to return to them. I know what I should talk about a military conflict that occurred in Tajikistan in the summer of 2012. Must, since this is also the experience of a field biologist.

Rebekah Frumkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin found that there was no life in Vandikova Madonna , flattered, however, Olga Larina by the very possibility of comparison ... Flemish artists, contemporaries of Van Dyck, however, were quite temperamental to bring life to the image of inanimate objects. Let's see what objects the Flemings considered worthy to “transfer them to the canvas” .

On the public television of Russia, the Hamburg account program has appeared, which is conducted by the scientific journalist Olga Orlova . We publish an abbreviated version of her conversation with Japanese Alexander Meshcheryakov , dedicated to the Japanese economic miracle. Photo by R. Kerimov Alexander Nikolaevich Meshcheryakov - Russian historian, Japanese, writer. Born in 1951. In 1973 he graduated from the Institute of Asian and Africa.

The newspaper of the TRV-hunger turned to two leading experts in the field of education with a request to comment on the dignity and restrictions of freedom of choice and variability in education. Reliance on diversity Sergey Zair-Bek, Vedas. scientific. sore.

WITH . Sorokina : But still, do you think that you have lost what is called irrevocable? YU . Pivovarov : Everyone talks about books. In the meantime, the main thing is not to lose the institute. Because, after all, books can be revived and revived in one way or another. The main thing is not to lose the institute, because it is a constantly operating conveyor belt. He can't stop.

Alexander Andreev, Boinc.ru website For the third time, Russian specialists working in the field of high-performance computing completed a year in the beautiful old city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, where at the end of 2014 at the A.K. software institute Ailamazyana RAS [1] passed the third national supercomputer forum [2] . I happened to participate in the work of both this and last year, the second forum (for it, see [3] ). There is something to compare with.

Dear editors ! Dear colleagues! I congratulate you all on the recent day of Russian science. Let our service are difficult for the people (especially now!) And at first glance, as if, as if, is not visible, but the success of our labors guarantees a bright and safe future of the country. Conversely, our failures and failures will condemn Russia to the economic crisis, survival and make it defenseless before external aggression.

“When did you first come to INION? What was he for you? What are its main advantages and disadvantages? — we turned to a number of scientists with these and other questions. We publish the responses received.

Boris Zhuikov The scientific aspects of the Litvinenko case for the TRV-hunger analyzed the doct. chem. sciences, head. laboratory of the radioisotope complex of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Zhuikov . See also : “Polonium-210 is a very convenient substance for hidden poisoning” (interview with B. Zhuykov on “Polit.ru”) Passions around the mysterious death of Alexander Litvinenko do not subside. Finally, public hearings in his case began in London.

“Trinity option is science” and members of the Redsovet newspaper Boris Stern, Mikhail Gelfand and Sergey Popov became nominees for a new award established by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Among the candidates for the award, our authors are Alexander Markov and Vladimir Surdin, as well as the projects that we wrote about more than once, - the scientific cafe Eureka (Novosibirsk) and Public Lectures Polit.ru.

Maxim Borisov, scientific journalist In the wide Russian rental, Zvyagintsevsky “Leviathan” was released on February 5, but managed to do the noise long before that. “Thank you” I must say no long and purely formal St.

Announcement of the issue 451 degrees Fahrenheit Askold Ivanchik , Andrey Korbut , Inna Cooper , Ivan Kurilla and Vladimir Nikolaev about the past, present and future of INION - pp. 1-3 A small step into the big sky Story about the project “CanSat in Russia” - pp. 4-5 Why was polonium needed? Radiochemist Boris Zhuikov on the scientific aspects of the Litvinenko case - pp.

L. Borkin. The city of Shimla (India), September 28, 2011. Photo by A. Andreev This publication of Leo Borkin , cand. Biol. sciences, head of the Center for the Himalayan Scientific Research of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists, we open a series of articles on the Himalayas. Our newspaper became an information partner of SPBSU on the Himalayan project.

The teachers of the Trinity Gymnasium named after the project of the Cansat in Russia . N.V. Pushkova Tatyana Biryukova and Elena Soldatova , whom we, together with their students , met at the Institute of Cosmic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2011, our school got acquainted with the Cansat championship.