Gennady Onishchenko has no complaints about Estonian products Estonian frozen fish will not suffer the same fate as Latvian sprats in the near future - Rospotrebnadzor is not going to impose sanctions against products from the neighboring republic.

Human psychology is probably one of the most amazing things in our world. Sometimes it amazes much more than the mind-blowing and complex mysteries of the structure of the Universe. For example, how can we understand why parents name their children after the greatest tragedies in the history of our planet?

In the Altai Territory, enthusiasts from the Cosmopoisk organization managed to find several fragments that may turn out to be pieces of a meteorite that fell in the area four months ago. Yesterday, expedition coordinator Vadim Chernobrov told RIA Novosti that searchers even managed to discover the supposed place where the heavenly stone fell.

The Moscow World Championship ended with the victory of the Canadian team. In the final match, the Maple Leaves beat our opponent in the semifinals, Finland - 4:2. The Russians were content with “bronze”. The former head coach of our national team, Vladimir Plushev, who also successfully worked with reserve teams, shared his opinion about the results of the tournament with Vremya Novostei correspondent Sergei CHUEV. - In my opinion, we all expected a different result from our team.

Russia is ready to accept Iran and the United States into the CSTO Exactly fifteen years ago, on May 15, 1992, on the ruins of the Soviet Union, nine states (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan , Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia) signed the Collective Security Treaty in Tashkent . In essence, an agreement was adopted on the formation of a Eurasian collective security system. This is how the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) came into being.

Agroprom is ready to spend more on training specialists than metallurgists The first competition among institutions of primary and secondary vocational education, which ended yesterday, showed that employers and officials consider vocational schools for metallurgists to be the most important for the economy, and sponsors give preference to schools that train mid-level specialists for agriculture.

Opera Bastille in Paris staged “The Makropoulos Remedy” by Leos Janacek Czech composer Leoš Janáček came into vogue almost a century after his death. The recent premiere of “Jenufa” at the Mariinsky Theater, which was a month ahead of the premiere of “The Means of Makropoulos” at the Paris Opera Bastille, are only episodes of the Janacek boom that has swept the world opera space. The hidden reasons for the current “renaissance” are clear.

Sometimes a scientific discovery in biology can be made not only in places where almost no human has ever set foot, but also in the center of a huge city. In the soil of Los Angeles, American microbiologists were able to discover several new species of bacteria that can survive in difficult conditions. The most useful property of these microbes for humans turned out to be their ability to feed on heavy hydrocarbons - bitumen and natural asphalt.

RAO UES stops the construction of the second power unit of the Kaliningrad CHPP-2 The head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais, told reporters yesterday that he had decided to stop the construction of the second power unit of the Kaliningrad CHPP-2 , which is estimated at 11-13 billion rubles. “I am ready to put it into operation ( ed. ) in 22 months starting tomorrow, but at the same time I have decided not to start construction,” Interfax quotes him.

Bats actually fly very differently from birds. Quite differently - expending much more energy, they flap their wings differently, which perhaps explains their exceptional maneuverability. Swedish scientist Anders Hedenström from Lund University used a wind tunnel to look at the flight of these ancient mammals in detail. Artificial fog was added to the oncoming wind. This gave Hedenström the opportunity to see all the swirls and turbulence in the air created by the mouse's wings.

Following India, China has also entered the race in the space transport services market. At midnight on Monday, the Long March 3-B launch vehicle launched from the Xichang Cosmodrome (Sichuan Province in the southwest of the country). It launched the Nigerian telecommunications satellite NIGCOMSAT-1 into geostationary orbit. This is the first commercial launch by a Chinese rocket. Moreover, the device itself was created using technologies developed in China.

Co-owner of FinPoint company entered into the capital of Ijladabank with former directors of Orgresbank Ukrainian specialist in bank purchase and sale transactions Sergei Budkin is preparing to expand his business to Russia. Mr. Budkin is a co-owner and managing partner of FinPoint LLC Investment. In Ukraine, in less than three years, he organized transactions to purchase 16 banks, most of which were sold to foreign investors.

Ten people died as a result of arson in the Orenburg region In the city of Orsk, Orenburg region, identification of victims of a terrible fire in one of the local bars, which claimed the lives of at least ten people, will continue today. Local intelligence services managed to find out little about the circumstances of the tragedy yesterday.

Kazuo Ishiguro. Don't let me go. Translation from English Leonid Motylev. M.: Eksmo, 2007. The sixth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Briton of Japanese origin, Booker winner, student of Malcolm Bradbury. “Never Let Me Go” reached the finals of the prestigious The Man Booker Prize in 2005, but lost in the last round to John Banville’s work. He lost for one simple reason - the jury members admitted that Ishiguro’s novel, for all its merits, left an extremely unpleasant aftertaste.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told Italian Prime Minister Roman Prodi by phone yesterday that he has “no health problems,” ending rumors that he was hospitalized after allegedly suffering a massive stroke on May 13. The first information about the illness of 64-year-old Gaddafi, who has headed Libya since 1969, was given yesterday morning by a small Palestinian news agency, which reported that he was in a coma, and his children were coming to his bedside.