Moscow City Duma deputies declared a modest income despite rich real estate Metropolitan voters can now roughly imagine the conditions in which city deputies live. On the official website of the Moscow City Duma, in the dossier on deputies of the fifth convocation, an additional link appeared to “information on income and property” of city legislators for 2009.

The Bank of Russia reported for last year The Bank of Russia increased its profit by 2.6 times last year, according to its 2009 report submitted to the State Duma. The Central Bank also increased the share of the dollar in its assets. According to experts, shocks in the foreign exchange market and a significant drop in the euro exchange rate will not force the Central Bank to radically change the structure of foreign exchange reserves.

A new technology for growing internal organs has been developed Tissue engineering is one of the most promising areas in the creation of artificial tissues and organs. The main obstacle to growing substitutes in the laboratory is that cells tend to create flat structures, while doctors want three-dimensional ones. Scientists at the Harvard Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have figured out how to control this process.

Scientists have found that it was not just warm fur coats that saved the mammoth from the frost. These extinct animals, it turns out, had special blood that supplied their body with oxygen at any, including very low, temperatures. Scientists came to this conclusion after studying DNA obtained from the remains of an animal 43 thousand years old. The ancestors of mammoths appeared in equatorial Africa about 7 million years ago. More than a million years ago, elephants migrated to the north.

“School for Fools” at the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art Anna Koblova has been dancing in the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Theater for nine years, but, rebelling against the routine of the classics, she finds additional ways to realize her capabilities. She participated many times in the New Choreography Workshops, which were held at the Bolshoi Theater when Alexei Ratmansky directed the ballet.

Latvia sought to condemn Kononov as an occupier and achieved its goal The Latvian authorities regarded the decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of former Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov as proof of the correctness of the previous arguments of the Latvian Themis, who accused the veteran of shooting nine civilians from the village of Malye Bati during the war.

The oil market remembered fundamental factors During yesterday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the price of a barrel of American light oil WTI dropped below $70. The rollback of quotes to the minimum values ​​over the past five months has already caused serious concerns among raw material suppliers.

Between the European cyclone and the Arctic anticyclone, the crest of which covers the northern regions of the European territory of Russia, atmospheric fronts have intensified. On Tuesday in the central regions of Russia there will be short-term rains in places, thunderstorms, strong in some areas, with thunderstorms wind up to 20 m/s, temperature +20...+27оC.

Boston beat Orlando Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. Eastern Conference. Final. "Orlando" - "Boston" - 88:92. The series score is 0--1. Boston won the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, the guests' advantage was 16 points, and even the hosts' desperate push in the last segment of the match (30:18) did not bring them success. The key to Celtic's victory was the effective play of Ray Allen, who scored 25 points, and Paul Pearce (22).

Gennady Onishchenko calls for the removal of all Russian children from Tajikistan Russian children permanently residing in Tajikistan or visiting this country began to return to their homeland. As Gennady Onishchenko, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor), reported yesterday, over the past 24 hours, 4,253 people, including 55 children, came to Russia from Tajikistan, 24 of them with Russian citizenship.

Russian national team players promised to talk to journalists The Russian national hockey team has one match left at the preliminary stage against the Finnish team. Perhaps this will be a match for first place in the group. There is also an option in which the first match of the playoffs will have to play with the Canadian team. It was not possible to get any comments about the game with the Danish team.

Greece is looking for those responsible for the crisis Yesterday, the single European currency dropped to a four-year low. The euro exchange rate fell by 0.3%, to $1.23. On the Russian market, the dollar exchange rate increased by 64 kopecks, to 30.69 rubles. Tensions between eurozone countries are intensifying, making the prospects for the single currency increasingly bleak. However, stock markets were recovering yesterday after the collapse at the end of last week.

South Korea moved towards democracy through bloodshed in Gwangju Thirty years ago, on May 18, 1980, large-scale youth protests began in the South Korean city of Gwangju. The harshness of the actions of the authoritarian regime provoked new popular uprisings. After that, the army entered the city, and people were crushed by tanks - more than two thousand people died in a few days.

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board (SB) of the Russian Chess Federation, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich made an open statement in which the nomination of Anatoly Karpov for the post of head of the International Chess Federation (elections will take place in September in Khanty-Mansiysk) is recognized as illegitimate.

The head of Deutsche Bank was accused of sabotage The head of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, has become another victim of the crisis in Greece. The banker was hit by a wave of indignation from the upper levels of political power, in both countries. The other day, commenting on the international aid package for Athens on a talk show on the German public television channel ZDF, he suggested that Greece may not be able to pay its debts.