Russia slid to second place on the list of world’s largest sellers of arms giving way to the United States of America. Russia covered 24 percent of the world arms market from 2005 to 2009, whereas the USA’s percentage is higher. Russia’s defense export giant Rosoboronexport currently ships arms to over 70 countries of the world. Germany, France and Britain follow Russia on the list of world’s largest exporters of conventional arms today

If something in the country goes wrong, his authority grows. If everything is fine, people do not think about the “chief of the nations.” It is easy to understand the veterans, who died in fierce battles for Motherland and Stalin. Stalin is their wartime glory. However, there are young people in Russia who defend Stalin too. Their Stalinism is much more dangerous. Only naive Stalinists believe that Stalin means law and order in everything

The number of dollar billionaires in the world has exceeded 1,000 people. The richest man in the world today is Carlos Slim, a Mexican media tycoon, Forbes magazine wrote this week. Slim’s fortune is evaluated at $53.5 billion. The total capital of 10 richest people in the world has grown to $342 billion over one year

According to the 2010 Forbes magazine ranking of the largest fortunes in the world, Mexico's Carlos Slim Helu overthrew the American Bill Gates for the status of "the richest man on earth." That is, since 1994, the first time that Bill Gates lost the glamour of the richest man in the world.

The human cloning is formally banned in two countries possessing state-of-the-art technologies in the field of molecular biology – the USA and Britain. Therapeutic cloning was allowed in the USA several days after Barack Obama’s inauguration. It goes about the development of human embryos, the development of which stops during the 14^th day of their life. The embryo is then used as a source of stem cells

News networks across the world gave prime time to a non-event, a piece of no-news, nonsense, a rumour. How is it possible that the spoof piece of idiocy conjuring up Cold War hysteria of the type “The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” made the international, national and even regional news prime time in the USA? Easy! If it’s against Russia, it’s newsworthy!

A shocking incident took place in the KHL hockey match between Avtomobilist Ekaterinburg and Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the city of Ekaterinburg. A drunk fan assaulted the goalkeeper of Ufa’s team at the 17^th minute of the game. The assaulter was identified as a 36-year-old manager of a commercial firm of Ekaterinburg.