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Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sent a telegram of condolences to the family of the prominent writer and poet Sergei Mikhalkov, in connection with his death.

I think, to anything in these bitter moments to list all the merits of Sergey Vladimirovich: his talent, his very humanity, innate intelligence, attention to people and the well-known and appreciated. The main thing – that even now, 70 years after the appearance of the famous Uncle Stepa – Every kid knows the lines of the immortal poem, and every mom always reads her story about the kiddies a good giant, — stated in a telegram of condolences, which quotes the Office of Media Relations Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. read more »

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou allow the Dalai Lama XIV to come to the island to support the victims of Typhoon Morakot, said in Thursday, August 27, Associated Press .

The Dalai Lama could visit Taiwan and help attain peace of the souls of the dead and pray for the recovery of survivors – said Ma.

On Wednesday, heads of several local municipalities asked the Dalai Lama requesting a visit. In a joint statement, the spiritual leader of Tibet invited to visit the island in the period from 31 August to 4 September, to support the Taiwanese people affected by the typhoon. The representative of the Dalai Lama said that he would in principle accepted the invitation.

Over the past 12 years the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan three times, said the agency, but in December 2008, Ma Ying-jeou has imposed a ban on the spiritual leader's visit . This move was estimated as a step forward in relations with the mainland. read more »

sponsor the campaign of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Hassan Nemazi arrested on charges of fraud. This was reported on the website of the newspaper Kommersant with reference to the American media.

Prosecutors accuse Nemaziin providing false information to obtain credit in the amount of 74 million dollars in Citibank. He was arrested on Sunday at New York airport during a flight check-in Rome.

Nemazi – Iranian American descent – led by investment holding Nemazee Capital. He became widely known thanks to funding from the U.S. Democratic Party. In 2008, he was one of the financial administrators of the presidential campaign, first Hillary Clinton and then Barack Obama, for which gathered more than 500 thousand dollars. After Barack Obama for president Nemazi personally donated 50 thousand dollars on his inauguration ceremony.

The indictment states that when you make a large loan financier, introduced bank records, according to which the assets of millions of dollars. read more »

U.S. residents urged to stop to go to Scotland and to abandon Scottish goods, including the Scotch – these calls are contained on the website Boycottscotland.com , reported on August 24 channel CNN.

The site, consisting of one page, offers a boycott of Scotland for the release of Libyan terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, serving a life sentence for the Lockerbie bombing. If the Scottish government does not annul the decision to release al-Megrahi and if the British Parliament will continue its policy of noninterference, we urge all Americans to express their protest and boycott the United Kingdom and Scotland, – said on its website.

Al – Megrahi was released on August 20 decision of the Minister of Justice of Scotland Makeskila Kenny (Kenny MacAskill). Terrorist is terminally ill, and the Minister explained his decision with compassion. read more »

Home U.S. shuttle Discovery, scheduled for today at 01:10 on the East Coast U.S. time (09:10 Moscow time), has been postponed.

cause of a faulty valve regulating the flow of fuel from the external fuel tank in the engine bay of the ship, ITAR-TASS.

fault was detected during the procedure of filling the external tank of the ship at the launch site at Cape Canaveral (Florida). Its volume reached 1.9 million liters. To fill it with liquid oxygen and hydrogen in a refrigerated state, requires three o'clock.

According to NASA spokesman Allard Byuttel, technicians are trying to find out what happened to the valve. It is possible that there was a temporary removable trouble. Otherwise, you need a lengthy procedure valve replacement.

At this time, the process of preparing for the start was terminated before the rise of seven astronauts on board Discovery.

On Tuesday, August 25, broke first start of the American shuttle. Then send a mission to the ISS prevented by adverse weather – the storm raged over the cosmodrome.

new attempt to launch the U.S. space shuttle in orbit will be held no earlier than Friday, August 28. Earlier NASA reminded of the need to launch the shuttle to the ISS until Monday, August 31. If you do not succeed, then obviously, the flight will have to wait until October. Schedule sending Discovery piling on the planned missile launches to the ISS from Japan and Russia, as well as interfere with other missions from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral.

At this time, waiting for shipment to the ISS: Commander Frederick Sturckow, pilot Kevin Ford specialists Patrick Forrester, Jose Hernandez, John Olivas, the only woman in the team, Nicole Stott and Swede Christer Fuglesang. He represents the European Space Agency (ESA). Stott will replace his colleague Tim Koper in an expanded permanent ISS crew. read more »