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Hungry rats attack sleeping people 02/17/2005 18:06 A rat has recently attacked a little baby in the city of Tver, Central Russia. When the baby-girl was sleeping alone in the room, a rat attacked the child and started biting her furiously in the face. The little girl was hospitalized as a result of the incident - doctors of the local hospital managed to save the child's life, although the girl had to stay in the reanimation department of the hospital for quite a long time. The State Sanitary Service of the Tver region said that incidents of rat attacks were...

A BEHEADED BODY CAN TAKE 32 STEPS The abilities of the human brain are astounding and shocking sometimes Academician Natalia Bekhtereva said, “One may not say that there is a part of the human brain that was studied better than another part of it. The whole brain has been studied, but not very well, really. We have to find out much information about the peculiarities of the human brain. We know a lot about the organization of body movement. We know several basic principles of emotional and thinking processes. The function of the administration of the entire internal sphere of...

The thief, who nearly broke up Oleg Lyashko's registration as a candidate for the position of a deputy (Oleg Lyashko is the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Svoboda), was nabbed in Kiev. The guy was dressed in the uniform of the military school, he quickly grabbed the money from Lyashko's hands, when the editor was holding it as the registration pawn. The editor was personally chasing the thief, but he escaped. So there was nothing left, but to collect the money again. For the time being it is not known, if the detained guy is really a military cadet, nothing ...

The Moscow police are currently investigating one of the most weird accidents. A young man called Moscow’s rescue service and said he was inside a garbage truck. The guy told the rescuers he was a student of the Russian academy of physical culture, his name was Taras Shugayev. Taras was lucky to have a cell phone with him, so he explained how he managed to get inside the garbage truck. He said he got very drunk with his friends at night, and in the morning they decided to play a joke on him and put him inside a garbage bin. ...

PRAVDA.Ru has already mentioned that April 12is celebrated as the Space Exploration Day in Russia. Yuri Gagarin became a national hero as the first man in space -- the name Gagarin became a symbol of the era. The representatives of the presidential administration and Federation Council, the managers and veterans of the Russian space and rocket industrial branched laid wreaths on Yuri Gagarin’s grave today. March 27 was the day, when Russia commemorated a mournful day. Thirty-four years ago Yuri Gagarin tragically died at the age of 34. The newspaper Izvestia wrote that cosmonaut’s widow Valentina Gagarina refused to give...

A stranger, a common guy, who did not at all seem unusual, started breaking windows on the ground floor of the Arkhangelsk department of the Federal Security Bureau, which was situated on one of the central streets of the city. His “weapon” was stones and empty bottles that he was carrying in a plastic bag. That was something to see for passers-by, but the 52-year-old man shocked them all, when he started throwing mayonnaise in broken windows. This “act of terrorism” lasted for about two minutes -- the guy was seized by police. After some 30 minutes of the “investigation,”...