Из всех искусств важнейшим для России является литература. Вчера выпускник Йельской школы драмы Эндрю Полсон представил бизнес-план проекта Sup-Fabrik, основанный на сказке "Каша из топора". Те, кто ждал "Романа с камнем", были жестоко обломаны.

The Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE) and the company Nigma.ru Ltd are prepared to support the development of the intellectual search engine Nigma.ru, elaborated by students and postgraduates from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In total the project requires 9m roubles over a period of two years. FASIE will contribute half of the sum (4.5 million roubles), for the creation of new products. The remaining half will be provided by Nigma.ru Ltd. The Nigma.ru website is already displaying a call for programmers and system administrators to be involved in the project. Candidates are promised flexible hours and lunches at the MSU canteen.

The AntiSpam Working Group under UNESCO’s Information For All programme has tested the "cleanliness" of the administrators of the mail servers Pochta.ru, Mail.Ru, Mail.Yandex.ru, Mail.Rambler.ru and Novaya Pochta. Mailboxes were set up in the course of the testing with deactivated antispam filtration, while sections enabling the gating of partner mailboxes were excluded from the user agreement.

The lack of spam in these mailboxes disproved the "conspiracy theory", according to which operatives of the mail services supply address databases to spammers. The only doubt was raised by the Mail.ru user agreement, which includes the section, "Mail.ru mail messages that contain organizational and technical information on Mail.ru are not deemed to be spam". The project working group has recommended that users direct more attention to forums and other sites, where their postal addresses may find themselves in open access, and to the fight with mail viruses.

"Our company has on numerous occasions confirmed its active social policy and civil position. Today the Board of Directors of Garanthost.ru has decided to halt the provision of our services to citizens of Georgia and from cooperating with organizations from this country, in light of the strong anti-Russian policy being applied", reads a statement from hosting-provider Garanthost.ru. Meantime, hosting specialist Petr Didenko believes that Garanthost.ru itself does not hold a licence to provide hosting services. The law prohibits licensed operators from disconnecting users without significant reason. Therefore, users should really not deal with dodgy providers, where their website may stop working for any dreamed-up reason.