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LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN (17/JUN/2013.) - Edward Snowden, responsible for the leaks of the secret surveillance programs in the U.S. currently in hiding in Hong Kong, told the British newspaper "The Guardian" that the government of his country can’t "stop the truth."

"All I can say now is that the U.S. government will not be able to cover imprisoning or murdering me. The truth is coming out and you can’t stop" said the former employee of the CIA and the U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA) in an interview session to the British newspaper.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (13/JUN/2013). - The world population will reach 10 000 900 million in 2100, against the current seven thousand 200 million, mainly due to the high birth rate in the poorest countries of Africa, announced at the UN Thursday as it released new projections.

The new estimate of global population by 2100 indicates an increase of 800 million compared with the previous figure provided by the UN two years ago, said on Thursday the director of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the organization John Wilmoth.

HONG KONG, CHINA (12/JUN/2013.) - The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei criticized today the US wiretapping program, revealed in internet by a former CIA agent, and warned that this could lead Beijing to increase its control.

"The United States dominates the highest technologies, is the leader. Many standards on information, on ethics, on legislation are established by these leaders," said the artist, to the South China Morning Post on Wednesday.

Russia and Chile should broaden close cooperation in all respects year by year. This is the opinion of Michail Orlovets, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Chile. In his interview to our journal he told us about political, trade, economic, and cultural aspects of cooperation, and also gave useful advice to Russian entrepreneurs.

In the financial world occurrences which have not found their expression in fundamental scientific works yet regularly appear and persist for a long time. Let’s consider the most interesting and fundamental ones.

The tragic events that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011 led to the most serious nuclear accident in the last 25 years and raised the question of trust in nuclear power all over the world. On April 4 of the current year analysts of the Swiss bank UBS evaluated the significance of the so-called “Fukushima disaster”: “At Fukushima, four reactors have been out of control for weeks, casting doubt on whether even an advanced economy can master nuclear safety”. Swiss experts believe that “this accident seriously damaged confidence in nuclear power”.