White nanopowder: the investigation is over. The organizational withdrawals have not yet been made...

From the editorial office:

For a whole week , most of the media reported about the poisoning of the deputy . the director of the Moscow Institute of Crystallography with a mysterious white powder as an undoubted fact. Including with heartbreaking details like the fact that there is no such institute in Novosibirsk - so it's definitely poison!

However, Svetlana Acorn's death turned out to be caused by a completely different reason, and experts recognized the powder as absolutely harmless…

I wonder from which ivory tower a researcher at the Novosibirsk Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics collapsed when he thought of pouring the fruits of his labors in the form of white powder directly into envelopes sent to hundreds of colleagues? And after all, all these letters have reached the addressees!

And what will they send us next time?

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, a leading researcher at the Novosibirsk Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 55-year-old Sergey Bardakhanov never thought that the whole of Russia would talk about him. And even on this occasion: the police suspected a scientist of murdering a metropolitan scientist! Moreover, in such a sophisticated way: allegedly Sergey sent to the Moscow Institute of Crystallography an envelope with an article about nanotechnology and a bag with some white powder.

On May 8 , the correspondence from Siberia was opened by the deputy . the director of the Institute Svetlana Zheludeva, and already on May 13 she was taken away in an ambulance in a coma. Doctors diagnosed viral hepatitis B. A few days later, the woman died in the hospital. The special services have started checking – what if this hepatitis has arrived from Siberia?

Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia joined the investigation: after all, not only Acorn had contact with the envelope. But yesterday Rospotrebnadzor published the results of the examination of the "white powder", which completely removed the blame from the Novosibirsk scientist:

"This powder has nothing to do with the woman's death. It is completely safe for humans.

Most likely, Svetlana Zheludeva caught the disease in Austria. It was after the visit to this country that the woman felt ill, but did not go to the doctors.

The sender of the ill-fated letter himself told KP about what was in the envelope:

– The powder is the result of my nanotechnology development. However, what exactly is a scientific secret. I will only say that this is specially processed quartz sand, which can be used in industry – for example, in cosmetics. It makes the color richer. So, I sent it along with my article to hundreds of leading scientists of the country and Europe, so that they would give their review of the development. Everyone is alive and well!

– Did it ever occur to you that you would scare people? Everyone remembers the stories about poisoned letters, the "anthrax" being sent out...

– I wasn't hiding when I sent the letter with the powder... I wrote my return address... – Sergey Bardakhanov throws up his hands.

The scientist Sergey Bardakhanov did not even suspect that he would become famous throughout Russia not for his ideas, but for a letter with white powder.

Portal "Eternal youth" www.vechnayamolodost.ru20.05.2008