16:20 // 10.04.2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev intends to visit the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He announced this at a meeting with Russian cosmonauts and representatives of the rocket and space industry in the Kremlin on the eve of the Cosmonautics Day, ITAR-TASS reports.

12:59 // 10.04.2009 The Japanese government takes a new package of stimulating measures providing for the allocation of 15 trillion yen ($ 150 billion). This was announced by the Prime Minister of Japan Tarot ASO. According to him, the new project is aimed at ensuring the protection of the population with the prospect of subsequent well -being. This is the third stimulating package accepted by the Japanese government. The two previous ones provided for the release of 12 trillion yen.

An open competition for the best monument to the rock musician, the leader of the group “Kino” Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990) was announced in St. Petersburg .. An open competition for the best monument to the rock musician, the leader of the group “Kino” Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990) was declared in St. Petersburg. A press conference was devoted to this event, which held the journalist’s house with the participation of the jury, ITAR-TASS reports.

15:34 // 10.04.2009 The company "Russian Railways" partially changes the train schedule on the Moscow -St. Petersburg section from April 15 to May 27, 2009. This is done in connection with the preparation of this site for a high-speed movement, the company said in a statement, ITAR-TASS reports. Russian Railways implements the investment project "Organization of high-speed passenger trains on the Moscow-St. Petersburg section, Plim-Tass recalls.

19:37 // 10.04.2009 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorsky will visit Russia on a visit on May 5 and meet with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a source in the Polish foreign policy told RIA Novosti . “This should be a working meeting of two ministers. The main topic is the preparation of the meeting of the prime ministers of the two countries of Donald Tusk and Vladimir Putin in Poland,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

11:23 // 10.04.2009 Citizens of Russia and Ukraine will be able to enter Croatia without visas from May 1 to October 31. This decision was made by the Croatian government as part of a plan of action in the field of tourism adopted the day before, ITAR-TASS reports. Another step towards Russia was the resolution of the old generation Russian aircraft (for example, Tupolev brands), which are very popular on tourist charter flights, to land at Croatian airports.

13:50 // 10.04.2009 Russian stock indices are reduced against the backdrop of the low activity of bidders in connection with the weekend (passionate Friday) on Western exchanges, RIA Novovosti reports. At 13.00 Moscow time, the RTS index dropped by 0.5% - to the level of 806.85 points. The MICEX index decreased by this time by 0.63% to 916.87 points.

16:33 // 10.04.2009 The financing of the Russian missile and space industry in 2010-2011 will remain at the level of 2009, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with representatives of the missile and space industry in the Kremlin on the eve of the Cosmonautics Day, RIA Novosti reports. Anatoly Perminov, who took part in the meeting, addressed the president to maintain financing to the president.

16:25 // 10.04.2009 The Moscow authorities decided to increase the discount on drugs on the Muscovite social card by 2% to 7.5%, said Sergey Polyakov, deputy head of the health department of the capital, RIA Novosti reports.

12:27 // 10.04.2009 The authorities of the Irkutsk region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, together with the state corporation of Rostekhnology, created a airline that will specialize in passenger transportation in the regions of Siberia and the Far East, said the governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Esipovsky.

The decision on the demolition of the monument to the Western Western Western Western Protest War of the Liberty today, April 10, the deputies of the Lviv Regional Council supported the request from the All-Ukrainian Association Oleg Pankevich to dismantle the monument to the Soviet warrior warrior in the city of Strei.

13:37 // 10.04.2009 The head of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Viktor Kiryanov, speaking in the State Duma, announced a systemic crisis in ensuring road safety in Russia. In particular, he noted that the street road network does not correspond to the intensity of traffic flows, RIA Novosti reports.

12:40 // 10.04.2009 The opposition did not reach the protest, which she planned to hold at 11.00 Moscow time. The day before, supporters of the opposition via the Internet and mobile phones distributed messages with an appeal to support them and go to the manifestation in the city center and to the television center. As ITAR-TASS reports, at the moment the central area of the capital is almost empty.

17:37 // 10.04.2009 Participants in the rally on Rustaveli Avenue, requiring the resignation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, are divided by the decision of the organizers of the action, into three parts to start a share of disobedience, one of the leaders of the conservative party of Kakha Kukawa announced, News-Georgia agency reports.

14:52 // 10.04.2009 The ruble is moderately strengthened to the bivalyut basket, by the middle of the day (at 14.00 Moscow time), its cost dropped to 38.37 rubles against 38.40 rubles at the opening, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the MICEVB exchange data. At the closure of the trading on the eve of the cost of the bivalyut basket, it was 38.42 rubles.