18:54 // 04/13/2009 In Cyprus, a decrease in tourist flow was recorded. According to the statistical service published today, in March, the number of guests who visited the Republic of Cyprus decreased by 16.4% compared to the same month a year ago. In February, the vision rate of the island decreased by 19.3%. As in the previous few months, the tourist flow is most reduced due to the inhabitants of the UK, who traditionally make up almost half of all vacationers in Cyprus.

12:46 // 04/13/2009 The Central Election Commission of Moldova decided on April 15 to recalculate the results of the parliamentary elections that the opposition disputed, the member of the Republican CEC, Valentin Byzant, told RIA Novosti . The decision to recalculate the votes of the Constitutional Court of Moldova made at the request of the chairman of the Party of the Communists, the president of the country Vladimir Voronin, RIA Novosti reports. Source: gzt.ru

10:21 // 04/13/2009 The dollar rate decreased to the ruble at the opening of foreign exchange trading at the MICEX for 6 kopecks - up to 33.51 rubles, RIA Novosti reports. The first dollar transaction “Tomorrow” accounted at 33.51 rubles, the exchange rate of the American currency was at the opening of 33.51-33.55 rubles in the corridor. At the closure on Friday, the dollar amounted to 33.57 rubles. Source: gzt.ru

13:47 // 04/13/2009 The Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Yuri Trutnev, satisfied the statement of the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol about the resignation, the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources told RIA Novosti .

15:25 // 04/13/2009 The Investigative Department of the Karelia Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against a group of persons suspected of smuggling several hundred cars from the UAE to the republic, Mikhail Zakomaldin said the acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karelia on Monday. In total, more than 200 expensive cars were imported through the border with Finland. Nine people participated in this criminal scheme.

The breakdown of the summit of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN), riots in Bangkok and the introduction of a state of emergency throughout Thailand did not interfere with the rest of Russian tourists. No mass departure from the Thai resorts, as well as refusals from traveling to this country, was noted. According to Irina Tyurina, spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST), Russian tourists do not refuse trips to Thailand, despite the riots in the capital of the country.

12:38 // 04/13/2009 The conductor of the famous state -wrapped Lithuanian Orchestra "Trimytas" Ramutis Balcheunas died right during the Easter concert in the church of St. Casimir on Sunday. Conducting the orchestra, Balcunas suddenly fell. It is assumed that death came from a heart attack. The Trimitas orchestra Balcunas conducted more than 40 years, RIA Novosti reports. In 1994 he won a victory at the European contest of conductors.

11:03 // 04/13/2009 The court in the Chelyabinsk region sentenced to 15 years in the opinion of a local resident who raped a two -year -old child and mocked him, the regional prosecutor’s office said on Monday without specifying the date of sentencing. According to the investigation, the man on April 24, 2008 seriously injured the child and forbade his mother to consult doctors.

One of the opposition parties refused to continue the shares of one of the leaders of the Georgian opposition, ex-prime minister Zurab Nogaidi and the party “Movement for Fair Georgia” by him on Monday announced the refusal to participate in rallies. Nogaidels with supporters spent for several days pickets at the president’s residence in Batumi, urging Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to resign. "Our party actively took part in the shares in Tbilisi and Batumi.

11:01 // 04/13/2009 Up to 10 years, the validity of the foreign passport may be increased. About such an opportunity, reports REGNUM, said the head of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Konstantin Romodanovsky. According to him, the corresponding decision should be made before the end of 2009. In addition, he added, the FMS is developing a system that allows citizens to send completed profiles to receive passports via the Internet.

Parents of Beslan children can announce a hunger strike if the tax service insists on paying tax for free training of children's terrorist attack .. Parents of Beslan children can announce a hunger strike if the tax service insists on paying tax for free training of children who suffered from a terrorist attack. This was stated by the head of the public organization "Voice of Beslan", uniting the victims of the attack, Ella Kesaeva.

15:18 // 04/13/2009 Three employees of the PPS regiment of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Eastern Administrative Moscow, who, early on the morning of April 10, in a state of intoxication, went to Red Square in the Honda jeep, fired from law enforcement agencies, the head of the information and public relations of the capital's GUVD, Colonel Viktor Biryukov told RIA Novosti .

Residents of emergency houses promise to relocate by 2012 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin do not refuse to resettle all residents of emergency houses until 2012. As the prime minister said at a meeting of the Government Presidium yesterday, for this, the State Corporation of the Housing and Public Utilities Reform Fund will allocate more than 100 billion rubles to the regions in 2009 (59 billion rubles in 2008). "The new apartments will receive or receive 120 thousand people in the near future.

What do we know about the crisis? It is global, initially financial and banking, now also economic. Then the discrepancies begin. Many are trying to feel its bottom. At the same time, in Russia in great fashion the calculation of crisis waves. Beautiful, of course, although the quintessence of this approach is not in the waves and kickbacks themselves, but in a call not to relax. One wave follows another, and so on. But the image itself makes me doubt.

17:25 // 04/13/2009 On Monday, the Republican election commission of Estonia registered an independent candidate for the European Parliament of the famous public and politician of the Russian community of Estonia Dimitry Klensky. The candidate intends to defend the interests of Russian and Russian -speaking residents of the country at the European level in the European Parliament.