12:57 // 05/15/2009 Three schools will close in New York for a week due to the discovery of five new cases of Pork flu disease, the mayor of the city Michael Bloomberg said. “We close schools in order to prevent the spread of infection,” he said in an interview on Thursday evening. According to the government, four students and the director of one of the schools were hospitalized on May 14. The head of the educational institution is in critical condition.

16:11 // 05/15/2009 The Government of Yulia Tymoshenko must immediately initiate a revision of gas issues to the Russian side, said Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on the supply and transit of gas in January this year. According to Friday, May 15, the press service of Yushchenko, the Ukrainian authorities will discuss gas agreements on Monday, writes RIA Novosti . Source: gzt.ru

13:33 // 05/15/2009 Russian Railways in the first quarter of this year suffered losses of 17.1 billion rubles against 19.74 billion. Profitable for the same period a year ago. Revenues from the main activities of the Russian railway monopoly in the first quarter of 2009 decreased by 10.1% and amounted to 233.46 billion rubles to RIA Novosti , citing the company's press service.

12:53 // 05/15/2009 The first two melons of this year’s yubari crop were sold at auction for 5.2 thousand dollars. However, this price is not so high and indicates, rather, that the Japanese melons became victims of the crisis. For comparison, last year the price for the first melons at the auction reached 26 thousand dollars. The auction for the sale of the first fruits is held in Yubari annually.

18:00 // 05/15/2009 The Barack Obama administration is going to invest $ 475 million in a project to ennoble the territory of the Great Lakes. According to the Associated Press , this project will clarify the cleaning of the coastline, marshy localities and removing toxic elements from river soil. According to the representative of the US Presidential Administration, this is one of the first steps to combat the country's ecosystem pollution. Source: gzt.ru

10:19 // 05/15/2009 The Kanberra administration can legislatively allow the shooting of a kangaroo to control the number of these animals. The basis for this was the decision of the court, on the eve of suspending the government program, within which thousands of kangaroo were killed. According to government experts, the increase in the Kangaroo population endanates the danger of plants, reptiles and insects, dividing their habitats with them.

Gazprom and its main partner in the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline Italian ENI finally managed to agree. Partners signed a document governing “sharp” marketing issues in the project. The same document almost doubles the capacity of the sea section of the gas pipe between Russia and Europe. Gazprom and ENI were signed on Friday, May 15, in Sochi a new document clarifying the implementation mechanism of the South Stream project.

16:54 // 05/15/2009 The cause of the explosion on the Yerevan chemical plant "Nail" is a violation of the technological process, said Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia on Friday, writes RIA Novosti . The explosion at the NAIRIT chemical plant, occurred on Thursday at about 18.00 local time, during the start of the second shift. As a result of the fire, four plant employees died, eight people were injured in varying severity. Source: gzt.ru

09:13 // 05/15/2009 Friday in the Moscow region will be rainy. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in Roshydromet. During the day, the air warms up to 10-12 degrees of heat, in the region - to plus 13 degrees. It will be cloudy with clearings, in places short-term rain and thunderstorm, the wind will blow eastern at a speed of 5-10 m/s. Frozen to zero degrees are not excluded for the upcoming night, but on Saturday afternoon the thermometers will show 12-14 degrees heat, in the region - to plus 15.

The illegal removal of the child was the cause of the international scandal Sergey Lavrov protested his Finnish colleague. The minister claims that the Finland Foreign Ministry contributed to the fact that a minor boy was taken out of Russia without the consent of his mother. According to the head of the diplomatic department, this can ruin the traditionally good -neighborly relations of Moscow and Helsinki.

During the repair of the Hubble space telescope, the astronaut Andrew Fuustup had to apply gross physical strength. Only having removed the limiter from the wrench, Fiwande was able to complete the repair of the apparatus. The first task of the astronauts was to remove the old wide -angle chamber from the telescope. The camera, which served in orbit for 16 years, allowed scientists to collect invaluable information.

14:34 // 05/15/2009 The Parliament of Ukraine on Friday adopted a law that temporarily prohibiting the gambling business, 340 deputies voted for this decision with 226 necessary votes. The ban on the conduct of the gambling business will last before the adoption of special legislation, about the territories where it will be permitted, RIA Novosti reports. The idea of the adoption of the law belongs to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

12:09 // 05/15/2009 Restored the movement of trains on the Kaluga-Riga line of the Moscow Metro. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the department of the metropolitan subway. The movement of trains towards the center was interrupted for half an hour from the Medvedkovo station due to the fall of a person on the rails at the Grandmother's station. Now trains are in normal mode. The day before, for technical reasons, the trains went with increased intervals on Sokolniki and Filevsky lines.

19:30 // 05/15/2009 The expansion of cooperation with the Kaliningrad region is one of the regional priorities of the European Union. Such a single position at the meeting, which took place on May 15 in the Lithuanian city of Palang, was expressed by the Heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

13:34 // 05/15/2009 Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District detained five people, including two senior employees of the Moscow branch of Mega-Bank CJSC, which, according to the investigation, were engaged in illegal banking activities. The daily turnover of the attackers, according to the calculations of operatives, amounted to 30 to 40 million rubles.