The decline in industrial production in Russia continues to accelerate the decline in industrial production in Russia in April by almost 17% compared to the same period last year, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) testify. Experts do not exclude that in May the situation will continue to deteriorate. The rate of the fall in industrial production in Russia accelerated. In April, the decrease amounted to 16.9% compared to the same period last year.

The court returned the work of the Ostankino District Court of Moscow to the District Journalist Disrupted to the work yesterday, recognized the dismissal of journalist Oleg Ptashkin from the Studio of special projects of the first channel and demanded to restore it as a position. The prosecutor's office established that the standard contract used on the TV channel contradicts the Labor Code, and demanded to change it within a month.

Russia will exchange prisoners with the CIS countries President Dmitry Medvedev introduced the Convention to the State Duma on the transfer of convicts to imprisonment for further serving the sentence yesterday. In other words, about the exchange of "their" prisoners. The document was signed in Moscow by the heads of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan back in 1998.

18:04 // 18.05.2009 Danish director Lars von Trier does not intend to apologize for his last film “Antichrist”, which he introduced to the audience at the Cannes Film Festival. The audience was shocked by an abundance of violence and sex scenes. “I do not consider it necessary to make excuses,” von Trier told reporters, “I make films and really love my job.” In my opinion, this is very strange, to apologize for what I did.

13:54 // 05/18/2009 The General Director of Mosgaz Andrei Trukhin, who was appointed to this post on February 24, 2009, was removed from his position. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the department of the fuel and energy economy of the capital. The acting head of Mosgaz was appointed by his deputy Andrei Antsupov. The department reported that Trukhin's resignation is associated with an accident at the gas pipeline in Moscow.

09:41 // 05/18/2009 Two residents of Moscow and the Moscow Region were detained on suspicion of beating in the metro of citizens of Spain, who were traveling to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The incident occurred in the afternoon on Saturday in the metro car at the stage between the Sukharevskaya and Prospekt Mira stations. The suspects attacked three citizens of Spain in the car who went to the concert, and began to beat them.

15:23 // 18.05.2009 About 100 thousand people visited the Olympic sports complex in Moscow for the entire time of Eurovision, the deputy mayor of the capital, a member of the organizing committee of the competition Valery Vinogradov told reporters. Olympic visited more than 100 thousand people in total for the days of semi -finals, finals and rehearsals, ”said Vinogradov.

16:31 // 18.05.2009 The ninth arbitration court transferred the case appointed on May 18 the case of the attachment of the attic at the Pasternak House in the arms lane in Moscow on May 25. The Moskomnature achieves the return of the original appearance to the building in the arms of the arms, in which the famous poet Boris Pasternak was born on February 10, 1890. The former company-owner of a three-story building built a building with an attic with an area of about 273 square meters.

11:16 // 05/18/2009 Michael Felps suffered two defeats in a row. According to the Associated Press , the night before, the owner of 14 Olympic medals lost the French swimmer Frederik Buzke, during a 100 -meter -in freedom of freestyle style at the traditional Charlotte Ultraswim competitions in North Carolin. It should be noted that the whole day earlier, Felps suffered the first defeat in the final in 364 days, losing 100 meters on the back of the two -fold Olympic champion Aaron Pirsol.

Scientists have found that sleep helps to lose extra pounds as a new study showed, those who sleep longer are much less prone to obesity than people who regularly lack. Scientists believe that the lack of sleep affects the production of hormones that cause a feeling of hunger and slow down metabolism in the body. SNE specialist Dr. Arn Eliason from the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Washington believes that the body mass index is closely related to the duration and quality of sleep.

The compassionate pensioner became the criminal’s victim to the 15 years of the Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen, 32-year-old Vasily Pushkarev, who in 2004, parole, was released from places of imprisonment, where he was serving a 10-year term for the murder, but killed a man again. In August last year, the brigade in which Pushkarev worked, repaired the heating system in a residential building on Marx Street. At this time, he met one of the residents of this house, a 66-year-old pensioner.

The investigation finds out the history of the PM, from which the head of the Tsaritsyno Department of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP), has not yet been able to find out how the bloody massacre in the Moscow Supermarket in the south of Moscow, which has been wanted since 2000, got to the head of the Tsaritsyno Department of Internal Affairs Directorate on April 27. Recall: with his help, the major killed three and wounded six people.

18:16 // 18.05.2009 About 35 thousand tickets are sold to the Madonna concert, which will be held on August 2 on the Palace Square of St. Petersburg. According to the Fontanka.ru Internet site, in this way almost all tickets for the concert of the American pop singer gained their owners in the cost of tickets for the St. Petersburg concert of Madonna varies from 2 to 30 thousand rubles. At the same time, no more than 10 tickets are sold in some hands.

Dalia Grigauskaite achieved in Lithuania a record for the EU Success in the elections on Monday night, it became clear that the 53-year-old European Commissioner for Budget and Finance, the independent candidate Dal Gribauskaite won a crushing victory over six opponents in the pre-election race for the post of president of Lithuania. According to the CEC, over 69% of citizens cast their votes for it.

The President of Russia signed a package of anti -corruption decrees, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed five decrees yesterday defining the circle of officials who are obliged to publish declarations on their income, as well as the procedure for publishing and checking this information. Wives and minor children of officials will also be publicly reported.