18:47 // 24.05.2009 The most men's festival of the year Men´s Day will be held in the capital of Poland on June 6-7 - a large -scale event involves many different entertainments, within the framework of which even a “town of male hobbies” will appear, RIA Novosti reports.

10:53 // 24.05.2009 In June, Cuba will switch to the regime of exclusive energy savings in order to reduce energy supply costs, local authorities said, RIA Novosti reports. According to the country's Ministry of Economics and Planning, in the first quarter of this year, the revenge of electricity amounted to about 3%, and in April exceeded the planned indicators by 8%. The total costs of unscheduled electricity supplies exceeded $ 90 million.

14:17 // 24.05.2009 The chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko recommends that Russians not visit Japan without particular need, where cases of A/H1N1 flu are registered, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, Onishchenko had already recommended not to visit the United States, Mexico, Canada and Spain without much need. Source: gzt.ru

11:16 // 24.05.2009 Strong snowfalls and squalled winds fell on New Zealand today. The main strokes of the elements fell on the areas of the Cook Strait, Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston-North, Kraistcherch, Lewis, Rangipo, ITAR-TASS reports. The hurricane wind, the speed of which sometimes exceeds 140 km per hour, tears off the roofs of houses, turns the cars and the trees, which leads to multiple accidents on the power lines.

Vladimir Lukin began to receive more complaints from the Ombudsman, and the business trip - less stream of complaints in the apparatus of the Russian Commissioner for Human Rights has grown 10%over the past few months. About this Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin informed the Gazeta correspondent after the report to the State Duma about his work for 2008.

The general director of the Russian Agency for Support for Small and Medium Business, Chairman of the CCI of the CCI of the Russian Federation for the development of private entrepreneurship, small and medium -sized businesses Viktor Ermakov in an interview with Gazeta, Small Business should play one of the leading roles in the withdrawal of the Russian economy from the crisis.

The UN saw in a crisis a chance for the global economy on Monday, June 1, in New York, the Summit of the UN General Assembly for Financial and Economic issues will begin. The program of the summit, which lasts until June 3, is the development of global anti -crisis measures, designed primarily to help the poorest countries.

Jenson Batton won the Monte Carlo Grand Prix on Sunday 6th in the season and the 56th Grand Prix of Monaco, the most famous and prestigious stage of the World Cup in Formula 1. This narrow route, on which overtaking is practically inconceivable, and therefore, the Saturday qualification sometimes becomes almost more significant and interesting than the race, has seen a lot. So, in fact, this time happened.

Horst Keler was re -elected for the second term of May 23 in Germany by the presidential elections, whose name is traditionally determined by the Federal Assembly. This constitutional body is convened specifically for the elections every five years and consists of deputies of the German parliament (Bundestag) and delegates, who, according to the principle of proportionality, put forward land parliaments. As political scientists predicted, Horst Keler was re -elected president.

The state support will work in July the situation in the car industry continues to be the most severe out of all sectors of transport engineering. The Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko stated this during the Saturday Working meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. However, the situation may change in July 2009. Then, according to Khristenko, the effect of measures taken by the government to support the automotive industry, judo and aircraft industry will appear.

11:46 // 24.05.2009 The influenza virus A/H1N1 was detected in 18 US troops in Kuwait, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. Local media on the eve of reference to the Ministry of Health reported a confirmation of several cases of infection of people with the influenza virus A/H1N1, without specifying the numbers of the sick. The American military, who were in this country, were infected in anticipation of a transfer to another region.

18:29 // 24.05.2009 Miners and residents of Vorkuta (Komi Republic) held a rally in the city, which demanded that the Vorkutangol leadership of the plans for the current year to reduce jobs, and from the municipality - restraint the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, reports RIA Novosti . According to Law enforcement agencies of Vorkuta, about a thousand people participated in the rally on the central square of the city.

11:37 // 24.05.2009 The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril will lead the church part of the celebrations of the days of Slavic writing and culture. The Primate of the Church has performed a liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin in honor of the holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Methodius and Cyril, the Enlighteners of the Slavic peoples. The holiday of Slavic writing and culture, which has become international, has been dedicated to the Day of their memory, ITAR-TASS reports.

The State Duma adopted the law on written reports of the government and the Central Bank can report to the parliament on measures to combat the crisis only in writing, ignoring the meetings of the parliament. The State Duma approved in the second and third final reading the law on the report of the government and the Central Bank on anti -crisis measures.

Its workers are jealous of the Avtovaza AvtoVAZ Automobile Plant Ford Motor Company (FMC) in Vsevolozhsk stopped the conveyor and announced his intention to reduce the working week. From Monday, May 25, until Monday, June 8, the plant will not work, but the workers will receive two -thirds of the salaries. Then the plant will work, but already in the four -day working week mode. This means a 20 percent loss in salary for all workers. So will continue until October 8, 2009.