Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev, who on Monday, due to poor health, interrupted his performance in Baku twice, again went to the rostrum and completed the speech at about 17:55 Moscow time, Interfax reports. He performed at a solemn meeting dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Military School. Jamshid Nakhichevan in the Palace "Republic". His speech was broadcast on the air of national television, and twice the broadcast was interrupted due to the fact that the head of state became ill.

In China, a new method has been developed that allows for one hour to determine the presence of atypical pneumonia in the human body, official Chinese sources said. The new test was developed jointly by scientists of the Beijing Institute of Genoma at the Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Microbiological Epidemics at the Medical Research Institute of the Chinese Army.

Only 2 out of 10 initial versions of the COLUMBIA shuttle disaster left, RIA Novosti was told in Rosaviacosmos. According to the Russian Space Agency, both variants of the disaster are associated with the separation of part of the shuttle sheathing at the start. "These versions are reinforced by telemetry data and the analysis of the fragments of the ship found.

One of the Israeli travel companies intends to provide its citizens with an incredible opportunity to visit Iraq. According to ASHARQ AL-AWSAT , a well-known tourism organizer Shmoel Ben Naftali has already begun a set of a group of 30 tour operators who will introduce the Israelis with ancient Mesopotamia. Now he is consulting with representatives of a number of Iraqi universities, as well as Jewish immigrants from Iraq to develop a tourist route.

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Yastrzhembsky was awarded on Monday the gold honorary sign "Public Recognition". He was awarded this highest public award of Russia for his contribution to strengthening Russian statehood, national security of Russia, as well as for an active public and political position.

On April 22, at 11 a.m. in London time, the former co -chair of the Liberal Russia party, entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, who is in London, will send a document to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, who may shed light on the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov. Berezovsky reported this on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow. According to him, we are talking about a copy of Yushenkov’s letter to the British Ministry of Internal Affairs, dated August 27.

Russian Nikolai Khabibulin brought his Tampa Bay club to the next stage of the playoffs of the National Hockey League. Last night, Moscow time, Lightning, in a hard match, pulled out the victory from Washington-2: 1 and won the series of 1/8 finals of the playoffs with a total score of 4-2. The match lasted 104 minutes, to identify the winner it was required to play three overtime. In the main time, Dave Andreichak answered the accurate throw of Bondra from the transfer of Sergei Gonchar.

Three police officers of Dagestan received gunshot wounds on Monday morning as a result of shooting with a criminal in the Akushinsky district of the republic. The duty unit of the Akushinsky District Department of the Interior reported that on Monday, police officers went to the village of Gint to detain the criminal suspected of theft in especially large sizes.

On April 21, in Bratsk, the annual meeting of shareholders of the cellulose-cardboard plant (Central City Council) was held. On the agenda of the meeting, the question of the merger of the Pulp-Cardboard Plant OJSC with three other enterprises of the Corporation Palp-OJSC Bratskoye Pipholding, OJSC “Ust-Ilymsky LPK” and OJSC Kotlas Central Bank and OJSC INIM Lesprint enterprises was introduced.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov announced the possibility of attracting the CIS citizens to the contract service. It is noteworthy that he did it in Minsk. To this end, the minister proposed adopting the relevant law. Contractors from the CIS countries, subject to conscientious service in the RF Armed Forces, will be able to obtain Russian citizenship after three years.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II sent an Easter greeting to the Pope John Paul II . This was reported to RIA Novosti today in the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP). As you know, the Roman Catholic Church and many other Christian churches living according to the Gregorian calendar (the new style) celebrated the holiday of the resurrection of Christ .

The mentor of the volleyball male team of Russia and the Belgorod club "Lokomotiv-Belogorye" Gennady Shipulin will stop coaching after the Olympics in Athens. This, according to ITAR-TASS, he stated at a meeting with Belgorod fans immediately after the end of the second match of the Russian Championship with the Perm Uralsvyazinform. The victory over Permeaki made this weekend the Lokomotiv-Belogorye, who won the Champions volleyball league a month ago, a five-time champion of Russia.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stopped the activities of an organized criminal group that sold falsified butter under the well -known trademarks "Vologda oil" and "peasant oil".

While columns with humanitarian aid are idle on the border with Iraq, American businessmen are in a hurry to capture a new market. According to Ananova , on Sunday to the British marines camp, two catering networks arrived at the city of Basra - Pizza Hut and Burger King. On Monday, they started trade. Previously, the vans worked in Kuwait, but it was decided to diversify the diet of military personnel in Iraq.

The striker of the Italian football club Juventus David Truseg will not play on Tuesday, April 22, against the Spanish Barcelona in the reciprocal match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League, RIA Novosti reports. The French striker did not have time to heal the shoulder injury received two weeks ago, although the hope that he had time to recover to the fight with the Barsa was. As the head coach of Juventus said Marcello Lippi, Truseg will not even fly to Barcelona.