The Office of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg imposed a fine for violating the sanitary standards for the water park "Waterville", where mass poisoning of visitors occurred at the end of March. Then more than 220 people turned to medical help, more than 181 of them children of primary school age. The owner of the water park will pay a fine of 37 thousand rubles.

Specialists-explosives did not find traces of explosives on the site of the explosion in a residential building on Korolev Street. This was announced on Monday by the Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin. “There are no traces of explosives. By nature, this is a voluminous explosion, and a voluminous explosion is gas,” Semin said. He noted that he would not rush and talk at present about what specific circumstances the tragedy occurred. “At least there is no malicious intent,” said the Moscow prosecutor.

The government, at the request of Dmitry Medvedev, is going to resolve the issue of the high cost and lack of land for housing development by prohibition and centralization. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov banned operations with federal land inside settlements and next to them.

The drummer of the legendary Pink Floyd group Nick Mason said that the musicians will again unite for joint performances for the sake of charity. He expressed confidence that the former participants in the team will again perform with a series of concerts, reports Newsru.ua . “Even during our entry on the stage in 2005, I did not believe that this is the last concert of the group. I foresaw that we would gather again.

On Monday, April 7, the State Commission made a final decision: on board the TMA-12 Union, starting with a 10-day mission to the International Space Station on April 8, the crew of the 17th long expedition consisting of Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and the first representative of South Korea in space-ENTAS-TASS. link to the representative of Roscosmos at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

George Bush and Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Sochi, which allowed them to lay a “solid foundation” for further cooperation between the United States and Russia. This was stated by US Presidential Advisor Stephen Hadley, RIA Novosti reports. On Sunday, the last meeting of Putin and Bush as the presidents of Russia and the USA was held in Sochi - Putin’s powers as head of the Russian state expire in May of this year, Bush’s powers as the American president in January 2009.

The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine Theophilus III, accompanied by scouts, playing popular melodies and beating in drums, made a procession on the occasion of the festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary around the Orthodox Church of the Archangel Gabriel in Nazareth, RIA Novosti reports. Thousands of people took part in the solemn service and in the subsequent procession.

In the UK, a ban on imports, the manufacture and sale of Japanese samurai swords was introduced. This is motivated by the growth of crimes using this weapon. Now violators of the new law face 6 months of prison or 5 thousand pounds (about 10 thousand dollars) a fine for storing such weapons, BBC TV channel reports. The exception is made only for those who are engaged in historical reconstruction and professionally collecting ancient weapons.

The total amount of remuneration for any reliable information about the whereabouts of the suspect in the murder of two schoolgirls whose bodies were found on April 2 in the city of Zlatoust of the Chelyabinsk Region amounted to 1.1 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports. By decision of the leadership of the Zlatoust arms company, the amount of remuneration for any information about the whereabouts of the criminal has been increased from 200 to 500 thousand rubles.

Fighters for the liberation of Tibet staged a series of attacks on the motorcade of the Olympic fire traveling along five continents from Greece to the capital of the Games-2008 Beijing, on the day it was carried out in the British capital. At least 35 people were detained in London during the skirmishes with the police. Sitves of the police with demonstrators began immediately after the start of the relay race at the Wembley stadium, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the Komsomolsky district of the Khabarovsk Territory, between the village of Nizhnyubovskoye and the village of Yagodnoy, the KamAZ left on the Amur under the ice, in which there were three employees of the logging company. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the region on Monday, as a result of the incident, the driver and one of the passengers who worked as the head of the site drowned. The gas -electric welder, who was in the car of the car, managed to escape.

The European Commission on Monday made a decision that will allow the use of mobile phones to passengers of aircraft in the European airspace. According to the Air Force , consultations that lasted for six months preceded this. The Commissioner of the European Commission on Telecommunication Issues, Vivian Reading, noted that mobile operators should hold the cost of calls within reasonable limits.

The Russian Embassy in Libya monitors the state of the head of the representative office of Lukoil Oversiz Alexander Tsygankov. Tsygankov’s detained in Libya feels normally, Interfax was told at the Russian Embassy in Tripoli. "The well -being of Alexander Tsygankov is evaluated as normal. Once a month, representatives of the embassy meet with him," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Multiple world and European skiing champion Irina Slutskaya will first perform on the theater stage. She will play the main role in the play "Antigon Vsegda", which will be premiered on Monday in the theater center "On the Holy". Recall that earlier Irina also acted as a TV presenter - led on the first channel of the show of skaters "Ice Age". And now I decided to try myself on a dramatic scene.

Due to heavy rains in the arid of the northeast region of Brazil, 17 people were killed. Over the past two weeks, while the element of the roof was raging over his head lost a total of 110 thousand people, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local media. As it became known, the critical situation has developed in the state of Piaaui, where 57 thousand people are evacuated from their dwellings, destroyed or flooded with streams of water.