Somali pirates liberated the German company Patriot , which was seized in late April, which went under the flag of Malta. The crew of the ship consists of 17 people. The captain of the vessel is a citizen of Poland, a senior mechanic is a citizen of Ukraine, the remaining 15 sailors are citizens of the Philippines. Their condition is satisfactory.

In the period from April 13 to 23, 2009, the "All -Russian Parental Assembly" was held in the Russian schools, the organizer of which was the portal of education workers Zavuch.info . Participants in parental meetings - parents and teachers were invited to express their opinion about which of the problems, in their opinion, are today the most relevant for the education system.

The American missile system, whose base is planned to be placed in Eastern Europe, will not be able to protect against missiles that Iran will appear in the future, scientists from Russia and the USA are sure. Now, however, Iranian missiles are not dangerous, according to the report of the Russian-American group of experts.

German firms and organizations, as well as government institutions, are increasingly becoming objects of cyber attacks. According to the German Wave , in the worded countries whose special services are most actively engaged in industrial espionage, the authors of the report for 2008 of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany call China and Russia. In addition, a number of countries of the Far and Middle East, as well as North Africa are engaged in such activities.

Europe, without diversification of gas supply channels from the Russian Federation in the future, will not be able to get in full an additional 80-100 billion cubic meters of Russian “blue fuel”, which will be necessary for it by 2020, Gazprom Medvedev, deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom at a conference in Berlin, said on Tuesday. His words are given by RIA Novosti . “Those European figures who are trying to block Russian construction projects are more responsible.

The director of the Department of Public Relations of the Moscow Football Club Spartak Eduard Nisenboim confirmed the information that the striker of the Russian national football team and the English club Tottenham, Roman Pavlyuchenko, will conduct several training in the red and white , at the request of the coaching staff of the national team.

This year, the number of jobs in Lithuania, according to the forecasts of the Lithuanian Labor Exchange, will be reduced by 38 thousand, BelTA reports. As a survey conducted by the labor exchange showed, the reduction of jobs will occur both in the private and in the public sector, but most of all it will affect the construction and industrial sectors.

The prosecutor of the Vedensky district of Chechnya Nikolai Pavlenko , who was suspected of killing a policeman in Ingushetia, tried to hide in Georgia. According to the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of Russia, in Tbilisi he intended to leave Kiev, for which he was going to leave for the Ukrainian capital, Interfax reports. Earlier on Tuesday, law enforcement sources reported Pavlenko’s detention.

Rescuers do not confirm the information published in a number of the media that at the scene of the helicopter of the Irkutsk governor was discovered by the carcass of the bear killed during the hunt, and they supposedly were ordered to hide it. “There were no other hunting trophies at the scene.

Kuwait’s authorities confirmed their intention to implement the large -scale project The City of Silk ("City of Silk"), which got its name thanks to the ancient trading route, known as the Great Silk Road. Construction work will begin at the end of this year, reports Prian.ru . {pic_1 c} The city, designed for 750 thousand people, is planned to be built by 2030. It will be located 26 km from the capital of Kuwait and will become an important free trade zone for both Asia and Europe.

Representatives of real estate companies and market players are waiting for the middle of summer, which will become an important psychological line, after which it is possible to say whether the real estate market has passed its "bottom", or it is not to avoid further prices.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation rejected the complaints of two St. Petersburg Renaissance and Nevis-Compulsion companies, which tried to appeal the actions of the Russian Museum, which removed them from participating in the auction for the reconstruction of the summer garden. Companies claimed a contract for a basically worth 2.3 billion rubles. But they were out of work, writes RBC Daily .

In the Kharkov region of Ukraine, the police detained a man who is suspected of brutal murder of his wife. The motive of the crime was that the pregnant woman did not clean the cage of the pet on time. After the crime committed, the wife tried to commit suicide. However, doctors from the ambulance team managed to save the suicide, and now he is facing a life sentence, Kriminal.TV reports with reference to the criminal investigation officer Kharkov Igor Kovtunenko.

Another dangerous worm has appeared on the network, specialists from Sophos, who are developing antivirus software, warn. Over the past week, the virus broke all records of reproduction speed: according to statistics, it has 42% of all attacks recorded on the Internet last week. SOPHOS experts are amazed at the scope of the virus: in just a week, an increase in the activity of the worm was 188%, while every 4.5 seconds the virus infects a new site, reports infox.ru .

One of the world's largest payment systems, American Express, announced plans to reduce 4,000 jobs in the framework of a cost reduction program, which should save the company $ 800 million, the Associated Press agency reports. The reduction will affect 6% of all employees working on American Express. According to the speaker of the company Joanna Lambert, some of the dismissed employees received notifications over the past days, the rest will be dismissed in the coming weeks. According to Mrs.