In the Latvian capital, about 10 thousand Russian schoolchildren and their parents began today a protest in defense of education in their native language, ITAR-TASS reports. “Latvia joins the EU, and we hope that Brussels will still pay attention to the problems of national minorities in the country,” said the headquarters in defense of Russian schools, Alexander Kazakov. Many of the protesters hold the blue flags of the EU, decorated with mourning ribbons.

Today, a significant part of humanity celebrates International Workers' Day. The decision to hold annual demonstrations on May 1 was made in July 1889 by the First (Paris) Congress of the 2nd International in memory of the speech of the Chicago workers who organized a strike on May 1, 1886 demanding an 8-hour working day, as well as a demonstration that ended in a bloody clash with the police .

In the Latvian port city of Liepai today, a skirmish of defenders of Russian schools with the police occurred. Law enforcement agencies tried to prevent the holding of Russian school defenders unauthorized by the city authorities, in which about 500 people participated. As a result of the tied fight, one policeman suffered, two active participants in the incident were detained.

Reasoning, it is likely that rock music is experiencing stagnation, or something like that, the Ukrainian-Russian Alliance (“Hurray! Culture”) decided to take up the creation of a new format and organized a week of theatrical music in Moscow.

On the Japanese Island of Hokkaido, on a high -speed highway near the city of Osamanbe, a tourist bus turned over, RIA Novosti reports. According to Kyodo, one person died, 27 passengers were injured. According to the local police, the bus included 30 tourists from Taiwan who came to Japan for the weekend. The bus rolled up at full speed. Four of the victims are in critical condition. The police are investigating the causes of the incident.

According to the estimates of the rally organizers, the number of participants was 5 thousand people, the Polit.ru correspondent reports. More cautious calculations give a figure of 2-3 thousand manifestants, which is an order of magnitude more than observing the previous liberal-opposition rallies. A significant number of demonstrators were the activists of “Yabloko” and the ATP.

In an American prison at the age of 80, one of the leaders of the Sicilian mafia Gaetano Badalament, who was called the Bossov Bossov, writes, writes Gazeta.ru . According to BBC , Badalamenti was sentenced in 1987 by the US court to 47 years in prison for drug trafficking in the United States in the period in 1975 to 1984. He served the conclusion in the federal prison of Massachusetts.

Four people suffered, two of them were hospitalized - this is the result of the city, which passed the day before over the Stavropol Territory, ITAR -TASS reports. The city was so large that one person received a concussion, the other was taken to a hospital with a collar fracture. Bad downshrows - with rainfalls, squalling wind - more than 20 thousand hectares of grain crops, 500 hectares of industrial gardens and vineyards in 10 agricultural areas of the region were damaged.

American marine infantrymen offered their help to restore Iraqi mosques, writes Gazeta.ru according to the Reuters agency. The proposal was made during the meeting with 51 Imam and the head of the al-Anbar province, where on Monday in the city of El Falluja, the US naval infantrymen destroyed the minaret, saying that it was used by militants to organize attacks.

Almost throughout Tverskaya Street, columns of Russian trade unions and representatives of the United Russia party, which are heading to Tverskaya Square, stretched. The rally began at 10:00, reports Interfax . Demonstrators carry posters and slogans with the requirements to bring the minimum wage in the country to the level of subsistence levels, maintain social guarantees for workers, carry out pension reform so that the living level of Russians does not decrease, but increase.

Airliner flying from Spain in the United States, which on September 11, 2001 could be mistakenly shot down by order of President George Bush, belonged to the Spanish airline Iberia, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced by the Mundo newspaper, which launched an investigation after the Friday message of the American television channel CNN that the order to bring down the passenger plane was given in writing Bush.

A ship with about 200 people on board sank off the coast of Vietnam, writes Gazeta.Ru . this to Reuters Representatives of the country's authorities reported . According to them, most of the ship's passengers were schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years. 111 victims were saved. The bodies of 21 people were recovered from the water, most of them children. According to rescuers, there is practically no chance of finding any of the missing alive.

In one of the kindergartens of Khabarovsk, mass poisoning of children occurred, RIA Novosti was told by phone in law enforcement agencies of the Khabarovsk Territory. "According to preliminary data, 16 children from kindergarten number 106 were poisoned by rat poison. All of them are currently hospitalized," the source said. According to him, an investigation has begun on the fact of the incident.

Summary from "Polit.ru" We present you to the decryption of the public lecture by Sergei Selvanov “Tales, plots and scenarios of modern Russia”, which took place on April 22 at the Bilingua club. Most of the films that were produced by him not only took place commercially (which is rare for Russia), but once again successfully articulated the discourse about Russia and the Russian man (first of all, these are films “Brother”, “Brother-2” and “Features of national hunting”).

From two to three thousand people took part in the procession of democratic forces in Moscow, which took place under the slogan "Civil Society against the police state," the correspondent of the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" reports.