Today, residents of Israel recall the victims of the Holocaust - the genocide of European Jewry during the Second World War, the greatest tragedy in the history of the Jewish people. At 10:00 a.m. cars stopped, pedestrians froze on the streets. For two minutes, Israel stood and was silent, paying tribute to the memory and sorrows of six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.

The head of the Palestinian National Administration (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas will visit Norway and Finland, RIA Novosti reports. As part of the first European tour, as a Palestinian leader, Abbas will arrive in Norway tomorrow evening from Turkey, the press center of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry’s service reports.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine rejected the claims of the representatives of several political forces that did not go to the parliament, which disputed the results of the Verkhovna Rada elections on March 26, RIA Novosti reports.

The launch of two hydrometeorological satellites of the United States planned for today is transferred tomorrow due to poor weather conditions. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of NASA. The press service said that the launch of Cloudsat and Calipso satellites, which was appointed from the Vandenberg air-air base in California, was postponed due to strong high-altitude wind.

In the village of Tilichiki - one of the most affected by the earthquake in Koryakia - the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Emergencies is deployed.

Russia is ready to cooperate with Ukraine in the work to bring the sarcophagus at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in an environmentally friendly state. According to RIA Novosti , the Russian Scientific Center “Kurchatov Institute” at the request of the Ukrainian side developed strategic directions of measures to transform the sarcophagus at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and bring it into a stable environmentally friendly state.

Vladimir Putin directed condolences to the President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak in connection with explosions in the city of Dahab, the press service of the President of the Russian Federation reports. The telegram, in particular, notes: “With a regret, I learned about the barbaric explosions on April 24, S.G. In the Egyptian city of Dahab, led to the death and suffering of many people of various nationalities.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) does not plan to transform into the Military-Political Union, said Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov. "The SCO in the foreseeable future will not be a military -political organization," he said to reporters upon arrival in Beijing. "The SCO is not a military -political organization, but in the field of security it is engaged in the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking and extremism," Ivanov said.

Iran is ready to negotiate with Europe on the Iranian nuclear problem, taking into account the latest achievements of Tehran in the nuclear sphere. The Iranian Nuclear Program held in Tehran of the International Conference in Tehran of the International Conference: Politics and Prospects "Deputy Secretary of the Higher Council of National Security (VSNB) Iran Javad Vaidi, RIA Novosti reports. According to Vaidi, Iran in the new conditions is ready to negotiate with Europeans.

A rally in support of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the lawyer of this company Svetlana Bakhmina is taking place today in the center of Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing Interfax. About 50 people participate in the rally. According to law enforcement officers, the action was authorized by the capital's authorities and takes place without violations of law and order.

The channel of supplying smuggling goods from the PRC to Moscow is suppressed, to which senior employees of the Federal Customs Service, representatives of other federal and regional authorities are involved, RIA Novosti reports. In February 2005, law enforcement agencies received operational information about the receipt of more than 150 railway wagons with consumer goods smuggled into the territory of the Russian Federation to the Moscow region from the city of Nakhodka.

In the Tver region, the sale of more than 200 thousand liters of wines and cognacs from Georgia and Moldova was suspended, RIA Novosti reports, citing the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor. In connection with the suspension at the federal level of the operation of sanitary and epidemiological conclusions on alcohol products in the production of Moldova and Georgia, 6730 parties of alcohol were suspended in the Tver region.

As part of the preparation for the 2014 Olympics, it is planned to build hotels for more than 25 thousand seats in Sochi, RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the city administration. Such data were announced at the last meeting of the hotel housekeeping commission, headed by the head of the Federal Agency for Tourism Vladimir Strelkovsky.

The " pragmatist of culture " continues the conversation about the problems of education. Today our interlocutor Vladimir Mau , Doctor of Economics, Professor, Rector of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Mau is also a direct participant in the development of issues of modernization of Russian education: “ Economics and social life are becoming sharply unproganous today.

Nikolai Carpan, who in 1986 held the post of deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Chernobyl nuclear power plant), believes that the construction of the reactor initially contained constructive shortcomings that could lead to explosion. At the same time, Carpan, in his interview with the Air Force , expressed the point of view that there were also violations in the work of the station staff.