On April 2, 2009, a meeting of the so-called (erroneously) “Group of Twenty” (G20) took place in London; the purpose of this meeting was to discuss ways to save the global financial system. Too late. This is obvious: we do not have the resources to save this system - no matter how much we would like to. It is too big to save: the value of global financial assets is several times the size of the world's gross national product.

The Hungarian police confirmed the information that appeared on Monday about the detention on the border with Ukraine, Russian woman Irina Belenka and her three-year-old daughter Eliza Andre-Belenka, stolen from the French father, reports AFP. Irina Belenkaya is arrested, and the girl will be handed over to her father. Eliza was abducted in Arle on March 20, when she returned from school with her father-French-Jean-Michel Andre.

In the Kirov region, the Molot defense plant, which produces Kalashnikov machine guns and portable anti -tank complexes, owed 121 million rubles of salaries to employees and intends to repay it with flour, pasta, sugar and stew, Kommersant reports. So the leadership of the plant, in respect of which a criminal case has been instituted, is going to mitigate the situation with the lack of defense state orders.

Today, the Georgian opposition intends to expand the scale of its protest, Vesti reports. In addition to Tbilisi, thousands of rallies will begin throughout the country. However, in Tbilisi, the beginning of the mass rally is scheduled for 15.00 Moscow time. He will take place in front of the country's parliament.

During the year, an oil barrel will rise in price to $ 65, the dollar will cost 32 rubles, and in the fall the Russian economy will resume growth, experts of Goldman Sachs (GS) predict. The decline in 2009 will not be minus 3%, as GS believed in February, but minus 5.5%, Vedomosti write. But in 2010 there will be an increase of 2.8%. Experts say that the I quarter will be the worst, it will be the “bottom of the crisis”. The reason is a strong decline in industry, investment, consumer demand.

After the events of September 11, 2001 and the followed by the anti -terrorist campaign, many states were forced to take measures to limit some democratic rights and freedoms of their own citizens for their safety. These steps became the reason for the resumption of discussions about the democratic and authoritarian regimes of the state structure.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko calls on the parliament tomorrow to adopt the bills necessary to resume cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. He stated this, opening a meeting with the participation of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Litvin, the leadership of the NBU and representatives of the IMF and the World Bank, UNIAN reports.

On Monday evening, two people died as a result of a clash of Bangkok residents with demonstrators, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the police, on Monday evening, the DVA of the man was killed during the skirmish of local residents with the manifestants. In addition, nine people were injured and were hospitalized. The incident occurred in the metropolitan area of ​​Nang Lerng, when the demonstrators poured a gasoline tank, and then set fire to fuel.

At a meeting of the Prosecutor's Generals of the Shanghai Cooperation States, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, the prosecutor's office, said that the prosecutor’s office should not be limited only to criminal prosecution issues, RBC reports. The seagull noted that it is necessary to withstand the liquidation and unjustified restrictions on the role of the prosecutor's office outside the criminal law sphere.

The Government of Ukraine turned to all factions with a request not to consider the draft anti -Crisis program tomorrow at the Verkhovna Rada Plenary meeting, UNIAN reports with reference to the statement of the leader of the BYUT faction Ivan Kirilenko. “We would like the document to be unifying,” Kirilenko said. Recall that the government submitted the program to overcome the consequences of the crisis to parliament in December 2008.

The first in the history of the Gagarin Cup was the Kazan “Ak Bars”, whose hockey players in the decisive seventh match of the final series defeated the Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv” with a score of 1: 0. It is very symbolic that the decisive match took place on the day of astronautics - the organizers clearly guessed with the date of the meeting.

Thai Prime Minister said that the troops managed to take control of the situation in the capital of the country of Bangkok and stop the mass riots of supporters of the opposition, BBC reports. As a result of the clashes of the participants in protest promotions with the soldiers of the Thai army, involved in the dispersal of the demonstration, several dozen people were injured. The military used idle and combat cartridges.

The deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol voluntarily resigned, reports news agencies. “I can't work here. I am not interested here. I'm looking for a job, not a salary. I submitted a vacation application with subsequent dismissal. From April 28, you can look for a new person in my place, ”Mitreol said. Mitvol’s resignations were expected from the moment Rosprirodnadzor was headed by Kirillov - the “St. Petersburg security officer”, a former border guard.

The decline in China’s economy is unlikely to reach its bottom in the near future and will require at least two or three years in order to adapt to new economic conditions. This was stated by adviser to the Central Bank Fan Gann, reports Reuters . Leading Western countries are still experiencing the early stage of recession, and this negatively affects Chinese export, so the PRC has to reduce the stocks of goods and unload excess production capacities, Fan said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev considers it necessary to consider the issue of changing institutions in the corporate sphere and the crisis situation. He stated this today at a meeting with the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin, Prime-Tass reports.