Yesterday, for negotiations with the VGTRK in Moscow, the general director of Al Dzhazira Vaday Hanfar arrived. Together with the chief of the Moscow Bureau of the television channel Jamal Ardaui, they met with the director of the Directorate of International Relations of VGTRK Sergey Koshlyakov, the chief editor of the information television channel Vesti Dmitry Mednikov and the head of the production and technology department of VGTRK Alexei Zemsky.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia does not plan to discuss a change in the rate of liberalization of wholesale energy market, but will strive to restrain the growth of electricity tariffs, said the head of the department Elvira Nabiullina. “We do not consider the issue of changing the rate of liberalization of the electricity market,” she emphasized.

The metro stations "Maryina Roshcha" and "Dostoevskaya" will open only in 2010. The reason for this is the optimization of expenses, which affected the development of the subway, is reported by Vesti. RU with reference to Interfax and the prefect of the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow Irina Raber.

Silvio Berlusconi is now a friend of not only Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, whose interests are defending the Italian prime minister, but also the Belarusian leader, with a more modest army career of a border guard, writes Corriere Della Sera (translation into Inopressa ).

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican, said he "increasingly felt alienated from the Republican Party because of its shift to the right." Now he supports the democratic ideas of Barack Obama, Voice of America reports . “This was not an easy decision for me, and I know it will disappoint many of my friends and colleagues,” Specter said. His move means Democrats now have 59 votes in the Senate, just one short of the 60 needed to overcome an opposition filibuster.

The Central Election Commission will destroy the signature sheets of the member of the “right business” by Andrei Bogdanov and the leader of the People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov, who participated in the elections of the President of Russia in 2008. After one year from the date of official summing up the election results, signature sheets are destroyed Some of Kasyanov’s signature sheets appear in criminal cases initiated by law enforcement agencies on suspicion of falsification.

The dismissal of Vladimir Pronin is a positive fact, but to expect changes for the better “no reason,” said President of the Panorama information and research center, the head of the Public Internet Blioterate Anti-Colbias, political scientist Vladimir Poblovsky in an interview with Polit.ru. Yesterday, the first personnel decisions were made in connection with the massacre in the Ostrov supermarket, arranged by the head of the capital's ATS "Tsaritsyno" Major Denis Evsyukov.

The Moscow government suggested that the former head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Evgeny Bachurin become the general director for the ATLANT-SoiUZ airline, which will become a contribution of the city to the Rosavia airline , Kommersant writes. The former commercial director of Aeroflot Bachurin left the Federal Air Transport Agency with a scandal of last fall.

According to the results of today's trading, the MMEVB index increased by 3.89% to 922.01 points. The RTS index rose to the mark of 814.78 points, which is 3.92% higher than the closing level of the previous trading day. The volume of trading on the FB MICEX amounted to 42.49 billion rubles, in the RTS - 7.23 million dollars, RBC reports.

30% of the total amount of cash income of the population of Russia in the 1st quarter of 2009 was 10% of the richest, and only 2% - by 10% of the poorest citizens. These are the data of the Federal State Statistics Service. According to the results of the 1st quarter of 2008, the share of revenues of 10% of the most wealthy citizens of Russia in the total income was 30.3%, and the share of revenues 10% of the poorest was 1.9%.

The Federation Council approved the law “On ensuring the security of specialized psychiatric hospitals (hospitals) with intensive supervision.” The State Duma approved the law on March 22, and today it was unanimously supported by 124 senators, our correspondent Lev Fainberg reports.

Minister of Transport Igor Levitin told senators about measures taken during the financial and economic crisis. He was asked to tell him as part of a “government hour” on the Federation Council on Wednesday, our parliamentary correspondent Lev Finberg reports. In his report, the Minister announced the introduction of seven bills to the State Duma as part of the implementation of the transport strategy until 2030, also about transferring powers to the regions.

The closure of borders and restrictions on travel will not help stop the distribution of Pork flu, said the World Health Organization (WHO). She recalled that such measures were introduced in 2003 in response to a heavy acute respiratory syndrome (torso), but then they led more to economic losses than successes in the fight against the virus. WHO confirmed that cases of people's diseases with pork flu A/H1N1 are an emergency in the field of public health, which is of international significance.

To close the auction on April 28, the Dow Jones index decreased by 0.10%, amounting to 8016.95 points. NASDAQ fell by 0.33%, reaching 1673.81 points.

Yesterday, the presidents of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan gathered in Alma-Ata. Representatives of five states are trying to resolve the issue of dividing water resources, today Süddeutsche Zeitung writes (see the announcement of the article on Inopressa.ru ). Natural resources are distributed unevenly across the territory of Central Asia. In Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan there are oil and gas, while in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan there are water.