In one of the suburbs of Los Angeles, the unknown person opened shooting at people gathered at a mobile cafe. As a result, one person was killed, five people were injured. Among the victims is a 12 -year -old boy, reports Echo of Moscow . The driver of the White Sedan got out of the car in Lennox (Los Angeles area) and opened fire on people. A 59-year-old man died on the spot. The victims were delivered to hospitals with wounds of varying severity.

On April 29, the World Health Organization (WHO) increased the threat of porch flu pandemia from 4 to 5 levels, Reuters reports. This is the penultimate stage on the scale of the threat of the occurrence of the pandemic used by WHO.

A serious accident in Apeldorn was a conscious action on April 30, the Russian BBC Russian service cites the Netherlands police. The law enforcement agencies also managed to find out that at the wheel of a car Suzuki, which rammed the crowd at the celebration of the Queen's Day, there was a 38-year-old Dutchman. Refined information about the dead is also reported - there are four of them. Five people received significant injuries.

The United States is not going to “close its boundaries” due to the spread of pork flu, considering this step inappropriate. Such a statement was made by the Minister of National Security, Janet Napolitano, reports news agencies. “I know, there are calls to close the border. This will not stop the spread of the virus. This virus is already in the USA, ”she said. The main efforts, according to Napolitano, should be aimed at “soften the consequences” of an impending epidemic.

Sergey Martynov Russian President Dmitry Medvedev conducted serious permutations in the Far East.

In Shchelkovo, the policeman died after hand -to -hand combat with seven riot police. It was a testimony test: a 30-year-old policeman from Ussuriysk, who wanted to join the Zubyr special forces detachment, had to stand in battle for several minutes. However, it all ended that he died in intensive care. This happened on April 27, but the press about this became known only now. Now the prosecutor’s office of the Moscow region is checking the circumstances.

We publish the full transcript of one of the leading Russian experts in the field of comparative historical linguistics of the peoples of Siberia, Central Asia, the Far East and North America, the Doctor of Philology, the leading researcher at the Institute of Eastern Cultures and Antiquity of the RSU Oleg Mudrak , read on April 16, 2009 in the club-the literary cafe Bingua Within the framework of the project “Public Lectures“ Polit.ru ”. Counts are taken from the book: Mudrak O.A.

At a meeting of the Disciplinary Committee of the RFU. They decided to fined the Moscow Spartak for different violations for the total amount of 120 thousand rubles. According to the official website of the RFU, Spartak was punished for the next misconduct: For throwing pyrotechnic products fans on treadmills, fined the Spartak FC for 10 thousand rubles. For going beyond the technical zone, fined the general director of FC Spartak V.G. Karpina for 10 thousand rubles.

The temporarily acting chief of the Moscow police yesterday was appointed Major General Alexander Ivanov. The order of his appointment was signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev. Ivanov was the first deputy of the colonel General Vladimir Pronin, who was dismissed from this post, and also oversee the work of the criminal police bloc.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called on the authorities of Iran to more actively develop bilateral trade and economic relations and called Iran the country's chief partner in this region, reports Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. He also noted that Belarus will “sacredly fulfill” previously reached agreements.

Yesterday, April 29, Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko discussed the condition and prospects of trade and economic cooperation. The main topic was the gas sphere.

Dmitry Dyakonov Simon’s article “Crisis of Science” and the addition of “On Science and its Defenders” are busily discussed on the Polit.ru portal. Having entered the official website of the Higher School of Economics, I learned with interest that G. Cordonsky: Candidate of Philosophy, dissertation "Cyclic procedures of scientific research", Novosibirsk State. University (1988) Order Professor Gu-HSE, head.

The net profit of AK Transneft OJSC for the 1st quarter of 2009 for RAS amounted to 556.479 million rubles compared to 894.024 million rubles in the 4th quarter of 2008, Finmarket reports. Thus, in one quarter, profit decreased by 37.8%. Such a decrease in profit is explained by an increase in the negative effect of exchange rate differences. Compared to the same period in 2008, Transneft's net profit in the 1st quarter of this year decreased 2.1 times (1.175 billion rubles).

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the termination of the use of the term "Pork flu", reports Associated Press . Starting from today, WHO will be called the new virus "Influenza A (H1N1)," the WHO statement said. The decision was made after the manufacturers of meat and meat products and the UN stated that the name "pork flu" is misleading people.

Negotiations of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko are political regarding gas, the question is how much Ukraine is ready to make their problems, said the president of the Ukrainian Center for Economic Development, Alexander Pashaver in an interview with Polit.ru. Yesterday, April 29, Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko discussed the state and prospects of trade and economic cooperation.