The chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation began to visit the Star Town by laying flowers to the monument to Yu.A. Gagarin. Then the head of Roscosmos A.N. Perminov introduced him to the preparation process on the simulator of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

President Dmitry Medvedev introduced amendments to the State Duma to the Criminal Code and in p. 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Russia. According to documents accompanying amendments to the legislation, the bill “aims to increase the effectiveness of counteracting raiding”, the Kremlin press service reports .

“A criminal case has been instituted under Articles 295 (forcible seizure of power), 297 (forcibly change in the constitutional system), 233 (mass riots),” said the Kyrgyz prosecutor general Nurlan Tursunkulov about today's events in Talas (city in the west of Kyrgyzstan).

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin introduced an idea of ​​the appointment by the head of the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) Mikhail Mishustin, the press service of the Ministry of Finance said. The former head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mokratsov, according to the report, goes to another job. In 1989, Mikhail Mishustin graduated from the Moscow Economy Institute, and in 1992 - graduate school of this institute.

Russia may withdraw from the Treaty on Strategic offensive Weapons if Washington will significantly increase its missile defense. This was stated today by the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "Russia will have the right to withdraw from the START Treaty if the quantitative and qualitative increase in the US strategic missile defense potential will begin to have a significant impact on the effectiveness of Russian strategic nuclear forces," Lavrov said.

Leader Buta Julia Tymoshenko was called to the Prosecutor General. She stated this at a briefing on Tuesday, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

Vladimir Putin said today that by the end of 2010, Russia will launch another seven satellites of the global navigation system. “By the end of the year, we plan to launch another seven satellites, six-GLONASS-M and one-GLONASS-K,” Putin said. “By the end of the year, the group will amount to at least 27-28 permanent operating devices,” the prime minister added.

Dmitry Medvedev participated today at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Combating Corruption. During the meeting, he proposed to consider the idea of ​​a multiple fine as a criminal sanction for corruption. “But if the confiscation does not always go through, and this is a rather complicated thing from the point of view of criminal law and procedure, then a multiple of fine can be very, very effective.

On April 6, a draft amendments to the Housing Code were included in the State Duma, the authors of which are deputies Vladimir Pekhtin and Andrei Chirkin, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports.

The number of victims of the explosion in the American state of West Virginia grew up to 25 people, four are considered missing. Dismantling of blockages continues. At the scene of the accident, 5 teams of rescuers, 20 ambulance brigades and three helicopters work, Vesti.ru report. The explosion at the mine occurred in the afternoon of Monday in local time in underground production. The mine where the explosion thundered is located about 50 kilometers south of the city of Charleston.

“After four times the increase in the expenses of the federal budget in real terms, we will have a decade without an increase in expenses. At some point, we will even have to reduce expenses in real terms,” said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, speaking at the Higher School of Economics. In his opinion, by 2015, a decrease in expenses can be up to 20% of the current level.

The outstanding Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman became the hero of the song. Rap about Perelman reads the Moscow team "Step", reports Life News . The name of Grigory Perelman appeared in news headlines when a mathematician from St. Petersburg stirred up the world public, saying that he was thinking about whether to take the prize of the millennium awarded to him a prize of one million dollars awarded to him by the Mathematical Institute.

Viktor Yanukovych considers the policy of “non -block” in the field of national security and defense the most adequate and honest response to the geopolitical situation in which Ukraine was, UNIAN reports . “In my opinion, the most adequate and honest response to the geopolitical situation in which Ukraine is located today is located,” Yanukovych, ”in my opinion.

Polit.ru represents the next program “Neutral territory. Position 201 ” with the hope of Delaland. The conversation is led by Leonid Kostyukov . Moscow, Cafe "Neutral Territory" Here, Nadezhda Dlander reads poems: Kostyukov: Good afternoon. Our guest is Nadia Delaland, poet and philologist - so we will say. Nadia, good afternoon. Delaland: Good afternoon. K.: Nadia, the question is such, I think that you expected him to some extent.

In the fall, Dmitry Medvedev ordered the officials to leave the posts of the heads of sports federations. And today, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov suddenly agrees to head the Russian Olympic Committee. His colleague in the office, the head of the Ministry of Sports Mutko, in a recent interview, fought with plans for the reform of his own department.