The rain and fog again delayed the landing of the Discovery space shuttle in Florida, the Air Force reports . While the landing is laid out by five and a half hours, however, if the weather does not improve, then Discovery will be redirected to California. Discovery made a 15-day flight to replenish stocks at the International Space Station.

The report of the head of government was a significant event. Putin talked a lot about the economy, or rather about how brilliantly the country survived the crisis. And a special role in this belongs to the financial authorities and personally to the Minister of Finance Kudrin. The opposition was in duty by Kudrin, but for some reason the role of the main enemy was assigned to Luzhkov.

The details of the hacking of the American Google search engine with hackers became known - the attackers got the GAIA program, which controls access to most search engines. About this writes The New York Times. In particular, the program that went to Chinese hackers ensures the safety of email and company services for corporate clients. However, the attackers could not break the passwords directly.

All Finland airports will remain closed, at least until 15:00 on Greenwich Tuesday, the Air Force reports with reference to the representative of Finavia. The reason, as in the previous few days, is the ash cloud hanging over Europe after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano. On Monday, the airspace of Finland was open for several hours.

Vice-mayor of Kandahar Azizulla Yarmal was shot dead last night in a mosque, where he made prayer along with dozens of other believers. The killers managed to hide. The spokesman for the Governor of the province of Kandar Zalmai Ayubi said that the rebels penetrated the mosque during the service. As a rule, the level of security in the mosques is low - the places of worship are open to visitors, writes Afghanistan.ru .

In June, President Dmitry Medvedev will be submitted for approval by the State Armament State Program for 2011-2020. This was stated by the chief of weapons of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Popovkin. According to him, weapons samples that do not meet modern requirements will not be included in the new state program. These, for example, are unmarked combat vehicles of the BMP-3 or BTR-80 infantry with an uncomfortable side output for the landing, the Vedomosti notes.

On April 20, the installation of stands and posting posters for Victory Day, including with the image of Stalin, begins in Moscow. The Moscow authorities say that out of two thousand posters, Stalin will be depicted only for ten. The stands are dismantled a few days after May 9, the Echo of Moscow reports. As it became known earlier, Stalin will be depicted on them along with ordinary soldiers, collective farmers, as well as rear workers.

The Russian and Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science planned to hold in April-May in all schools of Ukraine and Russia a "Unified Lesson of Memory", dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In Ukraine, this will happen for the first time since 2007 - the previous leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science did not initiate such events, writes Kommersant -Ukraine .

Tomorrow dozens of heads of international companies working in Russia will take on the obligation not to participate in corruption schemes, Writes Vedomosti . The initiative came from several large German companies, the newspaper was told by the newspaper by Michael Harms, Chairman of the Board of the Russian-German Foreign Trade (RGVP). They became interested in what exactly they could do in order to get rid of corruption doing business in Russia.

The International Court in Strasbourg refused the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan to extradition of the ex-head of BTA-Bank JSC Mukhtar Ablyazov and six more people-the former first deputy chairman of the Bank of the Bank, Chairman of the credit committee of Zhaksylyk Zhamarimbetov, ex-chairman of the board of Roman Solodchenko, former head of the corporate business department Veronika Efimova, and Also, employees of the bank Rifat Rizoev, Bulat Karimov and Zhanna Akhmedyarova - who,

Gennady Gorelik The history of the creation of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb was strictly classified until the 1990s. The author of the invention was considered the Akademic physicist Andrei Sakharov, exiled by the Soviet regime for free thought. However, when after the death of Sakharov his memories were published, it turned out that another physicist participated in the project - Vitaly Ginzburg.

The scandal erupted in the Polish media: one of the publications, referring to the investigation, wrote that the Tu-154, which broke up near Smolensk, was “cries of horror from the passenger compartment” on the film from the Black Box. And the Prosecutor General of Poland said that the pilot prayed before the collision with the ground, writes MK .

"What does the state expect from culture? Firstly, works that can raise the patriotic spirit of the people, brightly and honestly show the whole world the past and present of Belarus, create images of true national heroes. Secondly, careful and painstaking work to preserve our heritage.

General of the FSKN Alexander Bulbov does not exclude that he will be arrested again. As it became known, two new criminal cases were brought against Bulbov - under the articles “Fraud” and “Excess of official powers”. In an interview with Echo of Moscow, Bulbov expressed confidence that both cases would be scattered in court and that he does not intend to hide from the investigation.

Polit.ru presents the next program “Neutral Territory. Position 201" with Sergei Shabutsky. The conversation is conducted by Leonid Kostyukov . Moscow, cafe "Neutral Territory" Kostyukov: The first question is: in your opinion, the main quality of a poem. What makes a poem a poem? One main quality or several main qualities. What should it be like, in your opinion? Shabutsky: First of all, it seems to me that it should not be formalized.