Rafael Harutyunyan , First Deputy Director of the Institute of Problems of Safe Development of Nuclear Energy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences The development of atomic energy is not associated with any circumstances, but with fundamental things that played their role as they play and will play. 10 leading countries of the world produce 80% of atomic electricity.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked representatives of United Russia to refrain from commenting on the coming presidential elections in 2012. The words of the party leader from a meeting with the leadership of United Russia are reported by ITAR-TASS . “I ask you not to talk about it, not to be excited about this, it will be next year, everyone needs to work in their places,” Putin said.

The Moscow City Court calls for not to escalate the situation around the sentence issued by the chairman of the Khamovnichesky court, Viktor Danilkin, ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev. This was reported by Interfax from the words of press secretary Anna Usacheva.

Rosneft is not yet looking for a partner who could be replaced by BP, does not discuss this issue and hopes for a “reasonable solution to the issue between Cyprus shareholders and BP,” Rosneft President Eduard Khudaintov told reporters. Today, April 15, he met with the head of BP Robert Dudley, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, the Aar consortium (Alpha Group/Access Industries/Renova)-BP partner for the Russian-British TNK-BP-insists that the BP replaces BP in the transaction with Rosneft.

The election campaign in the country should be used for the development of Russia. This was stated by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of United Russia. The meeting discussed the upcoming election campaign in the State Duma, Interfax reports. “As for the presidential election campaign, I ask you not to talk about it, not to be excited about this, this will be next year, everyone needs to work in their places,” Putin said.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office found 226 underground gambling clubs, information about which was posted on the Internet. This was reported on Friday, April 15, on the official website of the department. In total, 628 addresses were checked. Measures to suppress the activities of gambling clubs were held in Moscow, the Leningrad Region, the Stavropol Territory, the Republic of Dagestan and other regions.

The number of victims of the terrorist attack in the Minsk metro that occurred on April 11, 2011 increased to 13 people, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Health of Belarus. Recall, an explosion in Minsk, on the platform of the Oktyabrskaya metro station, thundered at 17:54, in the evening rush hour. He was such a power that in the concrete floor of the platform, a through funnel formed.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate checked how Flora spent money allocated for the construction of a ring road (KAD). It turned out that more than 211 million rubles for the construction of the site of the Kad from the Narva highway to the village of Bronka and the transport interchange with the Narva highway were stolen. A criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale has been opened, the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

The report was prepared based on materials from 103 in -depth interviews with the leaders of non -governmental organizations and civil associations in 6 large Russian cities in October 2010 - February 2011. The study was conducted with the support of The Ned. Introduction The study is based on a discussion about whether in Russian society itself there are grounds for changes and democratization. The questions that the researchers put in front of themselves can be formulated as follows.

The second regional forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry "Atomux-Sever-West" will be held in St. Petersburg on April 19-21. The purpose of the forum is to increase the efficient use of resources in the construction and operation of atomic energy facilities of the North-West region of Russia, in particular, under construction of the Leningrad NPP-2, the Baltic NPP, the Kalinin NPP-4, as well as structures intended for the withdrawal of nuclear and radiation-hazardous objects.

Masha Fedorenko On April 14, at 9 a.m., an acquittal was sentenced to Alexander Kalistratov, who was accused of entering the organization of “Jehovah's Witnesses” and thus allegedly brings up religious hatred. The state prosecutor demanded the sentence of the defendant by 160 hours of compulsory work. But the judge did not find a crime in the case of a crime. On the same day in the afternoon, in an independent press center, a press conference was held on this topic.

On Friday, April 15, information on the income and property of the capital's officials for 2010 was published on the official website of the Moscow Government. The Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin earned 4.76 million rubles for the specified period. The mayor owns the Jeep Cherokee car, in addition, uses an apartment of 308 square meters for a free of charge. Sobyanin and his wife also own another apartment and garage.

Islamists and supporters of King Abdullah II clashed in Jordan, resulting in dozens of people being injured, including 40 police officers. This was reported on Friday, April 15, by AFP , citing local police. About 350 Salafis - representatives of the fundamentalist movement in Islam, officially banned in Jordan - organized a demonstration in the square in front of the mosque in the city of Zarqa.

One of the motives of the performer of the terrorist attack in Minsk was “rejection for people”, Oleg Kotenev, an employee of the Anti -Terrorism Center of the KGB Anti -Terrorism Center, said on April 14 on April 14. In addition, the criminal revealed a "hypertrophied sense of self -significance." In the case of the explosion in the Minsk metro, five people were detained, one of them considers the investigation a direct crime executor.

The European University in St. Petersburg opened an acceptance of applications from young teachers to participate in a three-year school on the topic “Health Economics: Global approach”. The program is financed by the Open Society (Budapest) Institute and provides for summer, autumn and winter classes during 2011-2014. This was reported on the University website . The deadline for filing applications is May 1, 2011.