A 48-year-old resident of Reutov for five days kept his daughter on a chain, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Moscow Region said on April 19. In the circumstances of the incident, the investigating authorities of Balashikha will be sorted out. The message about the parents forcibly held by the parents in the apartment was received by the law enforcement agencies of Reutov on April 18. The investigator, who arrived at the scene, freed the girl.

On April 18, the Laureates of the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious American award for journalists, were announced in New York. In 2011, more than a thousand journalistic works were submitted to the competition, and awards were awarded in 14 nominations. According to observers and experts, the American press concentrated mainly on internal problems.

The US Federal Aviation Administration fired the dispatcher for watching the film during work, reports on Tuesday, April 19, ABC . Instead of carefully monitoring the situation in the sky, the dispatcher in Oberlin, Ohio, watched the film “Cleaner” with Samuel L. Jackson. The dispatcher failed his carelessness.

Apple is suing Samsung: Steve Jobs seemed to be a competitor’s products suspiciously resembles iPhone and iPad. Apple is unlikely to achieve success, unless once again the messenger “only we are original” will push through. With increasing competition and this will be a good result. Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, accusing the South Korean company that Samsung Galaxy mobile phones and tablet computers violate patent rights and Apple trademarks.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0”-a joint project of the information and analytical channel “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. The guest of the program is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, a researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics named after M.V. Keldysh RAS, senior researcher at the Research Institute of Normal Physiology P.K.

The Syrian government adopted a bill, canceling a state of emergency in the country introduced in 1963, reports on Tuesday, April 19, Al Jazeera . The government also liquidated the state security court, which was responsible for political crimes, and resolved peace demonstrations. The president of the country Bashar Assad has yet to sign this law, but, as lawyers believe, this is already a formality.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Moscow Football Club Spartak Leonid Fedun is configured to name the name of the new head coach of the team in the next Thursday. “Most likely, the name of the coach will be named on Thursday,” according to RIA Novosti , DEMENS said this phrase on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Over 100 people died over the past two days due to shelling of al-Jabal al-Garbi controlled by the rebels of the Libyan district southwest of the capital of Tripoli. The shelling committed government troops, the Agence France-Presse reports with reference to eyewitnesses. “Gaddafi’s battalions did not stop the shelling of the region, first of all, the cities of Efren and Nalut by the Grad missiles.

An entertainment center will be built at the “Transval-Park” site, Interfax reports. The planned construction was announced by the first deputy prefect of the South-Western District of Moscow, Lyubov Fanyaeva. She noted that the center will be focused on a family vacation. Among other things, they plan to build a pool in it. The customer of the construction was the company "Alliance-Media", and the developer-the company "European Technologies and Service", the former investor "Transvaal Park".

United Russia is preparing documents for official registration in the Ministry of Justice of the Russia forward! ", The purpose of which is the consolidation of people who support the course of President Dmitry Medvedev for modernization. Previously, a request for traffic registration with the same name and program was submitted by a group of politicians, headed by the State Duma deputy, “Just Russia” Gennady Gudkov, writes Kommersant .

A project for the development of the Central Federal District was included in the government until 2020, prepared by the Ministry of Regional Development. According to the proposed strategy, if the economy is modernized in the Central Federal District and the social sphere is informatized, the average monthly income in Moscow will increase by 2020 to 110 thousand rubles. In 2010, according to the Ministry of Regional Development, he amounted to 48,300 rubles in the capital.

More than 70 percent of tickets have been sold for the World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow. This was announced by the head of the capital’s department of physical culture and sports, Alexey Vorobyov, referred to by RIA Novosti . According to Vorobyov, in the first three days of free sales, the championship organizers managed to sell about 16.5 thousand tickets, and a total of 26.887 thousand were sold, which is 71.7 percent of their total number.

On April 19, 1971, at 04 hours 39 minutes of Moscow time from the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Proton-K missile with the DOS-1 station (long-term orbital station number one) with the inscription “Zarya” on board. In the open press, it received the name "salute". So, as the Cosmonautics News wrote, the flight of the world's first long -term manned orbital station began. In the creation of these stations, the Soviet Union overtook the United States for two years and one month.

The American space agency NASA will allocate to four private companies the amount from 22 to 92.3 million dollars as part of the second stage of the program for the development of a private manned ship (Commercial Crew Development, CCDEV2), the agency’s website reports. In return, they must move on to detailed design of structures and elements of systems of both the ship itself and its launch means.

Russia will allocate 45 million euros for the implementation of Chernobyl projects, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced on April 19 by the Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, who took part in the Kyiv conference for the fundraising for the Chernobyl project "Shelter". The funds will be transferred to the Ukrainian side during 2011-2012.