Kommersant interviewed the head of the department of President Vladimir Kozhin. Other media noted him, alas, in Kutz. They cite Kozhin's reasoning about the extent to which UDP (probably, you can afford such an abbreviation) is connected with the palace in Gelendzhik. But this is unfair, because Kozhin is beautiful even in a retelling, which will now follow. First of all, at the expense of the workshop of work with different words of Kozhin himself.

The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading the anti-corruption bill, establishing fines that are multiples of the bribe. The Duma correspondent of Polit.ru, Lev Fainberg, reported this on Wednesday, April 20. Now the criminal code provides for liability for a simple bribe (up to 150 thousand rubles) and a large bribe (over 150 thousand).

Masha Fedorenko On April 19, before a public conversation about charity, the pianist Nikolai Kurdyumov played Bach's preludes from the “well -tempered clavier” cycle. There were four interlocutors: the presenter Tatyana Malkina, the doctor and director of the Fair Assistance Foundation Elizabeth Glinka, known as Dr. Lisa, Tatyana Tulchinskaya, director of the charity fund for assistance to orphans here and now, and Irina Yasina, an economist and public figure. There were few people.

The fate of the contract for the purchase of French helicopter carriers “Mistral” can be decided today at a meeting of representatives of both parties. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" a source in the Russian defense industry complex. According to the interlocutor of the agency, negotiations are moving with great difficulty. First of all, the parties look differently at the completion of treachermen.

Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the deputy chief of the public security of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Moscow, the commander of riot police Vyacheslav Haustov. The president signed the corresponding decree on Wednesday, April 20, according to the Kremlin website. In addition to Haustov, several other leading employees of the internal affairs bodies were relieved of their posts.

Vladimir Putin, speaking in the State Duma with a report on the work of the government, spoke about the program of loans created by Vnesheconombank and his partners. It will make it possible to get a loan for the purchase of housing in a new building at 11 % per annum. This program will work at full capacity in 2011-2012, funds were already reserved in the VEB to provide it. Putin noted that in 2011, according to the government, 540-580 billion rubles for mortgage loans will be issued.

Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bott, accused of illegal weapon trade, did not file any complaints to the American court, his wife Alla Buti said on Wednesday of RIA Novosti . Earlier, the Associated Press reported that the Russian filed an official complaint against the actions of the American intelligence services during his stay in the Thai prison.

In the clashes of demonstrators with the police in the Libyan Misrat, a journalist died, April 20 reports. Three more journalists were injured, and one of them - the photographer of the Getty Images agency - is extremely serious. The name of the deceased journalist is not yet called, because his family was not received for this. Getty Images photographer, 41-year-old Chris Hondros is in serious condition. The remaining two journalists received slight injuries.

Layd on the morning of April 19, 2011, on the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science, the third project of the State Standard for high school was very cut after the Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko met on April 19 with President Dmitry Medvedev, writes today, April 20, Kommersant . Medvedev told Fursenko that “the approaches to the exam are formed” and the single state exam “showed itself as a normal way of testing knowledge”.

It is known that some changes took place in the theoretical part of the EP. So, the place of A.chadaev was taken by M. Remizov. What Chadaev did-I can’t say, related to the EP strategy. Doubt here has no derogatory and, in general, emotional shade - I just don’t know, because this work is naturally opaque. And some bursts of Chadaev’s feelings in LJ do not give reason to extrapolate them for all his work.

The price of gold for the first time in history overcame the psychological barrier of $ 1.5 thousand for ounce. It is reported on April 20 CNN . At noon on Tuesday, the price per ounce was $ 1,500.50. According to experts, gold has risen in price due to disappointing forecasts about the American state budget. On Monday, the Standard & Poor's International rating agency has changed the forecast for the long -term US rating from the “stable” to “negative”.

On April 26 at 20:00, a public conversation with the participation of Evgeny Roizman was held in the Polytechnic lecture. The transcript of the conversation is here . Evgeny Roizman is a poet, deputy of the State Duma of the 4th convocation, director of the City without drugs. Topic: "Salvation and/or violence." Over the past 10 years, the number of Russians registered as patients with drug addiction has increased by almost 60%.

16.00‑16.20 Martynov Kirill Konstantinovich (Ph.D. in Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, "Russian Journal"). Will blogs and social media lead to social transformation?

The American Cassini interplanetary probe (Cassini) discovered a “power line” between the Saturn and its ice satellite Enshalada, one of the oldest and most authoritative British general scientific magazines Nature reports. In its article, an international group of scientists spoke about the constant electrodynamic stream of ions and electrons that connects these celestial bodies. Previously, similar processes were found in the Lun system of Jupiter.

Consortium Aar (Alfa Group, Access Industries, Renova), which owns half the TNK-BP holding, is not going to sell its share in the company. On Wednesday, April 20, the co -owner of the consortium Viktor Vekselberg said, RIA Novosti reports. Answering the question whether Russian shareholders of TNK-BP are considering the possibility of selling their share in the holding, Vekselberg answered negatively. According to him, he does not plan to leave TNK-BP.