In the coming days in Moscow, warming will continue. This was reported to " Interfax " in the Hydrometeorological Department of Moscow and the Moscow Region. According to weather forecasts, at the beginning of next week, air in the capital may warm up to 20 degrees of heat. As for the coming days, on Thursday in Moscow in the afternoon the air will warm up to 7-9 degrees. In addition, precipitation is still possible during the day, but weather forecasters promise that from Friday they will stop.

From April 17 to 19, 2012 in St. Petersburg in the LenExpo exhibition complex, the forum of suppliers of the nuclear industry Atomex North-West will be held, held at the initiative of the Rosatom State Corporation. The purpose of the forum is the development of a competitive environment, attracting more suppliers of equipment and services, to continue the established dialogue between suppliers, representatives of contracting organizations of the nuclear industry and customers.

Returning from Cuba, the resident of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that his struggle with cancer has seriously advanced after the third session of radiation therapy, which he took place in Havana, reports BBC . Upon arrival, Chavez went to the Presidential Palace, where he and his political allies discussed the coup of a decade ago, when he was removed from the post of head of state for several days.

During the report of the Prime Minister before the State Duma, pride in the growth of industrial production. An analysis of real statistics shows that the joy was somewhat untimely. The growth of industrial production in Russia is fading. If in 2010 the production of industrial products increased by 8%, then in the past 2011 industrial production increased only 4.7%.

In Moscow, a meeting of the round table “Open Tribune: Expenses of officials - under control”, which discusses the law on monitoring the income of officials and the long -standing measures to combat corruption. Further measures of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the moderator of the discussion Oleg Morozov called the "war", in which the whole society would take part.

The new head of the Japanese company Sony, Casuro Hirai, announced the dismissal of 10 thousand employees as part of the reorganization, which began due to losses incurred by the company last year, Bloomberg reports. According to him, the measure will help increase the efficiency of Sony . At the same time, the abbreviations will take place during the year. As the agency notes, at the moment the company is operating 168.2 thousand people.

The space industry, according to the authorities, is one of the priority. Innovation, world leadership, investment - sounds attractive. And we are building cosmodrome. In fact, however, it seems that space is more ideological than an economically calculated project.

The first prototype of the Selelenokhod, the first prototype of the Selelenokhod private lunar, participating in the Google Lunar X Prize, will be created this summer, the executive director of the developer Sergei Sedykh told RIA Novosti . He and his colleagues are the only Russian team that participates in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, whose prize fund is $ 30 million.

Supporters of Socialist -Revolutionary Oleg Shein, who officially lost the elections in Astrakhan, tried on Thursday evening to defeat the tent camp on the lawn in the Kirov Square, but were dispersed by the police, the RIA Novosti website reports. In the past Wednesday, starving mattresses were laid out on the lawn and a promotion was held on the street. Several times about this, they had conflicts with the police.

On the night of April 12, one of the victims of the plane crash near Tyumen died in the hospital the RIA website reports Novosti . , It was a resident of Omsk, Lyudmila Volkova, born in 1954. V Olkova had extensive injuries: brain contusion, closed chest injury, pneumothorax and pulmonary contusion. Doctors performed three operations on the victim, but they could not save her. According to Interfax , the patient died without regaining consciousness.

Supporters of the former candidate for the mayors of Astrakhan, who, according to official figures, lost the elections, Oleg Shein, starving from March 16, began to drink juice. This was announced on Twitter by the activist of the "Society of the Blue Vederos" Danila Lindel. It is noted that the partial cessation of the hunger strike was the response to the joint decision of the CEC and the Prosecutor General’s Office, along with the starving videos from surveillance cameras in polling stations.

The number of natural fires operating in Russia increased by a third per day - from 32 to 49 centers, the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation reported on April 12. And last day, 102 foci of natural fires on an area of ​​1,893.9 hectares arose in Russia, 85 foci were extinguished for 1,062.8 hectares. “It continues to operate 49 centers, the area of ​​active burning is 19.75 hectares, all fires operate on the lands of the forest fund,” the release says.

As part of the privatization of urban property, the capital’s authorities intend to put up for the sale of the State Unitary Enterprise “Moscow House of the Book”, the main asset of which is the famous book of the book on New Arbat, the Marker portal reports. The cost of MDK has not yet been determined, but they plan to carry out bidding before the end of this year. At the same time, large publishers interested in their own trading platform may be the main applicants for the purchase.

A strong earthquake occurred on Thursday in the Mexican state of Sonor in the north of the country. Its magnitude was 7.1, reports Reuters with reference to the US Geological Service. According to the agency, the hearth lay at a depth of 9.9 kilometers. Also on Thursday it became known that five people became victims of earthquakes in Indonesia.

The police did not allow Ulyanovsk Communists to continue the protest against the deployment of NATO transport hub in the city, RIA Novosti reports.