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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

The emergence of private spacecraft and orbital hotels can reduce the price of a tour of the Turning orbit by several times, from 40-60 to $ 15 million, which will significantly expand the circle of potential space tourists, says Sergey Kostenko, head of the Russian representative office of Space Adventures. The company participated in the organization of flights of seven space tourists at the ISS.

The Big Twenty summit, which in 2013 will accept St. Petersburg, will be held in the Konstantinovsky Palace. This was stated by the manager of the President Vladimir Kozhin, the website of RIA Novosti reports. According to him, preparation for the summit has already begun. “We feel calm due to the fact that we have such a complex in Strelna. And we are sure that we will conduct the summit very worthy, modern, while St.

Somali pirates received modern weapons, including mines and manual mortars, from Libya, and probably use it when attacks on ships, reports Reuters with reference to the senior analyst on marine security issues of the African Center for the Study and Research of Terrorism, Judith Van Derva. “We found that Libyan weapons are sold on the black market and Somali pirates are among buyers,” she emphasized.

The parties in Syria on Thursday morning comply with an agreement on the cessation of violence prepared by the UN specialist and Lag Kofi Annan, reports Reuters with reference to representatives of the Syrian opposition groups. As reported, in accordance with the plan of resolving the Syrian crisis, the edge of the termination of acts of violence and the ceasefire by all parties to the intra -Syrian conflict occurred at 06:00 local time.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin considers it necessary to develop a national strategy for the development of cosmodromes for the long term. The prime minister stated this, speaking at a meeting on the development of Russian cosmodromes. “I note that in 2012, about 150 billion rubles were allocated for the implementation of space programs from the federal budget, including more than 40.5 billion for the development of cosmodromes.

According to the results of the first month of the fight against fires in Russian forests, the Greenpeace of Russia sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation on the need to take urgent measures to cancel licensing extinguishing forest fires A letter published at the Greenpeace Forest Forum said that the first month of the fire hazard season of 2012 showed that the unreasonable, unreasonable and unprepared introduction of licensing activities to extinguish forest fires