At the Russian factory, the American automobile company Ford Motor, in the Leningrad Region, today will be assembled a 100,000th Ford Focus model. The plant was opened in 2002.

The program is conducted by Nikita Tatar. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Kyiv Vladimir Ivakhnenko takes part. Nikita Tatarsky: 20 years ago, on the night of April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the fourth power unit. In Ukraine alone, more than three million people suffered from the accident, about 135 thousand inhabitants of a 30-kilometer zone around the reactor were forced to leave their homes.

The Spanish conservatives arranged a kind of political show near the parliament building in Madrid, who opposed the return of their historical rights to the national outskirts, lost during the years of the totalitarian dictatorship of General Franco. According to Madrid Viktor Cheretsky, in the morning the main entrance to the parliament was blocked by boxes delivered here at 10 vans.

In the NHL, the next meetings of the 1/8 finals of the Stanley Cup draw took place. In the Eastern Conference, Ottawa came forward in a series with Tampa, winning the third match - 8: 4. In the Western conference, the winner of the Detroit regular championship, yielding to Edmonton during the meeting - 1: 3, was able to equalize the score, but in the second overtime he missed the puck and eventually lost - 3: 4. “Kalgary” defeated “Anaheim”-5: 2, and “San Jose”-“Nashville”-4: 1.

The next matches of the NBA playoffs took place on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday for Moscow time. In the Eastern Conference, New Jersey won the Indiana-90:75 and equalized the score in the series-1: 1. It is noteworthy that in this game the judge was Violet Palmer, the only female Arbitrator of the NBA, and this is her first performance in the playoffs. “Washington” defeated “Cleveland” - 89:84, in this series the account is also equal - 1: 1.

In Tomsk today, Russian-German consultations are held at the highest level. Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of the government of the two countries will arrive in the Siberian city. The main topics of discussion are cooperation in the economic, political, humanitarian and scientific fields.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld arrived in Baghdad - a curious visit in advance followed the appointment of a new head of the Iraqi government. The newly knocked prime minister Javad al-Malika had already warned Iraqi armed groups that they would have to lay down their weapons. Speaking on television, he emphasized that the very existence of different political forces of armed detachments threatens the country with a civil war.

The authorities of the Palestinian autonomy report the deepening of the financial crisis - the money promised to him still remain in the Arab countries. According to the Palestinian Minister of Finance, banks are afraid of repressive measures from the United States. After coming to power in the autonomy of the extremist group Hamas, the European Union and the United States froze financial assistance to the Palestinians.

In the first match of the final of the Russian Basketball Championship among women's teams, Samara VBM-SGAU defeated the UMMK from Yekaterinburg-79:60. And in the series for the third place where the Moscow Dynamo plays and the Spartak submissive, the first meeting was won by the basketball players of the Moscow team - 71:68. The series will last up to 3 victories of one of the teams.

Human Raits Uchch's human rights organization called on US President George Bush to demand from the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to conduct democratic reforms in the country. On Friday, Aliyev meets Bush in Washington. Huuman Raits Uchch calls on the US president to demand the termination of the persecution of the opposition and the implementation of reforms that would allow to hold honest elections in Azerbaijan.

The jury in the California capital Sacramento found the US citizen guilty of supporting terrorists. 23-year-old Hamid Hayat three years ago underwent training in the al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan. On the same day, another court considered the case of Father Hayat, also a US citizen. However, due to the fact that the jury could not make a unanimous decision, the judge was forced to terminate the consideration of the case.

During the drilling of an oil well on the North Sea, Norwegian geologists discovered bone remains belonging to the lizard of Plateosaurus. The remains were found in a cave at a depth of more than two thousand meters below the level of the seabed. At such a depth, the remains of dinosaurs have never been found. This area was once the surface of the land, and rivers flowed along it. Plarazaurs lived in Europe and Greenland about two hundred million years ago.

In Moscow on Red Square, 13 activists of the Greenpeace movement were detained, conducting an unauthorized action dedicated to the anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Several journalists who illuminated the action were detained. Greenpeace activists picked themselves to the lattice of the Blessed Vasily Temple. They were wearing a T -shirt with the inscription "No - Chernobyls!"

In laboratory experiments on mice, scientists of the University of Ohio (Ohio state university) found that the quartz nanoparticles introduced into the body of the animal can be detected by irradiation of ultrasound. Observation of the concentration of nanoparticles inside the body can show that the growth of some cells gets out of control.