Opposition protests in Tbilisi, April 2009 The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Tbilisi George Kobaladze takes part. Andrey Shary: In Tbilisi, tens of thousands of supporters of the opposition rally in front of the parliament building. The opposition requires the resignation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and states that the protest rally will be unlimited.

Opposition demonstration in Tbilisi, April 2009 The program is maintained by Andrei Shari. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Tbilisi George Kobaladze takes part. Andrey Shary: In Tbilisi, tens of thousands of opposition supporters today reached the rally in front of the parliament building. The opposition requires the resignation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and states that the protest rally will be unlimited.

Efim Fishtein: On April 12, 1961, the first orbital flight of the Earth took place with the Soviet spacecraft Vostok. He was piloted by Yuri Gagarin, who had risen during the flight to the title of Major of the Air Force. Since then, on April 12, it has been celebrated in the USSR, and then in Russia as the day of astronautics.

Speaking against separatist trends in Abkhazia 10 % A rally demanding the separation of Georgia from the USSR 69 % An attempt to seize state power 21 % The survey is not a scientific research, reflects the opinions of only its participants

The Moldavian Police uses all the necessary measures, including weapons, to protect the constitutional system, the Prime Minister of the country Zinaida Grechanaya on the eve of the new protests warrior. In a television show, Greek urged not to let children go to the upcoming manifestations on Friday. According to the prime minister, children are used to arrange new riots, and this, according to Greek, can lead to victims. The unrest in Chisinau began after the parliamentary elections.

Sochi beaches this summer will cost 20 percent more expensive than Turkish On the eve of the summer vacation season, Russian tour operators fear that the number of "organized" vacationers on the Black Sea coast of the country will decrease by almost a third. Despite the devaluation of the ruble, the cost of rest in Russian resorts exceeds foreign offers of a similar level by 20-25 percent, the market participants indicate.

279 people, according to the latest data, died as a result of an earthquake in Italy, which occurred on Monday night. According to the country's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, among the victims - 20 children and adolescents. The police of the region of Abruzzo, the most injured from the elements, previously stated that from 20 to 30 people are considered missing, out of more than a thousand wounded during an earthquake, about 180 people remain in serious condition.

On April 14, Microsoft stops the "main support" of the Windows XP operating system and the Office 2003 business application package. As part of the main support, the corporation distributes security updates, error correction and advises customers. After April 14, the “extended support” stage of Windows XP will come, which will last until August 4, 2014.

Marian Lupa made reporters a kind of tour of the defeated building of parliament In Chisinau, where on Tuesday, April 7, mass riots occurred, the situation is calm. There were reports about the preparatory large opposition performances scheduled for tomorrow, but who distributed them is unknown. The official results of the parliamentary elections were led to the protests, according to which the ruling party of the Communists won.

Sergey Stankevich On April 4, 1989, thousands of people gathered at the Government House and demanded that Georgia leave the USSR. Among the organizers of the action were such bright figures of the Georgian opposition as Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Merab Kostava and Giya Canturia. To suppress speeches, troops were introduced into the city. April 9, the military applied force. As a result of panic and mass crush, 19 rally participants died.

The leader of North Korea Kim Jong Il was re -elected by the country's parliament to the post of head of the State Defense Committee - the actual supreme authority of the DPRK. It is still unclear whether the North Korean leader himself was present at a meeting of the parliament. It was postponed for several months. The reason was, according to South Korean and Western analysts, the poor health status of 67-year-old Kim Jong Ira, who, in the summer, allegedly suffered a stroke.

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Ir, presides at the country's new parliament that opened on Thursday. The video recording of the beginning of the meeting was shown on the state television of the DPRK. This is the first appearance of Kim Jong Ira at a large public event since the summer of last year, when he, according to the special services of a number of states and analysts, suffered a stroke.

In Azerbaijan on Thursday, a journalist was released from imprisonment Mirza Sakit, reports Radio Liberty in Baku Farid Arifoglu. Mirza Sakit was released under the parliament of amnesty, declared on March 18. He was sentenced to three -year imprisonment in October 2006 on charges of drug storage.