Yes, we must use the capabilities that the system provides 48 % No, this he helped the authorities to give this election of competitive 19 % His participation or non -participation does not solve anything 33 % The survey is not a scientific research, reflects the opinions of only its participants

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) suggested that the eight -hour working day has a biological basis. Scientists analyzed the frequency with which the expression of genes in the mouse is turned on. It turned out that the maximum peaks of activity occur once every 24 hours. As Professor John Hogenesch notes, this is not surprising, since the body is adjusted to the daily rhythm. But scientists found that there are two more inside the daily cycle.

Armenians around the world today honor the memory of one and a half million victims of the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The day before, about five thousand people spent a march with torches and candles in the Werewan Pull. On the night of April 23, a joint statement of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Turkey and the intermediary in their negotiations - Switzerland was published that Yerevan and Ankara agreed to normalize bilateral relations.

In Latvia, the president first used his constitutional law and held an emergency closed meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. The correspondent of Radio Liberty Mikhail Bombin reports. Secrets are due to the extremely critical position in which the Latvian state turned out to be. The main topic is the secret report of the Presidential Strategic Analysis Commission. The report refers to the seriousness of the situation: by the fall - more than 120 thousand unemployed will be left without benefits.

In three areas of Chechnya , the regime of a counter -terrorism operation (KO) is again introduced . According to Vladimir Patrin, the head of the Joint Press Center in Chechnya, there is evidence that militants plan terrorist attacks in Shalinsky, Shato and Vedensk regions. According to Patrin, in April 10 bases of extremists and six hiding places with weapons were discovered in these areas, three militants were detained.

The program is conducted by Yuri Zhigalkin. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Washington Allan Davydov takes part. Yuri Zhigalkin: Will the highest employees of the George Bush administration become the object of criminal prosecution for their decision to approve the strict forms of inquiry in cases of terrorism? Although President Obama does not directly talk about this, such a turn of events, according to lawyers, is not excluded.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that during the clashes between the opposition and the police on Friday night, one police officer received serious injuries. As the Radio Liberty correspondent George Kobaladze reports, on the eve of the opposition tried to interfere with President Mikhail Saakashvili when he had lunch in a prestigious restaurant. A skirmish began, which soon grew into a mass fight. Two young people are arrested.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. Radio Radio Liberty Mumin Shakirov and Gennady Shlyakhov take part. Kirill Kobrin: Today is the last day when in Sochi you can conduct election campaign. In ballots for voting there are 6 out of 9 registered candidates. These are two entrepreneurs - Vladimir Trukhanovsky and Pavel Emelianenko, co -chair of the Solidarity movement Boris Nemtsov, LDPR representative Alexei Kolesnikov, communist Yuri Dzagania and member of United Russia Anatoly Pakhomov.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Seninsky takes part. Kirill Kobrin: In 2009, Russia will have to pay $ 152 billion to serve external debt, the Central Bank said. For comparison, this is 40% of the volume of current gold and foreign exchange reserves of the country.

The arrest of the former mayor of Saratov Yuri Aksenenko was extended until the end of June. Thus, the court granted the prosecution. The ex-mayor of Saratov is accused of excess of official powers. It is reported that as a result of its actions, the city budget caused damage worth more than 11 million rubles. Yuri Aksenenko was the mayor of Saratov from 1996 to 2006.

In Iraq, at least 78 people died on Thursday as a result of two terrorist attacks. Both explosions were committed by suicide bombers after the military announced the arrest of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of the extremist Sunni organization, Islamic State Iraq, associated with al-Qaeda. During the explosion in the restaurant of the city of El Mikdady, at least 47 people were killed north-east of Baghdad, 55 were injured. Among the victims are several Iranian pilgrims.

Irina Lagunina: Environmental Defenders around the world celebrated Earth Day. It is believed that the custom of celebrating the Earth Day was born in America when, in 1840, journalist John Sterling Morton moved to Nepobraska with his endless prairie. Morton and his wife took up the planting of trees and deployed a campaign to propagate landscaping. They suggested establishing the day when all the inhabitants of Nebraski would plant trees, and call it the day of the tree.