Former editor -in -chief of Nature magazine John Meddox In April, a legendary scientific journalist, former editor -in -chief of Nature magazine, John Meddox, passed away. Over the long years, during which the Meddox headed the Nature magazine, he managed not only to turn this magazine into a global phenomenon, but also to change the idea of how scientists can talk about science.

The International Monetary Fund approved the allocation of Romania of a loan with the size of $ 17.1 billion to stabilize the country's financial system. The first tranche will be more than $ 6 billion. A loan for a period of two years is part of a larger package of help from Romania, seriously affected by the crisis. In total, the IMF, the World Bank, the European Union and other organizations will provide Bucharest with more than $ 26 billion.

In the Prague Cinema "Svetoza" a three -day film festival of modern Russian cinema has opened. The program includes the “Disappeared Empire” and “The Horseman named Death” by Karen Shakhnazarov, “Live and Remember” Alexander Proshkin, “The best time of the year” Svetlana Proshkina, “Yuryev Day” by Kirill Serebrennikov and “Wild Field” by Mikhail Kalatosishvili. Radio Observer Freedom Igor Pomerantsev : - Last summer I participated in the International Writers Festival in Prague.

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In Georgia in the case of rebellion on a military base near Tbilisi, dozens of people were arrested. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, military personnel, including the command of the rebellious battalion, and civilians, were detained. Several former officers who are considered the organizers of the rebellion are put on the wanted list. The soldiers of the battalion, who announced in the morning on Tuesday about disobedience to the authorities, were transferred to other bases.

At a rally in memory of the soldiers of the federal forces who died in Chechnya, March 2009, Moscow Messages about the “Day of Revenge” that were being prepared on May 5 appeared on the Internet on April 10. The first publication should be considered an article in the newspaper “Moscow Komsomolets”: it is precisely to it that publications on feed.ru , on the website of the New Region agency and an essential reprint on Newsru.com .

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The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent in London Natalya Golitsyna takes part . Kirill Kobrin: the British Society of Sea Protection (Marine Conservation Society has published a report on the ecological state of coastal waters and the beaches of the country, which received a wide resonance. According to the document, over 15 years, the pollution of the sea and beaches increased by 110 percent.

In the United States, the court ordered the release of a citizen of Yemen, held in prison on the basis of Guantanamo. Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed was detained several years ago by the Pakistani troops and transferred to the United States as a suspect of terrorism, but the charges against him were never put forward. The court gave the state a term until June 15 to execute the decision.

Moldavian deputies will not work in the parliament building yet Today, the first meeting of the new parliament of the country will be held in Chisinau. The deputies have to form fractions, elect the leadership and working bodies of the parliament, and then approve the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers , which left the day before, and accept the resignation of the Prime Minister of Moldova Zinaida Grechana.

Today in America Yuri Zhigalkin: Briefly - about some of the news of the day and about whether fears were exaggerated about the pork flu. Outraged creditors called the government plan for the reorganization of the Kraisler Auto -Concension and called on the judge to protect their constitutional ownership, protected, according to them, by the government.

The Baikal nervous warming threatens the unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal. This conclusion was reached by biologists from the University of Irkutsk and College in Massachusetts (Wellesley College in Massachusetts), who took part in a complex study of the lake. The basis of the ecosystem of the lake, which lives a large number of species of animals and plants that are not found anywhere else, are diatomic algae.

The building of oil acadedemia in Baku - the place of tragedy of Azerbaijan was charged to two detainees on suspicion of involvement in the massacre at the State Oil Academy in Baku . On April 30, a native of Georgia Farda Gadirov opened firing at the Academy building. 12 people died, 13 were injured. Gadirov himself shot himself. Accusations of complicity, illegal storage and sale of weapons and explosives were brought by Nadir Aliyev and Javidan Amirov.