A number of main shops and shopping complexes in the center of the Thai capital Bangkok were closed at least until Wednesday due to unrest on the streets of the city, RIA Novosti reported Monday, citing the media. The Siam Paragon Mall, five branches of the Central Department Store, as well as jewelry stores in central Bangkok have announced their closure until at least Wednesday.

In Chisinau, they tried to organize their own Maidan. Instead of an orange triumph, a colorless parody turned out Looking at the burnt Moldavian parliament, doctor Natalya Dmitrievna is indignant: “So Hitler set fire to the Reichstag. Well, how could a former police general allow his residence to be smashed?” The former general is Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin.

Before the G20 summit, Russia and China called for abandoning the dollar as the world's reserve currency. The author of this idea, the Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz, is now at the center of a global discussion about the future of capitalism. Stiglitz shared his thoughts on the state of the global financial system, the growing role of China and the meaninglessness of GDP as an indicator of the level of economic development, Stiglitz shared with Newsweek correspondent Rana Foruhar.

Last Thursday, when tens of thousands of protesters chanted “Misha! Go away!” Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili explained to Newsweek correspondent Anna Nemtsova that the opposition in Georgia had no chance and that he had never personally insulted Vladimir Putin. Today is a difficult day for you. Does the opposition have a chance to win? Everything is going smoothly, as I expected.

The six world powers have agreed on a draft joint UN Security Council statement on North Korea, but analysts say the call for tougher sanctions against North Korea will be symbolic at best. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Japan decided on Saturday to issue a so-called "presidential statement" that was a compromise between complete inaction and a new Security Council resolution pushed for by Japan.

The return quarter-final match of the Champions League between the English Chelsea and Liverpool will take place on Tuesday at the home arena of Guus Hiddink's team. This is the fourth time these teams have crossed paths in the playoffs over the past five years. The statistics here are for the Merseysiders: two times out of three they turned out to be stronger than the “aristocrats”.

The Georgian opposition went on the offensive. To stay in power, it is enough for Mikheil Saakashvili to simply prevent bloodshed On the ninth of April in Tbilisi everyone practiced arithmetic. Everyone knew that a lot of people would gather on Rustaveli Avenue and that these people would demand the president's resignation. But no one knew how many people would come. A lot means that the opposition has more chances to achieve early elections, a little - we will have to wait until 2013.

Some papers and documents 22,500 pages, 24 studies on 1977 rodents, $45 million and eight years of work. In January 2009, all these efforts paid off, and Veuve Clicquot was opened in the office of the Californian biotechnology company Geron. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally given Heron permission. This is a historic event: in the summer, the company will conduct the world's first clinical trials of embryonic stem cells.

Forget about nanotechnology. Russia just needs technology, not even the newest ones will do Take a look around. Almost everything that surrounds us was invented and first produced in other countries 10, 30 or 2000 years ago. From the prefabricated high-rise buildings that build our cities, to the icons, coffee and rockets imported in the last millennium from Greece, Holland and Germany.

Bankers are frightening with the second wave of the crisis and are afraid of it themselves. But so far, there is no reason to believe that the bad debt crisis will be so devastating. In January, Patriarch Kirill - then still a metropolitan - compared the crisis to God's judgment. This is logical: after all, he is a priest, but last week the bankers spoke the same language.

Brainstorm is a Latvian rock band formed in 1989 in the city of Jelgava. In 1993, their first album was released, the most popular song of which was "Ziema" ("Winter"). Then, after experimenting with alternative music, the band returned to the mainstream and released several albums. 2006 was the year of the conquest of the Russian public for the team.

Bob Quick, head of Scotland Yard's central counterterrorism unit, was forced to resign after accidentally revealing details of a covert operation. As he got out of his car near Prime Minister Gordon Brown's residence at 10 Downing Street, Quick had several documents under his arm, one of which turned out to be face down.