The Central Election Commission of Moldova is completing the recount of votes in the parliamentary elections and will officially announce the results on Tuesday afternoon, CEC head Evgeny Stirbu told RIA Novosti. "We are recalculating all the last figures manually, so the official summing up of the election results will be after 14.00," he said. According to the results of the first vote count, the ruling Party of Communists gained about 50%.

The main hockey event of the year - the world championship - this time will be held in Switzerland. The Russian team goes to the tournament as the current champion and one of the main contenders for a new victory. In the first matches, the team of Vyacheslav Bykov has nothing to be afraid of: in the preliminary round, Russian hockey players should easily cope with both the Germans and the French.

Champion of Russia-2008 Kazan "Rubin" confidently started this season: the team is regularly gaining points and almost never concedes into their own net. Things are different for their upcoming rival. Spartak continues to be in a fever, and the team alternates bright matches with frankly disastrous ones. Gadzhi Gadzhiev, Russian coach: “The wards of the Dane Mikael Laudrup have shown a competent team game so far only in the first round - with Zenit.

Australia on Tuesday became the last of the continents to enter the zone of technical recession against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, RIA Novosti reports citing Agence France-Presse and a statement by the head of the country's Central Bank, Glenn Stevens. Earlier, the countries of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa announced that they had entered the stage of a technical recession, the main indicator of which is the fall in GDP for two consecutive quarters.

The signing of an agreement on the abolition of visa requirements between Russia and Hong Kong will take place on April 23 in Beijing, RIA Novosti was told at the Russian consulate in Hong Kong.

Formula 1 racing is moving westward from Southeast Asia, where the first three races of the season took place. In the fourth race of the championship - in Bahrain - they will try to regain their former positions "Ferrari" and "McLaren". Andrey Los, f1news.ru journalist: “Formula 1 fans will see another modern circuit - Sakhir in Bahrain. The conditions there are exotic: there are sands around, the heat is on.

Russian tourist Boris Maksimov, who had been searched for several days in the mountains on the Sinai Peninsula, died - his body was found on Tuesday in a mountain gorge. "Rescuers of the Egyptian Defense Ministry found his body," Yusup Abakarov, vice-consul of the Russian Embassy in Egypt, told RIA Novosti. According to him, the young man was fond of climbing and, apparently, deviated from the traditional safe route. “He fell from a great height,” the source said.

Today it is easier to meet Ilya Lagutenko in Omsk or Kronstadt, and it is easier to hear Mumiy Troll live somewhere in San Francisco or Novosibirsk than in Moscow. For this reason alone, any performance of Mumiy Troll in the capital is an event, even if it is just an ordinary concert. The secret is that the group does not have such concerts. Each performance is an unpredictable show with first-class performance, the unique vocals of Ilya Lagutenko and the incredible artistry of the musicians.

The Georgian opposition, which is holding mass rallies demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, is starting to install "prison cells" along Rustaveli Avenue from Tuesday, United Opposition leader Levan Gachechiladze said at a rally in front of parliament. Cages for citizens, according to the opposition, symbolize that Georgia has become a police state.

The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow granted the request of former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina for parole. Bakhmina was sentenced after the ex-head of the company Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 6.5 years for economic crimes. She had just over two years to spend in the colony. The imprisonment at that time of the mother of two minor children became the subject of a lively public discussion in Russia.

**Anastasia Kuzmina especially for runewsweek.ru** Star Trek is a new creation from director and producer JJ Abrams. He is best known as the creator of the hit television series Lost and the internationally acclaimed films Mission: Impossible 3, Armageddon, and Monster. Each of Abrams' films has been successful, and Star Trek is obviously no exception.

The ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of MFO "MENATEP" Platon Lebedev, speaking in court on Tuesday, rejected all charges against them in the second criminal case. "No, I don't admit my guilt," Khodorkovsky said. He repeated this phrase, commenting on each point of the accusation. Lebedev made a similar statement. “I have never stolen anything in my life,” he said, RIA Novosti reports.

At the Federation Cup, the Russian women's team always performs successfully: this time the Russian team reached the semi-final stage. Our team has already met Italians, rivals in the semi-finals, in this tournament: in 2007, the Russians confidently beat them in the final (4:0). To the third successive victory in the Federation Cup, our team in Italy will be led by its leaders - Vera Zvonareva and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

The result of the Party of Communists of Moldova in the parliamentary elections after the recount, which the CEC of Moldova completed on Tuesday, has not changed - they won 49.48% of the vote, as in the first vote count. According to the chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Eugene Stirbu, the closest persecutor of the communists, the Liberal Party, according to the final data of the recount, gained 13.13%.

**Daniil Dymshits especially for runewsweek.ru** Gallery Photographer.ru, located at WINZAVOD, is in a hurry to update its repertoire again. The main direction of the gallery is documentary photographs, but at the same time, they have a high artistic value. Simply put, Photographer.ru shows how current events can and should be presented to the viewer. Each new gallery project is a real storehouse of knowledge for a modern photographer who strives to improve the quality of his work.