As the channel “Vesti” , in the city of Houston, the Acting Consul of China Yu Bozhenov rode in a service car to the consulate building and put the car in the parking lot. Immediately thereafter he was attacked three police officers, handcuffed and beat him. According to some reports, they even threatened those who sat in the car. Only some time later, after it became clear to whom they attacked, the police released his victim.

Chinese authorities have already protested in response to U.S. State Department has promised that the incident will be thoroughly investigated . Luckless police are justified, that they just stopped a suspicious car, which would have been no numbers or whose driver allegedly failed to stop on demand. All three police officers who took part in the incident, already suspended from service.

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As the channel is “1 1″ , representativesdf6of energy companies serving the region reported that the restoration supply of electricity in the house the technical services would take several days.

Snowfall in late spring in these parts – a great rarity. The last record in Vermont was recorded April 27, 1874, when they also fell 60 centimeters of snow. In New York record – 56 inches of snow – was recorded April 23, 1993, noted meteorologist.

This forecasters indicate that the temperature at this time did not fall significantly below zero. However, it is not happy residents affected by snowfall areas, as there has long blooming gardens and the temperature reached 23 degrees Celsius.

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Itar TASS , now, that once the biggest hotel “middling” in Europe, has become a fashionable hotel, as promised, with the modern facilities and services. If in Soviet times, there may be to rent a room for five rubles, but now the price is very modest “refuge” is from 15 thousand rubles ($ 1 – 29.0623 rubles) per day.

How to maintain the current owners of the hotel, “the quality of work carried out over three years, allows the state to the high level of new hotel, meet the most stringent international standards.”

Since 2007, there was conducted a detailed restoration of the facades of the building, valuable elements of decor, interiors, which are objects of cultural and historical heritage of Moscow.

Above the entrance to the hotel shines with gold letters “Ukraine”. Above the portico – the new name “Radisson” in the frame of flags of different countries. Under the spire, at a height of 120 meters, is located a glass gallery with a restaurant and observation platform. &b34lt;/P>

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As the channel “EuroNews” , resignation filed monarch Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, after the Flemish Liberal Party announced its withdrawal from the coalition government, putting a the viability of the cabinet. “The bone of contention” was another attempt to solve the problem of administrative division of a bilingual electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.

Flemish Liberals refused to support a statement on the prospects of solving this problem, which Prime Minister Leterme was to speak in Parliament.

Recall , formerly King of the Belgians put the question of the resignation of the government. Experts believed that he would make every effort to save the government Leterme I. .

As the BBC , J. Kaczynski, will represent the right-wing conservative party Law and Justice, “which he co-founded with his brother in 2001. Currently, this party is in opposition.

His main opponent in the election will be the Acting President of Bronislaw Komorowski, who represents the ruling center-right parties, the Civic Platform “.

The late Kaczynski was going to be reelected in the presidential elections, which were to be held at the end of this year, although his popularity rating among voters has fallen steadily. Commentators point out that while it is impossible to predict how the tragedy of Katyn affect any results of early elections.

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“During the conversation touched on issues related to the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens. C our side stressed the need for early conclusion of bilateral, legally binding agreement, which would protect the rights, life and health of adopd2cted children and to ensure that incidents such as happened recently, do not occur again “, – said in a statement the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier it was reported that Russia intends to freeze the process of adoption Russian children by U.S. citizens – to develop a bilateral treaty.
Russian Foreign Minister said that the last case with the adoption of eight Artem Saveliev showed that such a treaty is necessary.

also reminded that A. Saveliev was posted on Wednesday from the U.S. to Moscow with a note from the foster mother of child abandonment .

“Elucidation of the causes of this tragedy is the most important challenge for the governments of Poland and Russia. This is a joint responsibility. We must expedite the work on this “- said Boris Klich, quoted by BBC , after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.

B. Klich also called on both parties in the conduct of the investigation to the principles of openness and transparency. “In Polish the word sounds like the explicitness, as in Russian – the publicity,” – added the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense.

earlier reported that the body arrived in Warsaw last victims plane crash near Smolensk.

Recall April 10, aircraft Tu-154 “with members of the official Polish delegation to proceed to the ceremonies in the Katyn Memorial, crashed near the town of Pechers”k Smolensk region. Killing all 96 persons on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife.

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According to ITAR-TASS , I. Gill noted that in terms of its results for the current crisis in Russia is different from the shocks 2000-2001, “as day from night.” &d61quot;In past crises, Russia became weak and out of it even weaker. In the present – Russia is now strong, and comes out of it even harder,” – he said.

In turn, F. Wairua noted that Moscow has a “clear path” to overcome the consequences of the crisis in the financial and budgetary terms. He recalled that Russia had just “extremely well” placed its Eurobonds, which was an additional “vote of confidence by the markets”.

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Maccio described as “highly positive” the visit of Minister of Education of the Nation, Alberto Sileoni, who visited the province of Corrientes last week.

“We are moving in the implementation of various programs: school infrastructure, notebooks, books, equipment, furniture, technical assistance and we have projects for technical education for more than 24 million pesos, “said the head of the education portfolio Corrientes.

Telam further explained that the implementation of various national programs in Corrientes “generates higher revenues and increase our budget.”

Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, noted in particular the return of children to school through the system established by the universal child allowance.

While noting that currently in the survey, said that enrollment, due to this initiative of the national state, is increased all levels more than 10%.

announced, moreover, that next week the first 4800 notebooks come to the province, for students from technical schools.

“That is a step forward, is to look ahead, the choice is not computers or books, is` and `computer books,” the minister said Maccio. (Telam).

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As the channel “EuroNews” , volcanic ash covered the ground pyatisantimetrovym layer of ash. Directly affected at least 1000 people.

eruption, which is located 200 kilometers east of the capital Reykjavik, Iceland began April 14. Daily Air emissions 150 thousand tons of carbon dioxide.

According to farmers, many because of the eruption and lost jobs and livelihoods. “All the dust and ashes. But some worked on farms for 20 years,” – said eyewitnesses.

Now neighboring farmers can only wait and hope for rain that could wash away the volcanic ash and beat him to the ground. In the meantime, to resume work on the fields they can not.

Turki said that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has estimated the losses airlines world for the period aviakollapsa after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano in $ 1.7 billion

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