The week’s headlines were the Minsk metro blast, the BRICS summit in China and the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's journey into space. 15.04.2011, Sputnik International
On Friday, Russian businessman Evgeny Yurchenko paid $2.9 million at New York’s Sotheby’s for a Soviet-made Vostok spaceship capsule that was launched 18 days prior to Yury Gagarin's first manned space flight. Yurchenko pledged to return the piece of history to Russia.
On April 14 China hosted a BRICS summit with South African participating for the first time. Photo: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her South African counterpart Jacob Zuma.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized in Sharm el-Sheikh. Mubarak and his family members are suspected of corruption and abuse of authority.
The Geyser Valley was discovered in Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s Far East seventy years ago, on April 14, 1941 by Russian hydrologist Tatyana Ustinova and her guide Itelmen Anisifor Krupenin. They called the first geyser Pervenets.
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