Deputy Oleg Mikheev proposed that the State Duma consider a bill to amend the law “On the Mass Media” in order to prohibit Russian media from promoting “a frivolous attitude towards sexual functions.” The text of the bill is posted on the documents website of the lower house of parliament. Article 4 of the “Law on Mass Media,” which states the inadmissibility of abuse of freedom of the media, is proposed to be amended by Deputy Mikheev.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Friday signed a decree appointing Tigran Sargsyan as the country's prime minister, RIA Novosti reported citing the press service of the head of state. Sargsyan is a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. He is 53 years old. He took over as Prime Minister of Armenia on April 9, 2008. And on June 2, 2012, he was reappointed to this position after the parliamentary elections and the subsequent resignation of the government of the republic.

An unknown assailant opened fire on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Boston on Friday, leaving one police officer fatally wounded, FOX reported . The police officer was taken to the hospital in serious condition, where he later died. Police have cordoned off the campus, but the shooter has not yet been detained. Police are reportedly looking for a young man in his 20s. Students are asked to stay away from the scene.

The payments that Alexander Kiselev will receive after resigning from the post of General Director of Russian Post will be in the region of 3 million rubles, the Prime agency reported on Friday, citing an informed source. “The total amount of payments will be just over 3 million rubles,” the agency quotes him as saying. The source said that under the terms of his dismissal, Kiselev will be paid three monthly salaries at a time. It is equal to 200,000 - 250,000 rubles.

It was headed by the former general director of the publishing holding "Azbuka-Atticus" Arkady Vitruk The world's largest online store, Amazon (turnover in 2012 was $61 billion), is opening a representative office in Russia, several sources in the publishing market told Forbes. The representative office will be headed by Arkady Vitruk. Until the summer of 2012, he served as CEO of the Azbuka-Atticus publishing group, owned by Alexander Mamut (No.

Pakistani police on Friday arrested the country's ex-president General Pervez Musharraf, who on Thursday fled the courtroom where he was denied bail, Reuters reported, citing local television. According to TV reports, Musharraf was arrested at his residence in a suburb of Islamabad and taken to court accompanied by police officers.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office on Friday suspended the activities of the Left Front movement for three months for violations of the law “On Public Associations,” according to a statement published on the website of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested Magomed Karatov, one of the organizers of a group of “black collectors” who siphoned more than 100 billion rubles into the shadow sector of the economy, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Friday .

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Entrepreneurs will be imprisoned for talking, the same prices in stalls and refusal to conclude an agreement In early April, the Russian government approved draft amendments to Article 178 of the Criminal Code. The reaction of the business community was sharp: both the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Delovaya Rossiya spoke out against the new version of the article . What's the matter?

Swiss authorities have decided to expel Russian businessman, a native of Chechnya, Bulat Chagaev, from the country, Interfax reported on Friday , citing Swiss media. As follows from the authorities’ resolution, the businessman’s presence in Switzerland at the moment is not necessary for the investigation. Chagaev can challenge the decision of the Swiss authorities within five days, or leave the country until May 10.

In the United States, police have detained a suspect in the murder of a police officer on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), NBC reported on Friday . The footage of the arrest shows a young man, who appears to be about 20 years old, lying face down on the asphalt with both arms extended forward. He has brown hair, wears sweatpants with white stripes and a windbreaker with an emblem on the back.

19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have carried out a bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon along with his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police. The suspect in the terrorist attack in Boston was 19-year-old Chechen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, NBC and the Associated Press reported on Friday. The second alleged attacker, according to media reports, could be Dzhokhar's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed during a shootout with police in Watertown, near Boston, local television station WCVB reported Friday .

Dmitry Strashnov The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications appointed the former head of Tele2 Russia Dmitry Strashnov as General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has appointed the former head of Tele2 Russia, Dmitry Strashnov, as the general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post, this was reported on Friday on the ministry’s website .

The Skolkovo Foundation sent a request to Ilya Ponomarev, a deputy from the A Just Russia party, to provide additional information about the work he performed for the foundation, and promised to seek compensation for damages if the information about the deputy’s dishonesty is confirmed.