In the city of Klin, Moscow Region, the house-museum of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky burned down. According to "Echo of Moscow", immediately after the fire, the museum staff began to take out of the building things that belonged to the composer. Five crews were involved in extinguishing the fire. According to eyewitnesses, the roof and rooms inside the house were on fire. Firemen had to rip off the upholstery of the walls.

Two employees of the Government Security Service of Adjara left Batumi and on Saturday morning arrived at the Tbilisi office of Our Adjaria, an organization that opposes local authorities, RIA Novosti reports. As Rustavi-2 TV company learned, the bodyguards who left Aslan Abashidze were the brothers Roin and Yakob Makharadze, who ensured his personal security. "We don't want to obey the Ajarian leader and want to serve the president and our homeland," they said, Roin Makharadze said.

Sergey Glazyev. Photo by ar The People’s Present Union "Homeland" received a new name - "for a decent life." As RIA Novosti reports, such a decision was supported on Saturday by the delegates of the Congress of the Union. The leader of the Union Sergei Glazyev made an offer to rename. He explained this by the need to stop political squabbles with the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin.

From April 24, a state of emergency and a curfew will be introduced throughout Adjara. This decision was made on Saturday at its emergency meeting by the parliament of the Adjarian autonomy, Interfax reports. "In the current situation, which continues to escalate every hour, we have made the most rational and correct decision - to return to the state of emergency and impose a curfew," Speaker Giorgi Tsintsikladze said after the parliament session in an interview with journalists in Batumi.

A major accident that occurred on Saturday at about one in the morning on the main oil pipeline Samara - Lisichansk in the Volgograd region has been localized, Vesti reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The danger of the spread of fire has been stopped. This was reported in the regional department for civil defense and emergency situations. There are no data on victims and injured people. There is no threat to settlements from fire.

Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, joined the WTO, becoming the 147th member of this organization, writes BBC. WTO membership is expected to give Nepal easy access to international markets, which will help boost the country's economy. In Nepal, industrial production is very poorly developed. Due to this, imports there far exceed exports, which creates a huge foreign trade deficit. Most of the exported products are carpets and clothing.

The country's last coal mine will close over the weekend, signaling the end of an industry that has existed for about 300 years. According to the British Air Force, the solemn three-day ceremony will begin with the symbolic extraction of the last piece of coal by the country's last miner. The mine in the town of Ouvre near the German border remained the last active coal mine in France.

Three girls with symptoms of radiation sickness were delivered to the Mikhailovsky district hospital of the Volgograd region on Friday, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the regional department of civil defense and emergency situations. The condition of the children, whose age ranges from four to nine years old, is assessed as severe. The exact diagnosis is not yet known. A team of resuscitators left Volgograd to help the district doctors.

North Korea formally requested the international community's help on Friday to deal with the aftermath of the explosion on the railroad at Ryongchon station. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" by the press secretary of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Operations Elizabeth Beers. It is already known that the DPRK authorities have agreed to accept assistance from the UN, the European Union and a number of international humanitarian organizations.

The National Film Award "Nika" in the nomination "Best feature film" was awarded to the film directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev "The Return", RIA Novosti reports. Director Pyotr Todorovsky received the prize in the honorary nomination "For Honor and Dignity". Andrei German Jr., author of the film "The Last Train", was named "Discovery of the Year". The best director was Vadim Abdrashitov with the film "Magnetic Storms".

The Russian diplomat whose expulsion was officially demanded by Latvia last Friday is Peter Urzhumov, second secretary of the Russian embassy in Riga, according to NEWSru.com, citing the Latvian newspaper Diena.

On April 26, the Ministry of Emergency Situations will send an Il-76 aircraft to North Korea with a cargo of medicines for the victims of the explosion on April 22 at the Ryongchon railway station. This was reported to RBC today in the information department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, noting that at present the time of arrival of the aircraft and the airfield where the aid will be delivered are being coordinated with the North Korean side.

On Friday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill "On temporary measures to ensure the coincidence of voting day in elections to state authorities of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation with voting day in a referendum of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation." As Kommersant writes on Saturday, this document is designed to simplify the process of enlargement of regions that has begun.

On April 25, a unique action "Critical Mass" will be held in Moscow, timed to coincide with World Earth Day with the assistance of the organizations "Russia Without Machines" (RBM), the Committee "Muscovites For Trams" and a number of others, reports Regions.Ru.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On Approving the Composition of the Security Council of the Russian Federation," RIA Novosti reports.