Evo Morales celebrates the victory in the presidential election in Bolivia. Photo by ar Three foreign mercenaries were destroyed in Bolivia as part of a special operation to prevent attempt on the president of the country of Evo Morales, the Air Force reports. This was announced by the president himself, clarifying that the killers were killed in the city of Santa Curus. Two more members of the group were detained. The group included citizens of Ireland, Hungary and Bolivia.

Ilya Milstein According to a well -known template, here you need to start with the Pushkin quote, but I will refrain. Firstly, bored. Secondly, what's the "strange", in these "rapprochement". Only 15 years have passed with a little. And the country is about the same, and the topic for the conversation is the same: the intelligentsia appeals to power. More precisely, an eternal topic. Like that in the hope of glory and good. Information reasons are such.

DPRK flag with an atom sign. Grani.ru collage The North Korean Committee for a peaceful association of the Motherland stated that "the beginning of a nuclear war thanks to the military efforts of the" Alliance "is just a matter of time," Rosbalt reports with reference to the TSAT news agency.

Alexander Lebedev. Photo by RIA "News" The election commission of Sochi on Friday decided to cancel the registration as a candidate for the post of mayor of the city of entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev, Interfax reports. The decision to cancel registration was made by a majority of votes. “One of the members of the commission abstained, all the others voted“ for, ”said Sergey Mendeleev, a member of the election of an advisory voice.

Alexander Lukashenko. Photo of BelTA President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was invited to Prague to the Eastern Partnership summit, BelTA reports. The invitation of Lukashenko was transferred by the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, a country that currently presides in the EU, Karel Schwarzenberg.

Eliza is white. Photo from the site www.rosbalt.ru Representatives of the Russian authorities and Father Lisa Andre found a decision that can allow Russian woman Irina Belenkoy to avoid the court in France and see his daughter as long as the child will spend with her father, the head of the working group of the Public Chamber for the help of Russian citizens abroad, Alexander Sokolov, told RIA Novosti.

NATO meeting. Photo from the site www.nato.int The NATO decision to conduct exercises in Georgia in May of this year does not contribute to rapprochement with Russia and threatens complications, President Dmitry Medvedev said. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". "When a particular military unit draws exercises along the lines, where more recently there was a very high degree of tension, and now everything is completely difficult there, then this threatens all kinds of complications," Medvedev said.

Image from the site abqtrib.com British scientists have found that promotion can turn into damage to mental health, BBC News reports. Researchers from the University of Warwick University have interviewed more than a thousand employees who have received a middle or top manager over the past five years. They found that the mental state of the "careerists" worsened by an average of 10%, while preventive visits to the doctor were reduced by 20%, to one or two times a year.

The traffic police machine. Photo from the site www.autoclub.ur.ru The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill to increase the fine for failure to provide an advantage in moving pedestrians. According to RBC, the corresponding amendments are made to the Code of Administrative Offenses. The bill strengthens administrative responsibility for failure to provide an advantage in the movement of pedestrians or other road users.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru No, you can’t talk about it. And it’s even scary to think. Two people, the mind, honor and, without a doubt, the conscience of our era, the president and prime minister, the head of state and the national leader, hope and support, the student and the teacher, and the Black Cat ran between them? The student began to do something contrary to the adored teacher? Yes, it cannot be that!

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo from the site Netnds.ru Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pardoned 12 people convicted of minor crimes, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the head of state Natalya Timakov. This is the first presidential pardon this year. Timakova emphasized that all pardoned were convicted of minor crimes, mainly related to petty theft of property, and court decisions were sentenced to one to two years.

Ruslan Yamadaev. Photo '' Kommersant '' The Main Investigative Department of the UPC charged the suspect of involvement in the murder of the ex-deputy of the State Duma and Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadayev, RIA Novosti was told in the UK. Elimpasha Khatsuev, whom investigators consider to be an accomplice of the murder, was detained on April 7 in Moscow.

Firefighters A large fire occurred in St. Petersburg at the Golden Key confectionery factory, Interfax reports. The area of ​​the fire, which covered three floors of the building on the street of the peat road, was 2500 square meters. Firefighters extinguished the fire for more than six hours - from midnight to 6.30 Moscow time. According to RIA Novosti, 20 units of special equipment took part in the extinguishing. Not a single person was injured as a result of a fire.

Sochi beach. Photo from the site sochi-spa.ru Among the detainees in the case of explosions in Sochi, as a result of which five people and 19 were injured, there were foreigners - Arab students of the city branch of the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, Kommersant reports with reference to the source in the investigative bodies of the Krasnodar Territory.

Moscow, April 16, 2009 Picket near the Khamovniki Court, where Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are being tried. Source: Khodorkovsky.Ru.