Flags of Armenia and Turkey. Collage from the site bakillar.az The Nationalist Party "Dashnaktsutyun" emerges from the ruling political coalition in Armenia. According to ITAR-TASS, such a decision was made by the Supreme Body Dashnakov Armenia. Officially, he was announced on Monday at a press conference of the head of the party Armen Rustamyan.

Prison camera. NG-photo The institution of pardon in Russia is “rather bulky” and requires reform - it must be simplified, first of all, according to the terms of consideration of petitions. The Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov made such an opening statement at the Open Day at the Russian Academy of Justice, an independent newspaper reports.

Nikolai Petrov. Photo from the site www.radiomayak.ru The elections of the Sochi mayor, which ended with the "convincing" victory of the party of the party in the first round, presented a number of surprises at the campaign. Of course, they were not a "full -fledged political fight", as President Medvedev described them, but became a significant shift compared to the usual elections of the recent mayors.

Lukashenko. Photo from the site www.zn.kiev.ua President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who arrived the night before in Rome, met with Pope Benedict the sixteenth in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, RIA Novosti reports. This is Lukashenko’s first official visit to Europe over the past 14 years.

Submarine of a class of project 636. Photo www.morbox.ru Russia will build six submarines for Vietnam. It was previously assumed that this order will be executed for Venezuela. This was reported to Kommersant by a source in Rosoboronexport. The order is supposed to be placed at the Admiralty Shipyard at the shipbuilding enterprise (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation).

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Photo by ar The Khamovnican Court of Moscow refused to return the second criminal case of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev, accused of embezzlement of oil and paying taxes, to re-arrange the indictment, RIA Novosti reports.

Supermarket '' Island '' in the South -Western Administrative Offenses. Frame '' Vesti '' On Monday night, the head of the internal affairs department of the Tsaritsyno district, Denis Evsyukov opened firing at visitors to the Ostrov supermarket in the southern district of the capital, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

Military exercises in Georgia. Photo from the site http://newsgeorgia.ru/ Serbia will not send its troops to the multinational teachings of NATO, which will be held in Georgia from May 6 to June 1. This was reported by the Belgrade newspaper BLIC with reference to a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the source, the Russian ambassador in the Serbian capital was already notified of this decision.

GAMMA-SPPLESK. Image NASA/D.berry from the site www.nasaimages.org GAMMA-SPPLESK. Image NASA/D.berry from the site www.nasaimages.org On the morning of April 23, 2009, astrophysicists managed to register a record gamma -free gamma ( GRB ), which, according to preliminary estimates, came to us from incredible Dali - from a distance of more than 13 billion light years. There was still no more remote to earthlings to observe.

Lada Kalina. Photo www.kalinaauto.ru AvtoVAZ is being developed by a super-business car, Vedomosti reports with reference to unnamed top managers of the enterprise. The cost of the car will not exceed 200 thousand rubles, and it will go on sale no earlier than 2011. The car is built on the Lada Kalina platform. At the same time, the car will have new body, interior and component base.

Dmitry Shusharin A group of deputies and public figures (Konstantin Zatulin, Modest Korrov and others) developed a bill , which is called "on the opposition of rehabilitation in the new independent states in the territory of the former USSR Union, Nazi criminals and their accomplices." The name is demagogically verified: anyone who does not approve the adoption of such a law will immediately be recorded as accomplices of the Nazis. So it happened.

Auto -Coon. Chechnya. Photo by RIA "News" The regime of a counter-terrorist operation, introduced on April 23 in three areas of Chechnya, was canceled in Shalinsky district from 20 hours on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the United Press Center in the Chechen Republic. The restrictions introduced in the district during the operation were removed. At the same time, the regime who continues to operate in the Shato and Veden regions of the republic.

Andrey Piontkovsky The name of the former German Chancellor Schroeder has long been a household name. It serves somewhere in Putin on a gas station for some miserable two million euros a year, he sits, like the great Euler, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, books are published about his strong Eurasian friendship with Genoss Vladimir, who had deserved a respectful nickname "Stasi" in the business circles of gang Petersburg.

Yuri Rykov, Head of the Horiz In Sochi. Photo by RIA '' News '' Sochi city election commission completed the counting of votes in the election of the mayor of the city, RIA Novosti reports. The acting head of the city administration candidate from the United Russia party Anatoly Pakhomov won the first round, gaining 76.86 percent of votes. The second place following the voting results was taken by the member of the Boris Nemtsov Bureau of Movement. He gained 13.6 percent of the vote.

SU-35 in the air. Frame NTV In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, on Sunday, during the tests at the factory airfield of the Demot Aviation Production Association, the prototype of the latest Su-35 fighter caught fire, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to its own sources. At the enterprise itself, the fact of the accident is not officially confirmed. According to the agency, the emergency happened during the run. Before taking off, the car seemed to encounter some kind of obstacle and caught fire.