Riots in Kyrgyzstan. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan detained about 40 organizers and participants in the riots in the village of Maevka, where clashes on interethnic grounds occurred on Monday. According to ITAR-TASS, according to preliminary data, one person died and six were injured. In the evening in the suburbs of Bishkek, pogroms continued. According to eyewitnesses, several dozen houses are burning in the village.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Photo from the site www.dni.ru The investigating authorities of Ingushetia ceased to send militants and corrupt officials to the local courts. This was announced in an interview with MK by the president of this republic, Yunus-Bek Evkurov. "In the Investigative Committee, cases are accumulating, the prosecutor's office requires transfer, and we are afraid. Because they justify everyone," Yevkurov said.

Fragment of the poster with Stalin The placement of portraits of Stalin on the streets of Moscow "is incompatible with respect for the victorious people." This is stated in a statement by a number of human rights organizations, including Memorial, the Moscow Helsinki group and others.

Uzbekistan. Photo sogdiana-travel.ru In the city of Kokand, the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan, a woman made a suicide near the building of the city administration, opening her vein, the local CA-News agency reports. The cause of suicide was the destruction by the local authorities of the house of the deceased, in connection with the large -scale reconstruction and landscaping on the occasion of the anniversary of Cokand.

Airplane. Photo by RIA "News" European air carriers, whose work was blocked due to the Cloud of the Icelandic volcano Eiyafyatlayokudl, demanded from the aviation authorities of the EU "immediate revision" of the decision to cancel a significant number of flights, indicating an "extremely negative" effect of the prohibition on the industry, as well as the safety of a number of testing companies, RIA Novosti reports.

Bishkek. The protesters argue with the police. Photo by ar Bishkek law enforcement officers achieved the change of Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan and stopped picketing the Provisional Government. According to RIA Novosti, the representative of the negotiators by the police, the head of the Department for Combating the Organized Crime of the Republic, Aybek Abdrazakov, announced this.

Moldavian army. Photos of an independent newspaper Moldova refused to participate in the Victory Parade in Moscow due to the fact that representatives of Romania will not participate in the celebrations, Kommersant reports with reference to sources close to the government of the republic. Earlier, the country's defense minister Vitaliy Marinates explained the refusal of a difficult economic situation.

The scandal with Stalinist posters in Moscow received an unexpected continuation. In St. Petersburg, enthusiasts have chipped in and for a month for 35,000 rubles they are launching a bus with Stalin along the Nevsky "to restore historical justice." What should the anti-Stalinist public do - show tolerance for other people's opinions? Go to law? Appeal to the executive branch? Arrange civic retaliatory actions? Resort to vandalism? Or looking for a creative design answer?

Map of the North Caucasus In the North Caucasus Federal District, a permanent interdepartmental operational group for anti-terrorism affairs was created, which includes representatives of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the apparatus of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru It is useful to watch enemy programs through enemy channels. And the most enemy, perhaps, is an aggressive Pushkovsky postscript. Sharashka, under the general name "Silicon Valley", was supposed to be in this program to the last cartridge, that is, to the last handful of sand.

Constitutional Court. Frame of the TV channel '' '' '' The Constitutional Court recognized the laws on charges of terrorism without the participation of jury. The decision has noted that the right to a jury is not one of the main rights, such as the independence of the court and the presumption of innocence, according to the official website of the Constitutional Court. According to judges, the consideration of the case does not affect the justice of the trial.

In Moscow, a new movement to combat flashes - the Society of Blue Vederes declared itself. At the appeal of journalist Sergei Parkhomenko, fifty motorists with children's buckets on the roofs of their cars drove from Triumphal Square to the observation deck on the Vorobyevs Mountains. The traffic police, no matter how hard they tried, did not find what to complain about.

Moscow, April 18, 2010. Shooting by Dmitry Borko and Dmitry Zykov for Grani-TV. Blue Bucket Society

The attack in the Moscow metro. Photo from the site www.almanews.kz The investigation of the preparation of a possible terrorist attack in Lithuania is not connected with explosions in the Moscow metro. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the chief prosecutor of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime Algimantas Kuanki.

Lubyanka metro station after the explosion. Photo RBC Lithuanian citizen, arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro, was already put on an international wanted list in 2007, Kommersant reports with reference to publication in the Lithuanian media. Then the girl disappeared without a trace, and then found in a Chechen family in Germany, where she lived in the position of servants. After discovery, the girl was returned home, and the Chechen family left Germany.