Sniper "Golden Eagle" is firing for people. Frame of the video broadcast "Radio Liberty" The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court begins a preliminary consideration of events in Ukraine from November 21, 2013 to February 22, 2014. The press release published in the court website is reported.

Barack Obama. Photo: Whitehouse.gov The application of sanctions against specific persons in Russia in connection with the Ukrainian crisis may not be enough. This was stated by US President Barack Obama at a press conference in Seoul, CNN reports . According to him, other measures may be required to solve the problem.

Mikhail Glushchenko. Photo: fontanka.ru The ex-deputy of the State Duma from the LDPR Mikhail Glushchenko admitted his complicity in organizing the murder of Galina Starovoitova. According to Fontanka.ru, citing Alexander Afanasyev, the lawyer of the accused, Glushchenko made such a statement on Thursday at a many -hour interrogation with the investigator of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Alexander Nikitin.

Sergey Polonsky. Photo from his Twitter The Supreme Court of Cambodia rejected the request for the expulsion of businessman Sergei Polonsky to Russia. Judge Kim Sothavi substantiated the refusal to send the Russian to his homeland by the fact that there is no extradition agreement between the countries. At the hearing on Friday, Polonsky himself was not present, reports Lenta.ru. Polonsky was detained by the Cambodian authorities at the beginning of last year.

Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the Council of the Barents countries of the region. Photo: Bellona.ru The question of the return of winter time should be resolved by regions. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement was made by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with employees of the Khabarovsk shipyard. "We, apparently, will not make a decision in general, but on the scale of the regions to move something," Medvedev said.

Screenshot "Yandex" The quotes of the ADR Yandex NV, the head company of the Russian Internet holding Yandex, collapsed at the opening of trading on NASDAQ by 11 percent, Kommersant reports . During the day, the fall continued. By 18:40 Moscow time, the cost of papers dropped 18 percent. Thus, the company has lost more than a billion dollars of capitalization. Now it is less than 7.2 billion dollars, while at the closure of trading on Thursday it was 8.57 billion.

Russia has established the border between the annexed Crimea and mainland Ukraine. Prices on the peninsula, assured the occupation administration, will continue to grow, since the region has entered a stronger economy. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the window for changing Russia is closing and the United States is “ready to act”. Chronicle of events April 24 - here . At a rally for the unity of Ukraine in Starobelsk, Lugansk region. 04/24/2014. Photo: 0642.ua

Logo of the Standard & Poor's agency. Photo from the website of the agency The International rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered the long-term rating of Russia for obligations in foreign currency to the level of "BBB" with "BBV" with the forecast "Negative", reports Lenta.ru. S&P explained the decrease in Russia's credit rating with an outflow of capital from the country in the first quarter of 2014 and reducing the possibilities to attract financing in foreign financial markets.

Meeting of the Krasnoyarsk City Council. Photo: krasnoyarsk.er.ru The Krasnoyarsk City Council prepared an appeal to the State Duma deputies regarding the bill involving the cancellation of direct elections of the mayor in large cities. It is reported by Sibintho.

Vladimir Abarinov No matter how funny it is, the Russians are looking for again - and they found again! - Your national idea. At one time, they seemed to be forgotten about her, they began to live, live and make good. But, apparently, there is no life without the idea of ​​Russian.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a law providing for the creation of a national payment cards system, RIA Novosti reports. According to Vladislav Reznik, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, the document is aimed at ensuring the uninterruption of the transfer of funds carried out within the framework of the payment system in Russia.

The cottages of unicorns. Photo: dacha.fbk.info The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Igor Rudensky, appealed to the Lublin court of Moscow with a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity against the leader of the progress party, Alexei Navalny. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the press service of the unicorn. Rudensky asks the court to recognize the information widespread about him that is not true and oblige the defendant to refute it.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo Wet in the toilet. Shiny assault. Russia survived. The terrorists have no future, but we have it. All these phrases, of course, are remembered today, when Vladimir Putin tells us about the Kiev "junta", about the "punitive operation" and about the Ukrainian army, which commits a "very serious crime against his people." They automatically pop up in their memory, these phrases, when Moscow again threatens Kyiv by war.

The rally of the Crimean Tatars on the anniversary of the deportation. Evpatoria, 2010. Photo: Agatov.com On the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea, provocations are possible. According to the correspondent of the Faces, the former leader of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev warned about this.

Vitaly Churkin in the UN. Photo: Mid.ru Russia will convene an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council if the “use of force” continues in the east of Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin in a special issue of the Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov on the Russia 1 TV channel.