The Ministry of Justice of Russia. Photo: minjust.ru The Russian Ministry of Justice received the appeals of six citizens of Russia sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine who want to serve his sentence at home. This was reported by RBC with reference to the response of the department. Based on these letters, Russian officials made a corresponding request to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Cigarettes. Photo from the site www.product.ru The State Duma was offered to limit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products from 23:00 to 8:00. As Interfax reports , corresponding to the law "On the protection of the health of citizens from the influence of the surrounding tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption" was introduced by deputy Dmitry Nosov.

155 years ago, on April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in the seceded state of South Carolina. The war was fought by 20 free and 4 slave states of the North with 11 slave states of the South united in the Confederation. It ended in April 1865 with the surrender of the Confederacy and claimed the lives of more than 620 thousand people, becoming the bloodiest war in US history.

Alexey Kudrin and Vladimir Putin. Photo: government.ru Ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin will write a new economic program for Vladimir Putin. According to RBC, a source in the presidential administration announced this.

Khryusha with a flag and St. George ribbon. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The project of the Youth Chamber at the Moscow City Duma "Patrol of Victory" will hold raids on the May holidays to check how respectfully citizens and organizations use patriotic symbols. It is reported by Kommersant. According to the chairman of the Youth Chamber at the MGD of Vladimir Mokhta, the activists of the Victory Patrol will hold conversations with those who wear St.

Eystein Windstad after the attack. Photo: Timur Rakhmatulin Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs failed to establish the identities of those who attacked journalists and human rights activists in Ingushetia on March 9. This is stated in the response of the deputy minister Alexander Savchenkov to the chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov on April 2. The document is published on the website of the HRC.

April 12 at 19:30 in the Zil Cultural Center (Metro Avtozavodskaya, Vostochny St., 4, building 1) Oleg Khlevnyuk will give a lecture "Stalin. What do we know today?" The entrance is free. You need to register .

Anton Siluanov. Photo: minfin.ru The budget deficit in 2016 at the price of oil below $ 40 per barrel can be up to four percent of GDP. This was stated by the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov at the Exchange Forum, Interfax reports . The minister recalled that according to the results of 2015, the deficit amounted to 2.4 percent. “This year we expect worse,” Siluanov admitted.

Khrushchev. Photo from the site www.fashionista.ru The Constitutional Court recognized the collection of contributions for the overhaul of houses not contradicting the Constitution. As Interfax reports , this is stated in the materials of the press service of the court. "The Constitutional Court noted that from the ownership of the residential premises there is an obligation to take care of the common property and the preservation of an apartment building.

Foreign Ministry of Lithuania. Photo: Wikipedia Lithuania has adopted the list of Savchenko - Sentsova. As DELFI.LT reports , this was stated by the head of the country's Foreign Ministry Linus Linkyaviyus. It is noted that Lithuania became the first state - a member of the European Union to take such a step. In the current edition of the list of 46 defendants, said Linkyavichyus.

Boris Gryzlov. Photo from the site www.molgvardia.ru Vladimir Putin, by his decree, excluded Boris Gryzlov from the Security Council. The document is published on the official website of the Kremlin. The same decree amended the Decree of April 5 on the inclusion of the director of the Federal Service of the National Guard, the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov in the Council of People's Commissars. The word "permanent" was seized from the decree of April 5.

Alexander Kostenko in Simferopol SIZO-1. Photo: Crimeahr.org The Euro-Maidan Alexander Kostenko, who was serving a term of three and a half years in IK-5 of a general regime in Kirovo-Chepetsk in the penalty area. This was reported by the lawyer of the political prisoner Dmitry Sotnikov. What exactly caused the decision of the colony administration is still unknown. According to the lawyer, in this way Kostenko wants to deprive the possibility of parole.

Maxim Panfilov. Photo by Dmitry Borko The Human Rights Center "Memorial" recognized the new marsh prisoner Maxim Panfilov as political prisoner. The corresponding application is published on the NGO website. The Memorial's Human Rights Assembly considered and considers the “May 6 case” completely unfinished and unreasonable.

Emblem of the IMF The International Monetary Fund again worsened the forecast for the Russian economy for 2016. According to experts of the fund, the fall will be 1.8 percent of the GDP against a decrease by 1 percent in the previous forecast. This is stated in the new report of the IMF World Economic Outlook. In 2017, according to the IMF, Russia will nevertheless return to economic growth, but it will be lower than expected originally.

Mi-28N "Night Hunter". Photo: Modernweapon.ru The Russian combat helicopter Mi-28N "Night Hunter" crashed in the area of ​​the Syrian city of Homs. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Both crew members died. The incident occurred on Tuesday at 01:29 Moscow time. “There was no fiery influence on the helicopter from the scene of the crash,” the Ministry of Defense said.