Aleppo. Photo: veteranstuday.com From 1:00 on Saturday, a truce entered into force for 24 hours in the Vostochnaya Guta area, a suburb of Damascus and for 72 hours in the Northern Syrian province of Latakia, reports Reuters. These areas were added to the regions where the truce entered into force two months ago. The "Silence Region" was introduced as a result of an agreement between Russia and the USA. The American side insisted on the cessation of hostilities in the Aleppo area.

Threw portraits of front -line soldiers. Photo from the blog of Andrei Malgin The Education Committee of the Balakovo District of the Saratov Region ordered teachers and schoolchildren to participate in the Immortal Regiment campaign. The order of the committee indicating the quota of participants from each of the schools is published on the movement website.

Su-27 fighter-interceptor. Photo: mil.ru All flights of Russian aircraft take place in accordance with the international rules for using airspace. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, General Igor Konashenkov, reports TASS.

The militants of the Islamic State. Frame of the video As a result of the explosion of a mined car in one of the suburbs of Baghdad, at least 21 people were killed, BBC reports . The car was blown up next to the market in the outskirts of the city. The local police reported that the goal of the attack was the pilgrims, who went to one of the neighboring mosques. The extremist group "Islamic State" took responsibility for the explosion.

Flags of the countries "Big Seven" Russia will never be able to join the international format of the Great Seven as an eighth participant in negotiations, according to the department of the Federal Chancellor of Germany. This is stated in the article in the issue of Der Spiegel magazine, which will be released on May 1, the German Wave reports .

25 years ago, on April 30, 1991, the mass deportation of the population of the Armenian villages of Nagorno-Karabakh (Operation "Ring") began in pursuance of the decree of the President of the USSR of July 25, 1990 "On the prohibition of the creation of illegal formations not provided for by the legislation of the USSR, and the seizure of weapons in cases its illegal possession.

Alexey Kudrin and Vladimir Putin. Photo: government.ru President Vladimir Putin appointed ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin as deputy chairman of the Economic Council under the President. The corresponding decree is published on the Kremlin website. On April 11, RBC wrote with reference to a source in the presidential administration that Kudrin would write a new economic program for Putin .

IK-47 in Kamensk-Uralsky. Photo: Larisa Zakharova In the correctional colony No. 47 in the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, the torture of prisoners is practiced. This was reported by a member of the regional PMC Larisa Zakharova, who visited the IK-47 with a group of human rights activists. Convicts-"activists" are engaged in bullying. The administration of the institution endowed them with power powers to maintain discipline and order. They keep the main part of the prisoners in fear.

NATO teachings. Photo: NATO.int NATO will additionally send four battalions to the Baltic countries and Poland, reports The Wall Street Journal with reference to Western officials. Such a decision was made in response to the "strengthening of military activity" of Russia in the region. The United States will transfer two battalions to the Russian borders, Germany and Great Britain - one at a time. The total number of units will be about four thousand people.

Appeal of truckers to Putin: says Andrei Bazhutin. Hard video In the state farm near Moscow. Lenin took place by the Constituent Congress of the Association of Russian Carriers created by protesting truckers of the All -Russian Association, RBC reports . She will defend the interests of drivers and fight for the cancellation of the Plato system. According to the organizers, about 300 drivers from 31 regions took part in the congress.

Vladimir Putin and "Night Wolves". Photo: kremlin.ru Members of the Prochrevsky motorcycle club "Night Wolves" intend to make a motorized way in Europe dedicated to Victory Day, despite Poland's refusal to let them across the border. This was stated by the leader of the club Alexander Zaldostanov (surgeon), reports Gazeta.ru. According to the surgeon, the “wolves” have “plan B”, which they will have to resort to if they are not missed across the border of Poland.

Eliot Engel. Photo: Engel. House.gov A bill on tightening anti -Russian measures and strengthening of Ukraine (Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act (Stand) has been introduced into the US Congress. This was reported by the press service of one of the authors of the document, a member of the Committee of the House of Representatives for Foreign Affairs Eliot Engel.

On April 30, from 18:00 to 20:00 in Moscow, at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka, a group of civil activists will hold a series of single pickets in support of political prisoners. The main theme of the action will be the ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people .

Roman Raslovtsev on Red Square. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru In Moscow, four activists in masks of President Vladimir Putin were detained, the OVD-info reports . They conducted a traditional walk against Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations of the rules for rallies). On Red Square, the police detained Yuri Merzlov and Alexander Fernets.