Square of Soviets in Kemerovo, 04/21/2018. Photo: o-gorod.net In the Kemerovo region, the police stopped four cars with people who went to the regional center for an inconsistent rally against the former governor, speaker of the regional council Aman Tuleyev. According to Znak.com, citing the wife of the rally organizer Vladimir Gorenkov Svetlana, the passengers of three cars were detained, the driver of the fourth security forced to go back.

80 years ago, on April 21, 1938, the writer Boris Pilnyak (Vogau), who was falsely accused of spying for Japan, was shot in Moscow. The real reason for the massacre of him was his Tale of the Unextinguished Moon, which contained a hint that Mikhail Frunze died not without the participation of Stalin. The fifth issue of the journal "New World" for 1926 with this work was withdrawn from sale, and the story was recognized as "politically harmful". In 1956, Pilnyak was rehabilitated.

In the city of the Duma after the bombing, 03/20/2018. Photo: Anadolu Employees of the mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) visited one of the places in the Syrian Duma, where Himataku probably occurred and collected samples for analysis. This was reported on the organization’s website. The collected materials will be sent to the OPCW laboratory in Reykjavik, Norway.

The fallen tree in Moscow. Photo from Instagram @irina_hcramcova In Moscow, a girl who suffered during a hurricane died in a hospital. As Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Twitter, she was in serious condition. According to Interfax, a resident of Mytishchi near Moscow also died during the storm - the wind knocked over a construction house on him. Another 12 Muscovites were injured. On Friday, a hurricane in Moscow threw hundreds of trees. The wind speed reached 30 meters per second.

Victor Vekselberg. Photo from ENC.ex.ru website Due to American sanctions, the assets of the Renova group of oligarch Viktor Vekselberg costing from 1.5 to $ 2 billion are frozen. It is reported by Reuters with reference to two sources familiar with the situation. According to the interlocutors, we are talking about dollar accounts of companies that are under the control of Renov. Also, the salary accounts of several Renova employees from Switzerland were blocked temporarily.

UFSB in the Stavropol Territory. Photo: vsedomarossi.ru The FSB stated that the special services employees killed in the Stavropol of the supporter of the Islamic State, who prepared "resonant terrorist attacks" using weapons and homemade explosive devices. The message about this is placed on the website of the department. According to the special services, the goals of the terrorist attack were buildings of the regional government and the Federal Security Service.

Opposition rally in Yerevan, 04/21/2018. Short of broadcasting Armenian President Armen Sargsyan went to the protesters gathered at a rally on the Republic Square in the center of Yerevan. According to News.am, at the rally, Sargsyan talked with the leader of the opposition Nikol Pashinyan. After a ten -minute conversation with Pashinyan, the president left the square. “I hope,” he answered the question of journalists about whether there will be negotiations between protesters and power.

Kim Jong -un. Frame of television The North Korean dictator Kim Jong -un announced the suspension of nuclear tests, launches of ballistic missiles and the closure of a nuclear training ground in the North of the DPRK, Yonhap reports citing the Korea Central Telegraph Agency (TST). The decision was made at a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling labor party of Korea, which took place on Saturday.

At the site of the poisoning of the Skripals. Frame "Russia-1" The British police and intelligence established suspects in the poisoning of the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia, reports The Telegraph with reference to unnamed sources. According to law enforcement officers, they are in Russia. The number of suspects is not specified. It was reported that they were installed by analyzing the list of people who flew to Britain and then left the country.

At the site of the shootout in Derbent. Hard video In Derbent, Dagestan, the security forces killed nine participants in the armed underground, Interfax reports with reference to the National Anti -Terrorism Committee.

At the court in the lawsuit Nikolaeva. Photo by Gleb Eddelev The collegium of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court (Judge-Player Angela Karpinskaya) in absentia recovered 500 thousand rubles from the defendants of the UNA-UNSO case of Ukrainian citizens Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk in a lawsuit to compensate for moral harm to Zinaida Nikolaeva, the mother of one of the Russian soldiers who died during the assault on Grozny on December 31, 1994. This was announced by civil activist Gleb Eddelev.