Today, April 1, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPU) reported that the Crimean prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of failure to fulfill official duties by officials of a utility company for the operation of sewage treatment facilities, as a result of which the waste polluted the Black Sea.

As of today, Advisor to the Chairman of the Regional Government Yuri Utkin is leaving his position. The official himself told Kommersant about this, explaining that he intends to concentrate on work in the city duma. Let us remind you that on March 13, he was elected to the Perm City Duma in district No. 35 and at the meeting of the body held on Tuesday, March 29, he took the position of deputy chairman.

It's the first of April. Are you waiting, jokers? You will joke today. Please do this gracefully. Some supposed jokes sound painfully clumsy. Not funny. Here, for example, is the headline of the April Fool's news of a state information and propaganda agency with a billion-dollar budget: “Putin will go to Medvedev on Yo-mobile.” “The military operation against Libya continues. Considering the balance of forces, we can definitely say that the Gadaffi regime is doomed.

Cosmetics brands that care about nature met Yana Panyushkina There are now many brands offering natural creams, but half a century ago they were not so interested in organics. At that time, herbal cosmetics were just becoming fashionable. In France, its legislators were Jacques Courtin and Yves Rocher. From the very beginning, the creators of the brands Clarins and Yves Rocher relied on natural ingredients.

Today, the head of the Kudymkar administration, Boris Sokolov, left his position. Kommersant was informed about this in the Kudymkar City Duma. It was explained to the publication that the term of office of the city manager ended after the new composition of the City Duma began work. The first meeting of the deputies elected on March 13 took place today. As the new head of Kudymkar, Anatoly Golubkov, told Kommersant, to work as acting. Vyacheslav Kiselev took over as head of the administration.

House of Culture / Mastery lessons Khasan Ganiev, Dmitry Gronsky, Anna Kilimnik, Alexey Harnas, Nadezhda Durmanova Geneva protocols Obvious and probable car future They say that the future cannot be foreseen, but it can be invented. Judging by the latest models of the Geneva salon, the farther from us the car tomorrow, the better, cleaner and more sports it will look. We did not divide the car new products into the main and secondary or separate conceptual studies from quite serial vehicles.

Kommersant FM columnist Andrey Rodionov tests a Land Rover Discovery 4, model range 2011. Andrey’s driving experience is 6 years. Average mileage per week is 400 km. The distance from home to work is 15 km. Initially, I was very skeptical about Land Rover. Exclusively because of the appearance: the uniform seems unsightly, everything is very rude. But, you know, Discovery 4 knows how to convincingly persuade. This is perhaps the main impression of the car.

The Right Cause party spoke out on April 1 against new educational standards, calling not to make fools of Russian children. Activists gathered on Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow, at the monument to Griboyedov with posters “Modernization - without fools”, “Russia cannot be raised with someone else’s mind!”, “New educational standards are designed for fools,” RIA Novosti reports.

Voronezh activists of the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS) and movements friendly to it yesterday held a traditional rally on the central Lenin Square in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees freedom of assembly. The picket, in which about 50 people took part, was officially authorized for the first time by the Voronezh mayor's office.

Yesterday, as part of the investigation of the criminal case initiated against the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPU) interrogated as a witness Yevgeny Marchuk (pictured), who served as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Marchuk refused to share the details of the interrogation, which lasted more than 7 hours, citing the secrecy of the investigation.

The board of directors of Norilsk Nickel elected the former head of the Kremlin administration, chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Uralkali Alexander Voloshin as chairman, Interfax reports. Leading specialist of the brokerage department of the investment company Energocapital Vladimir Kapustyansky commented on the decision live on Kommersant FM. “This is an expected event, and such a small victory as Rusal hopes,” the expert noted.

Today, at the gates of the prestigious Moscow school No. 46, parents of future first-graders almost started a fight. On April 1, applications began to be accepted to enroll students in the first grades, but there are only 76 places in the school, and 120 people want to sit at a desk. Kommersant FM correspondent Nikita Batalov was in direct communication from the school.

Roman Azadovsky about the film “The Master and Margarita” Two shaggy quotes - about the fact that you never need to ask for anything, and about sturgeon - skip ahead of Bulgakov's novel. These jokes are ready for anyone who has not read the book, only heard the sound, and mentioning them is bad manners, but here the case is such that it is difficult to resist a fish joke.

756 1 min. ... Today marks the 77th birthday of TV journalist and host of the Pozner program Vladimir Pozner. Boris Nemtsov, a member of the Solidarity movement bureau, congratulates him: — There is Vladimir Vladimirovich in the world, to whom it is pleasant to turn. It is you. When I was very young, I first saw you during the Russia-America teleconference, where you, in an absolutely professional, open and frank manner, conducted a dialogue with Phil Donahue with Russian and American audiences.

Sopromat Igor Zelenitsyn The strongest earthquake in Japanese history and the subsequent tsunami, according to local police estimates, destroyed and damaged about 130,000 buildings. However, the largest of them - skyscrapers - survived: they turned out to be the most adapted to the elements. More than two hundred thousand people watched a video on YouTube showing footage of Tokyo skyscrapers during the March earthquake.