Deputies will be deprived of their mandate for violating party discipline. As right-wing activist Mikhail Yemelyanov told Izvestia, on April 21, amendments will be made to the State Duma according to which the lower house of parliament will be able to terminate the powers of a deputy early on the recommendation of the faction in which he belongs. State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Ilya Ponomarev answered questions from presenters Maxim Mitchenkov and Natalya Zhdanova.

An armed man who seized a bank branch in Belgorod released the cashier and voluntarily surrendered his weapon under guarantees of payment of his savings, RIA Novosti reports, citing an informed source. “At 13:40, the cashier was released, negotiations with the armed man continue,” RIA Novosti quotes the interlocutor. The source also added that, according to his data, the invader was Alexey Vdovin, born in 1968, in this bank he had bills worth 23.6 million rubles.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov announced that US representatives refused to participate in the annual conference on international security in Moscow, which is organized jointly with international partners by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The conference is scheduled to take place on May 23-24. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to Mr. Antonov, this year one of the main topics of the conference will be the latest events in the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan.

The craziest ways to squander your fortune Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei squandered $14.8 billion on luxury goods, carousing and women, for which he fell out of favor with his reigning brother. The amount squandered by the prince turned out to be unique, but there are plenty of examples in history when large capitals were squandered. Previous photo Next photo 1 / 3 Charles James Fox interrupted his card game only to denounce social evils in Parliament.

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Demolition of a section of an overpass in Rio de Janeiro, anti-government protests in Caracas, Hindus during a ritual in Calcutta. The brightest photographs of the passing day are in the Kommersant photo gallery. Previous photo Hindus during a ritual in Kolkata Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri A relative of one of the missing passengers on a ferry that sank off the coast of South Korea during a protest.

Europe switches from gas to wind and solar The aggravation of relations between Moscow and the West associated with the events in Ukraine has again intensified the search for an alternative to Russian gas as fuel for European power plants. One of the logical directions of this search was “green” energy.

The lawyer of ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, Genrikh Padva, said that his client was amnestied in a criminal case of negligence on legal grounds. “We believe that everything was done correctly, according to the law. Our client has a strong position on this issue,” Interfax quotes the lawyer. “There are always reasons for doubts, but they must be justified,” Mr. Padva emphasized.

The Duma of the Surgut District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has elected the head of the municipal administration. The first city manager for the district was Sergei Cherkashin, who had previously served as acting manager. Deputies had to choose from two candidates; the second was the former deputy head of the district, Viktor Smirnov. Mr. Cherkashin’s candidacy was unanimously supported, Ura.ru reports. Kommersant-Online

Chinese equipment was mistaken for Belarusian The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Oryol region opened a criminal case of attempted fraudulent theft of 216 million rubles - almost a third of the funds allocated from the budget for the construction of a water deferrization station in the regional center.

As a source close to the investigation told the ITAR-TASS agency, the teenager who carried out the shooting in February at Moscow school No. 263 was transferred to the medical unit of the Butyrsky pre-trial detention center based on the results of an inpatient psychiatric examination.

under the museum of guards and heraldry The government of St. Petersburg officially transferred the Exchange building to the State Hermitage, whose director Mikhail Piotrovsky plans to create a museum of Russian guards and heraldry there, as well as a ceremonial center. Cultural figures approved of Mr. Piotrovsky's idea, although some of them believe that something more interesting could be placed in the building.

KSAU "Center for the Implementation of Projects in the Sphere of Culture and Youth Policy" is looking for a performer for the technical preparation of Dmitry Hvorostovsky's concert dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day. According to ProPerm.ru, the contractor must deliver, install and configure lighting and media-visual equipment at Veterans Square in Perm by May 9. In addition, during the festival, technical specialists will work on stage: lighting engineer, video engineer.

More than 67 billion rubles will be allocated for the Ural Village program until 2020, reports the information policy department of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. In 2014, the volume of funding will amount to 8.4 billion rubles (2.2 of them from the federal treasury, another 4.7 billion rubles will be allocated from the regional budget, 1.3 billion rubles from extra-budgetary sources).

Unified State Examination centers will be equipped with web cameras to combat violations. Kommersant FM's interlocutors doubt that tightening measures will lead to positive results. Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov, Kommersant / buy photo Rosobrnadzor blocked 100 groups on social networks that are dedicated to the Unified State Exam. Such measures were taken in connection with the start of the early passing of the Unified State Exam, the department noted.