Spanish authorities are sounding the alarm about an oil leak from the Russian trawler Oleg Naydenov, which was on fire in one of the ports on the Canary Islands. The second level of environmental threat has been introduced, AP reports. Every effort is being made to prevent the spread of the oil spill, which could cause significant damage to the ecology of the region. It was previously reported that from 350 to 1 thousand tons of fuel spilled into the Atlantic Ocean from the trawler.

Slovak President Andrej Kiska said that the European Union and NATO should not supply weapons to Ukraine. “Neither the European Union nor NATO as a whole should be involved in arms supplies,” the Serbian publication SME quotes the president as saying. At the same time, he noted that the country can conclude relevant contracts bilaterally. “No one can stop Ukraine from buying weapons within the framework of bilateral relations.

The death toll from the earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday morning is rising rapidly. As Reuters reports with reference to the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, 688 people have already become victims. Photo: Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters Read more about the earthquake in Nepal in the Kommersant article “More than 400 people died as a result of the earthquake in Nepal.”

A small, opaque plastic bottle attached to a drone that crashed onto the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's residence on April 22 contained sand from Fukushima Prefecture. This, as representatives of the team investigating the incident told reporters today, was told by a man who surrendered to Japanese police on Friday evening and took responsibility for controlling the drone.

The court refused to place Alexey Rummel in pre-trial detention center The Sverdlovsk District Court placed the former deputy chief of the public security police of the Perm Internal Affairs Directorate, Alexey Rummel, under house arrest. He is accused of participating in the theft of more than 3.9 million rubles allocated for the resettlement of seconded employees.

The Ministry of Health is required to determine the procedure for issuing medical documents to citizens The Supreme Court will consider a complaint demanding that the Ministry of Health be obliged to put things in order in regulations: now patients, the applicant writes, are deprived of the right to familiarize themselves with their own medical records.

On April 25, the military sports game “Race of Heroes”, created according to GTO standards, took place in Alabino near Moscow. The main component of the race, in which teams from different cities of Russia took part, is a cross-country race with obstacles. How real heroes overcame difficulties - in the Kommersant photo gallery.

Russian rock stars performed today in Lugansk with a gala concert as part of the “The Sun Will Rise” festival. More than 3.5 thousand fans gathered in the Arena building, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene of the event.

The participation of Alexander Zaldostanov (Surgeon) in the event is still in question “Night Wolves” began their run to Berlin, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory. The bikers' route should pass through Minsk, Brest, Wroclaw, Brno, Bratislava, Vienna, Munich and Prague. However, some European countries have expressed their reluctance to see Russian motorcyclists on their territory.

In the center of Moscow, a police officer accidentally wounded his colleague with his service weapon. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the capital police. “At the police department in the Tagansky district, a police officer fired an accidental shot and wounded his colleague. The victim was hospitalized,” the press service said. This fact is being investigated.

The authorities have determined the rules for summer cafes for 2015 The Kazan mayor's office revised the rules for locating street trading facilities for 2015, taking into account last year's situation, when only about half of the proposed sites for summer cafes and less than a quarter for selling ice cream and drinks were in demand. This year, some of the plots for cafes will be rented out for three seasons at once.

The Ministry of Education will check the statements of the head teacher The Ministry of Education of the Saratov Region will conduct an inspection at the Khvalynsk school, the head teacher of which stated that pressure was being put on her due to the fact that few applications were submitted to study the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture.” On Wednesday it became known that head teacher Tatyano Kotserova will be fired in July as part of a planned reduction.

The Russian national hockey team lost to the Swedish team for the second time in a Eurotour match. The meeting, held in Mytishchi, ended in overtime with a score of 2:3 (0:1, 1:0, 1:1, 0:1), TASS reports. Martin Johansson (18th minute), John Klingberg (48) and Marcus Sorensen (62) scored for the winners. Artemy Panarin (24) and Evgeny Medvedev (51) scored goals for the Russians.

The Cossacks of the Terek Military Cossack Society on Saturday at an extraordinary election round held in Vladikavkaz elected a new ataman by open voting, the Interfax agency was told at the army headquarters. “Alexander Zhuravsky was elected as the new chieftain,” said a representative of the headquarters. According to him, the candidacy of Mr.

In Moscow, on Leninsky Prospekt, unknown persons attacked an unemployed Dagestani man and stole his bag, which contained 18 million rubles. “On Friday morning, a 38-year-old unemployed native of Dagestan, who arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to buy a truck, informed the police patrol on Leninsky Prospekt about the robbery,” an employee of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia told Interfax .