Several concerts of the DDT group in Russian regions were canceled under pressure from local authorities. about this on the group’s website wrote Yuri Shevchuk . In particular, he spoke about the cancellation of concerts in Kemerovo and Yurga, where tickets “were essentially sold out.” “In Tyumen there was no hall for us at all. In Omsk, some local minister also forbade concert halls from holding our 'desperate show',” the message says.

German physicists have created a photon gun capable of emitting single photons of various wavelengths. Such devices can become indispensable for organizing quantum communications that are impervious to hacker attacks. A preprint of the work is available in the Cornell University archives. The photon gun, developed by physicists, is a disk-shaped crystal of lithium niobate (a compound of lithium, niobium and oxygen) irradiated by a laser.

Russian forward of the New Jersey Devils National Hockey League club Ilya Kovalchuk scored two points in the sixth game of the first round of the Stanley Cup. New Jersey beat Florida with a score of 3:2 in overtime. This victory allowed New Jersey to tie the series at 3-3. The official website of the NHL reports this. Ilya Kovalchuk spent more than 26 minutes on the court. The Russian scored his team's second goal and also took part in the third goal, providing an assist.

New prisoners were moved into the cell of ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko , located in the Kachanovskaya colony in Kharkov. This was reported by Ukrainian News with reference to the Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. The former head of government now has two cellmates. One of them is serving a sentence for making counterfeit money, the other is serving a sentence for embezzling someone else's property. Tymoshenko’s former neighbor, Yulia Abaplova, has been moved to another room.

The Chilean authorities are going to make public possible facts of illegal enrichment of the former dictator of this country, Augusto Pinochet . According to The Guardian, the country's government, through the court, secured the presence of its representative at the reading of the will of the former head of state, which since 2006 has remained in the custody of his lawyers.

The prosecutor's office of the Lviv region protested the decision of the Turkiv city council to move the monument to Soviet soldiers. This was stated in a message from the supervisory authority. Earlier, there were reports in the media that it was decided to demolish the Monument of Glory, installed on the central square of Turki. The corresponding initiative was allegedly approved on April 4.

Israeli police have asked the National Library of Israel for help in investigating the case of stolen manuscripts of writer Franz Kafka. As Haaretz has learned, police are trying to find out where the manuscripts discovered by law enforcement in March 2012 were stolen from and whether they actually belong to Kafka.

Pixar Studios will produce a feature-length animated film dedicated to the Day of the Dead, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The mentioned holiday is celebrated in Latin American countries in early November. It is believed that it is during this period that the souls of the dead visit their living relatives. The Pixar film about the holiday does not yet have an official title. The film was directed by Lee Unkrich, who had previously directed Toy Story: The Great Escape.

Former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine collected money to pay the amount that, according to the court verdict, the former head of the department Yuriy Lutsenko must pay . This was reported by Ukrainian News . Let us recall that the former minister was accused of embezzlement of budget funds (he was accused of organizing excessively magnificent Police Days).

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Dmitry Rogozin from the post of Special Presidential Representative to NATO for Missile Defense. The Kremlin press service reports this. Medvedev signed a decree recognizing the decree appointing Rogozin to this post as invalid. At the same time, Rogozin, as before, will remain the head of the interdepartmental working group on interaction with NATO under the administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Tunisian President Moncef al-Marzouqi called on his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to voluntarily resign, reports Reuters . According to him, “one way or another, it will happen anyway.” “It’s better for you and your family to leave the country alive. If you decide to resign after death, it will mean that you will be responsible for the deaths of thousands more innocent people. And enough blood has been shed,” Marzuki said, addressing directly to Assad.

In the first quarter of 2012, the primary residential real estate market in St. Petersburg saw an increase in the cost per square meter in all price segments. This is stated in a study by the St. Petersburg Real Estate consulting center. According to the review, as of the beginning of April, the average supply price in the mass market class in residential areas of the city was 79.2 thousand rubles per square meter (+3.7 percent compared to December 2011).

The bill on the Federal Contract System (FCS), submitted to the government, provides for a simplified procedure for spending budget funds in the fourth quarter of each year. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated April 25 The Vedomosti , which managed to get acquainted with the document. Under the FCC bill, during the last three months of each year, officials can make government purchases through requests for proposals.

Personal mobile MegaFon came under the control of Usmanov The company of the richest Russian, Alisher Usmanov, became the owner of the largest stake in MegaFon on April 24. The businessman’s structures sought to gain control over the operator immediately after purchasing the first share, but the other co-owners were against it. As a result, Usmanov’s team managed to persuade the Scandinavian TeliaSonera to reduce its share, and Mikhail Fridman’s company to sell the entire stake.

In the Arkhangelsk region, for the first time, participants in actions aimed at promoting homosexuality among minors were brought to justice, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reports. Interfax recalls that in October 2011, amendments to the legislation came into force in Pomorie prohibiting the holding of public events aimed at promoting homosexuality among minors.