The Chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, did not rule out that the sentences of the girls from the Pussy Riot group would be commuted. She said this on the NTV channel on Sunday evening, Interfax reports . According to Egorova, it cannot be said that the case of Pussy Riot’s performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is political. “It’s too early to talk about whether there is a crime there or not, because there will probably be a complaint against me from lawyers.

In the Krasnosulinsky district of the Rostov region, the police seized a bear cub from a local resident, which the man kept in the yard of his house. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On April 5, the operator on duty at the Krasnosulinsky Ministry of Internal Affairs received a message that one of the local residents was keeping a predator.

The international journalistic consortium ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), which has collected dossiers on offshore account owners from around the world, does not intend to share the information received with government agencies. This is stated in the address of the head of ICIJ, Gerard Ryle, posted on the organization’s website.

On April 7, the Odnoklassniki social network fully restored its functionality after a failure three days ago. This was reported on the official microblog of the social network on Twitter. “All basic services have been restored. No user data is lost,” the message says. The day before, Odnoklassniki tweeted that “messages, groups, notifications, feeds, photos and games - all this is already working.” “We went through some really difficult days when the site was partially paralyzed.

The son of one of the most famous American religious figures, Rick Warren, committed suicide, the Associated Press reported on Saturday, April 6. In a statement issued by the press service of the evangelical church Saddleback Church, whose founder is Rick Warren, it is said that 27-year-old Matthew Warren suffered from mental disorders throughout his life, severe depression and suicidal tendencies. “Despite the best medical care, his disease was never fully under control,” the statement said.

Brazilian law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, suspected of involvement in corruption, Agence France-Presse reported on Saturday, April 6. Testimony against Lula da Silva was given by businessman Marcos Valerio Fernandes de Souza, who was sentenced in 2012 to 40 years in prison in a corruption case.

A native of South Africa flew over the waters of the Atlantic in 160 helium-filled balloons. According to the British The Telegraph, the purpose of the event was to raise funds for the construction of the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital. Matt Silver-Vallance, 37, who now lives permanently in the UK and works as a marketing manager in the medical equipment trade, took off from Robben Island.

Russian businessman Viktor Bout, convicted in the United States, will be defended by a new team of lawyers. Bout’s wife, Alla, reported this to ITAR-TASS on April 7. Lawyer Alexey Binetsky is already working on forming a new team, she explained. Alla But did not comment on the reasons for recruiting new lawyers, nor on the possibility of continuing cooperation with Albert Dayan, who represented the interests of the Russian businessman at the trial.

The Pentagon has decided to postpone the tests of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile planned for the first ten days of April due to the situation with North Korea. anonymity .

In Afghanistan on Saturday, April 6, five US citizens were killed, including a diplomatic employee, Agence France-Presse reports, citing a statement by American authorities. Three American troops and a female diplomat were killed in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan when a car bomb exploded in the path of a NATO convoy. US Secretary of State John Kerry said he met with the deceased female diplomat during his visit to Afghanistan several days ago.

Ten children were killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan. According to Agence France-Presse , this was stated on Sunday, April 7, by Wasifullah Wasifi, a representative of the Kunar provincial government. The incident occurred on Saturday evening during a joint military operation carried out by NATO troops and the Afghan government in the Shaigal Wa Shintan area.

The results of the Total Dictation participants in the Ulyanovsk Palace of Culture “Gubernatorsky”, where the local governor Sergei Morozov replaced Dina Rubina’s text with another, will be cancelled. This is reported on the Total Dictation website. According to the organizers, in Ulyanovsk the text was changed only at one site; at the rest, people wrote the original dictation.

On Sunday evening, a fragment of an audio recording of an interview that journalist Evgeniy Levkovich took with Channel One General Director Konstantin Ernst in 2008 was published on the Internet. The video was posted on the Politvestnik.tv channel. A fragment of an interview with Ernst from five years ago is accompanied by a conversation with Levkovich himself, who explains what prompted him to make this material public.

State Duma deputy from United Russia Sergei Zheleznyak complained about the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets to the Public Collegium for Complaints against the Press. The text of Zheleznyak’s complaint was published on the board’s website.

Musician Sergei Troitsky, who at the end of March participated in the mayoral elections of the town of Zhukovsky near Moscow, told how his campaign headquarters bribed voters. In an interview with the BBC Russian Service, Troitsky, known by the nickname “Spider,” said that five thousand residents of Zhukovsky received two thousand rubles from him. “In total, thirty thousand people took part in the elections,” Pauk said about the formation of his electoral base.