The Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation sent materials to the investigative authorities to initiate a new case against ex-official of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva. This was reported on the department’s website on April 11.

26 chairmen of student unions sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov with a request to stop the process of appointing rector advisers on youth policy at universities. Izvestia reported this on April 11 with reference to a copy of the letter.

Ubisoft will release a remake of the adventure platformer Flashback, according to the Eurogamer website. The new version is being developed by the Vector Cell studio, which includes five employees from Delphine Software, the creator of the original game. The Delphine Software studio itself went bankrupt and closed in 2004.

The website of British Prime Minister David Cameron published a list of guests for Margaret Thatcher's funeral, which will take place on April 17. The list included representatives of more than 200 countries and territories with which London maintains normal diplomatic relations, as well as members of the British and American political establishment.

Police in the US state of Maine have detained a local resident known as the North Pond Hermit. CNN reports this. According to investigators, Christopher Knight, who lived in the woods of central Maine for twenty-seven years, committed more than a thousand burglaries during this time. So far, however, only charges have been brought against 47-year-old Knight for theft from the Pine Tree campground, which is located near the town of Rome.

Publisher Ubisoft has officially announced the Blood Dragon addition to the shooter Far Cry 3. As Videogamer reports, it will be released on May 1 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The price of the DLC has not yet been announced. As previously reported, Blood Dragon will not require installation of Far Cry 3 itself. As in the main part of the shooter, the action will take place on an island.

Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are being considered for the lead roles in Highwaymen, Deadline reports. Harrelson and Neeson are offered to play the Texas Rangers who shot Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were American robbers active during the Great Depression. In May 1934 they were ambushed and killed. Two police officers from Louisiana and four Texas Rangers took part in the operation to neutralize the criminals. One of these rangers was Sheriff Frank Hamer.

The Mariinsky Theater has announced a playbill for performances on the second stage for the first half of May. The schedule is published on the official website of the theater. The new stage of the Mariinsky Theater will open on May 2 with a gala concert with the participation of opera and ballet stars, as well as famous musicians.

Paleontologists have discovered several dinosaur embryos in southern China that are nearly 200 million years old. The work was published in the journal Nature , and its summary is provided by NatureNews. The find dates back to the early Jurassic period and is almost 100 million years older than all similar mass graves found so far.

Deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly have prepared a draft federal law introducing an annual tax of one thousand rubles for dog owners. this on Thursday, April 11 . reported The website of the Legislative Assembly As specified in the message, deputies have provided benefits for owners of neutered animals. They will have to pay 100 rubles annually instead of a thousand. The document applies to both service and hunting dogs, as well as domestic ones.

The private security service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs through the court demanded that the Central Naval Museum of the Ministry of Defense pay a million rubles in debt for the protection of the cruiser Aurora. The Izvestia newspaper reported this on Thursday, April 11, citing a source in the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Okhrana. According to the publication, the claim was filed by the enterprise in the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg.

The doping test of Russian cyclist Valery Kaykov gave a positive result for the presence of a prohibited substance. This is reported by the website of the Rusvelo team, with which he competed in road racing. The driver's sample was taken out of competition. However, exactly when the sample was taken and what kind of substance was found on Kaykov is not reported. In a statement, Rusvelo said that the 24-year-old Russian was sent a notice of contract termination.

Dmitry Pavlikov, a wanted participant in the pogrom at the Tornado rock festival, turned himself in and admitted his guilt. This was reported on April 11 on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Pavlikov was charged under Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in mass riots). After this, he was released on bail in the amount of 500 thousand rubles. To date, 13 organizers and participants of the pogrom have been convicted.

Previously, director Joseph Kosinski specialized in commercials (including for video games) - and earned such a reputation that he was immediately allocated $170 million for his first feature film. This work was the science-fiction film “Tron: Legacy,” a continuation of Disney’s 1982 “Tron.” “The Inheritance” received lukewarm reviews, but turned out to be successful at the box office: the film’s total box office receipts reached $400 million.

The Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) fined Rambler half a million rubles for refusing to provide information from the electronic mailbox of one of its users. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper in its issue dated April 11. The Federal Financial Markets Service requested from Rambler the registration data of a user who was suspected of misusing corporate information, as well as information about the addresses from which he collected and to which he forwarded letters.