The founder of the New Names Foundation, Ivetta Voronova, died at the age of 80. this Pianist Denis Matsuev reported on his blog. “The great woman, thanks to whom we all became who we are now, the woman whom we all sincerely considered our second mother, left us,” Matsuev wrote. “All the most famous young performers were once found by her New Names Foundation.

The Ministry of Culture liquidated the State Social and Political Library (GOPB) in Moscow and merged it with the historical library. reports this Interfax with reference to a representative of the department. As the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture, Grigory Ivliev, explained to the agency, the libraries were merged in order to save money. According to him, this will increase the salaries of their employees, but will not harm the libraries themselves, since their profiles are similar.

A commission has been created in Kyrgyzstan to investigate two incidents involving Bishkek police officers, employees of the anti-corruption service of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), as well as the drug control service (GSKN). According to Kabar, Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiev stated this at a meeting on April 15. The commission is expected to work jointly with the Prosecutor General's Office.

The American company Bell Helicopter presented a project for a promising third-generation tiltrotor. With this machine, the company intends to take part in an as yet unannounced US Army tender for the creation of a medium multi-purpose helicopter or tiltrotor, which after 2030 will have to replace several types of rotorcraft at once.

The Ministry of Education and Science has announced a tender to compile a ranking of leading universities in Russia and the world. An order worth 25 million rubles was placed on April 12 on the government procurement portal. By “world universities” the Ministry of Education and Science means universities in the BRICS, CIS and Baltic countries. The rating must include at least 500 educational institutions.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin did not approve of the idea, voiced by the FSB border service, not to allow trains from Tajikistan into Russia due to their violation of sanitary standards. reported this on Monday, April 15 RIA Novosti . According to Rogozin, the State Border Commission, which he heads, does not support such radical measures.

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who, according to the official version, died in 1947 in a Soviet prison, will become an honorary citizen of Australia. This was announced on April 15 on the website of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. This is the first time such an honorary award has been awarded in the history of the country. The official ceremony will take place on May 6 at the residence of the Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, located in Canberra.

In Surgut, 180 young people were detained who were allegedly planning to organize mass riots. agency reported this on April 15 The Interfax . The arrest was made late in the evening of April 13 near a shopping center on Komplektovochnaya Street. At the same time, the police heard several pops, similar to shots. Traumatic and pneumatic pistols, a shotgun, a sawn-off shotgun, bats, hammers, iron pipes, sports equipment and pitchforks were confiscated from the detainees.

Russian Post has practically resolved the situation with the “congestion” of international mail at Moscow airports. This was reported in the official press release of the postal department. According to Pochta, as of April 15, 153 tons of parcels remained at Sheremetyevo, and 9.35 tons at Domodedovo. At the same time, mail balances at Sheremetyevo are reduced by 24 tons every day.

on board a Chinese ship that ran aground in a marine reserve, The Philippine Coast Guard found a cargo of frozen pangolins the hunting of which is prohibited. reported this on Monday, April 15 The Associated Press . Boxes with frozen pangolins were discovered on Saturday, April 13, during a re-inspection of the ship. Coast Guard officials could not tell the agency whether the animals were frozen alive or if they were first slaughtered for meat.

The American student club lost a wooden sculpture worth about a thousand dollars. According to police, the culprits of the theft may be two young men dressed in lobster and banana costumes, the Huffington Post reports. The incident occurred on the territory of the student union of the University of North Carolina on the night of April 1, and to date the attackers have not yet been detained.

The head of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, Vicente Díaz, agreed to a recount of votes, El Universal newspaper reports. He explained his decision by saying that the gap between the participants in the presidential race was minimal, amounting to about 200 thousand votes.

Police in the Smolensk region found out that during Maslenitsa festivities in one of the region’s villages, schoolchildren were given alcoholic drinks as prizes. This is stated in a message on the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The incident occurred on March 17 in the village of Izdeshkovo, Safonovsky district of the region.

The net loss of the Russian metallurgical holding Mechel attributable to shareholders at the end of 2012 reached about $1.665 billion. This is stated in the official http://mechel.ru/news/article.wbp?article-id=5EF8AB2E-9C49-4D96-BDE0-AC481ED67514 target=_blank>company press release. A year earlier, Mechel's net profit amounted to about $728 million. The company's operating loss last year was $898 million, while in 2011 operating profit exceeded $1.8 billion.

“We are shocked!” Porn was shown on Belarusian TV Photo: noiseman.zzl.org The main newsmaker in Belarus last weekend was the BelMuzTV channel. More precisely, not even the channel itself, but its nameless (name is still unknown) employee, who aired a pornographic video, and at the same time songs of the group Lyapis Trubetskoy, which was secretly banned in the country. Many people managed to watch the unscheduled broadcast; recordings with its fragments quickly spread across social networks.