The Russian Ministry of Defense and the United Aircraft Corporation did not manage to conclude all contracts planned within the framework of the 2013 state defense order on time, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The parties were supposed to sign the agreements before April 15 of this year, but did not have time to do this, since the new leadership of the military department needed to audit the contracts concluded under former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

The Investigative Committee asked the court to arrest Sergei Pomazun in absentia, accused of shooting in Belgorod and killing six people. This was reported on the UK website on April 23. The department did not specify the date of consideration of the petition and the court to which they sent their request.

Former Argentina national football player Ariel Ortega was the victim of a kidnapping and robbery. Criminals kidnapped Ortega in Buenos Aires on April 21. The footballer spent several hours in captivity of the kidnappers, after which he was released. reports this AFP . Ortega did not receive any injuries or injuries. Ortega, 39, was driving his car when another car blocked his way and forced him to stop.

In Vladivostok on Monday, April 22, the wall of a residential building collapsed. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Primorsky Territory, the house is located at 41 Aleutskaya Street. There is no word on possible casualties. The incident was reported to the police at 17:30 local time (10:30 Moscow time). Police squads were sent to the scene, as well as emergency services and ambulance officers. Residents of the house were evacuated.

While serving time in a colony, “Belgorod shooter” Sergei Pomazun received 29 penalties over four years. The Izvestia newspaper writes about this on April 23. As journalists were told in colony number seven in the city of Valuiki, Belgorod Region, Pomazun behaved rudely with representatives of the administration, left his workplace without permission, and smoked in inappropriate places. newspaper An anonymous prison employee told the Kommersant that Pomazun seemed unwell to him.

A new scandal has broken out in Kazakhstan related to the activities of local fighters against pedophiles. According to KTK, in Karaganda a group of activists was taken to the police after the alleged criminal was captured. Law enforcement officers were called by eyewitnesses who, as the report said, “were alarmed by the lynching.” It is not reported whether any measures were taken against the detainees.

A search was carried out at the office of OJSC Vologdaenergosbyt in connection with a case of fraud amounting to 200 million rubles. This is stated in the press release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, received on April 23 by the editors of Lenta.ru.

Levada Center became the object of a prosecutor's investigation. The Lente.ru organization confirmed that a representative of the prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, April 23, officially notified the director of the Levada Center, Lev Gudkov, about the upcoming inspection. An employee of the organization, Natalya Zorkaya, published on her Facebook page a photo of the notice sent to Gudkov by the Savyolovsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow.

Thomson Reuters has fired Matthew Keys, deputy social media editor at reuters.com, accused of collaborating with the hacker group Anonymous. In an interview with Reuters, company officials said the partnership with Keys had ended as of Monday, April 21, declining to comment further. US law enforcement in March brought a three-count indictment against Keyes related to his collaboration with the group Anonymous.

French astrophysicists have established that the source of almost all the water in the stratosphere of Jupiter is the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which fell on the planet in 1994. The researchers' work was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics , and its summary is provided on the website of the European Space Agency. The researchers' conclusions are based on observations of the gas giant's stratosphere carried out using the Herschel space telescope.

Belgorod authorities declared mourning on April 23 and 24 for the victims of the shooting that claimed the lives of six people. According to the city administration's website, a stand with the names of the victims will be installed at the crime scene, where city residents will be able to leave flowers and light candles. The Belgorod Metropolitanate reported that a memorial service for those killed would be held in all churches in the region.

A visitor to a circus in Salina, Kansas, met a tiger in the toilet of the institution, which escaped during the performance, writes the Salina Journal. Jenna Kraybiel was not injured as a result of the incident. The tiger was examined by a veterinarian and found that everything was fine with the animal. Craigill said that the tiger was not very large, not the largest of the troupe of animal performers participating in circus performances. However, when she saw him, she was still scared.

The governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, was summoned for questioning on April 24 in the Kirovles case as a witness. this State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein reported on his microblog on Twitter. In turn, Belykh himself denied this information. According to Khinshtein, it is strange to him that Belykh denies the fact of receiving a subpoena. He added that she had been lying in the governor’s reception room since morning. A summons was also issued to his deputy Sergei Shcherchkov.

The Ministry of Education and Science asked the rector of Moscow State University, Viktor Sadovnichy, to provide documents on the activities of the university’s Faculty of Law and the “Geneva branch” - the International Training Center of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov (ICL) by April 24. This was reported to Lenta.ru by a source familiar with the situation at the university.

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that would introduce school uniforms throughout Russia. According to the document, each region will be able to set its own clothing requirements for schoolchildren. reported this on April 23 RIA Novosti . The law was introduced by deputy Olga Timofeeva from the United Russia faction. “We are introducing amendments to the Law on Education, which will introduce school uniforms everywhere. But this is not “obligatory”, as it was before.