Firefighters were unable to reach the burning psychiatric hospital in the village of Ramensky near Moscow in time due to the closed river crossing. The rescuers spent an hour on the road instead of 20 minutes. reported this on April 26 Interfax with reference to an unnamed representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The nearest fire station to the hospital is 42 kilometers away.

The jury of the Moscow City Court unanimously returned a guilty verdict in the case of a fight near the Evropeisky shopping center. agency reported this on April 26 The Interfax . The jury found 22-year-old Bekkhan Rizvanov guilty of attempted murder of football fan Alexei Usachev. After the first vote, there was a hitch: the judge said she did not understand the answer to one of the questions and asked the jury to re-vote. However, the verdict was soon confirmed.

The court allowed Alexei Navalny to relax with his family in the Astrakhan region during the May holidays - from May 7 to May 14. The meeting is broadcast live by RAPSI. Navalny in his petition asked to be released with his family to Egypt or at least to Astrakhan, specifying that he plans to vacation in the Astrakhan region. The state prosecution objected to this request, and in the end the judge decided to grant it partially.

The head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) Nikolai Kutyin has been relieved of his post, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, April 26, with reference to the press service of the Russian government. The decree releasing Kutyin from office at his own request was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Alexey Ferapontov, Kutyin’s former deputy, was appointed acting head of Rostekhnadzor.

One of Egypt's largest English-language newspapers, the Egypt Independent, has closed after four years in business. This was reported on the publication’s website on April 25. Officially, investors closed the publication for commercial reasons, citing its unprofitability. However, the newspaper's journalists believe that there may be political reasons behind the closure of Egypt Independent.

Gary Oldman will be the hero of David Bowie's new video. According to the Daily Mail, the actor was spotted on set in New York, where production is currently underway on a new music video for one of the songs from Bowie's album The Next Day. As the publication suggests, the plot of the clip will be somehow related to religious themes. This is indicated by the fact that Bowie himself was wearing a monk's robe and a brown scarf during the filming.

On Friday, April 26, the Russian junior hockey team lost to the US team in the semifinals of the World Championship for players under 18 years of age, held in Sochi, according to the official website of the tournament. In regulation time, Russia and the USA tied with a score of 3:3. In overtime, none of the teams managed to hit the opponent's goal, and to determine the finalist of the World Cup, a series of shootouts was required, in which the Americans were more likely to win.

In the UK, the organizer of the failed terrorist attack, 31-year-old Irfan Nasir, was sentenced to life imprisonment, Sky News reports. Together with eight accomplices, he planned to detonate eight bombs on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States. He will be able to apply for early release no earlier than after 18 years. Two more participants in the conspiracy received long sentences.

You can’t bring back shell rock What the Gogol Center has become in three months Opening of the Gogol Center. Photo: official page of the Gogol Center on VKontakte The Gogol Center opened on the site of the former Gogol Theater in February 2013. The opening was conceptual and touching: one of the performances was the on-screen appearance of old-timers of the theater, whose faces were mostly unfamiliar to those who came to the theater as guests that evening.

On April 24, Moscow Armenians picketed the Turkish Embassy. This day marks the day of remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Armenian people (in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire - almost the entire Armenian population of the country). The police limited the number of participants to ten people. People who came to the pickets complained that even in Turkey ten thousand people were allowed to attend a similar rally.

Ali Ornek, international news editor at the Turkish communist newspaper Sol, has been given a suspended sentence for insulting the country's president. Today's Zaman reports this. Ali Ornek was given a suspended 14-month prison sentence with a warning that this term will be replaced with a real one if the journalist commits another similar offense in the next five years.

Relatives of those killed in a fire in a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region will receive 500 thousand rubles as compensation. This was stated by the acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, RIA Novosti reports . The head of the Moscow region added that the burial will be carried out at the expense of the region and the Dmitrovsky district.

On Friday, April 26, the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan, Serik Abdenov, was pelted with eggs. Tengrinews reports this. According to Interfax , the incident occurred at the Palace of Students, where the minister arrived to give an explanation of the pension reform planned by the authorities. During his speech, a certain activist - reportedly the leader of the Communists of Kazakhstan movement, Andrei Tsukanov - threw two eggs at the official.

Perm authorities will give a discount on rent to residents of Perm who complained to President Vladimir Putin about the high cost of utilities. reported this Interfax . As stated by the Governor of the Perm Territory, Viktor Basargin, the residents of the house will be forgiven their debt for accommodation and will be charged a “symbolic fee” in the future.

An alligator with three legs attended the Zurich Classic golf tournament in New Orleans, Louisiana, writes The Daily Mail. The animal walked around the area designated for the game and even lay down to rest on the green lawn while the players participated in the competition. As a result of the incident, none of the participants in the sporting event were injured. The three-legged alligator was photographed and videoed and behaved quite calmly.