Several bills have been introduced into the State Duma introducing a ban on holding the positions of president, government members, and deputy to persons who have not completed military service. reports this Interfax . The bills were introduced by the representative of the Communist Party faction Alexander Tarnaev. We are talking about draft dodgers who did not complete military service without grounds for exemption from it.

The Uruguayan Ministry of Defense has signed a contract with the Austrian company Glock for the production of Glock 17 9mm self-loading pistols, Jane's reports . The amount of the transaction is not specified, but it is known that the basic agreement provides for the production of 1.5 thousand pistols in Uruguay from parts supplied by the Austrian company. It is expected that upon expiration of the signed contract, the parties will enter into a new agreement to produce more Glock 17s.

Amendments may be made to the Urban Planning Code of the Russian Federation, according to which all developers working in Moscow will be required to coordinate the appearance of future buildings with the architectural council of the capital. The newspaper "RBC daily" writes about this. According to the publication, the Moskomarkhitektura insists on making obtaining a certificate of architectural and urban planning decision mandatory.

Non-profit organizations performing the functions of foreign agents will be required to submit a report to the Ministry of Justice once every six months on their activities and the personal composition of their governing bodies. The order “On the form and timing of submission to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation of reports of non-profit organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent” was registered on the website of the Ministry of Justice on April 29.

The administration of the Omsk region temporarily suspended the accreditation of the Omsk Television Company and the Omsk-inform news agency for its events, accusing them of publishing false information about the regional governor, Viktor Nazarov. This was reported on the Omsk-inform website.

96-year-old Brazilian Joao Havelange has resigned as honorary president of FIFA. This was reported in the organization's report published on its website. The reason for leaving was a violation of FIFA's code of ethics, identified during an internal investigation. Havelange resigned as of April 19, the report said. According to the results of the investigation, the former FIFA president took bribes.

Drivers' penalty points, provided for by the new bill to increase fines for traffic violations, will be stored only in an electronic database. The Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate was told about this to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. In this case, the decision to deprive a driver of a driver’s license for exceeding a certain number of penalty points will be made by the court, and not by the traffic police inspector who confiscates the driver’s license.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened three more criminal cases of negligence against officials of the Moscow region and officials of a psychiatric hospital in the village of Ramenskoye, which burned down last week. This was reported in the press release of the RF Investigative Committee.

Polish studio Techland has announced a new game, Hellraid, reported on the Eurogamer website. The game will be a fantasy action game with RPG elements (in particular, gamers will have the opportunity to modify weapons and armor, as well as develop their character). The developers have provided two modes for passing Hellraid.

The VKontakte press service denied publications by a number of Russian media outlets, which claimed that users of the social network would be charged for using the resource. According to the head of the press service of VK, Georgy Lobushkin, statements about the transition of the social network to a paid basis are an invention of journalists. Lobushkin’s words were confirmed by the UCP group of companies, which owns 48 percent of VKontakte.

“We have a negative attitude towards attempts to make fools of us” Deputy head of Roskomnadzor on regulation of the media and the Internet Maxim Ksenzov Recently, three laws regulating the work of the media and the Internet have come into force in Russia. All of them were received with hostility by industry representatives.

On the evening of April 29, an emergency meeting of the Opposition Coordination Council was held in Moscow. Members of the Constitutional Court gathered after the Basmanny Court of the capital, as part of the “Bolotnaya case,” arrested anti-fascist Alexei Gaskarov (he is also a member of the advisory body).

The Town Planning Council of the Moscow Region has lifted the ban on issuing construction permits. As Interfax reports , this was stated by the Minister of Construction Complex and Housing and Communal Services of the Moscow Region Marina Ogloblina. According to RIA Novosti , at a meeting on April 30, the city council approved the construction of a microdistrict in the Leninsky district of the region, residential buildings in Korolev and a logistics center in the Podolsky district.

The American authorities will pay off part of the national debt from the end of March to the end of June. This was reported in a press release from the US Department of the Treasury. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the reduction in borrowing will be the first in six years—US debt has been continuously increasing since 2007. The agency will use $35 billion to pay off the debt. Earlier this year, borrowing was expected to rise by $103 billion in the second quarter.

On Monday, April 29, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested until June 28, 2013 the next (28th) person involved in the Bolotnaya case, Alexei Gaskarov. The anti-fascist and public figure is accused of participating in mass riots on May 6, 2012 and using violence against government officials. Gaskarov claims that on Bolotnaya Square he only pulled away a policeman who was beating a detainee.