In Kazakhstan, on the evening of April 26, early presidential elections ended. According to the country's Central Election Commission, the voter turnout was 95.11 percent of the total number of voters. According to Tengri News, there was a stampede at some polling stations due to the large number of people who wanted to vote. Law enforcement agencies of the country did not record any violations in the elections.

A group of unidentified persons attacked observers at the elections to the city council of Balashikha near Moscow, the Golos organization reports. The attackers took away video cameras from the observers, who called the police to record the ballot stuffing attempt, and inflicted injuries on them. One of the observers, according to the report of the Voice, has a closed craniocerebral injury and a broken rib. There is no information about the identity of the attackers.

As a result of a natural disaster, more than 2200 people died. Photo Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP / Scanpix In Nepal on April 25, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred; Its epicenter was about 80 kilometers from Kathmandu. The earthquake led to significant destruction and death of more than 2200 people - both in Nepal and in the neighboring areas of India and China. At least 17 climbers on Everest were also killed.

Shot: C-Span / YouTube US President Barack Obama made a speech in a dinner organized for the White House correspondent association (Whca). For the final-comic-part of his message, Obama invited Kigan-Maikhla Ki, one of the creators of the sketch show “Kay and saw” to the stage of the comedian. In this show, Ki plays, in particular, the “evil translator” of Luther, “interpreting” the president’s speech.

In the early 2000s, Russia recorded direct contacts between North Caucasian militants and US intelligence agencies, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the film "President" shown by the Rossiya 1 TV channel. According to Putin, Russian intelligence services recorded that American agents in Azerbaijan cooperated with the North Caucasian bandit underground, including providing transport.

Dzhambolat Dadaev, who was shot dead by Stavropol police officers during his arrest in Grozny, was suspected of causing grievous bodily harm to a Dagestani Magomed Tazirov from the entourage of the former mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, Novaya Gazeta claims. According to the publication, Dadaev and Tazirov had a conflict in Stavropol in September 2014. Dadaev fired twice at Tazirov, who managed to survive.

In Baltimore, Maryland, a protest against police violence took place on April 25, which escalated into clashes. The action was dedicated to the death of African-American Freddie Gray, who died in hospital a week after he was detained by police. According to the demonstrators, Gray died due to a spinal injury received during the arrest. Several thousand people took part in the action in Baltimore. Towards its end, the demonstrators got into a brawl with fans of the local baseball team.

Why the Ministry of Culture was concerned about the theater press budget: an interview with Alla Shenderova The Union of Theater Workers of Russia this week held public hearings dedicated to the "principles of state support for specialized print media in the field of theater." Before the Izvestia meeting, they wrote that the Ministry of Culture is going to reduce financing of 15 theatrical publications, but to start the department needs to determine which of them is “ineffective” by studying

In the Amur region, the court placed under arrest for a two-month period the general director of DSS LLC Roman Suvorov, accused of non-payment of wages to the builders of the Vostochny cosmodrome. According to the investigation, Suvorov, having the necessary funds, did not pay salaries to the employees of DSS LLC, employed in the construction of the cosmodrome, for January, February and the first half of March. The amount of debt is estimated at 3.5 million rubles.

No Russians were found among the dead and injured as a result of a strong earthquake in Nepal, said Vladimir Stepanov, deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation. According to Stepanov, it has also been established that nothing threatens the groups of Russian tourists climbing Everest. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia opened a hotline phone: 8-800-775-17-17, 85 calls were received per day.

On April 25, the Russian national ice hockey team lost to the Swedish national team in the match of the Eurotour stage with a score of 2:3. The main time of the match, which took place in Mytishchi near Moscow, ended in a draw, the Swedish hockey team player Markus Sørensen scored the winning goal in the second minute of overtime. The defeat from Sweden was the sixth in a row for the Russian team.

Ukrainian-born businessman Leonard Blavatnik is recognized as the richest man in the UK. The fortune of the businessman, whose assets include the record company Warner Music, is estimated at 13.17 billion pounds (about $ 20 billion). The second place in the rating was occupied by the owners of the Hinduja corporation, whose fortune is estimated at 13 billion pounds. in third place were entrepreneurs Galen and George Weston, whose business assets include retail chains and food production.

As a result of hacking the security systems of the White House, hackers from Russia managed to gain access to the correspondence of US President Barack Obama, writes The New York Times. Earlier it was reported that as a result of the hack, hackers allegedly associated with the Russian government gained access to unclassified information, including Obama's schedule.

The death toll from a strong earthquake in Nepal has increased to 1910 people. At least 721 people died in the capital, Kathmandu. Among the dead were 65 climbers who were hit by an earthquake-caused avalanche on Mount Everest. Including among the dead climbers found the body of a senior Google employee Dan Fredinberg, who worked on security issues in the GoogleX research division. Deputy Chief Inspector of Police Komal Singh Bam said the death toll is likely to rise further.

Boris Kupriyanov - about why he stopped reforming libraries Photo: Alexandra Krasnova / TASS / Scanpix Soon after the dismissal of the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov, Boris Kupriyanov also refused to cooperate with the capital's authorities.