Photo: Birgir þór harðarson / Kjarninn Media / EPA / Leta rally near the Iceland Parliament building. People went out to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister , who was involved in an offshore scandal. He owned the financial instruments of Icelandic banks and could influence their price, because as the Prime Minister discussed issues related to banks. Russian officials were also among those whose names are in the Panama Archive .

The Organized Crime and Corruption Research Center (OCCRP) has published a series of materials on offshore companies owned by the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The publications are part of a global investigation based on documents from the Panama Papers.

The US Department of Justice has begun checking publications made as part of an investigation into the activities of the Panamanian offshore registrar Mossack Fonseca. The Wall Street Journal reports this.

An 18-year-old man in Kemerovo, about 2,280 miles east of Moscow, has been arrested for using a sledgehammer to break into a store, where he stole handfuls of chocolate. According to local police, the man spent three hours smashing one of the store's walls, before he finally made a hole large enough that he could squeeze through. When the store manager discovered the theft, he called the police, who soon apprehended a suspect who confessed to breaking in and stealing beer and coffee.

On April 4, hundreds of posts discussing the Panama Papers were deleted from Chinese social networks Sina Weibo and Wechat. It is reported by the BBC. According to the publication, at least 481 posts have been removed from the trending hashtag page on Weibo (Chinese equivalent of Twitter). The site Freeweibo, which monitors censorship on the resource, called the discussion of the Panama Papers the second most deleted topic after the Hong Kong film Ten Years.

Panamanian offshore registrar Mossack Fonseca collaborated with companies and businessmen who were subject to US sanctions. This was reported by the BBC with reference to documents from the Panama Archives. In particular, Mossack Fonseca worked with DCB Finance, which was sanctioned by the US Treasury for supporting the DPRK's nuclear program. The company's owners were senior North Korean official Kim Chol-sang and British banker Nigel Cowie, who also ran the sanctioned Daedong Credit Bank.

Russian journalists - about how they studied the "Panama archive" Photo: Jim Watson / AFP / Scanpix For more than a year, 380 investigators from 70 countries of the world worked on the Panama Archive project. They represented their own media, as well as the International Consortium of Journalists-ICRUSTERS (ICIJ) and the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP). Joint journalistic work of this scale has been done for the first time in history.

In Reykjavik, thousands of people took to the square in front of the parliament building to protest demanding the resignation of the Icelandic government, led by Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnleigsson. The reason for the rally was the leak of the "Panama Archive": its documents contain information about the offshore company of the head of government. A vote of no confidence in the government is expected to be raised in the Icelandic parliament on April 4.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani drone hit a bus with volunteers from Armenia. As a result, six people died, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Hraparak.am. The Armenian Defense Ministry initially confirmed the information about the dead, but did not specify their number. Later, they reported the death of five people, including two heads of the village administration, reports .

France has launched a preliminary investigation into the Panama Papers leak. The French prosecutor's office said that the investigation is underway under articles on tax evasion and money laundering. On April 3, the first results of a global investigation into the documents of the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca, which deals with the registration of offshore companies, were published. The documents mention the names of 12 world leaders and hundreds of famous people around the world.

VimpelCom (Beeline trademark) subscribers will pay 10 rubles per minute for international roaming on popular destinations starting April 13. At the same time, 200 rubles will be debited from the account immediately upon the first call - for this money you can talk for 20 minutes. If the subscriber spends less than 20 minutes per day, the money will not be returned to him. The next day, another 200 rubles will be withdrawn from him.

Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov ordered the armed forces to prepare for a strike on Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). According to the statement of the ministry, the blow will be delivered if the Armenian side does not stop shelling the Azerbaijani settlements located near the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The first rocket launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome will take place on April 27, 2016. This decision was made by the state commission based on the results of tests of the launch complex. Roskosmos said in a statement that all tests were completed normally. The first launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome was originally scheduled for December 2015. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry, said that this period is not subject to revision.

A doctor from the fire department in Sacramento (California) on March 30 found a hummingbird chick that had fallen from the nest. The weakened chick was taken to the fire department, where all employees began to nurse him. The rescuers planned to feed the little bird with water and sugar for the first 48 hours, and then start giving it bugs to eat. In the video, a doctor working in the unit feeds a chick with water and sugar from a syringe.

Transparency International vice president puts the ‘Panama Papers’ into context Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix On April 3, media outlets across the world started publishing stories about the “Panama Papers”—the biggest leak of confidential documents about offshore companies in the history of investigative journalism.