Law enforcement agencies began checking in connection with the appearance of a distorted text of the Russian anthem at the opening of the first congress of the public expert council under the governor of Sevastopol. This was announced by the governor of the city Sergei Menyailo. Responsibility for holding the event, Menyailo stressed, lies with its organizers.

A rally was held in London demanding the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron because of the offshore investigation. The demonstration took place on Downing Street, where, among other things, the residence of the head of the British government is located. The Daily Mail reports "thousands of participants" of the action, and the British edition of The Huffington Post said "hundreds gathered" for the rally.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, on behalf of the President, is developing a new concept of the country's foreign policy. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Defense Policy.

The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow arrested Sergei Tsarev, who opened fire in a subway car, Interfax reports. Tsarev was taken into custody until June 9. He was charged with attempted murder (part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). On the evening of April 8, a quarrel broke out between two passengers in a subway car at the Kaluzhskaya station.

The US Air Force deployed B-52 heavy bombers to Qatar to fight the Islamic State (in the Russian Federation, the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned). This was announced by the head of the central command of the US Air Force, Lieutenant General Charles Brown. B-52s are stationed at the American Al-Udeid base in Qatar. The aircraft, Brown said, could be used in a range of missions, including the delivery of precision-guided weapons and air support.

Russia has blocked the transit of Ukrainian confectionery products, the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has reported. “Recently, the Ministry of Economic Development has received numerous appeals from exporters to detain goods transiting from Ukraine through the territory of the Russian Federation to third countries, namely Azerbaijan and Georgia,” the ministry said in a statement.

An Australian man faces punishment for wearing a seat belt on two boxes of beer in the back seat of his car. At the same time, there were children in the car, according to representatives of the Kimberley County Police, in whose territory the driver was stopped. “Children lay on their parents’ laps and sat on the floor, while there were crates of beer in the back seat,” law enforcement officials emphasized.

The Austrian authorities are requisitioning a house in the city of Braunau an der Inn, where Adolf Hitler was born, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in an interview with the Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten television channel. The owner of the building, Gerlinde Pommer, whose family has owned the house for over a hundred years, will be compensated, he said.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev stated that he does not exclude the possibility of influence of external forces, including Turkey, on the aggravation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. “There are a number of forces that are also very carefully analyzing the consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its impact on the situation in the Middle East and the Russian Federation, and vice versa,” Medvedev said in an interview with the Vesti on Saturday program.

Japanese racer Masato Kawabata entered the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest drift - a controlled skid, during which the car did not move in a straight line, but at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis. According to the rules of the record book, Kawabata had only three attempts. During one of them, he entered the drift at a speed of 304.96 kilometers per hour. The record was set on a special Nissan GT-R with a four-liter engine producing 1,380 horsepower.

Nadezhda Weiner - About the new Quantum Break shooter Microsoft Studios On April 5, the PC and Xbox One came out of the third -person Quantum Break - the new game of the Remedy studio, which once came up with Max Payne and Alan Wgee. Quantum Break talks about experiments over time and the struggle of the protagonist with Monarch Corporation. Journalist Nadezhda Weiner, at the request of Medusa, talks about his impressions of the new game.

TV presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammon and James May, who left the Top Gear show on the BBC in 2015, decided to launch their new automobile show on the Amazon Prime service. But friends have a serious problem with the search for the name. Hammond came up with several options. For example, to call the show “Auto Mate (S)” (literally - “automatic machines”), because it encrypted the game “Auto” and “Friends”.

North Korea has announced that it has successfully tested an engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile. The new engine, according to a report released by the North Korean news agency KCNA, "guarantees" the ability of the DPRK to launch a nuclear strike on the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally observed the tests carried out at the test site on the west coast of the DPRK, the report emphasizes.

Mexican law enforcement agencies have detained Brenda Delgado, the only woman on the FBI's 10 most wanted list of criminals. Delgado, according to investigators, organized the murder of her former lover's new girlfriend, hiring two people for this. The victim, dentist Kendra Hatcher, was gunned down on Sept. 2 in the parking lot of a residential complex in Dallas, after which Delgado fled the country.

Arrested supporters of the "Islamic state" (in the Russian Federation, the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization and banned), suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in the Volgograd region. “To date, all five IS supporters detained in the city of Pallasovka, Volgograd Region, have been arrested for a period of two months,” law enforcement sources told Interfax. On April 8, the FSB announced the detention of IS supporters in the Volgograd region .