The Moscow football club Dynamo played a 0-0 draw with the Khimki team in the 31st round of the Football National League championship and guaranteed a return to the Premier League. Clubs that take the first two places in the FNL championship will move to the top division. Seven rounds before the end of the tournament, Dynamo is in first place in the table with 69 points.

The authorities of St. Petersburg are discussing the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church on July 12 - the day of Saints Peter and Paul and the name day of Peter I. This is reported by RBC, citing sources close to the Ministry of Culture and the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time, RBC's source in church circles stated that the transfer could take place on another church or church-state holiday.

Russia and the United States agreed to create a channel to resolve "problematic issues in bilateral relations." This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

The representative of Russia at the UN discusses with the British colleague. Video On April 12, at a meeting of the UN Security Council, a draft resolution was discussed with condemning a chemical attack in Syria, introduced by Great Britain, France and the United States. Russia imposed a veto document, including because of the “indictment” in relation to the Syrian regime.

Russia is ready to renew the memorandum concluded with the United States on the prevention of incidents in Syria if the countries use armed forces to fight terrorism. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this at talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

The former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who is in a pre-trial detention center on charges of taking bribes, has been diagnosed with brain disorders. This was announced by his lawyer Andrey Grokhotov at a meeting of the Moscow City Court on the issue of Belykh's arrest. “Being in a pre-trial detention center, the constant use of drugs had a negative impact on his health.

Meduza report. Audio version Russia has problems with competitive elections and public politics, but there is still a whole class of political technologists and political consultants in the country. These are thousands of people who come up with strategies, develop campaigns, monitor and analyze - and ultimately determine in many ways how the state thinks about itself and presents itself to citizens.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How Russian political technologists work: money, access and money again In Russia, problems with competitive elections and public policies, but in the country there is still a whole class of political strategists and political consultants. These are thousands of people who come up with strategies, develop campaigns, monitor and analyze - and ultimately largely determine how the state thinks about itself and present itself to citizens.

Employees of the Ukrainian Sberbank - about shares of their offices Photo: Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Participants in the National Corps at the Sberbank office In Ukraine, protests against banks with Russian capital continue. After the March exacerbation , when the nationalists blocked the departments of Sberbank in Kiev and other cities, the leadership of the financial organization announced the sale of their Ukrainian “daughter”. After that, the shares stopped, but only for a while.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in a joint statement called the information about the conflict between them, published by the Financial Times newspaper, “an unsubstantiated and deliberate lie.” Sechin and Kadyrov "are compelled to consider the prospects of applying to courts of various jurisdictions," the statement said.

Marvel Fragment of the Comics X-Men: Gold. The inscription on the T -shirt is a reference to the ayah of the Koran, which says that Christians and Jews are not friends of Muslims. On April 5, the American publishing house released the first issue of the new comic book about X-Men: Gold. The new series tells about Kitty Pride, which collects a team from Rossomachi, Colossus, a night snake and a storm.

an unusual request when booking a room at the Pembroke Hotel in Kilkenny Irishman Daniel Buckley made . The man wanted a photograph of Christopher Walken from the movie “Pulp Fiction” in his room. The photo, Buckley wrote, should be framed and preferably signed by the actor. Upon arrival at the hotel, Buckley discovered that his wish had been fulfilled. There was even an autograph on the photo! True, it is not entirely clear whether he is real or not.

The governor of the Samara region, Nikolai Merkushkin, will soon resign, RBC reports, citing sources close to the presidential administration. According to one of them, the official announcement of Merkushkin's resignation from office could be announced at the beginning of next week, according to the second, within a month.

Photo: Alexander Ryumin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On April 12, the State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On the President’s Election”, which change the rules of voting. The most important innovation is the abolition of absenteeism . It will be possible to vote on any site by simply submitting an application. The 2018 elections themselves plan to transfer for a week so that they coincide with the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

Roskomnadzor "will take administrative measures" against Channel One due to violations committed in the episodes of the program "Let them talk" about the minor Diana Shurygina. This follows from the department's response to a request from State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin.