Employees of the Japanese Public Agency for Security and Intelligence at the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday conducted searches in 11 branches of the Japanese Alef sect, the direct heiress of the Aum Sinrikyo sect, which lies responsibility for spraying poisonous gas in the Tokyo Metro in 1995, Interfax reports.

In the Murmansk region in the city of Kirovsk, one of the leading skiing centers in Russia, the final stage of all-Russian children and youth competitions in ski sports among students of the Sports School was held. More than 150 young athletes aged 8 to 12 years from different cities of the region took part in the competitions on the basis of the Khibina Snow Park complex.

An unprecedented pressure began on the North Ossetian organization “Voice of Beslan” , as a result of which the organization allegedly lost the office, according to a statement published on Tuesday on Tuesday . Members of the Voice of Beslan associate this with their protest statement against the initiation of a referendum on the extension of the powers of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The meeting of Russia, the USA, China and Eurotroki (Great Britain, Germany and France) on the situation around the Iranian nuclear program was held on Tuesday evening in Moscow. The meeting ended without significant results. Negotiations of six countries lasted about three hours. They passed behind closed doors at the level of deputies of the heads of foreign policy departments. The delegation of the Russian Federation is headed by Sergey Kislyak.

This year, Japanese corporations are expected to be produced at factories abroad more cars than in Japan itself. Last year, Toyota and seven other Japanese automotive companies produced 9.96 million cars abroad, which is 12% more than in the previous year, ITAR-TASS reports. This figure does not include a “screwdriver” assembly, when the share of local -production components does not reach 40 percent.

Russia should begin ordered and thoughtful work with international public opinion. It is necessary to actively engage in the formation of a positive image of our country abroad, "external propaganda." No strong, self -respecting modern state has the right not to take care of its appearance.

The discussions around the aspirations of the Russian Orthodox Church to offer society their understanding of human rights and freedoms, began not yesterday. Public concern about the problems of freedom in the field of religion is understandable, even if we distract from the realities of the Russian inter -religious situation. People who swallowed the air of freedom always react wary to all sorts of attempts to revisive in the field of rights and freedoms.

In Sweden at the World Hockey Championship among young men (for players no over 18 years old), group competitions ended. According to their results, the Russian team became the second in group A and now in the struggle for access to the semifinals will meet with peers from Canada. The winners in group A were the US national team hockey players, who won all 4 matches. In the final meeting of the group tournament, the Americans defeated the team of Belarus with a score of 12: 1.

The newspaper "Kommersant-Ukraine" will replace the chief editor. Instead of Andrei Vasiliev , who, from June 1, 2006, is composed of the powers of the editor-in-chief, the chief editor of regional projects of the publishing house Andrei Gogolev will be appointed to this position. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the publication, Vasiliev remains a co-owner of the Kommersant-Ukraine Publishing House, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of CJSC Kommersant.

The deputy of the State Assembly of Bashkiria Edward Murzin brought his many years of struggle for the rights of homosexuals to the highest court of Russia - the Constitutional Court. According to the Rosbalt agency, on April 18, the Constitutional Court (CS) will accept Murzin’s complaint to consideration.

A change in the economic situation in Russia and in the world will qualitatively change the labor market in 15 years. This conclusion was reached by the experts of the analytical bureau The Economist Intelligence Unit, which interviewed 1650 general directors of large international companies. In 2020, companies will, more than ever, value intelligence in employees, the ability to create and get along in the team, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.

The Spanish police detained more than a hundred people on suspicion of organizing a network of brothels. According to ITAR-TASS in the Madrid police general, there are Russians among the detainees. In turn, the Russian Embassy in Madrid and the Consulate General in Barcelona said that they have not yet had information about the detention of our compatriots. According to representatives of the Spanish police, the arrests were held in Andalusia, Aragon and the Canary Islands.

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) ordered its new welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. to immediately hold a revenge with the fog Juda, who lost this title to Mayweather on April 8 this year, Allboxing.ru reports. Disputes about the legitimacy of the victory of Mayweather arose immediately after the end of the fight, due to the fact that in the tenth round of the battle there was a massive brawl with the participation of representatives of both boxers.

The UFG Private Equity investment fund has acquired a shares of 50% minus one promotion of News Media, the main from the printed publications of which the Life newspaper is in the Russian market. The amount of the transaction amounted to $ 40 million. Almost all of them will go to the development of the newspaper. According to investors, the newspaper is one of the most promising and rapidly growing.

The Ministry of the Interior has prepared a bill on monitoring former prisoners. The ministry relies on statistics, according to which a third of those who returned from prisons, after a while, commit crimes again. In accordance with this, it is proposed to limit the movement of former prisoners and prohibit them to attend mass events. Meanwhile, most of the Echo Moskvy responded by the radio station do not support the current proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.