The British Embassy in Russia has amended the rules for submitting applications for a visa. According to the British diplomatic, since April 23, profiles for receiving a British visa should be filled only in English. At the same time, the requirements for "providing originals of documents with translation into English" are preserved.

In Vietnam, the Hanoy People’s Court sentenced the organized criminal group of scammers who earned prompts to applicants at exams in universities using modern communications. The criminals received from 1.5 to 3 years in prison. The scandal erupted last summer during entrance exams at the Hanoi Banking Academy. The investigation began after the suspicion of the selection committee caused a long -haired applicant who uncertainly answering questions.

The Presnensky court of Moscow satisfied the claim of the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation, Yuri Kalinin, to the head of the human rights movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev and the REGNUM information agency to protect honor, dignity and business reputation. This was announced by lawyer Svetlana Zemskova, representing the interests of the agency. The reason for filing a lawsuit was an interview with Ponomarev IA REGNUM.

The XXIX competition of the Moscow International Film Festival will have approximately 16 films, said the chairman of the qualifying commission, the famous film critic Andrei Plakhov in an interview. "This year, the competition will be wider in the participation of paintings by filmmakers from the former republics of the USSR," Plakhov said. “The representative office of Russian films will also be significant - not only in the competitive, but also in other festival programs,” he added.

In Moscow, the house-museum of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev will be opened. It is planned to create it by 2011 in the building on Ostozhenka, in which the writer lived in 1840-1850, the metropolitan administration said on Monday. The corresponding order was signed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The museum will become the department of the Pushkin State Museum.

The first Russian President Boris Yeltsin suddenly died on Monday at the 77th year of his life. Yeltsin died at 15:45 in the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. He was the only head of the Russian state who voluntarily left power, and the only Russian leader who asked for forgiveness from his compatriots for his mistakes. The cause of Yeltsin's death was a sudden cardiac arrest.

More than a hundred Russian and foreign films claimed awards of the Ninth International Festival "Detectivefest" , which ended in Moscow. It was carried out under the motto "The fight against crime and terrorism is the matter of the entire world community." The results of the creative competition were spoke to the general producer of the festival Yuri Mityushin, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the French Stasburg, the European heavy athletics championship ended. On the last day of the competition, Russian athletes won two silver and one bronze medals and, according to the results of the championship, took the first team place. In total, there are three gold in the Russian “piggy bank”, four “silver” and three “bronze”.

Each landlord is faced with a choice: to spend his time and effort on the search for customers (including “idle” trips and “empty” negotiations) or entrust it to specialists. In the case of Akrus, the help of a realtor is not limited to the search for customers, the display of housing and the conclusion of an agreement with him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted on Monday in his residence to Novo-Ograyevo President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, who arrived in Moscow on the first official visit from the moment of taking office in February this year. Opening the conversation, Putin said that Russian-Turkmen cooperation, including in the gas sector, has good prospects.

In the metropolitan temple of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine in the Roster - the Moscow representative office of the Orthodox Church in America, a requiem was committed on the repose of the victims of the tragedy at the Virzhinsky Polytechnic Institute. The memorial service was headed by the rector of the temple Archimandrite Zakhei (Wood), who was served by the clergy of the temple, Priest Daniil Lugova.

"Rosprirodnadzor", for more than a year, was leading a protracted bureaucratic war with the leadership of the Moscow region, transferred to a new counterattack on the enemy.

The Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the only one among all print media, received a budget subsidation of 2.7 billion rubles this year. On the eve of the parliamentary elections, the state messenger, who brought the texts of new laws to citizens, released the expensive application of the “RG-Sedel”, strengthening as a collective agitator and propagandist, writes “Independent Newspaper” .

The judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Volodymyr Kampo proposed to terminate constitutional proceedings in the case of the proposal of people's deputies on the legitimacy of the presidential decree on the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada. "The process has moved to a purely political sphere ... I propose a draft determination of the termination of constitutional proceedings," he said, speaking at a COP meeting on Monday , where this fateful issue for Ukraine is being resolved.

After the victory of the application for the European Football Championship in 2012, Ukraine intends to make every effort to win the right to adopt the 2013 basketball championship in 2013. This was stated by a member of the executive committee of Fiba-Europe, Alexander Volkov. “You know, if Ukraine hadn’t got Euro 2012, I would have thought well whether we would claim Eurobasket-2013,” Volkova quoted the Ukrainian Internet publication today . “And now I will do this much more active.