The Dzerzhinsky court of St. Petersburg proposed a lawsuit against the Hermitage for the closure of several halls by Elena Malysheva and the museum to conduct peace negotiations before entering the court of law, Interfax reports. “On May 6, negotiations are scheduled for the parties. Apparently, we will be offered to go to a settlement agreement,” said Elena Malysheva’s lawyer Gleb Lavrentiev. He added that this practice of trials is rare and is not described in the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Barcelona is not going to sell his Brazilian playmaker Ronaldinho cheaper than 40 million euros. This was informed by the newspaper Sport-Express with reference to the relevant statement of the president of the Catalan club Joan Lapates. The proposal for the transfer of the player "Bars" made a number of clubs. The forward is interested in the English Premier League, and Milan makes the most persistent attempts.

At the end of March, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov appealed to the parties with a request to evaluate the electoral law, submitting his proposals for its improvement before May 1. The answers are planned to be included in the CEC information and analytical note according to the election results, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The first responded to the Communists.

The media do not have the right to betray the publicity of the scene from the private life of Silvio Berlusconi, captured by a telephone object without the consent of the interested person. Such a decision, as ITAR-TASS reports, was made today in Rome to the Cassation Court of Italy.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, the metropolitan authorities are urging all measures to prevent gay parades that consider in the Church a "public insult to public morality." “We hope that this time those who are responsible for public order and compliance with public morality will do everything possible to prevent the so -called pride parades of homosexuals,” the priest Mikhail Prokopenko, head of the interfax -religion service to the interfax -religion portal, told the department of the department

On Tuesday, the Leningrad Regional Court sentenced Alexander Gurkin to 23 years in a maximum security colony on charges of raping two schoolchildren in the forest and the murder of one of them, Interfax reports. The state prosecutor asked Gurkin to be sentenced to 25 years old, but the court somewhat softened the punishment.

The fifth year in a row, the situation in the Armenia media receives a negative assessment from Freedom House , a non -governmental organization that, in particular, is engaged in research on political and civilian freedoms. "Despite the fact that freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the country, nevertheless, in practice, the right to freedom of speech is under threat," the next report by Freedom House says.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko accused of corruption 15 high -ranking government officials and his administration. "Today, 15 people holding the highest posts of government officials and the presidential administration were mired in corruption," said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, speaking with a traditional annual message to the Belarusian people and parliament. “Today, whole tables were drawn to me and in the near future I will invite everyone,” the president threatened.

The elected President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, after taking office of the head of state, will apply the first visits to Kazakhstan and China, but will not go to the European Football Championship, Interfax reports. “As I promised on the night after the elections, I will go to Kazakhstan first to us - from Kazakhstan - to China, this will be the first international voyage,” Medvedev said in an interview with employees of the newspaper Arguments and Facts.

The BET faction (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) in the Ukrainian parliament is preparing to collect signatures under the draft resolution on the expression of distrust to the general prosecutor Alexander Medvedko. As the author of the draft decree, a member of the BYuT faction, Andrei Portnov, said on Tuesday, such an initiative is due to the fact that the Prosecutor General "due to political reasons" went beyond his constitutional powers.

Rental rates for Moscow apartments in March? April stomp on the spot, the Moscow Komsomolets states. Since the end of February, the average price of hiring economy-class apartments has increased monthly by symbolic 0.2? 0.3% compared to the previous month. At the same time, the rental of business class housing is even more slow: on average, a monthly increase in rental cost is only 0.1%. In January?

The 90-year-old billionaire Kirk Kerkoryan since April 2 bought 100 million Ford shares on average $ 6.91 apiece, Vedomosti writes. Kerkoryan plans? Buy another 20 million shares, spending $ 861 million on the entire transaction. Then the fraction of the billionaire in Ford Motor shares will reach 5.6%, and he will become the third investor of the company after Wellington Management and Brandes Investment Partners, each of which owns 7.53% of the shares.

In Belgorod, a drunken traffic police officer shot down an employee of the OPEP. It is reported by "Interfax" with reference to the city prosecutor's office. “At night, the traffic cop sat behind the wheel of an official car in a detergent. Twice a dashing driver tried to stop his own employees for violating the rules of the road. But he continued to rush along the night streets, and as a result shot a pedestrian,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The man died at the scene from injuries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin last time as the president handed state awards to outstanding Russians, ITAR-TASS reports. The solemn ceremony was traditionally held in the Catherine Hall. So, Sergey Mikhalkov received his Order of the Holy Apostle Andrei. The fact that he was awarded him was known in March . The poet and playwright Mikhalkov is the author of the text of the two hymns of the Soviet Union and the anthem of the Russian Federation.

The hostel of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information (Sibguti) burned in Novosibirsk on Tuesday night, there were no injured. According to the press service of the Siberian Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia, "at 02:18 Moscow time a message was received about the fire in the 9-story building of the student dormitory N4 at the address of Boris Bogatkov St., 63/1".