Former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Penza Region, Alexander Pashkov, was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in a general regime colony. A senior official is found guilty of fraud and abuse of authority, ITAR-TASS reports. In addition to the conclusion, the Leninsky District Court of Penza sentenced Pashkov to a fine of 500 thousand rubles. A significant part of this money was paid by his relatives.

Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system, unexpectedly for astronomers, lost one of his characteristic signs, namely the southern equatorial belt of dark clouds, adjacent to the famous large red spot. This belt, visible even through the most modest optics, was steadily observed for many centuries. Now it has disappeared almost completely, and the spot remained - this suggests that the strip really disappeared, and not hidden with a haze in higher layers of the atmosphere.

The prosecutor of the Finnish city Turku made official accusations to the Russian woman Ign Rantal of beating his son. Now Rantala may face a prison term, Interfax reports with reference to the Finnish human rights activist, chairman of the Anti -Fascist Committee of Finland, Associate Professor of Helsinki Johan Bekman. The Finnish authorities have no serious evidence against the Russian woman, says Beckman, who is the official representative of the Rantal family.

In one of the schools of the American city of Houston, the teacher brutally beat the eighth -grader right in the lesson. The incident was shot on a mobile phone: a boxing stand, blows with fists and legs, a woman throws the student on the wall, drags on the floor. It remained only to cover his face and head, they report “News” . The school leadership reacted to this only when the video got on the Internet. The teacher was fired, and the police were reported to the police.

At the annual international exhibition of church supplies and equipment (Cre - Christian Resources Exchibition), which is taking place these days in the British city of Telford, the Bible of Elvis Presley is presented, on which he himself made several records.

The famous American actress Ruth Ford, the sister of the poet-surrealist Charles Henry Ford, who died in 2009, bequeathed her famous apartment in New York and everything that was in her, not her daughter or relatives. She left all this to her 57-year-old servant. Nepalez Indra Temeng came to New York from Kathmandu in 1974 and since then, faithfully served his mistress.

The Russians, who were allegedly about to capture the Air Berlin aircraft flying the Berlin-Moscow flight, were released from the police station on the night of May 13. The anxiety raised by the vigilant passenger who overheard their conversation and decided that she had calculated potential terrorists, turned out to be false. The woman simply incorrectly interpreted the conversation that the men led in Russian, writes Focus magazine with reference to the statement of police representatives.

Greece received the first tranche of financial assistance in the amount of 5.5 billion euros in the framework of the Assistance package provided by partners in the European Union together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), RIA Novosti reports. "Greece without problems received the amount provided for in 5.5 billion euros.

In the city of Osha - the regional center in the south of Kyrgyzstan - the confrontation of supporters and opponents of the Provisional Government has worsened: the opponents of the new authorities captured the building of the regional state administration. According to Interfax , several hundred people, mainly women, took part in the capture. They opposed the governor of the region appointed by the Provisional Government.

Belarus revoked her ambassador to Kyrgyzstan for consultations. This, according to ITAR-TASS, said the head of the information department, spokeswoman for the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinov. Recall that in Belarus hides the overthrown president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev, whose supporters are now trying to take revenge in the south of the country.

Supporters of the overthrown President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev occupied the buildings of regional administrations of all three southern regions of the republic on Thursday: Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken. According to RIA Novosti , citing eyewitnesses, according to the latest data, about 50 people entered the building of the administration of the Batken region. "The working day has already ended, and there was no one in the building except the duty officers.

The judge of the Odintsovo City Court of the Moscow Region Olga Makarova resigned from her position. On the basis of her personal statement, the qualification collegium of judges of the Moscow Region terminated the authority of Makarova, who illegally extended the arrest of the entrepreneur Vera Trifonova, who died in the pre-trial detention center , Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow Regional Court. The corresponding decision was made on May 8.

At the International Cannes Film Festival, which opened the day before , the Foundation of the French film actress and animal defender Brigitte Bardot fell with accusations. The fund sharply condemned the stars of the festival for wearing furs.

Vitaly Mutko, the head of the Ministry of Examination, considers the main competitors of Russia in the struggle for organizing the 2018/2022 World Cup, England, as well as Portugal and Spain. “We respect all competitors for the right to organize world championships in 2018 and 2022, do not divide them into favorites and outsiders,” the minister said on Thursday at a press conference in Moscow.

In the Winter Palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, a walled sculptural group of the late 19th century was found "runaway slave" of the work of Vladimir Beklemishev. The sculpture was discovered in the wall of the church staircase of the Winter Palace during work on the installation of an electrical panel. “The brick laying of the wall was opened, Interfax reports. Having taken out the first two bricks, the electric motor unexpectedly saw a hand.