Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, who received severe wounds during the attempt on him on March 20 in London, was going to ask for asylum in the UK for political reasons for himself and his relatives, writes the British newspaper The Daily Mail with reference to his lawyer Vadim Vedenin. The 45-year-old financier, who has been hiding in London since 2010, was afraid that he would be forced to return to Russia "to the clutches of his many enemies," the newspaper writes.

The Fiat-Chrysler concern plans to invest 32 billion rubles in the construction of a plant in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg, Interfax reports citing the press service of the city administration. Issues regarding the construction of the enterprise were discussed at a meeting of representatives of the concern with Vice-Governor Sergei Vyazalov last week. It is expected that the new full-cycle plant will be capable of producing up to 120 thousand cars per year.

Orthodox movement "St. George!" It intends to seek to bring to criminal liability the participants of the punk group Pussy Riot for the "punk-graben" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. This is stated in the statement widespread on March 26 by the St. George. “To our great regret, the members of the Pussy Riot group did not have a shadow of regret or repentance in perfect blasphemy,” the interfax -religion portal the text of the document quoted.

In St. Petersburg, a road conflict occurred with the participation of employees of the Federal Security Service. The security forces, stated, beat the driver who allegedly cut them - the man eventually went to the hospital. And when the quarrels were taken to the police department, senior intercessors who demanded to release the FSO representatives came there, Fontanka.ru reports.

In the central district of Chile, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred. These are the data of the seismological service of the University of Chile, reports ITAR-TASS. Earlier, the US Geological Service reported underground shocks in the central part of the country with magnitude 7.2. The epicenter of underground shocks was 32 km northwest of the city of Talc - the administrative center of the province of the same name. The focus of the earthquake lay at a depth of 30 km.

Opel has not yet confirmed that it is Junior that will become the first serial model that will receive the motor from the new family, but do not hide the fact that the chances are high, reports Auto . Voy.ru. Compared to existing engines of a similar volume, new motors will provide, according to the official message, 20% improved traction capabilities and 10 percent fuel savings.

The ex-Mayor of the Ukrainian state guard Nikolai Melnichenko , accused of disclosing state secrets, forgery of documents and excess of official powers and put on the wanted list six months ago, said that it is in the United States, Interfax reports with reference to the Ukrainian newspaper Today .

The French terrorist Muhammad Mera, who killed seven people in France, including three children, and shot down by the police last week, was combined a religious marriage with his lover a few months ago and divorced her the day before the French special forces began to capture it, ITAR-TASS reports. The woman herself confirmed this information.

The Grand Prix of the All-Russian Festival of Explorecy of Children "Spring drops", traditionally held at the end of March in the Lipetsk region, won the high school student Alexandra Antipenko from the village of Lucigorsk Primorsky Territory, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the press service of the surgery. According to him, the main award of the festival was a documentary for the young cinema "involuntary wanderers.

The Jewish community of Turkey is outraged by the shampoo advertising, the authors of which used the ancient records of the speech of the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler. The country's chief rabbi published a statement condemning advertising, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Hurriyet Turkish newspaper. The advertisement used Hitler’s records of one of Hitler’s performances, with the credits that say: “If you do not wear women's clothing, then do not use women's shampoo.

The production of the Karelia Musical Theater Opera-Musicle of Roman Lvovich "Black Chicken" claims to be a National Theater Prize "Golden Mask" in five nominations, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the theater press secretary Tatyana Chaplygin. "Last autumn, the expert commission called the nominees for the main Russian theater award according to the results of the 2010-2011 season." Black Chicken "was nominated in the Opeetta/Musical genre. Now the showing programs are held in Moscow.

The Spanish police freed a girl who fell into sexual slavery to the gang of pimps. The criminals mocked the victim and even made her a shameful tattoo in the form of a bar code, confirming the belonging of a “living product” by criminal bosses. The 19-year-old captive was held by pimps right in the center of Madrid. The girl was chained to the battery and subjected to sophisticated tortures.

The Office "K" of the Ministry of the Interior managed to take a grouping of hackers, which led hundreds of millions of rubles a year from bank accounts of citizens and companies. The completion of the operation was reported by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Skolkovo Foundation company Group-Ib, which helped investigate the COMMISS and the FSB information security center, Kommersant Money reports.

The Russian aviation authorities notified the Belavia airline about the cancellation of permits for flights to Moscow for Belarusian air carriers unilaterally. In response, Belarus revoked permission for flights to Minsk from all Russian carriers.

The World Bank (WB) at the end of last week completed the acceptance of applications for the president of the organization. In addition to the traditional candidate from the United States this year, representatives of developing countries - from Africa and South America will also apply for a high position. Nevertheless, their chances of the election are minimal: according to the unspoken tradition, the CHB president always gets a US citizen.