The police strengthened security measures in the Pushkinskaya Square area in Moscow, where the opposition plans to hold an action in support of the starving in Astrakhan. About 20 buses and trucks with the police and riot police arrived at the place of "meeting with the deputy" (this format does not require coordination with the authorities). The square in front of the Pushkinsky cinema is closed and fenced with a metal fence, metal detectors are equipped.

People's Artist of the Russian Federation, director of the Moscow musical and dramatic gypsy theater "Roman" George Pearl is hospitalized in a hospital with pain in the heart, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. "The director was taken to the first city hospital on Friday evening with pain in the heart," the source said, without specifying the details. He added that the pearl is in the intensive care unit of the surgery department.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych released a declaration of income: it turned out that as a writer Yanukovych, they value twenty times more than as a president. His income at the main place of work amounted to about 100 thousand dollars, and the writer's works brought more than two million that one Donetsk printing house paid him. The declaration is posted on the official website of the president and, as required by the law, will be published in the official publication within 30 days.

Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, after several years of civil marriage, finally announced their engagement, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. This news was reported to reporters by manager Pitt Cynthia Pett-Dante. In the electronic letter directed by the agency, it is said that “at the moment” of the wedding of Jolie and Pitt has not yet been determined. According to Pett-Dante, the children of the star couple were "very happy" to find out the news.

The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved the draft resolution on Syria, announced the chairperson of the US Permanent Representative to the UN Susan Rice.

The search for a disabled girl who disappeared a few days ago is conducted by the police and volunteers in the Chekhovsky district of the Moscow Region, a law enforcement source said on Saturday on Saturday . “As early as April 10, 17-year-old Kristina Spigunova, a disabled person of the 2nd group, went for a walk in the village of Meshcherskoye, Chekhov district of the Moscow region and did not return home,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

According to the newspaper Sport-Express , on Friday in Vienna a meeting of the Vice President of the KHL Ilya Kochevrin with the chief shareholder and president of HC Milan Iko Milore and the vice president of the Titicano Tarrani HC Milan club took place. The parties once again discussed the possibility of entering the Italian team in the KHL and made a joint decision to transfer its debut in the league for the 2013/14 season.

Syrian oppositionists report that government troops again began military operations in Homs, the Air Force reports. This is the first message about the bombing in the city since the announcement of the complete ceasefire on April 12. The consequences of the shelling have not yet been reported. The abandonment of any hostilities was the main condition for the plan for the settlement of the conflict proposed by the Messenger of the UN and Lag Cofi Annan.

The Minister of Agriculture of the Omsk Region Vladimir Rarov on Saturday was hospitalized in the hospital after an accident with a frontal clash. According to RIA Novosti , the VAZ-2115 driver drove into the oncoming lane and collided with the Toyota Camry car. In Lada, only one person survived.

The volleyball players of the Kazan Dynamo beat teammates from Moscow in the fourth match of the final series of playoffs and for the second year in a row won the gold medals of the Russian Championship. The meeting held in Moscow ended in favor of guests from Kazan - 3-2 (22:25, 26:24, 25:27, 25:22, 15:12). The account in the series was 3-1 in favor of the team from the capital of Tatarstan, the R-Sport agency reports.

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Korea continue to search for wreckage of the exploding large-range “Yunh-3”, launched in the DPRK on Friday and fell apart shortly after the start . The search for fragments of the rocket began immediately after it became known that they fell into the international waters of the yellow sea near the island of Anendo of the Chonghon-Namdo Province and Port Kunsan Cholla-Poom Province on the western coast of South Korea, reminds ITAR-TASS.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, an emergency regime was introduced due to fires. In the region, 49 forest fires were registered on the area of ​​about 16 thousand hectares, Interfax reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. On the night of Friday in Zabakalier , the village of Onon-Baza completely burned down . "At the moment, there are 35 forest fires on a total area of ​​about 15 thousand 641 hectares.

On April 14, the Blessed Fire came down in the temple of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Together with dozens of thousands of believers, a particle of flame was also received by the delegation of the Andrei Pick -Zavanni Foundation (FAP), headed by the chairman of the Trusteeship of FAP Vladimir Yakunin and Bishop of the Voskresensky Savva.

The Russian boxer Denis fighting, who did not know the defeats in the professional ring, won the 31st victory in a row. In the rating 10-rang duel of the heavy weight category in the German Cologne, he won the American Dominic Guinn by his points by unanimous decision of the judges. All judges gave the victory to the Russian with a great advantage - 100: 90, 100: 90, 99:91, ITAR -TASS reports.

The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Vitaly Churkin said that Russia was organized by a revised draft resolution on Syria: “We have transmitted data (about the new project) to Moscow. Now we have no objections and we are ready to vote according to the resolution,” Interfax quotes. Earlier, Russia and China blocked all resolutions on Syria that they tried to conduct through the UN Security Council.