In Moscow, when receiving a bribe in the amount of 900 thousand dollars, he was detained, and subsequently arrested the former head of the Investigation Department for Transport for the Central Federal District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Eduard Sandrukan.

The new compact from Skoda will receive the name Rapid and will become an attractive filling of the niche between the Fabia and Octavia models, the auto. Voy.ru reports. European debut of new products will take place until the end of this year. Perhaps for these purposes a car dealership will be chosen in Frankfurt or Paris. The Chinese version of the same model will be assembled and sold in the Middle Kingdom since 2013.

The state of the state corporation for the development of Eastern Siberia and the Far East will lead to a deterioration in the investment climate throughout the country and the slowdown in the development of the Far East and Transbaikalia, said the ex-Minister of Finance, the head of the civil initiative committee Alexei Kudrin. "At first I did not believe until I saw the bill introduced by the Ministry of Economic Development to agree on other ministries with my own eyes.

Last Monday, a meeting of the Church Commission in China began in the Vatican. Such meetings are held annually with the participation of the leaders of the Curia Dicasturium, as well as representatives of the Chinese episcopate and monastic orders operating in the territory of this country. The previous meetings of the commission concerned the upbringing of seminarians, persons dedicated to the god of life and priests.

Petersburg theater platforms one after another refuse the play "Berlyspetutin". Following the Gaza Palace of Culture, the Lensovet recreation center was refused, Rosbalt reports. According to the artistic director of Theater.doc, Mikhail Ugarov, this performance is forbidden to play in St. Petersburg. "Thus, Putin on the prohibition is equal to the propaganda of homosexuality. Stylish!" - Write Ugarov on his Facebook page.

The third power unit of the Balakovo nuclear power plant (in the Saratov region) on Tuesday is disconnected from the network for an unscheduled repair. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the statement of the Center for Public Information of the Station. "Today, April 24, at 19:18 in Moscow, a malfunction in electrical equipment systems was revealed at Energy Summer 3.

The doctors and medical staff of the resuscitation department of the famous burning center of the city hospital No. 6 of Chelyabinsk decided to resolve massively after they were cut off by four times. Local authorities have already intervened in the situation: an interdepartmental commission has been created, which will check the financial and economic activities of the institution, doctors promise to raise their salaries.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Mol is going to refuse to participate in the Nabucco project, Kommersant writes. “Nabucco has a problem,” he admitted, speaking to journalists in Brussels.

The scandalously famous actress Lindsay Lohan will play Elizabeth Taylor in a biographical film called Liz & Dick, built around the passionate novel “Queen Hollywood” with Richard Barton on the set of Cleopatra, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deadline resource.

Moscow gays plan to hold a parade in the capital on May 27. Notifications in the name of the metropolitan mayor Sergei Sobyanin will be submitted on the 14th or 15th. The main theme of the action will be the legislative prohibitions of gay propaganda in Russia, Nikolai Alekseev, founder of the Moscow Gay-Parade movement, told Interfax . According to him, this will already be the seventh annual gay prading. It is planned that it will be held in the form of a procession and rally.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, decreased by 3.32 kopecks and amounted to 29.4549 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 decreased by 5.04 kopecks - to 38,7948 rubles.

Irek Murtazin “Despite the fact that, according to the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Criminal Code, those pardoned are subject to immediate release, Mokhnatkin is still in the colony, moreover, he is in a punishment cell. And no one knows when he will be released. The leadership of the colony refers to the Federal Penitentiary Service.

The Prime Minister and the elected President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin met the expectations of numerous experts and politicians who had long propagated the "second screaming" in the ruling tandem. The United Russia party will now be under the leadership of Dmitry Medvedev. Today, during a meeting with the party’s asset, the elected president announced that he would soon be resigned by the powers of the chairman of the EP, Interfax reports.

The Center for the Cultural and Historical Heritage of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya will present the rarest exhibits that will be under full protection of the state, the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev said on Tuesday.

In the Federal Service for the execution of sentences (FSIN), a scandal is flared up related to violations in the procurement of security equipment for colonies and prisons. A service check conducted within the department showed that such violations were made by almost 1 billion rubles. As a result, many prisons were actually left without protection. The verification materials are sent to the Investigative Committee, Izvestia write.