The court of the city of Zhanaozen in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan sentenced three former high-ranking oil managers to a long time to confiscate property for theft of funds in a large scale, the press service of the regional court said. The prosecutor’s office calls the guilty in the December unrest, as a result of which 15 people were killed - supposedly top managers contributed to the creation of social tension, which resulted in pogroms.

The jury of the Cannes contest of Cinefondation debuts, headed by Jean-Pierre Darden, awarded the first prize of the short picture of the Muscovite Muscovite Taisiya Igomenseva , RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official website of the Cannes Festival. "The European viewer is very lively and emotional. The film was shown amazingly: people laughed, sad at the right time, there were long applause in the final, they came up to me and clapped me on the shoulder," Igumentseva told reporters.

In the Samara region, a criminal case has been instituted against a 24-year-old local resident suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence to two or more persons), reports REGNUM , citing the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region.

The leading specialist of Aeroexpress LLC is suspected of trying to illegally receive several million rubles from the businessman, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Combating Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

In the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku completed the final of the Eurovision-2012 music contest. A direct broadcast of the event was conducted by the Rossiya TV channel. In this competition, Russia was represented by a team from Udmurtia "Buranovsky grandmothers", who performed under the sixth number in national outfits of centuries -long ago. The first place, according to the results of the vote, was taken by the Swedish singer Lorin with the song Euphoria ("Euphoria").

The former head of the Volgograd Housing Policy Department Igor Maksimchuk, who earned 1.5 million rubles on orphans, received a suspended sentence and was fined. The corresponding claim of the prosecutor’s office was granted by the court of the Dzerzhinsky district of Volgograd. According to the investigation, in 2009, the head of the department, when concluding state contracts for the purchase of 72 apartments for orphans, overestimated the cost of purchased housing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a number of appointments: plenipotentiary and assistants of the president, as well as deputy and assistants of the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of Patrushev. The most noticeable appointment is the departure of the head of the Council for Human Rights under President Mikhail Fedotov, who will now be an adviser to the president.

The Moscow police officer shot a man who, supposedly, tried to open the car; Subsequently, the attacker died from the injury, the RIA Novosti said on Saturday in the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred on Saturday night at about 02:45 near the house 19 on the 16th Parkovaya street. The policeman patrolling the territory noticed how the unknown was trying to open the car.

In Athens, the trial of the philosopher Socrates was reproduced, the ancient philosopher was justified almost 2500 years after death. This time, however, Socrates for a clear reason did not represent himself in court personally, as in ancient times, and instead of him were ten lawyers and human rights activists, reports France24 . The court got the famous Socratic irony, but the verdict was different. The trial of Socrates occurred in 399 BC.

In Moscow, the names of the winners of the National Television Competition "TEFI" in the category of "Profession" were declared. The bronze figurines "Orpheus" of the sculptor Ernst the unknown were awarded for the 17th time in the capital's "New Opera", ITAR-TASS reports. This year the award takes place in two stages: in the categories of "profession" and "faces".

Speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin considers the adoption of a resonant bill by June 12, which strengthens liability for violation of the rules of rallies. On this date, the next opposition "march march" is scheduled. “Principly - really, but the discussions will be shown,” Naryshkin said Interfax , answering the question of whether the adoption of amendments by June 12 is possible.

Employees of the St. Petersburg police supplanted the city opposition from the Alexander Park near the Admiralty, where they spread the camp, moving there from Isaacievskaya Square. The police outraged the "rally of toys." As the leader of the protesters Olga Kurnosova told Interfax on Saturday, "at first the police did not like the toys and slogans that we held in the park, which these toys kept.

The Iranian authorities tried to "reassure" the IAEA, saying that the abnormally enriched uranium turned out during the experiments by chance. So the next Magate report was commented on when alarmed experts reported: Uranus was found, enriched up to 27% . The public was reassured by the representative of Iran in the Magate Ali Ashgar Solca.

Geologists from Germany and the United States announced the determination of the exact date of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the analysis of seismic activity in the Dead Sea, Mir television company with reference to the publication in the scientific journal of International Geeology Review. According to scientists, Jesus Christ was most likely crucified on Friday, April 3, 33 of our era.

In Syria on the night of Saturday, a massive shelling of the city of Hula occurred, as a result of which children died. Human rights activists claim that about 100 people died. The seriousness of the incident is evidenced by the reaction of the Foreign Ministry of France: the chapter promised to urgently convene a meeting of "friends of Syria." Initially, the Syrian Supervisory Board of Human Rights reported the shelling.