Sberbank CIB Svetlana Lokhova sued the Former Securities Trader for the Securities of the London division of Sberbank CIB due to the fact that she was supposedly discriminated against the sexual basis at work, Bloomberg reports with reference to court documents.

Authorities of the London region After three years, Kensington and Chelsea allowed Russian billionaire to Roman Abramovich to reconstruct the 17th century mansion he bought, the British edition of The Evening Standard reported. This house once belonged to the English artist James Whistler. According to the newspaper, in order to obtain permission, the billionaire had to go to a number of concessions, the nature of which the publication did not report.

The Moscow Regional Council decided to stop the criminal prosecution of another direct participant in the beating of the activist "in defense of the Khimkinsky Forest", the journalist and the head of the Khimkinsky branch of the "right business" of Konstantin Fetisov, who broke his head in baseball bats in the fall of 2010. The case against Vazgen Tsaturyan is closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, reports RAPSI .

A new criminal case was instituted against Silvio Berlusconi, whose party in the recent election with a minimum margin of votes was won by the left -centric coalition. The Naples prosecutor’s office accuses the former prime minister of giving bribes, corruption and illegal financing of political parties. According to investigators, Berlusconi proposed 3 million euros to Senator Sergio de Gregorio.

The Ministry of Defense expressed their thoughts on the idea of ​​undergoing military service directly during their studies proposed by the heads of a number of universities. The military department believes that the student must choose when he is to serve, and to develop a particular mechanism they call for a pilot experiment with the use of educational institutions and military units, Interfax reports.

“Science is gradually coming to recognize the truth of Holy Scripture. Our famous compatriot Saint John of Kronstadt at the beginning of the twentieth century. warned geologists about the fallacy of evolutionary conclusions: “And you, geologists, boast that you have understood the mind of the Lord in the construction of the layers of the earth and claim this in defiance of the Sacred Genesis!

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the suppression of the activities of a criminal group that stole more than 50 million rubles from the salary cards of Sberbank customers in Nizhny Novgorod. Three people were detained on suspicion of a crime. It was established that both the former and current employees of the credit institution, as well as the heads of a number of commercial organizations, participated in the criminal scheme, the website of the Ministry reports.

The famous American director and producer Stephen Spielberg will lead the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held this year from May 15 to 26, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. "For me, this is a great honor and a huge privilege to lead the jury of the festival, tired of continuing to prove that cinema is the language in which the world speaks," the American director says. Spielberg became famous for spectacular films that invariably had mass audience success.

The Moscow police understand the conflict that occurred at Sheremetyevo Airport between Igor Mukan, the deputy general director of Gazprom, Kazhrosgaz, and the lawyer of the ex-head of the Slavs, Sergei Kudzuin. The investigation has just begun, but the top manager has already decided to sue his offender, who broke his nose after a skirmish at Rome International Airport, Life News reports.

The American Corporation Apple won the trial in the Tokyo District Court from Samsung Electronics on a claim for violation of patent legislation, ITAR-TASS reports. Samsung accused the California company of creating an iPhone and iPad tablets, which allegedly violated a number of patents in the field of data transfer and wireless technologies belonging to the South Korean giant.

At the contest "The Queen of the Beauty of Israel 2013" the representative of the Ethiopian community Yetaish (Titi) Einau won. The final of the competition took place on February 27 at the Haifa Palace of Congresses. She became the first Ethiopian to win the competition, reports Newsru Israel , supplying the news with a detailed photo report . In addition to the title, the winner received the sponsorship prize of the competition - the car Suzuki Alto.

The Police of St. Petersburg prevented the mass fight of migrants in the Central Admiralty district of the city. 16 people were detained. In relation to them, protocols on an administrative offense under Article 20.1 "Little Hooliganism" were drawn up, the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region reports.

When the world, with the filing of the former Panamanese ambassador, began to discuss the suspicious news of the likely death of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, the country's authorities reacted very restrained. “The version of the death of Hugo Chavez is not true. He is still being treated,” commented the CNN Chile in the Venezuela Foreign Ministry, while refusing to answer whether photographs or videos with a leader will be presented as confirmation.

“It is symptomatic that we already went through this in the relatively recent past. Soviet party functionaries who had made mistakes were sent as ambassadors to some not very prestigious, but nevertheless capitalist country. This practice, by the way, was willingly used by the “professional party member” Yeltsin. At one time, Mikhail Zadornov joked about this: “He lived so well in the Union that for him Austria was like Siberia for the Decembrists” (I quote from memory).

The French police conducted searches from the ex-head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of financing by the deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of the election campaign of former president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, reports Le Monde . Currently, the prosecutor is conducting a preliminary investigation regarding the document, in March 2012 published by the independent news agency Mediapart .