The government decided to resign the head of the Russian Post Andrei Kiselev. The former President of Tele2 Dmitry Strashnov was appointed in his place, RIA Novosti reports. Dmitry Strashnov was born in 1967 in Moscow, a graduate of MGTU named after Bauman. In 1994, he headed the Russian unit of Electrolux Home Appliances.

After the tragedy in Boston, the number of people who wanted to take part in the Madrid athletics marathon, which will take place on April 28, increased. According to the heads of the application committee of Madrid in the struggle for the right to hold the Olympics-2020, 7.709 people submitted applications for participation in the marathon.

The cost of mobile devices with sensory screens can fall to $ 200 by the end of this year. Such an assumption, according to RIA Novosti , expressed Paul Othelnini, general director of Intel, during the conference on the financial results of the company for the first quarter of 2013. Othellin suggested that the release of new Atom processors with the code name Bay Trail at the end of the year can lead to a significant reduction in prices for mobile devices.

The resolution on the resignation of the Ukrainian government and his head of Nikolai Azarov failed on the vote. The initiative nominated by the Opposition parties "Fatherland", the blow and "Freedom" supported 190 parliamentarians of the necessary 226 (in total, 362 deputies were registered at the meeting). 91 people opposed the resolution, the rest did not vote.

The US police are looking for an armed criminal who opened fire on the territory of the Boston campus. As a result, a guardian of order received severe wounds, who died in the hospital. The police pulled into the area of ​​shots detained the suspects. And the FBI checks the version of the connection of the detainees with the terrorists who arranged explosions at the Boston Marathon.

The film company Walt Disney plans, starting in 2015, to release one film "Star Wars" annually. This was announced at the presentation during the convention of Cinemacon cinemas in Las Vegas., BBC Russian Service reports As previously reported, the director of the Star Wars Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (he shot films such as "Mission to the III", "Startrek" and others) will begin with work on the painting "Star Wars. Episode VII." The output of this tape is scheduled for the summer of 2015.

A man who introduced himself as the father of the brothers of the 26-year-old Tamerlane and 19-year-old Johar Tsarnaev, whom the US intelligence services consider the main suspects in organizing a terrorist attack on a marathon in Boston, said on the phone that his sons were set up. “I learned about what happened on TV. My opinion was that my children were framed by special services because they were believers Muslims. Why did Tamerlana kill? They should have taken him alive.

The Pakistani Police imprisoned the former president of the country of the Musharraf Perevoz a few hours after the court decision on his house arrest , Reuters reports. The representative of Musharraf Mohammed Amzhad said that law enforcement officers accompanied the ex-president from his residence on the outskirts of Islamabad in a small departmental hotel of the police headquarters.

In the UK, four terrorists who intended to blow up the base with military personnel, on Thursday were sentenced to 44 years in prison. The gang was about to commit a crime with a toy machine filled with explosives. They learned this idea from the newspaper Inspire, published by al-Qaeda.

The official Internet site of the Kyzyl diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church reported on the eve of the opening of its pages on social networks "VKontakte" and Twitter . The news of Orthodox life and announcements of events are now published there, and communication with parishioners is also taking place.

On Friday, April 19, an interrogation of the founder of the largest Russian VKontakte social network Pavel Durov was appointed in the case of a collision with an inspector of traffic police . The Investigative Committee assured that the Russian Tsuckerberg is not suspected of anything - they would talk with him as a witness. "Durov is called for interrogation, which is scheduled for today. Called as a witness," Interfax was told in the city department of the TFR.

The Investigative Committee explained its position on the case of 750 thousand dollars , which affected the Skolkovo Foundation. According to the investigators, they were forced to comment on the statements of the defendants in the scandal, who looked in the criminal prosecution of a political background.

The National Electoral Council (NIS) Venezuela refused the opposition to recall the votes of voters received at the presidential election in the country on Sunday, at which the successor of the former head of state of the Chavez - Nicholas Maduro won. Instead, NIS decided to hold a “civil audit” of all electoral boxes that were not checked on the election day, the head of the council Tibisai Lusena said on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports.

One of the richest civil servants, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, decided that the topic of corruption in Russia is excessively inflated, he sees excesses in it. "It seems to me that it came to the point that not entirely reasonable norms of behavior regarding some foreign property began to be accepted, etc. The next number of the program will be: since you worked in business for a year, probably, you stole something somewhere?" he suggested.

Vlada Rusakova, who worked in Gazprom since 1995, was appointed Vice President - Director of the Rosneft Gas Business Department, 2013, 2013, a representative of the company told the Prime Republic . "The arrival of the new manager of this scale is another step to strengthen the company's top management team. The competence of Vylorikovna will be organically applied as part of the development of the gas business of the company.