The ex-deputy of the State Duma, United Russia, Vladimir Pekhtin, said that he was satisfied with the three-month work carried out by him and experts in connection with the information that appeared in the media that he allegedly owns real estate in the United States. Now Pekhtin intends to defend his honor and get moral satisfaction. “I am satisfied with almost three -month work and the result of what I did. All conclusions are, everything is. What do you think, what my further actions?

The number of requests from foreign governments with the requirements to delete various information from the servers of the Google Corporation for the period from July to December 2012 increased by 26% compared to the first half of the year. This is evidenced by the next "Accessibility report" , published on Thursday, Google. In total, for this period, Google experts studied 2285 requests from different countries with proposals to delete 24179 content units.

Sberbank of Russia plans to refuse to release cards with a magnetic strip from July 1, 2013 and issue cards only with a chip. To date, Sberbank has released about 80 million plastic cards, of which about 60% are MasterCard Maestro and Visa Electron cards, equipped with a magnetic strip, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the bank Rostislav Yanykin. He noted that chip cards are safer and more reliably protected from possible fraud than cards with a magnetic strip.

Sberbank can reduce loans rates in May of this year. “We have already begun to adjust them in February, when there was their first decrease, without waiting for any high meetings here,” said Alexander Bazarov, senior vice president of the bank. The fact that expensive bank loans slow down the development of the Russian economy, President Vladimir Putin said at an economic meeting in Sochi.

For a month already in the capital of Tajikistan Dushanbe, the search for young cousins ​​A. In this regard, the head of state Emomali Rahmon called the population to vigilance, pointing out the dangers emanating from foreigners. He also criticized his parents for the "village" habit of leaving children unattended on the street. On March 25, the sisters of Sabina and Malik A.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the assignment of state awards, Interfax reports. Among other, the Order of Merit to the Fatherland ”was received by the parliamentarian Andrei Isaev. The head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Affairs of Veterans received the Order "For active legislative activities and many years of conscientious work." Note that in recent months, the press of Isaev was remembered not by work, but with scandalous statements and actions.

“Recently, the President of Udmurtia Volkov noted in a similar genre. The text of his speech, quoted by many media outlets, has already been deleted from the site izlife.ru, but the Google cache remembers everything. “But to pay 10,000 rubles just for being a pediatrician?” As they say , no comment. I suspect that the owner of a watch worth 3.6 million rubles, Volkov, really has no idea what it means to live on 10 thousand rubles a month.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of Google Inc Eric Schmidt shared his impressions of the personal experience of using the revolutionary news of his company - the computerized points of Google Glass. Speaking out loud in order to control glasses through the voice identification mechanism - “one of the strangest things” that he had to experience, said Schmidt on Thursday, speaking at the Harvard Institute of Public Administration named after John F. Kennedy. It is reported by Reuters .

Manchester United head coach Sir Alex Ferguson is named the richest coach among the British or experts working in the UK, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Sky Sports . The annual Sunday Times Rich List will be completely published on April 28, but now it became known that Ferguson will take the first place on this list with a fortune of 34 million pounds. Following him are the ex -coach of Sanderland and Ipswich Roy Kin and the head coach of Arsenal Arsen Wenger - both of both 29 million.

Johar Tsarnaev, the youngest of the terrorist brothers, who are considered the organizers of two explosions at the finish of the Boston marathon, was transferred from the Bostonsky hospital to the Devens prison of Massachusetts, reports Reuters with reference to the service of federal marshals of the United States. All week after the detention, Tsarnaev Jr. was in the hospital - during the police raid in which his older brother Tamerlan died, Johar was wounded.

The fall of Mail.ru Group from key strategic assets - shares in the QIWI instant payments system (21.35%) and the social network "Contact" (39.99%) - amounted to 13.7%, up to 291 million rubles, follows from the financial statements of the group for 2012. This fall mainly occurred due to a decrease in the net profit of VKontakte, the largest social network of Runet, by 94.5%.

The Zubovo-Polyansky District Court of Mordovia refused the parole, the Pussy Riot Pussy Riot punk group, sentenced to two years of imprisonment for participating in Punk-Love in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, reports RAPSI . “The judge left for a decision without having to conduct a debate without providing the last word. All these are serious violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure. We will appeal any of its decision,” the new newspaper quotes the lawyer Irina Khrunov.

In the Belgorod region, a young man was detained, who threatened his girlfriend. Armed with a knife and an ax, the man locked himself in the house, but decided to surrender after the first shots. The capture of the hostage occurred in the city of Alekseevka, reports Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Belgorod Region. A crime report was received by the police at about 12:00.

“Not a penny of foreign money was in the account of the “Voice” Association for a minute! "Golos" decided to refuse the monetary part of the Sakharov Prize, and these funds did not reach the "Voice" account. They were in a transit bank account for some time, and then completely went back to Norway. All this was proven in court today with the help of documents and testimony. Nobody tried to dispute this. All the same, please register as foreign agents. This decision has nothing to do with law.

The Honored Coach of Russia in rhythmic gymnastics Alexander Lavrov, among the pupils of which is the new prima of the team of Margarita Mamun , became a defendant in the criminal case under the article of the Criminal Code "Depraved actions against a minor." He was detained in Georgia on suspicion of corrupting one of his wards, says Life News . It became known about shocking facts only after the parents of one of the athletes trained under the leadership of Lavrov turned to the police.