Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to ensure the introduction of changes to the legislation of Russia aimed at introducing luxury tax. The head of state gave such an assignment the results of the direct line with the Russians, passing on April 25, The Kremlin press service reports .

On the fragments of one of the two explosive devices used in the attack in Boston , traces of female DNA were discovered. This was reported by the Internet version of The Wall Street Journal. According to sources in law enforcement agencies familiar with the course of the investigation, it has not yet been established who belongs to the DNA, and whether this find means that a certain woman helped suspects to the terrorist attack to the Tsarnaev brothers in its implementation, ITAR-TASS notes.

Alexander Maksimov, last September in the west of Moscow, who shot down seven people, five of whom were pupils of the boarding school, pleaded guilty, ITAR-TASS reports. On Tuesday, the Nikulin court began consideration of his case on the merits. “I fully admit my guilt, I understand the accusation,” Maximov said after the prosecutor announced the indictment. At the same time, he noted that he would begin to testify only at the end of the judicial investigation.

A group of Belfast's students made a "jetube star" an unknown woman who tried to carry out a parallel parking for her car for half an hour. When the maneuver finally crowned up, it was awarded with applause. At the time of writing a video video with the name World's Worst Attempt at Parallel Parking, Enjoy! More than a million people looked.

The Leninsky District Court of Perm considered the guilt of all the defendants in the case of a fire in the club "Lame Horse", where 156 people were killed in 2009. On Tuesday, the resolution of the sentence is announced. The meeting takes place in two rooms, in one of them a video broadcast is conducted. Judge Dmitry Vyatkin read out the claims of the victims of eight defendants, Interfax reports.

“Everything is absolutely correct. To this I would like to add that Stalinism is not only total control over society, but also the same total control over the nomenklatura itself and the highest degree of responsibility of the bureaucracy to the dictator. In connection with this, the level of repression in relation to the closest environment and the degree of their responsibility under Stalin was much higher than to ordinary people, which, unfortunately, is not the case at the present time.

The territory of the Nagatinsky floodplain is not suitable for placing a park similar to Disneyland - it is planned to equip the park there and build a thematic entertainment complex with an area of ​​up to 250 thousand square meters, said Moscow Chief Architect Sergei Kuznetsov in an interview with Moscow 24 .

The leadership of the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service and Foreign Intelligence Service declared their income in 2012. Almost all earnings increased by an average of a million rubles. The most wealthy was the director of the foreign intelligence service of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov - his income exceeded 7 million rubles.

The European Court of Human Rights recognized the illegality of the arrest of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. Judges in Strasbourg came to this decision on Tuesday, April 30. On the eve of the publication of the ECHR resolution, the defense of the ex-Prime Minister expressed confidence that the decision on their ward, sentenced to seven years of prison for abuse of powers when signing gas contracts with Russia, would be positive.

The Prime Minister of Japan in Moscow on Tuesday morning planted Sakura in the Botanical Garden-due to a beautiful gesture, traffic on a significant part of Moscow was paralyzed, the streets began to be blocked long before the passage of the solemn motorcade, which caused indignation of motorists. In the morning, the Sinzo Abe motorcade headed from the center of Moscow to the main The Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he planted Sakura - the 51st in a row.

“Of course, not all of this amount is criminal and illegal transactions, but the Bank of Russia officially considered $35 billion of these $57 billion as “dubious transactions.” If you remember, I wrote a post about an interview with the head of the Bank of Russia, where he reported these figures and also stated that: - “dubious transactions” are associated with drugs, kickbacks, tax evasion, etc.

The mayor of Tokyo Naoki Inose apologized for his words spoken about the countries professing Islam, as well as for comments on Istanbul - a city, which, like the Japanese capital, claims to hold the 2020 Olympic Games. The only thing that unites Islamic states is Allah, said the Tokyo mayor in a recent interview with the New York Times, while adding that these countries are constantly fighting with each other, the BBC Russian service reports.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the Lenfilm film studio on the 95th anniversary that the film studio is on the verge of great changes today, since it is expected to reconstruct and build modern filming pavilions, as well as the creation of a film school for creative youth, RIA Novosti reports with a link to the government’s press service. “This anniversary is a large event not only for St. Petersburg filmmakers, but for the whole of Russia.

The miraculous properties of Grafen, who brought to his discoverers of Russian descent Andrei Game and Konstantin Novoselov Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010, will help in the near future to radically change our lives, bringing the dreams of futurists. So believes the head of the study department of this material at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thomas Palaceos, with whom CNN Labs talked.

The agreement of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe as soon as possible conclude a peace treaty between Russia and Japan by the press considered a kind of breakthrough. After all, for 67 years since the end of World War II this issue has been hanging in the air, but in recent years it has not yet been discussed so specifically. Yes, and the visit of the Japanese prime minister in the Russian Federation took place for the first time in 10 years.