The police detained the current and former general director of Sinertek LLC in a high -profile case about the theft of money allocated for the creation and development of the GLONASS system.

Russian money was the first to run from Cyprus, when in March the economy of the island of the Republic collapsed, the Reuters agency claims, referring to the “documents analyzed by it”. Two weeks before the announcement of the rescue plan of Cyprus, "large depositors, many of whom had ties with Russia or other former republics of the USSR," brought at least 3.6 billion euros, comments on the situation of The Times .

After the scandal with the detention of an employee of the CIA in Moscow, the FSB reported that at the beginning of the year another agent of American intelligence services was exposed in Russia. Like Ryan Fogl, he worked under the cover of the US Embassy and also tried to recruit a Russian officer. Representatives of the domestic counterintelligence did not plan to betray the incident public, but apparently forced the same “arrogant” diplomat fogl to change the decision.

“Now he is non-party. YABLOKO is stepping on its own throat by nominating a non-party member in the elections. But now it is natural to expect support for this candidate from other opposition parties. Of all the opposition politicians, Gudkov is the most suitable candidate for consolidation, since he manages to maintain good relations with all the actors in the protest movement. At the same time, he also manages to conduct a dialogue with the most sane representatives of the ruling elite.

The heads of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and members of their families, as it should be by law, submitted income and property declarations for the period from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. As follows from the information published on the official website of the department, the richest investigator was the head of the legal department of the Investigative Committee Alan Casaev. The official announced the income in the amount of 11 million 381 thousand rubles.

Primas (head) of the Roman Catholic Church in the UK, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh Cardinal Keith O'Brien, accused a few months ago of abuse on sexual grounds in relation to young priests, will leave Scotland. As already reported , he was asked about this in the Vatican.

American Melvin Wilson, living in Virginia, won a large sum of money in the lottery for the fourth time since 2004. Thus, he became the owner, in total, more than $ 2 million, ITAR-TASS reports citing local media. Wilson regularly bought tickets of instant lottery (Scretch cards). In 2004, he received the first 25 thousand dollars, and a year later he was lucky enough to win at once - 1 million dollars and 500 thousand dollars.

In the city of Votkinsk, the Udmurt Republic of the Russian Federation broke out a scandal. The local prominent united Russia, deputy of the City Duma, the head of the Commission on Social Affairs and Youth Policy, and, finally, the director of the House of Culture was searched in the framework of corruption, and found what they waited the least - a collection of dildo and other objects for sexual pleasures, including a large number of condoms and lubricating gel.

The Executive Committee of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (FFKKR) allowed the skaters Polina Shelepin and Ivan Bariyev to represent other countries. Sheleep will now perform at international tournaments for Israel , and bariums for Italy . "The skaters have received the citizenship of these countries, as well as approval from the national federations that will represent," ITAR -TASS quoted the General Director of the FFCC Valentina Piseeva.

The Federal Tax Service sees difficulties in administering tax on operations with offshores, said the head of the service Mikhail Mishustin. Recall that on the eve of the head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin said that the department invited the Government of the Russian Federation to introduce tax on operations related to offshores. According to the chamber, such a tax could bring an additional $ 46 billion to the budget.

US President Barack Obama resigned the head of the country's tax department - the internal income service (IRS). The president announced such a decision after a meeting with the heads of the US Department of Finance, which organizationally includes this service, ITAR-TASS reports. The acting head of the IRS, Stephen Miller, lost his position due to a scandal related to the preferential inspections of conservative public organizations by the country's tax department.

Venezuela authorities promised to import 50 million toilet paper rolls in response to increasing criticism from the opposition for the lack of this product in the country. The government accuses the opposition of organizing a media campaign aimed at raising demand for toilet paper and inciting discontent among residents of the country, the Russian BBC service reports.

The editor -in -chief of the sports portal "Championship.com" Alexander Shmornov deleted an interview with the goalkeeper of the Russian national hockey team Ilya Bryzgalov, in which the athlete approved the Stalinist regime. “I shot this interview with my decision as soon as I saw. But it was already replicated,” Shmornov explained in his microblog Twitter .

The next meeting of the Kirov district court in the Kirovles case was especially emotional due to the interrogation of the next witness of the prosecution. The former deputy director of the KOGUP, on whose testimony, according to Alexei Navalny, is built most of the criminal case, entered into a skirmish with the defendants, outlining her attempts to achieve answers to questions.

The Primate of the Georgian Orthodox Church of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II appealed to the City Hall of Tbilisi and the country's authorities with a request to cancel the holding in the capital on May 17 of the action, dedicated to the International Day against Homophobia.