Russia has lost leadership in the list of countries that file the largest number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). As of the end of March 2014, the Russian Federation ranks third in the number of complaints filed after Italy and Ukraine. The ECHR website provides a schedule illustrating the ratio of complaints of 11 countries. The press service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation confirmed that the number of appeals to the European instance decreased.

The Kemnal Park cemetery administration, located in the southeastern part of London, announced the launch of the Internet broadcasting service for relatives and friends of the deceased, who, for various reasons, cannot (or do not want to) be present at the ceremony, the The Daily Mail newspaper writes. The organizers of the funeral can pay for the services of an operator who organizes a broadcast using a smartphone using a 4G high -speed network.

The New York court found the priest Kevin Saserland, the guilty of the famous fake paintings of the famous modern British artist Damien Hurst. Suserland, heading a small Protestant church in Miami (Florida), invited the agent under the guise to purchase three paintings from the famous Herst Seven series and two from the “rotation” series for 185 thousand dollars.

Western journalists have discovered several large Internet agencies to "sell" brides to foreigners in Ukraine. Companies promise representatives of the stronger sex from all over the world a happy personal life, but in reality they leave customers not only without a dream woman, but also with empty pockets.

Several State Duma deputies recalled their signatures under the bill, which is designed to change the law on the protection of minors from the propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations, removing accents from homosexual ties. True, the new edition of the "anti-Giyan" law , according to the proposal of the deputy and opera singer Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs voiced in January, should prohibit any propaganda of sex among adolescents.

Madrid Real Madrid and London Chelsea became the owners of the Vouchers to the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League, leaving the most prestigious football European Cup, respectively, the Dortmund Borussia and the French Paris Saint-Germain. The Spanish club lost at the exit of the Dortmund Borussia with a score of 0: 2, but in the sum of two matches went to the next stage of the playoffs.

The auction house Christie's will conduct traditional spring auction dedicated to Russian art on Wednesday in New York, ITAR-TASS reports. Top-lots of the auction are two sculptures-the marble bust of Ivan the Terrible work of Mark Antokolsky (1843-1902) and the bronze bust of Ilya Repin's work of Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926). The estimated value of each of these sculptures is 100-150 thousand dollars.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) condemned Russia with the Crimean Peninsula, calling all the arguments of the Russian side about the oppression of the Russian -speaking population in the region not true, the PACE website reports. The Assembly also demanded to withdraw Russian troops from Crimea and actually accused Viktor Yanukovych’s authorities of using snipers on the Maidan.

The South Korean company Samsung filed a lawsuit against the Electronic Times in connection with the publication of negative information about the Galaxy S5 smartphone, the 3DNews portal with reference to the data of the South Korean site Media Today. The company believes that published information is not true and can negatively affect the sales of the new flagship device Samsung.

The International Center for Sports Research (CIES) has analyzed five strongest football championships of the continent - England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France - and came to the conclusion that there are fewer competitions in them. The study clearly confirms the growing imbalance in the richest European leagues. The percentage of points scored by the three strongest teams of the championships has grown sharply over the past year.

The head of Moldova, Nikolai Timofti, ordered the country's armed forces to the state of "increased vigilance". During the meeting of the Supreme Council of Security (BIB), at which the president of the country represented the new Minister of Defense Valery Treenko, Timoft said that “provocations were not excluded” and the Moldavian authorities should take care of security in the country in advance.

During the InSide Bitcoins conference in New York, representatives of Cryptex, located in Hong Kong, announced the release of the CryptexCard plastic card, which will allow owners to easily convert accumulated cryptocurrency into money, writes The EntrePreneur . According to the company, it will not be difficult to get a new card at all. To do this, it is enough to leave the application on the site , transfer the accumulated bitcoins to a special account and wait for the card.

In the UK, they found money that could be illegally exported by the surrounding the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. On the issue of the return of these funds, both countries work closely, and there is already a certain progress in this process. At the end of April, London will host an international practical conference regarding the return of assets to which representatives of the Ukrainian authorities are invited.

A new request for the extradition of the famous businessman Sergei Polonsky in the Cambodia was sent to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The need for this appeared "in connection with a change in the volume of the prosecution" regarding the suspect, the website of the ministry said.

Social recreation advertising in Crimea will appear on Moscow advertising shields by the beginning of the current holiday season, ITAR-TASS reported in the metropolitan committee on tourism and hotel economy. The authorities of the peninsula are not averse to attracting actor Sergei Bezrukov to the advertising campaign, but he refused. “We received an appropriate proposal from the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea,” said the head of the committee, Sergei Spilo.