While in eastern Ukraine, security officials conduct a special operation against separatists, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior decided to create units to protect against invaders of administrative buildings. Armed volunteers will help avoid interregional enmity and reproaches that "the West came to pacify the East," are convinced in the department.

According to the studies of the Kazakhstan “Eurasian Bank”, last year, citizens of Kyrgyzstan working abroad transferred more than $ 2 billion to their homeland, which is 31% of the country's gross domestic product. This is one of the highest rates in the world. A fifth of the inhabitants of Kyrgyzstan - over 1 million people - currently work abroad, for the most part in Russia, the local information agency Akipress reports.

Several American departments - the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Ministry of Justice and the State Department - sent specialists to Ukraine. According to ITAR -TASS, a source in the Security Service (SBU), their goal is to ensure coordination of the activities of Ukrainian state structures on internal affairs. According to the source, the Ukrainian leadership was not able to organize this work independently.

A multiple Olympic champion, American swimmer Michael Felps will take part in the Grand Prix, which will be held on April 24-26 in the city of Mesa (Arizona). Together with Felps, his former partners in the Olympic team - Ryan Lokht and Katie Ledeki will take part in the starts. As ITAR-TASS notes with reference to the American media, the participation of Felps in competitions in Arizona may indicate that the athlete is preparing to speak at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In Taganrog, Rostov region, traffic lights have been turned off throughout the city, and traffic controllers are now monitoring traffic. Energy workers explained the shutdown by the city's debts for electricity and threatened to turn off the water supply if the mayor's office did not immediately pay off these debts.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon and Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned on the evening of April 15 to discuss the situation in Ukraine. In the south-east of the non-mummy these days, an anti-terrorist operation is underway against pro-Russian-minded separatists, whom Kiev considers terrorists, perhaps there were no sacrifices.

The United States provided assistance to 11.4 million dollars in order to organize early presidential elections scheduled for May 25. The funds were allocated through the foreign policy and the US International Development (UMR) department, as ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the State Department Jen Psaki. Washington expects that this will contribute to the “free, honest and peaceful elections” of the head of the Ukrainian state, the American diplomat noted.

On the wall of the house in the British Chelnyme (Glostezhir County) near the headquarters of government management of the British Foreign Ministry, which is responsible for electronic surveillance, graffiti dedicated to wiretapping appeared in the style of the world-famous anonymous street artist Banksy, writes The Guardian . The drawing is applied around the telephone booth and depicts three people in hats, cloaks and dark glasses, "connected" to a telephone machine to listen to conversations.

The police of the Donetsk region asks citizens not to visit the Orthodox Assumption Svyatogorsk Lavra, located in the city of Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region on Easter days. This was reported in the public relations department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for the region. The report notes that in the bright resurrection a large number of believers attend worship in the Lavra.

The growth of the Russian economy in the first quarter of 2014 was 1%, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at the College of the Ministry of Finance. "The economic situation continues to deteriorate, according to preliminary data, in the 1st quarter, the economic growth rate of the economy slowed down to about 1%," he said.

On Monday, the Pentagon made a statement in which he claims that the Russian bomber Su-24 (the “fencer” on NATO codification) on Saturday passed several times near the US Navy destroyer Donald Cook in the Black Sea, reports Reuters. The representative of the Ministry of Defense Colonel Stephen Warren said that the Russian bomber flew 12 times at a small height near the American destroyer, accompanied by another Su-24, which was not approaching the ship.

The United States does not exclude the possibility of supplying weapons to Ukraine. According to April 14, assistant to US Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, the United States considers this issue along with other options regarding the reaction to the situation between Russia and Ukraine.

The Russian Football Union has not yet paid the premium national team football players laid down in the final part of the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in Brazil in June-July. “At first, the players were promised to pay premium until the first of April 2014. Then these payments were expired. Now they promise to pay off the players in May. The total debt on premium is about 270-300 million rubles,” AiF.ru told AiF.ru close to one of the players of the national team.

The Olympic Committee of Russia (OKR) must be responsible for working to strengthen the positions of Russian sports in the international arena in order to avoid situations similar to the deviation of Russian protests to the results of the competition at the 2014 Olympics, said Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko. “The first task of the OCD is international relations. And we don’t have to climb into another.

The Moscow Dynamo with a score of 0: 5 on the road defeated the Nizhny Novgorod Volga in the match of the 25th round of the Russian football Premier League, which became the debut for Stanislav Cherchesov as the head coach of the blue and white. All balls were scored in the second half of the meeting. The winners were distinguished by Alexander Kokorin (53 '), Arthur Yusupov (74'), Christopher Samba (84 ') and Alan Casaev (76', 90 ') scored a double, the Premier League press service reports.