The UN Security Council on Wednesday, April 16, at 16:00 in New York (midnight on Thursday, Moscow time) will hold a meeting on the situation with human rights in the east of Ukraine. “This has already been confirmed. Nigeria, presiding to the UN Security Council, sent a notification according to which the meeting will be held on Wednesday at 16:00,” said ITAR-TASS reported by the press attach of the permanent representative office of Lithuania, which convened SB, Ruta Yazukevichut.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, acting chairman of the Ukrainian Government, at a meeting of the office on Wednesday, was outraged by the lack of a clear position of the Russian authorities, which would condemn terrorism, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN writes. "The Russian leadership over the past weeks is silent about the fact that their intelligence and sabotage forces, together with local terrorists, shoot and kill Ukrainian military and civilians," he said.

The criminal case against Yulia Tymoshenko on gas contracts with Russia received curious development. Now those who were investigating the January events of 2009 have become involved in criminal cases. The accusations were made against most investigators and judges in the "gas case". Their surnames are still kept secret due to the secret of the investigation.

The US Treasury once again did not include China in the list of “currency manipulators”, despite the fact that many representatives of business circles and a number of members of the US Congress have long been insisted on this. Otherwise, the United States would have to introduce punitive tariffs for imported Chinese goods, which in turn could lead to a trade war between the United States and the PRC, ITAR-TASS reports.

The President of AvtoVAZ Bu Andersson called the price of the new Lada Vesta B-class sedan: the car that will replace the Priora family next year will cost about 400 thousand rubles. Andersson spoke about the prospects of the project in an interview with RBC Daily . "In September next year, we launch Lada Vesta. It will be a great car for Russian conditions. It has a modern design, it is convenient and safe. The price will be around 400 thousand rubles," the manager said.

The founder of the VKontakte social network, Pavel Durov, reported that they persistently demand that he block the anti -corruption group of Alexei Navalny, but he is not going to succumb to this pressure. In addition, the businessman had a conflict with the FSB on the basis of the request of the personal data of the organizers of the Euromaidan, as a result of which Durov had to part with the share of VKontakte shares.

The action of the so -called "summer amnesty" expires on March 1, 2015, reminds Rosreestr. Over the eight years of this campaign, about 2.5 million rights for individual housing construction projects were registered in a simplified manner.

On Wednesday, April 16, at the age of 52, the poet, translator and essayist Igor Melamed died. This was reported in her blog by the poet Daria Danilova. Igor Sunovich Melamed was born in Lviv in 1961, in 1981 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Chernivtsi University, in 1986 - the Gorky Literary Institute (Evgeny Vinokurov poetry seminar). The first poetic publications of Melamed were published in the magazines "Literary Study" (1981), "Change" (1982), "Youth" (1983, 1987).

Canada decided to refuse to participate in some meetings of the Arctic Council (AS) due to the situation in the eastern regions of Ukraine. This was warned by the Minister of Environment Leon Agnukka, representing the country in the AC. "Canada took a fundamental position and will not attend meetings of the Council this week in Moscow," said Agnukka. “Such a decision was dictated by Canada in relation to Russia by sanctions,” she said, as ITAR -TASS reports.

The acting Minister of Defense of Ukraine Mikhail Koval sent a detailed list of subjects that Russia should be returned to Ukraine to the leadership of the Russian military department. The volume of the list is about 700 pages, on which all the property of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense remaining in the Crimea is listed in detail.

The Institute of National Strategy (INS) compiled a report on the rapid and steady growth of the number of visitors in Russia and the consequences of this process. Scientists warn that the level of migration threatens the country's national security. According to researchers, if the number of migrant workers will increase at such a pace, then by 2050 at least half of the population of the Russian Federation will be compiled by visitors.

In the Sakhalin region, a sentence of children who was convicted of abduction of a young child was sentenced. The attacker threatened the girl with a murder. By decision of the Poronai City Court, a 53-year-old native of the Kholmsky district will spend 8 years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

In the center of the capital, streets and alleys have appeared along which you can drive with the breeze, but stopping is prohibited along their entire length. Blogger Dmitry Ternovsky claims that “thousands” of “No Stopping” signs have appeared recently. Traffic police officers cannot explain this. But, as Komsomolskaya Pravda assures, the inconvenient innovation for drivers was commented on by the Traffic Management Center: they reported that it was temporary.

The head of the BP oil company Robert Dudley promised to support the Russian Rosneft against the backdrop of the possible tightening of American sanctions against Moscow in connection with the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. He excludes the possibility of selling a share in Rosneft, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to The Times .

In Crimea, there is a massive closure of Ukrainian banks. Most banks are closed, ATMs practically do not work, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. Large Russian banks relate to work in Crimea with caution, fearing Western sanctions. Therefore, most of the banks joining the Republic of Banks are small players of the Russian banking market.