The Russian special services expert Mark Galeotti in an interview with the authoritative American Internet publication The Daily Beast accused Vladimir Putin of lies. During yesterday’s “Direct Line”, the former CIA employee Edward Snowden asked him if Russia was engaged in interception, storage and analysis of information about people's negotiations and considers Putin to be fair and justified mass control.

The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky again made a scandal in the State Duma. In the morning press approach before the plenary meeting of the Duma, politicians insulted the journalists of the parliamentary pool, including a pregnant correspondent. The victim of the shocking policy, in particular, was the employee of the MIA Russia Today ( previously RIA Novosti ), who is headed by no less eccentric Dmitry Kiselev.

In the 39th year of his life, Russian football player Eduard Kosolapov died, known for his performances for the Moscow Dynamo, Nizhny Novgorod Lokomotiv, Bryansk Dynamo and the Saransky Mordovia. As reports onedivision.ru that the ex-Dinamovets had reduced his life. Details of the tragedy are not reported. “In 2006, Kosolapov returned to Mordovia, after he played for various clubs. He played until 2008.

The New Gazeta reacted to the Politonline website, published at the end of March, offering a detailed story about those who "assigned themselves the right to determine who is a patriot in our country." According to the newspaper, the leaders of the publication included in the Pravda.ru media holding were supervised by the deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov and received tens of millions of dollars through the "master bank".

The government discuss the sequestration of state financing of the Murmansk transport hub by 75% and the direction of the released 31.5 billion rubles. on the development of ports of the Azov-Black Sea basin of Russia and Crimea. Thus, as the Kommersant newspaper writes, contrary to Vladimir Putin’s statements that financing of Crimea will be carried out exclusively at the expense of reserves, the reduction of state investigations to Russian projects, apparently, cannot be avoided.

The Ukrainian authorities opened the next criminal proceedings against ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, who fled from the country. This time he is accused of abuse of power in connection with the non-recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the statement on the website of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine said.

The Security Service of Ukraine said that a group of armed separatists, who stopped the column of military equipment and disarmed the military, was led by Russian Igor Strelkov , an officer in the special forces of the General Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Earlier, his voice was identified on recording conversations of Russian saboteurs intercepted by the SBU.

“Seriously speaking, the new government in Kyiv is exactly the same as in Moscow. A group of oligarchs and representatives of large Ukrainian businesses took advantage of the situation that has developed in recent months and redistributed power and property among themselves. Without a doubt, the Maidan is a real mass popular speeches, and not “paid actions”, as during the Orange Revolution of 2004. But just like then, all that people have achieved is only a redistribution of power at the top.

In the Leningrad Region, a sentence from St. Petersburg was sentenced to a summer resident who sexually abused a young woman suffering from mental retardation. The Russian femid sentenced the rapist Dmitry Ivanov to the form of four years in prison, reports the official website of the RF IC. The court also obliged the 37-year-old Ivanov not to change the place of residence without notifying the specialized body exercising control over the behavior of the conventionally convicted.

Within the framework of the International Motor Show in New York, Subaru conducted the world's world premiere of the new generation Outback. True, the car retained the previous platform and engines, but received an updated exterior and interior design, as well as many new options. In the USA, car sales will start this summer. Fifth generation Outback dimensions are 4817 mm in length, 1840 mm in width and 1680 mm in height.

Western countries promised to impose new sanctions against Russia if it does not fulfill the agreements that were reached during four -sided negotiations in Geneva on April 17.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the "Headquarters of the Resistance of Russian Aggression" was created, which began to form a detachment of self -defense "Huntsman". The inspirer of the patriotic movement was Antonina Ulyakhina, the native aunt of the current presidential presidential candidate and former prime minister of the country Yulia Tymoshenko.

The 34-year-old daughter of the ex-president of the United States Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she and her husband Mark Mazinsky are expecting a child, reports AP. The announcement was made at the event of the Clinton couple in New York, dedicated to the protection of women's rights, where Hillary Clinton was also present. “Mark and I am very happy to report that our firstborn will be born this year,” said Chelsea.

The decision adopted by the Ukrainian authorities prohibiting a certain part of Russians to enter the country does not contradict the principles of the organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This was stated by the director of the Bureau for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (BDIPC) of the organization Yanez Lenarchich. "Ukraine is currently faced with a powerful challenge for security and a serious threat to sovereignty and territorial integrity.

In the USA, on Thursday, a senior man who went to rob the bank was sentenced to return to prison. For a lonely pensioner, the dungeon became the home, which he missed in the wild, reports WRTV Indianapolis . The harsh verdict of the American femid was happy with the 74-year-old Walter Unbekhan, who was convicted of robbery of the bank in the suburbs of Chicago (Illinois). Unbekhan spent most of his adult life behind bars.