The authorities of the city of Bakhchisaray in the Crimea decided to erect a monument to a polite soldier, the website of the city council reports. Such a decision was made in connection with the "desire of the townspeople to perpetuate the memory of those people who, with their actions, ensured their peaceful and free will of the Bakhchisarays" during the March referendum in Crimea, the message said.

Large -scale "stripping" of the Banking System of Russia, carried out by Elvira Nabiullina, which headed the Central Bank in June 2013, continues. Since April 24, the Bank of Russia has recalls licenses in two more banks. This is the "local bank" ("MK Bank") and the National Bank of Business Development (NBB), both are registered in Moscow. NBRB is accused of highly risked credit policy, of MB Bank of financing terrorism and laundering money, RIA Novosti reports.

The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) on Thursday began on the official website voting on the slogans of the national teams - participants in the World Cup - 2014 in Brazil. For the Russian national team, FIFA experts selected the three most successful, in their opinion, options: “Not a step back!”, “We are the first!” And "They will not catch up with us!" The slogans will be located on buses of national teams participating in the Brazilian mundial.

The Latvian media mixed up the Director General of the Rain television channel Natalya Sindeev with one of her former subordinates, hoping to defend a program for issuing types of residence permit (residence permit) to foreign citizens. The revision of the program was one of the requirements of the National Association "All for Latvia" when adopting the country's budget for 2014.

A visit to Tokyo, US President Barack Obama announced the impending sanctions against Russia. According to him, Russia does not comply with either the spirit or the letter of the agreement reached in Geneva, does not make any efforts to de -escalate the conflict in Ukraine. Obama complained that armed pro -Russian activists did not stop "aggressive actions" in the east of the country, and accused the Russian authorities of not trying to prevent this.

The Easter worship, which was committed on the day of the holiday of the Resurrection of Christ in the Orthodox Church on Ingilterra Avenue in Turin, may be the last in the history of this church. The building built at the beginning of the 20th century was sold in 2004 for real estate agency. To date, he was rented by the Orthodox community of Turin, but now the Sushi-Barov network intends to buy a house, the Euromag portal reports with reference to the information of the Italian ANSA agency.

The preferential car loan program may be resumed if the Ministry of Industry and Trade records a serious drop in car sales in April-May of this year. Deputy Minister of the department Alexey Rakhmanov told reporters about this. Thus, he softened the categorical nature of the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, who said in March that there were no plans to resume the program. "We will look at April-May, because April will be the first month of sales without discounts.

The son of the famous Russian musician Viktor Tsoi filed an application to the Investigative Committee, in which he demanded that the State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov, who claimed to be criminalized that the singer was associated with the CIA. Alexander Tsoi accused Fedorov of slander, since the deputy’s statements that the texts of the songs of the Kino group were sent by agents of the American intelligence services, according to him, are not true, RIA Novosti reports.

Thanks to the large number of panoramas shot for the Google Street View service since 2007, the company has been able to implement a new function of its service by launching a kind of “time machine”, according to the official Google blog . According to one of the users of the Habrahabr site, at the moment the new service is available in 55 countries. One of the exceptions was Germany, where there are a number of legislative restrictions on the format and the number of images in street panoramas.

In Odessa, where pro -Russian activists continue to protest against the Kyiv authorities, it was not possible to form a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which would be engaged in law enforcement in the city.

In the Donetsk region, where the anti -terrorist operation was resumed on the eve, a fighting clash between Ukrainian military and unknown, who tried to seize warehouses with weapons in the city of Artemovsk, occurred. This was reported on Thursday morning by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. "On the night of April 24, about 100 unknown people made an armed attack on a military unit in the city of Artemovsk Donetsk region.

According to the Western media, the former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi put a signature under the court decision, according to which he will serve his sentence in the form of compulsory public works in the elderly center. The term of public work for the ex-Prime Minister is about 10 months, the Interfax-religion portal reports with reference to the information of the Western media.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved 34 state programs in the new version with amendments to the presidential instructions on May 7, 2012, the total amount of their financing for several years exceeds 80 trillion rubles, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reports.

Since 1990, Great Britain spent tens of billions of dollars on military interventions, now recognized as mistakes. Such a conclusion is contained in a study of the authoritative London Analytical Center "Royal Institute of United Rations of Troops" (RUSI). The British newspaper The Guardian writes about its results. Since the end of the Cold War, the official London spent 34.7 billion pounds for military operations (over $ 58 billion), the report called "Wars in Peace) said.

Russia suspended the consideration of the application of France and the United States to the UN Security Council for the introduction of sanctions against the ex-president of the Central African Republic of Francois Boziz , overthrown in 2013 as a result of a military coup.