In the Kirov region, a sentence was sentenced to the people's chosen one from "United Russia", who was found guilty of the cruel beating of the guardian of order. For a broken chest of a policeman, the chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs of the Legislation of the Kirov Region Sergey Luzyanin was punished by deprivation of liberty for a term of 18 months. But given the time spent under arrest, the convicted person will be in a colony-settlement for only three months, Interfax reports.

Volvo began the operation of the Drive ME project - with autonomous control systems - on public roads. The first cars can already be seen on the streets of the Swedish city of Gotyrog. By 2017, there will be 100 such cars. Experimental cars will be used by the project participants for daily trips on the roads selected by roads with a length of approximately 50 kilometers within the city of Getorg and in its environs.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia stopped the activities of a group engaged in illegal financial transactions. According to the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Combating Corruption, 3.5 billion rubles were brought into the shadow turnover, ITAR-TASS reports. In total, about 30 searches in residential premises and offices of banks were carried out.

The President of the Alliance of Travel Agencies (Ata) Andrei Gavrilov said that Russians will be able to relax in Crimea for 16-17 thousand rubles. According to him, this amount will enter the flight, a transfer from the airport, as well as accommodation with breakfast in a hotel or in a boarding house. In an interview with Rossiy Gazeta, he noted that the cost of vacation in Crimea decreased when the state decided to subsidize air travel to this republic.

The number of victims of the crash of the passenger ferry "Sevol" off the coast of South Korea increased to 210 people. The fate of another 92 people remains unknown. At the same time, no living passenger or crew member was extracted from the interior of the sunken ship from the interior of the sunken vessel, Yonhap reports. This sea tragedy in the number of victims may be the largest in the history of the country.

The organizers of the opposition campaign on May 6 in support of the "Prisoners of Bolotnaya" were not able to agree with the authorities to hold a rally on Bolotnaya Square. “The negotiations were over, and we were not able to get the coordination of Bolotnaya Square from the authorities,” one of the organizers, activist of the Solidarity movement, Peter Tsarkov, told Interfax .

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, who spoke at a meeting of the Supreme Church Council, opened on Wednesday in the capital, said that in the civil conflict in Ukraine the Orthodox Church should reconcile people, and not serve any political interests. "The position of our Church is what it has consisted of over the past 25 years. Our Church is not amenable to any political temptations and refuses to serve any political positions.

Insider leaks indicate that in China the manufacture of individual components for the iWatch - "smart" hours of Apple. This is done in small batches, without unnecessary advertising and with plans to put components in the United States before the beginning of autumn, writes Yablyk.com with reference to the Chinese press. The fact that Iwatch in any form will be released in the second half of 2014, almost all of the more or less informed citizens guessed.

The Kremlin and the White House began to look for a replacement for foreign investments, the newspaper Kommersant writes. Discussion is carried out closed with a minimum of persons involved. At the same time, the discussed set of measures, apparently, is built on the impossibility of correcting the macroeconomic and monetary financial course, the publication notes.

Before the transfer of banks in the EU countries from the EU countries from under the supervision of national regulators to the control of the European Central Bank (ECB), tough stress tests are waiting for them. The European Banking Administration will conduct large -scale inspections of 124 EU banks, which accounts for at least half of the assets in each of the countries of the Union, Reuters reports.

The Government of St. Petersburg as a whole approved the draft federal law "On the preservation and development of the historical center", on the basis of which Smolny hopes to reconstruct about 400 houses in the city center. It is assumed that the residents will be evicted only if you cannot repair the house without this.

The organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCU) promised to investigate statements according to which, since February of this year, chlorgaz has been applied in Syria at least nine times, Inopressa reports with reference to The Guardian . There is reason to believe that the OPCW made this decision under the influence of the United States and France, which imposed responsibility for the use of chemical weapons on the ruling Syrian regime.

The Ukrainian government took a number of steps on fulfilling obligations within the framework of Geneva agreements , said on Wednesday the chairman of the European Council Herman Van Rompey at a meeting in Prague with Czech Prime Minister Boguslav Sobotka. “Unfortunately, the ongoing violence and lawlessness in Eastern Ukraine is contrary to Geneva.

Over the next few years, the Russian authorities will provide high-speed Internet access to 97% of the country's population. This was stated by the Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov during an online forum held at the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. According to the minister, today 45% of the country’s population lives in small towns and settlements, where there is not always high-quality and modern communication.

“Every spring, on the May holidays, S.M. Mironov asks me to surrender my mandate. Last time this happened following the results of my trips to Europe, where I am the only representative of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs slept through this situation!” - he persuaded the Europeans not to force the European integration of Ukraine, warning them about future problems. But Mr.