In Belarus, the inhabitants of Mogilev called on the president of the Republic of Alexander Lukashenko to return the Order of Alexander Nevsky to Russia, received by him in early March from Russian President Vladimir Putin, in protest against repeated threats of the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky to block the Dnieper.

Russian officials comment on on Thursday the loud and unexpected news that the American General Motors auto -concern is almost completely curtailing production in the Russian Federation , withdrawing the most popular brands from the country - Opel and most of the Chevrolet models. In the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the trends for the departure of other world -classes are not yet observed, but GM also refuted such plans to the last, recalls the press.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits the formation of the Palestinian state, follows from his interview to NBC . These words of the politician, whose batch "Likud" this week won the parliamentary elections , contradict what he was talking about the day before the vote. “I do not want a decision in the spirit of“ one state. ”I advocate a stable, peaceful decision that will provide for the existence of two states,” the prime minister said on the air of the American television channel.

The Marty Ministry of Emergencies of Russia with humanitarian aid, which first included Red Cross cars, went to the Donbass early on Thursday morning, TASS and Interfax report with reference to the National Crisis Situations Center (NTsux) of the Ministry of Emergencies. A few hours later, TASS became known that the column of the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in Lugansk. This was stated by the representative of NTsux, noting that the second column should be in Donetsk.

The police of the Zelenodolsky district of Tatarstan detained a resident of the village of Nizhny Vyazov, who is suspected of thefts of garbage containers. The unemployed attacker handed over the prey to the metal reception points to help out money for the maintenance of his five children. Now a 32-year-old man faces a punishment in the form of several years in prison. The total damage is estimated at 10,160 rubles, reports Tatarstan Today .

The criminal case of the 49-year-old Sergei Minakov, the electrician of the Civilian Tanker "Coid" of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, accused of espionage and released on a recognizance not to leave, was closed behind the lack of corpus delicti.

Kaliningrad Autotor Auto Producer plans to freeze about 50% production capacities of the enterprise due to the departure of the American General Motors automotive concern. This was announced on Thursday by Interfax agency Representative of the Kaliningrad company. "Avtotor" executed an order for the production of cars for General Motors, which was designed for the first quarter of 2015.

One tourist from Russia was injured during the attack of terrorists on the Bardo Museum in Tunisia on Wednesday, Prime Minister Tunisia Khabib Essid said at a press conference. According to updated data, as a result of the attack, 21 people died, including 17 foreigners. “As for the wounded, we have 13 wounded from Italy, seven French tourists, four Japanese, six Tunisian citizens, 11 wounded from Poland. As for Russians, one Russian was wounded, two more wounded from South Africa.

The Corruption Foundation, founded by politician Alexei Navalny, published a report that states that the son and first wife of the ex-defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov acquired expensive assets in the real estate market in 2014. So, according to the FBK, 27-year-old Sergey Serdyukov in December 2014 received two hectares of land with a market value of more than 200 million rubles in a prestigious resort area in the village of Komarovo.

The United States decided not to postpone the training of Ukrainian security forces and will begin to train the military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine in the near future. This was based on the results of the conversation of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with the US Vice President Joe Bayden announced the official website of the Ukrainian leader.

On April 18, the Russian boxing champion in the first heavy weight on April 18 in Kiev plans to hold a 10-round match against the Olympic champion of Ukrainian Alexander Usik, according to the official website of the promotional company K2 Promotions Ukraine . The title of intercontinental champion according to the version of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) in heavy weight will be at the stake.

Microsoft has announced the imminent appearance on the market of the ultra-budget smartphone Lumia 430 Dual SIM, running the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, reports the THG portal. The new Microsoft smartphone will be equipped with a 4-inch display with a modest resolution of 800*480 pixels, as well as a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor with a frequency of 1.2 GHz. The device will have 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory.

On March 18, the federal army of Austria temporarily seized all aluminum plates in the amount of 100 thousand units used by soldiers in units: there are suspicions that they were and that were packed with food in the stomach, exfolved coating particles can harm the health of military personnel. At the moment, an examination of people who used this dish is being carried out for possible harm. The country's armed forces have already apologized for this incident.

The parish of spring turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for the inhabitants of Moscow. In some areas of the capital, a thick could appear. In particular, it is observed in the north of the city, eyewitnesses report. And in the southeast, experts recorded an almost triple excess of the content of hydrogen sulfide in the air. According to eyewitnesses, I was able to observe throughout the Dmitrovskoye Shosse, reports the online publication of Gazeta.ru .

Catholics around the world celebrate on Thursday the second anniversary of the intronization of the Pope Francis. According to Catholic and Orthodox experts, for two years of its pontificate, both the domestic and foreign policy of the Roman Catholic Church has changed significantly.