On Wednesday, April 15, to the northern part of China, including the capital, the strongest sandstorm has collapsed over the past 13 years. Gusts of wind carrying a mixture of dust and sand reached 75 km/h, reports The Shanghaiist . Visibility fell to 1000 meters, complicating the movement of transport, and the sky turned yellow. The authorities turned to the citizens calling to stay at home, but many still went out into the street, covering their face in all available ways.

The Chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Council of the Russian Federation, Viktor Ozerov, introduced a bill to the State Duma, which proposes to tighten the responsibility for evasion of military service in the army. If the document is approved, citizens who did not appear at the military registration and enlistment office on the agenda are waiting for up to three thousand rubles, and for repeated violations they face up to 15 days of arrest.

The first recovery collection of Russian biathletes, which was supposed to take place in April in Kamchatka, broke due to a lack of money. This was announced by Sergey Konovalov, appointed by the senior coach of the women's team and the Russian national team. "We planned a recovery fee in Kamchatka in April. But in connection with the difficult financial situation, it had to be canceled," Konovalov told the R -Sport agency.

On April 20, at the Shanghai, the world premiere of the all -terrain version of the Audi Prologue station wagon will be held. As expected, the novelty announced on the manufacturer’s website is called Allroad and is still a concept. In the future, the entire Prologue family will turn into a new generation A6 with all the ensuing bodies and modifications, Onliner notes. The prototype has a overall length of more than five meters. It is 77 mm higher than the usual wingers of the rrologue avant.

Anton Oreh “Our favorite annual entertainment. Deputies, senators and members of the ruling Tandem publish income statements, and we play Stanislavsky and shout “I don’t believe it!” Well, or “I believe it, I don’t believe it.” And every year I repeat the same thing: the income statement is a completely meaningless document because we cannot verify its accuracy, and those who can will never do so.

The police of the Krasnodar Territory detained in hot pursuit a man suspected of robbing employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia". The attacker burst into the post office of the village of turkey with a plastic gun in his hands, the official website of the regional GU Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. Currently, a criminal case has been opened against a 24-year suspect under Part 2 of Art.

The external position of Ukraine remains unstable, despite the possible restructuring of the debt, the Moody's International rating agency said. The Ukrainian authorities began negotiations with creditors on debt restructuring for $ 15 billion on March 13. It is also about debts to the Russian Federation, which must be transferred by $ 3 billion as part of the repayment of the non -bonds by the end of the year.

Forbes magazine on the night of Thursday published a rating of 200 richest Russians. The most impressive state is the head of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin. However, the leaders of the rating and assessment of their conditions are taken straight from the global rating of billionaires , which was published in early March. The general statist is interesting: over the past year, dollar billionaires in Russia have become 23 less (88 versus 111), and their fortune decreased by $ 73 billion .

Former Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin shortly after the end of the direct line with the President of the Russian Federation, on which he again, as in 2013 , was polemicized with Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Interfax said that he did not feel the readiness of the Russian President to change the management of the economy and the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that all needy veterans of the Great Patriotic War will receive new apartments in 2015-2016, despite the fact that the queue has grown 10 times. During the Direct Line , answering a question from the Erokhin family of veterans from the Vladimir region, the head of state recalled that the program for free provision of new housing to veterans began in 2008 , TASS reports.

“Nazism, in its logic, is criminal because it directly set the goal of destroying entire peoples. But Stalinism did not set the goal of destroying entire peoples, even when it repressed and exiled them (they were rolled around in comfortable carriages solely with the goal of making them better, so that they would multiply and multiplied). But here’s what Putin forgets (or ignores): Stalinism set as its goal the destruction of entire classes of people.

Crimean director Oleg Sentsov, arrested in Russia on suspicion of preparing the attack, was a final charge. According to the lawyer director Dmitry Dinze, Sentsov was accused of "creating a terrorist community", that is, under Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In addition, investigators added another episode under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “illegal storage of weapons”, TASS reports.

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen said in an interview with Newsweek that Russia could use the same tactics in Europe as in Ukraine. According to Rasmussen, the Russian Federation seeks to undermine the stability of European countries from the inside and untie the hybrid war. Currently, it is a great danger than in the time of the USSR, he believes.

The Latvian authorities began the struggle with unusual violators: they are not given calm, wild boars, walking everywhere. Recently, animals increasingly began to visit the densely populated areas of Riga. So, a month ago, one family was noticed on Brivibas Street in the Yugla region (northeastern part of Riga), the mayor of the city of Neil Ushakov reported on his Facebook .

Investigators of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case on the death of a young child. The kid was hospitalized with traces of beatings from a communal apartment, but the doctors could not save his life. The criminal investigation is under special control of the leadership of the Main Investigative Committee of the IC of the Russian Federation of St. Petersburg, the official website of the department reports.