The Russian journalist Orhan Dzhemal was detained on the Russian border when he returned from Donbass from the territories controlled by the separatists, Echo Moscow reports with reference to a member of the Presidential Council on Interethnic Relations and Human Rights, journalist Maxim Shevchenko. Jemal was interrogated for 7 hours and missed, seizing the equipment. According to the radio station, Jemal worked on the territory of the self -proclaimed LPR on the instructions of Forbes magazine.

The Russian drifting Arctic station "North Polyus-2015" officially began work. The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, head of the State Development Commission of the Arctic, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, as well as the Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy, reports TASS. According to scientists, the station will function several months.

In the central match of the 24th round of the CSKA championship in the Russian football championship at the Arena Khimki stadium, tied with Krasnodar. Before the break, the metropolitan club used, perhaps, his only chance in the first half: in the 43rd minute, Pontus Vernblum, after the canopy of Birbas, Natho with a penalty head sent the ball to the goal of Andrei Dikan - 1: 0.

The court in the United States, considering the case of the defendant of the Russian Roman Seleznev, the son of the State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev, allowed him not to reimburse the state’s expenses for lawyers appointed to him, the Russian Air Force Service reports.

At the International Space Station, the icon on the wall in the Russian segment of the station was replaced in the photograph of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the creator of the Vostok missile, designer Sergey Korolev. Active discussion of the topic in Runet began after the publication on the Twitter astronaut from Italy Samantha Christophoretti Selfie with the ISS , where icons were visible in the background.

In Ufa, where the ambulance workers continue to hunger strike , one of the employees refused to hospitalize colleagues, Irina Silence participated in the Interfax . She said that the state of starving worsens. The head of the Ordzhonikidze substation Svetlana Yusupova was again taken to the hospital the night before. In the medical facility, a woman starving 32nd day, "put a dropper, after which they refused hospitalization and offered to leave the emergency room at night," says silence.

On Saturday, April 18, at the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, the Golden Mask ceremony took place. When the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky rose onto the stage, the audience asked him to return the Tanniger opera, which caused the ROC and removed from the repertoire of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater.

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatolla Khamenei said that the country should be prepared to repel aggression. With warlike statements, he made on the eve of the discussion of the comprehensive agreement of Iran with the countries of the West. The country's leadership suggests that this will be the most difficult stage of negotiations. Ayatollah Khamenei, the highest spiritual leader of Iran, told the local media: "The United States shamelessly threaten Iran with a blow.

The Egyptian court sentenced 11 people to the death penalty on charges of involvement in the tragedy that occurred in February 2012 in the city of Port Said . After a football match, when leaving the stadium, mass fights and a crush began. More than 70 people were killed , about 300 were injured. In March 2013, the Egyptian court approved the death sentence in this case in relation to 21 accused. In February 2014, the Court of Appeal appointed a new trial against 62 defendants.

In the center of Moscow on Sunday, the participants in the opposition pickets were detained, who decided to carry out after on April 19 it was not possible to coordinate the 30,000th "march of peace and freedom". According to the law, single approval pickets do not require, but this does not always save from detention. OVD-Info reports the detentions of four activists on Tverskaya Street.

The assault on the house in which a group of militants took refuge began in the suburbs of Buinaksk - Heria -Avlak, a source in the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan told the Interfax agency. In the morning in Buinaksk, a counter -terrorist operation regime was announced. A group of militants was discovered and blocked in a private two -story building. This information was also confirmed by the TASS source in power structures. "The demands to lay down the weapons and the suspects rejected.

The fire hazardous situation in the Trans-Baikal Territory stabilizes and is under control, reported on Sunday in the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. Fire no longer threatens the settlements, the villages of the villages affected by the fire began the work on assessing the damage. Fires liquidate both a ground group with a total number of more than 3 thousand people and over 300 units of equipment, and aviation, TASS reports.

The Greek government plans to sign an energy agreement with Moscow next week, according to which Russia will pay up to 5 billion euros for the construction of a gas pipeline section in the country, European sources continue to insist. On the eve of the information about the provision of financial assistance was refuted by the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. It was about the publication of the German publication Spiegel. After this comments of the Greek side of AFP.

The ambassador of Russia is called to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry due to a trip to Spitsbergen Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who fell under European sanctions after the accession of Crimea to Russia. This is reported by AftenPosten with reference to the head of the Norway Foreign Ministry Berege Brende. The ambassador of Vyacheslav Pavlovsky is waiting for the Foreign Ministry on Monday. The Spitsbergen archipelago is controlled by Oslo, but has a special international status.

The US Assistance in Poland Stephen Mall had to make excuses for the words of the FBI director James Komi on the words of the Poles's involvement in the Holocaust. On Sunday, the ambassador was called to the Poland Foreign Ministry, and after he gave his explanations to reporters: Komi had in mind different, but there is a “much work” to explain it. Poland was outraged by the words of Komi, which he said on April 15 during a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington.