Following Poland and Germany , the Night Wolves Bike Club, whose members planned to ride in Europe in honor of the Victory anniversary, drew attention to Belarusian activists. As in other countries, the public of Belarus opposed the fact that representatives of the odious movement were driving through the country.

The sharp fall in the national currency and the sanctions imposed against Russia did not really affect the attracting foreign labor by Russian companies: the number of quotas for employees from visa countries issued by the Ministry of Labor for the first three months of this year, only 20% less than the entire previous year.

The investigation announced the possible involvement of the ex-governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin, accused of receiving a bribe of $ 5.6 million to other crimes. This was stated by the investigator in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, where the request was considered to extend the arrest of the defendant of the case of corruption. According to Interfax , the investigator said that Khoroshavin took values ​​that were disproportionate to the income of the family.

The 100 best islands of the world were included in the Traveler's Choice rating, compiled on the basis of several million reviews of Tripadvisor travel users. The winners were determined using the algorithm, which took into account the quality and number of reviews and estimates of hotels, restaurants and attractions on the islands of the whole world for a year, Interfax reports. The first place in the ranking was taken by the island of Providensiales (Terx and Kaikos) in the Caribbean.

Russia intends to forgive Madagascar in the amount of more than $ 88 million, directing these funds to finance projects in the field of development in the republic. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Interfax reports. The Ministry of Finance, together with the MID, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Vnesheconombank instructed to negotiate with the Madagascar side and, upon reaching the agreement, sign the specified agreement.

The ex-leader of the Omsk NPO Mostovik Oleg Shishov concluded a deal with the investigation and pleaded guilty to theft in the amount of 1.9 billion rubles, TASS reports. The corresponding statement made an investigator in the case in the Basmani court. “Shishov filed a statement on the pre -trial agreement that was satisfied. Shishov pleaded guilty in full, gave the expert testimonies exposing another accused,” the investigator said, adding that new accused could be involved in the case.

The State Duma adopted a bill on Tuesday in the first reading, which allows to spend maternity capital funds until the child is three years old on payment of the initial contribution upon receipt of a loan for the construction or purchase of housing, TASS reports.

The Kremlin did not confirm the information that appeared in the Western media about the proposal, which was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the famous American actor and specialist in eastern martial arts, Stephen Sigalu.

The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians Garen II , who opposed the International Forum "Against the Crime of Genocide" in Yerevan, said that Germany could be an example for Turkey in recognizing and condemning a crime. "The small cases are small in theity when the state that organized genocide pleads and accepts its guilt.

The Police of the Primorsky Territory put on the wanted list of the 30-year-old patient of the regional psychiatric hospital N1 Nikolai Valentinovich Praistraev. A man convicted of murder “left the medical institution arbitrarily,” the official website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. "The personnel of the garrison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Vladivostok is focused on the conduct of searching events," the press release emphasizes.

In Crimea, a series of arrests on the fact of riots at the building of the Supreme Council of the Republic on February 26, 2014 continues. Then, in anticipation of the decision of the authorities on the issue of separation from Ukraine at the entrance to the parliament, there were clashes of two groups of the protesters: pro -Russian citizens, on the one hand, and Crimean Tatars and supporters of the Euromaidan -Crimea movement on the other.

The increase in oil prices ceased to push the ruble upward, the cost of the Russian currency is stabilized, said Ksenia Yudaev, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank. “Last week there was a jump in oil price 5%. Of course, the relationship between these two factors will remain, but in principle, I think that by summer, the volatility should decrease to the values ​​of the beginning of the fall of last year,” Interfax quotes the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank.

The head of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (Fano) Mikhail Kotyukov is ready to cancel the order to dismiss the director of the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (Geokhi) Academician Eric Galimov after the institute’s employees complained about the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov.

The Analytical Center for Reputation Institute summed up the results of the next study by Global Reptrak 100 , during which he tried to install the most respected companies in 2015. This year, the leader of the leader did not get Google, as it was a year earlier, but to the German Auto Concert BMW.

France can return to Russia money for helicopter carriers of the Mistral type, which were built specifically for Moscow and are already paid, if they are not transferred to the Russian Federation. This was stated by French President Francois Hollande. “If you put it, they paid you. If not, you must return what you paid,” said Hollande, the words of which RIA Novosti quoted. At the same time, he pointed out the impossibility of supplying Russia of ships in the current conditions.