The famous lawyer Nikolai Egorov, who studied at the same course in the Leningrad State University with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, turned out to be the owner of 20% of the antipinic oil refinery, writes RBC with reference to the main owner of the refinery of Dmitry Mazurov. Another option - by 25% - belongs to a member of the Board of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia Vladimir Kalashnikov, whom the agency calls the familiar mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin.

In March, Russian airlines reduced the transportation of passengers by 2.7% compared to the same period last year - up to 5.826 million people. International transportation in March decreased by 21.4% - to 2.006 million people. Such data, as reports the Prime Agency, are given in the materials of the Federal Air Transport Agency.

On the eve of the 30-year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, journalists learned that a farm selling radioactive milk is located on the edge of the exclusion zone in Belarus. Farmers consider the lack of mutations in animals to be sufficient evidence that their products are harmless. Meanwhile, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claims that his country has accumulated unique experience in overcoming accidents at nuclear power plants.

The Japanese company Mazda introduced at the International Motor Show in Beijing, which started on Monday, the serial version of its new CX-4 crossover. The car was built on the Parnis Parnis Parn, but a few centimeters longer and lower, notes LiveCars . Buyers CX-4 are given two four-cylinder gasoline engines of the SkyActive family: a two-liter engine with a capacity of 157 liters. With. and a 2.5-liter unit for 191 liters. With.

On April 25, Orthodox Christians began a passionate week - the last week before Easter , which for believers of the Russian and other Orthodox churches will come this year on May 1. On Monday, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill headed the liturgy of the pre-associated gifts in the Virgin-Rogestanian Stavropigial Convent of Moscow, the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church reports.

The temporarily acting head of the city Kemerovo Ilya Meredyuk decided to dismiss all his deputies after the audit, which passed last weekend. As explained by the acting The mayor, officials lost their posts "for unsatisfactory work." "The decision on retired was made following an analysis of the situation in the city, during the integrated detours of all territories of the districts," the city administration said in a press release .

The International Skating Union (ISU) allowed the Russian figure skater Ekaterina Bobrov, who previously suspected of using the drug Meldonium prohibited from January 1, 2016. This was announced on Instagram by the athlete herself, who performs in ice dancing paired with Dmitry Solovyov. “In connection with a huge number of messages and calls, I want to reassure everyone a little - I am glad to share information that ISU removed a temporary disqualification from me,” Ekaterina wrote.

In the Brussels metro on Monday, April 25, the Malbek metro station opened for passengers, at which a terrorist attack occurred on March 22, which claimed the lives of 16 people. It is reported by France 24 .

In Australia, an elderly participant in World War II Milton Ferclou was moved to tears when he received his medals from the anonym. They were abducted six months ago by a criminal who made their way to the pensioner’s house, ABC News reports. The 95-year-old front-line soldier discovered nine of his medals in the mailbox, where they were abandoned last Friday. According to Ferrlow, the noble act of an unknown thief returned his faith to humanity.

In the Republic of Tuva, the shepherd, trying to frighten off the snow leopard brought into the Red Book, arranged a forest fire. To drive away the predator from the cattle, the chaban fell dry grass, after which the flame spread to the forest. Now the shepherd is facing an administrative fine.

Residents of the Belogorsk of the Amur Region, located about 100 km from the Vostochny cosmodrome, on the day of the first launch will be watched by the film "The White Sun of the Desert." Then the townspeople will observe the flight of the launch vehicles in binoculars and telescopes. In addition, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin intends to visit the first launch from East.

The number of victims of the explosion at the petrochemical plant in Mexico increased to 32 people. This is stated in the message of the company, the owner of the PEMEX enterprise on Twitter . The day before, rescuers found four more victims of the emergency at the body of the body. "Thus, the number of dead reached 32 people," the company notes in a statement. The bodies of 26 dead were transferred to relatives.

US President Barack Obama, on Monday, April 25, will officially announce the additional sending of 250 military personnel to Syria to help the Islamic State (IG, Daish , the terrorist organization prohibited in Russia), the newspaper The Wall Street Journal has become known. Thus, the American military presence in the territory of the Arab Republic will increase from the current 50 to 300 people.

At the Sunday on Sunday, extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia with a margin was won by the ruling Serbian progressive party (SPP), headed by Prime Minister Alexandar Vucic. According to the chairman of the Republican Electoral Commission (RIC), Act Dzhurdzhevich, almost 50% of the vote was cast for the coalition of Vucic (49.3%).

The police of the Sakhalin region caught a serial apartment thief, who committed crimes exclusively out of a sense of hunger. The man abducted freshly prepared food from his dwellings of familiar pensioners. The criminal punishment for theft of food threatens a resident of the Uglegorsky district born in 1974.