In Moscow, in the 67th year of his life, a famous scientist, literary critic and folklorist Fedor Kapitsa, the son of an outstanding popularizer of science Sergey Kapitsa, passed away, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences Svetlana Popova. "Fedor Sergeyevich Kapitsa died today after a long illness of the lungs," Popova said.

The Central District Court of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Region, sentenced two arsonists who damaged the prestigious foreign car of his former boss. The men took revenge on him for dismissal. The court sentenced one attacker to 3.5 years in a maximum security colony. His accomplice will spend two years and five months behind bars. The second convicted person will be sent to a colony-settlement. Men are also required to fully compensate the victim, writes vse42.ru .

Russia forced Google to remove restrictions from the Crimea and resume the work of the Google Play app store by concluding a settlement agreement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). According to Izvestia , according to the document signed on April 17, the corporation should eliminate violations and resume the work of the store throughout the country, including on the peninsula. In case of non -fulfillment, Google threatens judicial persecution under a settlement agreement.

The head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov at the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Education on April 27 spoke about insufficient knowledge in the relevant subjects of teachers of the Russian language and mathematics in Russian schools. "It is important to develop teachers' certification and a professional exam after the completion of a pedagogical university," RIA Novosti quotes him.

Alibaba Group - Alipay will begin to work in Russia, writes RBC with reference to a representative of the Chinese company. This is due to the increase in Russia of the number of Chinese tourists. Mostly owners of cards issued by Chinese banks can use the service. The service is a virtual storage where money is transferred for the paid goods before it acts to the buyer. To make payment in the offline store of the retail point, a special terminal is needed - a mobile box office.

The responsible secretary of the expert council of the public movement "For Human Rights" Evgeny Nilov in the wakes of the information that appeared that the collapse of the Tu-154 aircraft over the Black Sea near Sochi occurred due to overload , asks four questions regarding the December plane crash. " 1. Tu -154 was supposed to make an intermediate landing in Mozdok, but was redirected to Adler - to take a" new load "with an opportunity? 2.

In a road traffic jam in London near the Tower Bridge, a group of motorcyclists tried to slip between hopelessly frozen rows of cars and buses. For one of the bikers, this trip did not end very well, reports The Daily Mail . The DVR, who stood in the traffic jam, captured the incident, during which one of the motorcyclists slowed down unexpectedly for his comrade and he, abruptly hitting the brakes, tumbled over his head forward, finding himself under his motorcycle.

The British brand Bentley plans to supply Bentayga diesel SUV to the Russian market. According to autonews.ru , the cost of the novelty, which has become the fastest SUV in the world with a heavy fuel engine, will amount to 11.9 million rubles. Bentley Bentayga Diesel, presented in September last year, is equipped with a four -liter V8 unit with three turbines and 32 valves and develops 421 liters. With. and 900 nm torque. The motor is paired with an eight -speed "automatic".

Russian woman Maria Sharapova triumphantly held her first match after a 15-month disqualification for the use of Meldonia, having beaten Italian Robert Vinci in the first round of the tournament of the women's tennis association in Stuttgart. The meeting on the central court of Porsche Arena lasted 1 hour 43 minutes and ended with a score of 7: 5, 6: 3 in favor of Mary.

In the near future, the dollar can grow to 60 rubles. About this, as Interfax reports, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, citing the opinion of unnamed experts. Dvorkovich, answering the question of journalists, whether the government and the Central Bank plan to take measures to weaken the ruble to support exporters, said that the national currency will gradually approach its equilibrium value, "adjusted" by the decisions of the Central Bank to reduce the key rate.

Surrounded by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill, confirmed the intention to give the Isaacievsky cathedral the status of the Patriarchal if it is transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. Earlier it became known that it was the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church that played a key role in making a decision on the transfer of Isaac to the use of the Church.

On the territory of the Russian Federation there are no branches of three foreign public organizations (OR (OTKRYTAYA ROSSIA, Open Russia, Great Britain), Open Russia Civic Movement, Open Russia (Public Network Movement "Open Russia", Great Britain) and Institute of Modern Russia, Inc ("Institute of modern Russia ", the USA).

The police seized the entire circulation of forms of “Open Russia” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. They were prepared for the “Tired” shares planned on April 29. The seizure of the circulation is reported on the website of Open Russia. On the afternoon of April 27, a car was stopped in Kirov on which the circulation of appeals to the president was transported. The activist of the movement of Denis Kamenshchikov, who was in the car, was detained on suspicion of extremism.

The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party, Sergei Shargunov, said that the day after he voted against the adoption of the bill on "renovation" in Moscow at a meeting of the lower house of parliament, a fire occurred in his apartment. The deputy notes that it was precisely arson and at the time of the fire in the apartment was his father. “They ask about the arson of the apartment. This happened the day after the vote in the first reading against the law on renovation.

The Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeev once again criticized the financial and economic block of the Government of the Russian Federation for the lack of the "strategy of the country's exit from the economic crisis," the Kommersant newspaper reports.