The authorities of Great Britain and France joined other Western countries and condemned the chemical attack in the Syrian city of the Duma, where, according to experts, dozens of people died and suffered. London and Paris were responsible for the tragedy for the regime of President Bashar al -Assad, while in Moscow they declare the absence of evidence of the fact of the Himakaki itself. British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson held negotiations with his French counterpart Jean-Ive Le Drian.

The condition of the 50 richest people in Russia from the Forbes list per day decreased by more than 11.7 billion dollars, RBC reports. Their capital is reduced after the fall of the Moscow Exchange index, which on Monday fell below 1,100 points (approximately 9%) for the first time since September 2017. The US dollar exceeded 60 rubles for the first time since November 2017. The unified European currency for the first time in a year and a half exceeded the level of 74 rubles per euro.

The head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, considers the faith for the Christian a faith in the Resurrection of Christ, and not in the convergence of a blessed fire . “It is not necessary to believe in the convergence of the fertile fire in order to be an Orthodox Christian,” he said in the program “Church and Peace” on the Russia 24 channel.

The military doctors of the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria did not find signs of chemical poisoning in the patients of the hospital in the city of Duma (East Guta). Earlier, Western countries reported a chemical attack , as a result of which dozens of people died, and assigned responsibility for what happened to the Bashar Assad regime.

The Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was most interested in the liquidation of the former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, as evidenced by radioactive traces in his office. This was reported at the Moscow briefing on April 9 by representatives of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

In the capital and the only city of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Naryan-Mar, an alcoholic competition in one of the local nightclubs ended for three participants not only intoxication, but also a coma. The competition was held on the night of Sunday, April 8, and by Monday, all the declining were already conscious. The police seized all alcohol in the club. Under the terms of the competition, competitors were proposed for a minute to drink cocktails with a total volume of about 750 ml.

Leonid Volkov "Modern Russian statehood is largely built on the denial of the fact that objective truth exists. The quotation of the Orwell Testaments was dumbfounded (" who controls the present - controls the past; who controls the past - controls the future "), but what if it is exactly so arranged in our country.

Roskomnadzor does not intend to block the Telegram messenger in Russia before a court of laws on a lawsuit. This was announced by the head of the department, Alexander Zharov. “Let's have an elephant in parts. Now we have filed a lawsuit and wait for the court’s decision. So far, everything is ... a certain sequence of actions, we act consistently. If you look at the law, there is not our decision, we fulfill the decision of another body,” Zharov TASS quotes.

The house of the ex-colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal in British Salisbury worth about 400 thousand pounds is planned to be completely demolished, the Daily Mail claims. The same fate is prepared by the buildings of the Zizzi restaurant and the pub The Mill, the Russian Air Force service reports. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia lost consciousness in the center of Salisbury on March 4.

Police in France began a special operation on the forced eviction of the inhabitants of the spontaneous town, formed several years ago in the municipality of Notre-Dame-de-De-Landa near Nantes in the west of the country. About 2500 policemen and gendarmes participate in it, the official website of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. Law enforcement officers came to the area on the night of Sunday to Monday, April 9, the local publication The Local writes.

In the seaport of Sochi, the authorities dismantled the fences that interfered with amateur fishing after the locals reached a rally of protest. On Sunday night, April 8, the designs were completely removed, the Caucasian Knot reports. On January 8, about 200 people went to the action demanding to remove fences in the seaport. On January 12, the authorities promised to dismantle the fences, but by March 8 they were only partially removed.

The head coach of the Japanese football team Vakhid Khalilkhodzhich was dismissed from his post two months before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Kyodo reports. His successor will be the former football player and ex-coach of the Gamba Osaka club Akira Nisino. “Since April 9, we decided to terminate the contract with the coach Khalilkhodzhich. Akira Nisino was appointed new trainer,” said Tasima, President of the TASS football Association, quoted by TASS, on Monday at Tokyo.

The striker of the St. Petersburg SKA Ilya Kovalchuk, after the defeat from CSKA in the final of the Western conference of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), announced that he would continue his career in the National Hockey League (NHL). Behind the ocean, he plans to spend the next two to three years. “I have already told the fans and the club’s leadership. Thank you. In the next two or three years I will try my strength in North America.

Germany will deprive the jihadists of German passports. This, according to Der Westeen , said the parliamentary state secretary of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs Stefan Mayer. As the state secretary explained, the jihadists will be deprived of a German passport if they have different citizenship. According to Mayer, for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the implementation of this plan is a priority task.

The American company Leap Motion, specializing in the development of gesture-controlled interfaces, showed an early prototype of augmented reality glasses using a proprietary hand movement tracking system. According to The Verge , the project, called North Star, is a massive, unusually shaped pair of glasses that the company says could cost less than $100 once mass produced.