More than 9 million borrowers of banks and microfinance organizations (MFIs) in the Russian Federation have a debt overdue for more than 90 days. In 75% of them, the debt exceeds 30 thousand rubles established by law. Thus, more than 6.7 million people can be potentially at the attendant, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to analysts at home money. At the same time, about 96%accounts for banks debtors, no more than 3-4%.

The main mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Shavka Allah, issued another religious decree (fatwa), which prohibits the adherents of Islam with the purchase of “likes” on the Facebook social network, for example, to promote their accounts. He explained this by the fact that such an operation, according to Islam, is considered as a form of fraud or deception, and, therefore, is prohibited, AP reports.

In the USA, at the age of 92, Barbara Bush , the former first lady of the country, the wife of George Bush, the elder and the mother of another president, George Bush, the youngest, passed away. About her death on her Twitter page was announced by the official representative of the family, Jim McGart. He specified that the day and venue of the farewell ceremony will be declared later.

Morocco's bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup could be rejected due to the country's anti-same-sex ban. Sports.ru reports this with reference to AR. According to Moroccan law, same-sex sex offenders face a prison sentence of six months to three years. Meanwhile, the International Football Federation (FIFA), under whose auspices the World Cup is held, excludes the possibility of holding tournaments of this level in countries where there is persecution on any grounds.

Police in the Saratov region published a video recorded by a surveillance camera in the store. The footage captured the moment the valuables were stolen from one of the customers. Investigators are hoping that someone will be able to identify the alleged thieves. The crime was committed in a Fix Price store for the poor, which is located in building N30/1 on 30 Let Pobeda Street in Balakovo, according to the page of the Balakovskoye Ministry of Internal Affairs on the VKontakte social network.

The theater in the German Constanta was in the center of public attention in connection with the premiere of the play about the young Adolf Hitler "My Wrestling" (Mein Kampf): The leadership allowed the audience to visit the audience who will come in sleeve dressings with the swastika. For those who buy tickets, in solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust will be given the hexagonal stars of David. The social experiment is reported on the theater website .

The Minister, who claims that the Internet was invented several thousand years ago in India, was faced with mockery and sarcastic comments. The 46-year-old chief minister of the Indian state of Tripur Biplib Deb made an unexpected statement on Tuesday, April 17, at one of the public events, the Air Force reports. According to the minister, the existence of the Internet and satellite technologies proves the battle on Kurukshetra, described in the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata".

The international system for transmitting financial messages SWIFT will not exclude Russia. This, according to two participants in the meeting of the Swift business forum and the meeting of participants in the Russian National Association of Swift (Rossvift), said the head of SWIFT Gottfried Lebrandt, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. In the course of his speech, Leybrandt also emphasized that Swift is a neutral organization, the newspaper interlocutors added.

The US State Department, the Russian Department of Transport, said that the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation extended permission to transit flights to American air carriers on three routes until the end of October of this year, TASS reports. “Several American airlines confirmed to us that they received permits for these transit flights,” the US Foreign Department of Foreign Department added.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva called reports about the Rossotrudnichestvo project to return students from foreign universities to Russia “It’s time to go home!” unverified information. “I think this is someone’s [personal] idea,” TASS quotes Vasilyeva.

Great Britain, destroying important evidence in the case of the poisoning of ex-colonel GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia, notes "traces of staging provocation against Russia." This is stated in the statement of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in London, which was widespread on Tuesday, which commented on the beginning of the operation to "disinfect" places in Salisbury related to the incident.

Employees of the capital's law enforcement agencies identified an episode of criminal activity by unknown persons who managed to obtain 10 million rubles from a university student at knifepoint. At the same time, the attackers demanded a ransom of 100 million rubles. Security forces received information about the crime committed on April 17 from two prisoners in the capital’s pre-trial detention center.

A regular representative of the United States to the UN Nickei Haley did not notify in time that the American administration has changed plans for the introduction of new anti -Russian sanctions. This newspaper The New York Times was announced by the head of the US National Economic Council, US President Larry Kudlow.

The attack of Israel on the Syrian T-4 air base (TIYAS) in the province of Homs was agreed with the US administration on April 9, and its goal was the latest Iranian air defense system (Air Defense), recently taken to the base. This was written by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal with reference to sources in reconnaissance structures.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov complained to the Prosecutor General’s Office for the position of the Central Election Commission (CEC) about the cases of repeated voting in the past elections of the president using the mobile voter system. He announced this in a letter addressed to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, reports RBC .