The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, after conducting an inspection, found out that its employee Elena Zaitseva, who signed an appeal on behalf of the department to extend the house arrest of Kirill Serebrennikov, did not have the right to do this. According to the Ministry of Culture website , she works as deputy head of the judicial work department of the regulatory and legal department.

A military camp, located near the Molkino farm 30 km from Krasnodar to the south along the M4 Don highway and is on the balance sheet of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , is a transshipment point for soldiers of private military companies returning from Syria. It is in Molkino that mercenaries are brought from the Rostov-on-Don International Airport, Reuters reports.

In St. Petersburg, the 93-year-old French singer Charles Aznavour was taken to the hospital. On Wednesday, April 25, the famous chansonnier was supposed to give a concert in the city, but felt bad. Now the performance was postponed next year. The Aznavour concert was supposed to go to the Oktyabrsky BKZ. As the director of the concert hall, Emma Lavrinovich, told Interfax , the singer felt bad even during the rehearsal, which was due to which the performance had to be canceled.

A team of researchers from Ewha Womans University, located in Seoul, has proposed a new technology for printing food using a 3D printer, which allows you to create foods with the right nutritional content.

In the fourth quarter of last year, foreign lending to Russian residents - companies, banks, citizens and state - decreased by $ 8.05 billion compared to the third quarter, reports RBC with reference to Bank for International Settlements, BIS). The decline occurred mainly due to the reduction of lending by foreign banks of Russian residents, as well as due to the outflow of non -residents deposits from Russian banks.

The MasterCard payment system made it possible to transfer funds by phone number to any cards of other banks. The first service was connected by Raiffeisenbank, reports TASS. Translation can be made by phone number, email address, as well as through social networks of VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. You can transfer money bankruptly from cards to MasterCard/Maestro and Visa cards issued by Russian banks.

Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov spoke by telephone with Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan. The parties discussed the state of relations between the two countries. The head of the Belarusian government confirmed Minsk’s readiness to provide assistance to Yerevan. Prime Minister's Press Secretary Vladislav Sychevich reported this to TASS on Wednesday, April 25.

A resident of the American state of Florida walked along the beach in the area of ​​the city of Tampa, removing nature, when a bird flying above his head attracted his attention, carrying something in claws. A man, professionally fond of photography, took several pictures that seemed interesting to him. Arriving home, he decided to increase the received personnel and did not believe his eyes. “I increased the scale of the photograph and saw that the catch was a shark,” he told Fox News .

In the seven cities of the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Ugra), rallies and pickets of deceived participants of the Available Housing -Young program were held. The promised subsidies are not paid to them, but from those who managed to receive them, the authorities are trying to withdraw hundreds of thousands of rubles. Next time, people threaten to block the R-404 federal highway connecting Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk.

The American actress Ellison MEK, the best known for Chloe Sullivan in the series "Secrets of Smolville",, by court decision, came out of arrest bail of $ 5 million. Mack was arrested on April 20 on charges of involvement in the sale of girls of sexual slavery in the case of the Nexiam sect (NXIVM). At the same time, the accusation was brought by the founder of the sect - 57 -year -old Keat Ranier, previously arrested in Mexico and extradited in the United States.

Talia Grant, 16, the daughter of British actors and TV presenters David and Carrie Grant, has become the first person diagnosed with autism to take part in the filming of the television drama Hollyoaks, which has been on UK TV for 23 years. The series, which currently has over 4,880 episodes, is set in a fictional suburb of Chester called Hollyoaks. The series has a huge number of characters, mostly between the ages of 16 and 35.

The Tambov police detained a man suspected of large theft of money from an opened safe. Hiding from the scene, the woe-criminal dropped on the sidewalk a part of the stolen amount numbering tens of millions of rubles. Thick packs of money lying on wet asphalt did not interest either random passers -by or passing by the law enforcement officers, as the surveillance camera recorded.

Roman Popkov “It is clear that the Armenian protest does not have any pronounced“ geopolitical orientation ”, and in this sense, the Kremlin has a space for maneuvers (thank God, this space is still mind using and not start idiotic adventures). And yet Putin’s personally infuriates, I am sure that he is very unpleasant to see it,” the journalist and human rights activist writes on his Facebook page.

The vice-governor of the Northern capital, Igor Albin, was awarded the honorary sign "For a special contribution to the development of St. Petersburg." The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the city Vyacheslav Makarov explained that in this way the merits of the official were noted at the end of the construction of the new Stadium "St. Petersburg" ("Zenit Arena") on Krestovsky Island, which received the nickname "Kormlan-Arena" from the light hand.

From May 1, AvtoVAZ plans to raise the recommended retail prices for all Lada cars by 1-2%, depending on the model and configuration, Vedomosti reports. The manufacturer attributes the price increase to recent fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate . AvtoVAZ purchases some components for the production of its cars abroad, the publication notes. At the same time, the company does not expect a drop in demand for Lada, since “the changes in price are insignificant,” said an AvtoVAZ representative.