On April 13, two Russian citizens were arrested in Istanbul, suspected of killing Abdulvakhid Edilgireev, a native of Chechnya. The victim was known as one of the leaders of the North Caucasian separatists, in addition to the war in the Caucasus, he took part in military operations in Syria against the government of Bashar al-Assad and in Ukraine against the pro-Russian militia of Donbass.

The Moscow Police has a loud scandal: a certain employee published on the police Internet forums “Notes Opera”, in which he told details from the daily service of his department.

The prestigious literary award is awarded to the legendary sixtieth emigrant We congratulate each other. Exactly so: each other. We hug as we can. So, N.M. Korzhavin was awarded the Poet Prize. Now we will punish the whole world, the old and the new, where the Russian speech is still sounding, “while in the sublunar world ...” It is very cool that the tall jury pushed the lines of the not very young with his elbow, and the frankly mature poets to title and prefer Korzhavin.

The new Prime Minister of Ukraine was the ex-chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, 38-year-old Vladimir Groysman. Why exactly he and what to expect now - the New Times sorted out Vladimir Groysman during the Rada meeting, at which he was approved by the new Prime Minister, Kiev, April 14, 2016. FE : Ivan Kovalenko/Kommersant In the late night of April 12, a small group of men came out of the Bankova Presidential Building Building Building on Bankova Street in Kyiv.

The film on the air of the Russia 1 television channel about how the Western intelligence services for the misfortune of the unintelligent Russian opposition recalled Alexei Navalny, could not but attract attention to the figure of its author - the correspondent of VGTRK Evgeny Popov.

On April 17, the lower house of the Brazilian National Congress (Parliament) gave the green light to the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff.

How Russia is trying to become the future, and special departments are created to control the future - the New Times watched Order of the chief chief Modern Russia, no matter how wildly it sounds, is a country without the past. Despite the constant conversations about the sacred memory of the ancestors, Russia does not have the past.

On April 14, the official program of the 69th Cannes Film Festival was announced in Paris. Russia is represented by The Apprentice, a new painting by Kirill Serebrennikov A year ago, there were no Russians at all in Cannes, with the minuscule exception of short films from two film schools. This year, Un Certain Regard, the second most important competition of the world's main film festival, included Kirill Serebrennikov's new film The Apprentice.

Why the main words of the Putin regime did not find a place during the presidential direct line Residents of Crimea are watching the performance of the president, Yalta, April 14, 2016. Photo: Victor Korotaev/Kommersant On April 14, Vladimir Putin spent the next, fourteenth, straight line. In general, similar to many previous ones. Millions of questions, dozens of answers.

On April 12, PARNAS deputy chairman Ilya Yashin suggested that party leader Mikhail Kasyanov give up the first place on the electoral list.

Moscow said goodbye to actor Albert Filozov Albert Filozov in the “School of the Modern Play” - the theater where he worked until the last day of his life , 2013 . Photo: Pavel Smertin/ITAR-TASS He played his last performance on March 27, on the International Theater Day, which was celebrated in Moscow by many hours of marathon - “Theater Night”. In the "School of the Modern Play", Albert Filozov worked since its founding. Actually, he himself is one of the founders of the theater.