The head of Yekatirenburg, Yevgeny Roizman, will not participate in the competition for the post of mayor of the city, reports on Tuesday, April 3, Znak . Roizman told the publication that he has "extensive plans" and will definitely "be in demand." “No one will ever appoint me in my life. I'm a sober person, I understand that. Election is election, and appointment is a completely different story.

British experts have confirmed: it was "Novichok", reports on Tuesday, April 3, The Guardian . Specialists from the Porton Down Center for Poisonous Substances Research have established for sure that the substance used to poison Skripal was a military substance and it was Novichok. The laboratories emphasized that it was not their task to determine the country of origin. The experts had only to determine the class and purpose of the substance.

The leader of the Auktsyon group Leonid Fedorov ached in Moscow a street concert in support of the historian and the head of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriev, reports on Tuesday, April 3, Rain . Fedorov, sitting on a bench, sang several songs of Auktsyon under the guitar. He also stated that he would like that in the case of Yuri Dmitriev, "justice would somehow triumph." The head of the Karelian "Memorial" is accused of the manufacture of children's pornography.

The Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov promised that after the trial in the Telegram case, the non-working regulations will be corrected, Rain reports on Tuesday, April 3 .

The former head of the Udmurt Republic, Alexander Solovyov, has been charged in the final version, according to the Telegram of the Investigative Committee on Tuesday, April 3. Solovyov is accused of having twice received a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. The reason was "obstruction of the free exercise by Russian citizens of their electoral rights in the presidential elections in Russia," reported .

Law enforcement officers are seizing documents at the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kemerovo region as part of a criminal investigation into a fire in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center, Interfax reports. “Investigators are seizing documents for all inspections carried out at the mall, as well as for inspections of government contracts,” the source of the agency explained. 64 people, including 41 children, became victims of the fire in the Kemerovo shopping and entertainment center.

British experts have confirmed: it was "Novichok", reports on Tuesday, April 3, The Guardian . Specialists from the Porton Down Center for Poisonous Substances Research have established for sure that the substance used to poison Skripal was a military substance and it was Novichok. The laboratories emphasized that it was not their task to determine the country of origin. The experts had only to determine the class and purpose of the substance.

On April 3, St. Petersburg marks the anniversary of the terrorist attack in the metro, which claimed the lives of 16 people, including a suicide bomber. Actions in memory of the victims are held throughout the city. In the morning, a funeral service was held at the Holy Trinity Izmailovsky Cathedral. Relatives of the dead and those injured in the attack laid flowers near the entrance to the Tekhnologicheskiy Institut metro station, at the entrance to which a metro car exploded.

The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia (HRC) expressed concern about the possible blocking of Telegram in the Russian Federation, reported on Tuesday, April 3, in the HRC channel in the messenger. HRC Chairman Mikhail Fedotov said that the possible blocking concerns the rights and legitimate interests of about 15 million Russians, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding citizens.

Svistnuto, I do not argue. But speaking impartially, whistles are very medium The rally for preserving the post of mayor of Yekaterinburg, on which we visited Tatyana Felgenhauer, left, to put it mildly, conflicting impressions. I would not want to give content for publications that will write a “rally in defense of Roizman, even opposition journalists disappointed,” but nevertheless. Some speakers from the scene can be so kindly, but, as said in my favorite book, “whistles, I do not argue.

74.7% of the reserve fund of the Russian government for this fiscal year was spent in the first quarter - out of 210.7 billion rubles. decisions were made to spend 157.3 billion rubles, Kommersant writes . From May, the new government will have no more than 53.4 billion rubles in reserve. - if necessary, to make an emergency decision, it will be necessary to revise the budget.

More than 96% of purchases by state-owned companies and state-owned enterprises are carried out on a non-competitive basis. This conclusion was reached by the Ministry of Finance at the end of 2017, RBC reports . Only 3.6% of purchases are carried out "through tenders and auctions in accordance with the requirements of civil law." The Ministry of Finance counted more than 5,000 ways to choose a supplier when purchasing.

Seven countries are bidding to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee. These are Austria (Graz), Canada (Calgary), Italy (Cortina d'Ampezzo / Milan / Turin), Turkey (Erzurum), Japan (Sapporo), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Sion). The winning city, which will host the Games, will be chosen at the IOC session in September 2019.

Alexei Navalny in his telegram channel published the response of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to the notice of the founding congress of the party with the “tentative name” “Working title”. “Since the Kremlin swindlers steal the names of our party before the congress, this time we filed a notice of the congress of the Working Name party. And then we’ll rename it,” Navalny explained. Navalny was denied registration for the Progress Party several times.