In the absence of star veterans, the Russian team looks, to put it mildly, strange In the absence of star veterans, the Russian team looks, to put it mildly, strange The case was in Freiburg, where the Russian national team, as part of the European hockey call, held the first control match in preparation for the World Cup, which remained three weeks left.

“Living Library” was held in Moscow as part of a week of fighting homophobia Photo: "New Gazeta" People of unusual professions, discriminated social groups, non -standard worldviews gathered and told everyone about their lives They still haven’t written a book in which the stories of a rabbi, gypsies, a homeless man, a chemical scientist, a refugee, a yoga, a girl who received Islam, an ambulance, a feminist, a sectarian, gay, a volunteer in a children's hospice, would have gathered under one

In correctional colony No. 13 in Bashkortostan, 26 prisoners inflicted bodily injuries on themselves with cutting objects, reports . the press service of the GUFSIN of Russia for the republic The wounds were inflicted with glass fragments, nails or a blade from a disposable razor. As stated in the press service, the state of emergency in the colony occurred on April 7 and 8, but it became known only today.

A rally in support of the hungry in Astrakhan takes place in Moscow (ONLINE)

Russia and Belarus have agreed that each side will operate five flights a day between Moscow and Minsk, RIA Novosti reports citing Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kalinin. According to him, this order will come into force on April 27. In addition, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Valery Okulov said today at a press conference that Belarus and Russia plan to liberalize the market for cabotage air transportation.

The Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "Nick" called the laureates Photo: "New Gazeta" Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts "Nick" called the laureates The day after Nicky, the first news of the Internet was not so much the anniversary of the oldest Russian cinema prize as a scandal provoked by the performance of the leading Ksenia Sobchak.

Photo by the author. Tonight, a series of single pickets took place at the Federal Penitentiary Service building in Moscow. According to the organizers, they tried to draw attention to the last scandals related to prisons. Recall that only in the last month a wave of strikes swept through the colonies: for example, in IK-3 hundreds of prisoners declared a hunger strike and cut their hands.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the dismissal of Police Lieutenant General Asgat Safarov from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Tatarstan, Interfax reports citing the Kremlin press service. The decree comes into force from the date of its signing. Recall that Asgat Safarov wrote a voluntary resignation in connection with the incident in the Kazan police department "Dalniy", where the detainee Sergei Nazarov was taken.

The world department of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow today sentenced opposition leader Nikolai Lyaskin to five days of administrative arrest, who was detained yesterday on Red Square for trying to set up a tent. told Interfax that Lyaskin was found guilty of violating Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers).

After a rally in defense of the Tsagovsky forest, which took place in Zhukovsky last Saturday, it was decided to establish a round-the-clock duty at the cutting site. “Trees can be planted again, the route has not yet been laid,” the activists said and pitched a tent. Recall that for the construction of an access road to the MAKS air show, 8,000 trees were cut down over two nights on March 21 and 22.

On July 23, 1983, an AirCanada Boeing 767 flew from Montreal to Edmondton. Canada just before this switched from miles and pounds to the metric system, and it so happened that the crew commander, Captain Pearson, made a little mistake: instead of 22 thousand kilograms of kerosene needed for the flight, he poured 22 thousand pounds into the tanks .

Former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said he was ready to forgive the leader of the unregistered Other Russia party, Eduard Limonov, a debt of 500 thousand rubles, because of which the oppositionist could not leave the country. “I am ready to forgive Limonov a debt of 500,000 rubles assigned for collection by the Babushkinsky court in a suit for the protection of honor and dignity, provided that he publicly apologizes to me,” the former mayor of the capital told Interfax .

Residents of Transbaikalia accused the local police of torturing them with electric current, putting knitting needles in the detainees' ears and strangling them with a gas mask, as well as threatening to rape them.

The Kremlin considered it inappropriate to prepare a draft federal law on convening a constitutional assembly, RIA Novosti reports . This statement was made today by the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov. “The presidential order did not mention the creation of a law. It was about working through the issue. We worked it out and made a decision,” Ivanov said.

On April 8, on board the brand new ferry Spirit of France, on the way from Dover to Calais, about 200 students from the University of Manchester staged a drunken brawl, frightening 1500 passengers to the point that they had to be closed in safe rooms to protect them from the excesses of young students. 4 buses with students were loaded onto the ferry for the next trip to the ski resorts of the Alps, and by that time the students were already very drunk, eyewitnesses say.