On April 14 and 15 Khimki hosted the Final Four of the European Cup. The winners were the hosts of the tournament in the final, beating the Spanish "Valencia".

The Rolling Stones will start working on their new album this month According to Ronnie Wood, in April the group will gather in the studio to exchange ideas about the new album. “Something similar happens to athletes before the performance at the Olympics. Both we and they need to practice properly. This is what we will do in the near future, ”said Ronnie Wood. Kate Richards noted that 2012 is not the anniversary in the history of the group.

Governor of the Astrakhan region Alexander Zhilkin intends to bill the supporters of the ex-candidate for mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein for the damage caused to the city during rallies and marches on April 14. The governor wrote about this in his blog .

In Moscow, near the representative office of the Krasnodar Territory, a rally was held in support of the activist of the Kuban branch of the Yabloko party, Yaroslav Nikolsky, who was arrested for 15 days for disobeying the police, Radio Liberty reports. The picketers also demanded that the criminal case against Krasnodar environmentalists Suren Ghazaryan and Yevgeny Vitishko be dropped. Representatives of Yabloko, the Open Coast and Habitat movements took part in the action.

Ex-senator Vladimir Slutsker, who now lives in Israel, intends to recognize through a London court as slanderous statements against him by journalist Olga Romanova and her husband Alexei Kozlov, Interfax reports . As Slutsker's press secretary Yekaterina Shatalina told the agency, Slutsker's British lawyers have begun the official procedure for filing a lawsuit in a London court against Romanova and Kozlov, whom the ex-senator accuses of slander and defamation.

According to Ekho Moskvy, a member of the organization, Georgy Fedorov, the fact of the crime is obvious and it is necessary that it be investigated. He expressed concern that the attack was not given due weight. Recall that this morning the defender of the Khimki Forest Alexei Dmitriev was hospitalized in a local hospital after being beaten. An unidentified person attacked him at the entrance of the house.

reports today The Prosecutor General's Office ordered the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct new examinations in the case of the former head of the Moscow metro Dmitry Gaev, RIA Novosti with reference to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

- Recently, in a number of media outlets, information has passed that in the framework of the “Strategy 2020” it is supposed to increase the retirement age and increase the minimum length of service to receive a pension. This is not entirely true, ”Yuri Voronin, Deputy Minister of Social Development, began his performance at a press briefing. - These proposals are nominated by the Ministry of Finance, we do not agree with him.

According to the online publication "Marker" , "Post of Russia" by the end of 2012 plans to spend 25 million rubles on the formation of its positive image. The Russian Post will allocate this amount to the winner of the tender among the mass media. He will receive the right to cover the work of the main postal department of the Russian Federation in order to improve its image. The winner of the competition will be determined in June.

The European Court of Human Rights qualified the execution of Polish officers in the village of Katyn near Smolensk in 1940 as a war crime, RBC reports . However, the court did not call on Russia to launch a new investigation. Thus, the claim of relatives of prisoners of war about the ineffectiveness of the investigation was only partially satisfied.

Today, at a meeting with journalists at the Central Election Commission, representatives of the department showed media workers randomly selected fragments from three polling stations (Nos. 467, 465, 391) in the Astrakhan mayoral elections, RIA Novosti reports . During the viewing, representatives of the CEC drew the attention of journalists to the protocol violations committed by the precinct commission.

Earlier, a resident of the village of Danilovo, Pavlovo-Posad district, turned to the police. He claimed that the girl had been abducted from the stroller. It turned out that the child was taken by his mother, who took him to Moscow. According to the message Echo of Moscow

St. Petersburg independent observers believe that the same thing happened in their city, which makes Oleg Shein go on a hunger strike in Astrakhan St. Petersburg independent observers believe that the same thing happened in their city, which makes Oleg Shein go on a hunger strike in Astrakhan On March 4, we, the observers of St. Petersburg, witnessed gross violations of the law at many polling stations in our city.

Next Monday, in the Central District Court of Novosibirsk, the trial of the author of the youth actions "Monstrations" Artem Loskutov, accused of insulting police officers, will resume. Today I petitioned to postpone the hearing of the case for the participation of my lawyer, who is now working in another process and, as far as I know, was not properly notified of the meeting, - Artem Loskutov told the Agora Interregional Human Rights Association, which represents his interests.

President of El Salvador Mauricio Funes said that on Saturday not a single murder was committed in the country, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to Reuters. It is noted that in a country engulfed by the drug mafia war, the last time such a day was in 2009. On average, in a country with a population of 7 million people, 18 murders per day are committed. According to the UN in 2011, there are 71 murders per 100,000 inhabitants of the country. In Russia - 12.