The owner of the social network "Vkontakte" Pavel Durov said in an interview with "Vedomosti" that he was not involved in the collision with a traffic police officer who was hit in the center of St. Petersburg by a driver of a white Mercedez. “All this is more like some kind of media activity, generating news about nothing with subsequent denials,” Durov said.

The medical commission came to the conclusion about the possibility of the return of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from a military hospital back to prison. According to Gazeta.Ru with reference to Reuters, by the decision of the country's Prosecutor General's Office, Mubarak will again be placed in the Tora prison on the outskirts of Cairo. The dates for the return of the ex-president to the cell have not yet been announced.

In the sixth match of the final playoff series, the Muscovites defeated Traktor Chelyabinsk 2:3 in overtime.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Zheleznyak proposed to ban the propaganda of pedophilia in theatrical performances, reports RBC Daily . The play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" staged by the Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, which was recognized as the best opera according to the national theater award "Golden Mask", led the parliamentarian to such an initiative.

Nothing interesting happened at the trial of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, which opened and was interrupted an hour later. Everything interesting, even too interesting, took place on the porch of the Leninsky District Court of the city of Kirov. If the punishment for the defendants will be dealt with for a long time, then the journalists who arrived at the trial from Russia and many countries of the world were punished immediately and not at all conditionally.

Photo report by Evgeny Feldman 19:45 The rally is over, people slowly begin to disperse. Future events are being discussed - the courts on Navalny, the voice and the preparing rally on May 6. In total, about one and a half thousand people took part in the action. 19:43 From the stage read the rally resolution: it lists the repressive laws adopted in the last year. "Disgrace!" - The protesters are chanted after each item.

A memorial service for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ended in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, a hearse with a coffin headed to the place of cremation and burial - to the Royal Hospital for Veterans in Chelsea, RIA Novosti reports . More than two thousand guests gathered at the memorial service, including Thatcher's relatives and friends, members of her cabinet of ministers.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Volga Federal District has completed an investigation into the assassination attempt on Sergei Kurikhin, a deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma. According to law enforcement agencies, Mikhail Mayorov, a former deputy of the Zemstvo Assembly of the Balakhna District of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, was the customer of the crime: he tried to take over the business of one of the Saratov builders and decided to eliminate Mr.

Today, lawyer Irina Khrunova filed a supervisory appeal with the chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, asking to cancel the verdict of the Khamovnichesky District Court against members of the Pussy Riot group, as well as the ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court. In addition, the defense of Pussy Riot asks to stop the proceedings in this case due to the lack of corpus delicti.

Police and investigators visited both Pavel Durov and the founder of the VKontakte social network, but they did not find him anywhere Police and investigators visited home, and to work for the founder of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov, but they did not find him anywhere ... Pavel Durov, the creator and head of the VKontakte social network, while passing as a witness in the case of a collision with an inspector of traffic police.

The investigation into the case of a false denunciation, in which Leonid Razvozzhaev, a person involved in the Bolotnaya case, is accused, has been completed, according to the website of the Investigative Committee today. “The criminal case has been sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation for approval of the indictment and subsequent transfer to the court for consideration on the merits,” the report says.

At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the accounts in Liechtenstein of the former top manager of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin and the assets of the late Boris Berezovsky in Ukraine were frozen. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika. According to Chaika, Russia has turned to a number of foreign countries with requests for assistance in returning assets obtained from corruption crimes.

Mikhail Afanasiev, editor-in-chief of the Khakass online publication Novy Focus, was awarded the Publicists' Club Prize in Sweden, established in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, BBC Russian Service reports . The award is given for courage in fighting for freedom of speech and exposing crimes and injustices "despite threats and attempts" and with limited resources, according to the website of the Publicists' Club, the oldest journalistic organization in existence since 1874.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev did not support the proposal of some State Duma deputies to dismiss the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, RIA Novosti reports . Earlier, the vice-speaker of the State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party, Igor Lebedev, addressed the prime minister with such a proposal during his report to the State Duma.

Andrey Chelnokov, chairman of the Novosibirsk branch of the Union of Journalists of Russia, spent about two weeks unconscious. He disappeared from the field of view of his relatives on April 2nd.