Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his son Oleksiy have hired a reputable law firm to help them lift their EU entry ban and unfreeze their European assets.

And what to do: Obama and Putin, like Reagan and Gorbachev, could find a way out of the impasse Even if the result is a non-coercive "isolation of Russia" - a mantra that the West is repeating today - the consequences will be dire. Moscow will not bow its head, but will turn it away, directing its views to the East. The United States risks losing a strategic partner in key aspects of its own national security.

In India, those accused of two gang rapes were sentenced to death for the first time, reports Agence France-Presse . The court found three men aged 19 to 28 guilty of two gang rapes. After the trial of the first incident - an attack on an 18-year-old girl - they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Now the court has revised the sentence due to a new law that provides for the death penalty for repeated crimes. The second male victim, according to the BBC , was a 22-year-old photojournalist.

The first chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, actress Elena Drapenko, said that for showing Martin Scorsese's film "The Wolf of Wall Street" it is necessary to punish not the distributors, but the experts of the Ministry of Culture who issued the film's distribution certificate.

The authorities reformulated the social contract Do not like the laws adopted by the State Duma? Don't like the same faces on TV? Theft? Mercedes and beggars on dirty streets? Blocked websites and nauseating propaganda on state TV? Well, you know what to do. The people said so. If there is any doubt about this, you can conduct a simple experiment. It is enough to post this note on social networks and collect comments.

The Russian side called on all political forces in Syria to continue the dialogue on resolving the conflict in the country. The corresponding comment was published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “We once again call on the Syrian political opposition, including the National Coalition, to resolutely dissociate themselves from the extremists and bandits who are killing the Syrian people and bringing them untold misfortune and suffering.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia" today began to serve customers from the Crimea of ​​Sevastopol, Interfax reports . "Russian Post has sent letters to postal operators of countries participating in the World Postal Covenant that the postal operator of the Russian Federation is ready to accept and deliver postal items addressed to the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol," the company said in a press release.

Yalta Prosecutor's Assistant Yevgeny Pomelov was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe in the amount of 7.5 thousand hryvnias (about 23 thousand rubles). told ITAR-TASS that Pomelov demanded this amount from the Yalta resident for not sending pre-trial proceedings to the preliminary investigation authorities.

The amount of expenses for holding elections of the head of state in Ukraine was reduced by 790 million hryvnia after amendments to the law on presidential elections, Interfax reports . Now the cost of the elections is 1.174 billion hryvnia. This was announced today during a press conference by the head of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine Mikhail Okhendovsky. According to him, it was originally planned to allocate UAH 1.965 billion from the budget for organizing the elections.

Former head coach of the Russian national hockey team Vyacheslav Bykov has been appointed head coach of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA, according to the official website of the club. This decision was made today at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the club. In addition, following the results of the meeting, head coach Jukka Jalonen and his assistants were fired.

The Federal Migration Service has adjusted the initiative on fingerprinting children of migrants: the minimum age for fingerprinting has been raised from 6 to 12 years, Interfax reports citing the press service of the FMS.

The Moscow government and the opposition reached a compromise on the venue for the April 13 rally, Interfax reports . "A verbal agreement has been reached," said Petr Tsarkov, one of the organizers of the action and Solidarity activist, adding that the authorities had promised to give the applicants a document confirming the approval of the event on Monday, April 7. Tsarkov also said that a rally in support of media freedom will be held on Sakharov Avenue.

Ukrposhta has temporarily stopped receiving and delivering mail to Crimea and Sevastopol, according to the official website of the national postal service.

Ukrainian presidential candidate and leader of the Right Sector Dmitry Yarosh said that his organization did not send its representatives to Russia, UNIAN reports . “I think this is another Putin fake. We didn’t send any people to Russia either for terrorist attacks or for any sabotage, so this is just fiction,” Yarosh said.