The Meshchansky District Court has arrested for two months the head of the Kazan railway station, Sergey Donetsky, who is suspected of taking a bribe, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports from the courtroom. The investigator justified the need for arrest by the fact that Donetsksky could hide or put pressure on witnesses, some of whom are his subordinates.

The former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov, hiding in Moscow, gave an interview with Novaya Gazeta The former Prime Minister of Ukraine hiding in Moscow gave an interview to the specialist Pavel Kanygin With the former Prime Minister of Ukraine and the founder of the Party of Regions Nikolai Azarov, I meet in his office on the cow's shaft (one of the respectable regions of Moscow - approx. Ed.).

The head of Russian Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, confirmed the dismissal of the head of AvtoVAZ, Bo Andersson, at a meeting of the company's board of directors on March 9 or 10. this He said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Now we need a new person. This is all. The decision will be made at a meeting of the board of directors,” Chemezov said. Information about a possible change of head appeared after AvtoVAZ suffered record losses in 2015 - 73.851 billion rubles.

The Crimean authorities have decided not to hold Kazantip festivals and its understudy Bifuz any more on the peninsula. This was reported on the website of the Federal Service for Drug Control of the Regional Office for the Republic of Crimea. “Festivals of pro-drug youth subcultures, no matter how they are called Kazantip, Bifuz, or Open Air Museum, have no place in Crimea,” the report says.

The city said goodbye to the dead at the "North" The city said goodbye to the dead at the "North" Photo: Peter Shelomovsky, especially for Novaya Gazeta In the Church of the Iveron Mother of God, it smells not of incense, but with medicines. The ambulance doctors now and then drip in plastic cups of Corvalol and let women drink in widow lace shawls. The scarves are tied on top of the hats - in Vorkuta Fierce Frost. The temple in the square is small, six coffins cannot be added here.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to intensify efforts to peacefully resolve the crisis in Yemen. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The situation in Yemen was discussed by the foreign ministers in a telephone conversation that took place on Friday at the initiative of the American side.

Columns of trucks with weapons are sent from the territory of Turkey around the clock to the areas of Syria controlled by terrorist groups. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the Russian center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Sergei Kuralenko.

The Meshchansky District Court has arrested a friend of the head of the police department at Vnukovo Airport Alexei Bogdanov, suspected of taking a bribe, for one month, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The United States transferred to Russia 28 documents found stolen in archives in the 90s The United States transferred to Russia 28 documents found stolen in archives in the 90s Drawing by Yakov Chernikhov. Photo: US Embassy in Russia Last Thursday, Spasohaus survived the invasion of the Russian electronic press.

The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced the native to four years in prison for participating in the activities of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised to redouble efforts to return the pilot Nadezhda Savchenko home. It is reported by the portal "112 Ukraine" with reference to its press service. “We will redouble our efforts to bring Nadezhda home. This is extremely important, important for me, important for Ukraine, important for each of us,” Poroshenko said. He stressed that Savchenko is a symbol of Ukraine and a Ukrainian woman for the whole world.

The lawyer of the detained head of the Kazan railway station, Lyudmila Aivar, believes that her client was set up. She told about this before the court session on choosing a measure of restraint for Sergei Donetsky. “He is charged that he allegedly provided some preferences to the person who rented the premises, but he does not conclude a lease agreement. There is a management that directly concludes a lease agreement.

The Moscow City Court returned to the prosecutor's office the case of Yevgeny Petrin, a former employee of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, accused of treason. RBC reports this with reference to a source in the court. According to the publication’s interlocutor, the decision was made based on the results of a preliminary hearing of the criminal case. The court extended Petrin's arrest until May 4.

A court in Turkey has issued a verdict against two Syrian citizens accused of smuggling migrants, reports Dogan . Both were involved in the death of a Syrian child, Alan Kurdi, and four other migrants. The Bodrum court found Mufawak Alabash and Asem Alfrhad guilty of human smuggling and sentenced them to four years and two months in prison. At the same time, both were cleared of the charge of willful negligence that caused the death of illegal migrants. Both defendants denied their guilt.

The press secretary of the Deputy Prime Minister Aliya Samigullina confirmed the authenticity of the transcript of the meeting between Arkady Dvorkovich and the relatives of the miners who died at the Severnaya mine, which appeared on the net. “The published text generally corresponds to the content of the conversation,” quotes Samigullina.