THERE IS A CONTINUATION Independent experts confirm findings that ex-intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were sent to Salisbury with a nerve agent. More The daughter of ex-GRU officer Yulia Skripal, who was found poisoned in Salisbury, asked her cousin Victoria not to come to her, and also not to try to make contact. Skripal also refused the help of the Russian consulate. This is stated in her statement, published on the website of Scotland Yard.

Paris “considers the possibility” of a missile strike in Syria, and Trump does not want to wait long Photo: RIA Novosti There is a sequel Pavel Felgenhauer: Trump will give an order to hit Syria. But there is a problem: in Washington they wish for political reasons that the most many countries take part in the “punishment of Assad”.

Law enforcement officers detained Yuliy Boyarshinov in the case of the Set community, he was charged with participation in a terrorist community (part 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) and illegal possession of explosives (part 1 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), OVD-Info . reports . Boyarshinov was detained in St. Petersburg on the evening of January 21 in the Primorsky district.

Interview with the engineer-designer of the RSC "Energia", which is still worried when the "Union" sets Photo: Vitaly Kavtaradze / "New Gazeta" On the eve of the Day of Cosmonautics, Novaya turned to the origins of domestic rocket science and talked with the engineer-designer of the RSC “Energia”, a veteran of labor Nikolai Babichev. Nikolai Grigoryevich worked all his life at the main missile -building enterprise in the country, having traveled from an ordinary worker to a leading engineer.

Firefighter Sergey Genin, whom the Investigative Committee suspects of negligence during the fire in the Kemerovo shopping center, acted according to the Fire Service Combat Regulations and on the basis of the instructions of the head. This was reported by Interfax. “The firefighter cannot be guided by the instructions of eyewitness reports. In this case, he violates the requirements of the combat regulations of the fire department, ”the ministry stressed.

UPDATE According to the results of processing about 67% of ballots, 86.09% of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev. The incumbent president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, won the early presidential elections, RIA Novosti reported , citing a statement by the secretary of the country's ruling party, from which Aliyev was nominated.

Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who is accused of tax evasion, has received permission to leave the country five times, although only two of his trips are known in Russia. This was reported to RBC with reference to the prosecutor of Nice, Jean-Michel Prétre. According to the prosecutor, at the moment Karimov is in France. However, he did not specify where Kerimov could go besides Russia. Permission for "special reasons" was issued by the examining magistrate.

Unidentified persons opened fire on a bus with Russian journalists in Syria who were returning after preparing a story about Eastern Ghouta. About this RIA Novosti with reference to the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the military department, the correspondent of the NTV channel, the operators of Rossiya-1 and Zvezda received minor leg injuries, they need to be given medical assistance. To do this, they are evacuated to a military hospital.

China has banned the sale of the Bible in online stores, according to a local media website. Previously, the sale of the Bible in regular stores was limited. Online search results for stores such as JD.com, Taobao, and Amazon turned up empty for "Bible." Christianity thus became the only religion in China whose scriptures cannot be bought through commercial channels. The Bible is now available only in church bookstores.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar ordered the Russian Ministry of Finance to pay 1 million rubles as compensation for non-pecuniary damage for the illegal prosecution of the former orphanage resident Anton Sachkov. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group Agora Alexander Popkov. “The Ministry of Finance asked to completely dismiss the claim,” said lawyer Popkov.

Unidentified people tried to destroy the car of the Ekho Moskvy columnist and host of the Garage program Sergei Aslanyan. The presenter himself told about this to Novaya Gazeta. According to him, it happened on the night of April 11. The video posted by Aslanyan shows scratches, broken side mirrors and punctured wheels of his car. According to Aslanyan, the Mitsubishi Pajero was parked in an unguarded parking lot on Chertanovskaya Street near his house.

The students of Moscow State University, opposing the placement of the fan zone for the 2018 Football Championship at the main building of the university, held a series of single pickets near the Moscow City Hall. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta by the initiative group of Moscow State University.

One of the most wanted African smugglers, Medhanie Yehdego Mered, who smuggled migrants and refugees from Eritrea to Europe, lives in Uganda. In 2016, the Italian authorities sent the wrong person to prison, according to an investigation by the Swedish broadcaster SVT. Instead of Mered, African Medhani Tesfamariam Behre is serving time in a Sicilian prison.

Facebook founder was in the case of intervention in the presidential election Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Leah Millis / Reuters Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for five hours testified in the US Senate. He admitted that the social network made a mistake, and promised to improve control over user data. According to him, he cannot guarantee that misinformation will completely disappear from Facebook. During his performance, it also came to the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica.

US President Donald Trump on his Twitter commented on a possible US military strike on Syria after a chemical attack in the city of Douma. “Russia promises to shoot down any missiles fired at Syria. Get ready, Russia, they will arrive. They will be beautiful, new and smart!