In the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky, the dismantling of illegal buildings began. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the administration of the park. In the presence of law enforcement officers, about 10 objects were dismantled and taken to a guarded warehouse. The administration reported that these facilities were located in the park without any permits.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Moscow appointed the First Vice President of the Bank Mikhail Kuzovlev to the acting president. This is stated in the press release of the organization. Recall that today the Tver court of Moscow temporarily suspended Andrei Borodin, as well as his deputy Dmitry Akulinin from the posts of the President of Moscow Bank. Borodin intends to challenge the court decision.

In France, a woman was fined for the first time for wearing on a street that covers her face. On Tuesday, April 12, reports AP with reference to the French police. The first, after introduction of the ban, was issued a 27-year-old Muslim woman in one of the shopping centers in the city of Muro near Paris. She has to either pay a fine of $ 150, or for a month to sign up for courses for the culture of France.

50 years ago, on April 12, 1961, at 9 o’clock 07 minutes of Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Vostok spacecraft piloted by Yuri Gagarin began. After 108 minutes and one round around the Earth, the flight successfully ended in the non -calculated area, near the village of Skhalovka, the Saratov region. The first astronaut received his first award, the medal “For the Development of Virgin Lands”, directly at the landing site.

The reciprocal meeting of the 1/4 finals of the Europa League between the Moscow Spartak and the Portuguese Porto will serve the arbitrators from Hungary, headed by Viktor Kashshai. This was reported by the official website of UEFA . The match "Spartak" - "Porto" will be held on April 14 in Luzhniki and starts at 21:00 Moscow time. The chances of the Russian club to enter the semifinals are regarded as minimal - taking into account the devastating defeat from the Porto on the road (1: 5).

Ecologists and sympathizers gathered in the apartment of Evgenia Chirikova, who already in the morning made a car with employees of the ED center under its windows. She lifted the curtain and pointed to the car: “The investigator is familiar to me there. If only he would make a trick. " Later, journalists really found at the entrance of a Chirikova strange man who molested everyone with questions. The conflict in connection with the laying of the new highway Moscow-St.

Three residents of Minsk were arrested for the distribution of "provocative rumors sowing panic on the Internet. This was reported on April 12 by Interfax with reference to the State Secretariat of the Security Council of Belarus. According to the source in the department, all three were distributed through the forums and social networks “obviously false information about the terrorist acts allegedly carried out in the Belarusian capital: explosions of buses, cars and railway stations”.

The Enterprise of the Year Award was established in 2006 to reward companies that have achieved success in their activities and demonstrate sustainable business development and information transparency. Among the founders of the award are the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as a number of well-known business associations.

The Israeli authorities predict a diplomatic scandal with Russia after the Palestinian militants used Russian -made Cornet Anti -Rocket Country Complex, the Israeli newspaper Akhronot , during the shelling of the Israeli school bus. According to the publication, an attack on the bus occurred last Thursday at the border of the Gaza Strip. As a result of the shelling, two Israelis were injured, including a 16-year-old teenager hospitalized in critical condition.

The American ABC channel examined the seven most popular myths about the astronaut Yuri Gagarin. The material is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight of a person into space, held on April 12, 1961. According to the first myth, Gagarin was not the first person who flew into space. Fans of conspiracy theories believe that the USSR sent a rocket with people into space back in 1958, but not a single astronaut returned alive.

On the evening of April 11 in the Minsk Metro at 17:56 local time (18:56 in Moscow) a powerful explosion thundered. The bomb exploded at the Oktyabrskaya station - the only transplant station in Minsk, located in the very center of the capital of the Belarusian capital. To commit a crime, an evening hour of peak was chosen - at this time there are always a lot of people at the October. According to the media, at the time of the explosion at the station there were about 300 people.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0”-a joint project of the information and analytical channel “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. Guest of the program - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Deputy Director, Head of the Laboratory of Hyperthermophilic Microbial Communities of the Institute of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after S.N. Vinogradsky Elizabeth Bonch-Osmolovskaya . You can hear us every Saturday after 23:00 on the wave of 97.6 FM.

The European Commission intends to pay 180 million euros to maintain the country's economy and ensure social expenses, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official statement of the EC. “The commission will prepare the first recovery package in the amount of 180 million euros. Funds are provided for the needs of agriculture and to provide basic social needs, such as healthcare, water, sanitary accessories.

The leadership of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA denied the information that the club plans to use the services of the head coach of the Russian national team and the Ufa Salavat Yulaev Vyacheslav Bykov. “SKA hockey club reports that information about negotiations with Vyacheslav Bykov is not true.

The authorities of Japan on Tuesday raised the severity of the radiation disaster at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, damaged as a result of the earthquake and the tsunami on March 11, up to 7 on the international scale, equating it to the Chernobyl accident, Kyodo reports.