The Senegal singer and one of the leaders of the local opposition to YUSSU N'Dur received a post of Minister of Culture in the new government of the country, awarded the Grammy Prize, The Telegraph writes . The African singer received a place in the Cabinet of Ministers a few months after the Sengala Supreme Court forbade him to participate in the presidential election due to insufficient number of signatures.

Problems of the police are characteristic of the entire Russian society, in which there is still a shortage of education, morality and education. This opinion of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev is transmitted by Interfax . According to Nurgaliev, the society has such a police that deserves: “After all, the question is not that we are bad, but that our society is ill with the same problems. After all, I can’t dial anyone from other planets.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) decided to provide Portuguese of the next credit tranche for 5.17 billion euros. Lisbon will receive funds due to the execution of the budget economy program, the implementation of which is checked by representatives of the Troika - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF, BBC reports . Earlier, the Troika approved the fourth tranche of Portugal.

White powder found in the bathroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the dead Whitney Houston was discovered, turned out to be cocaine. This follows from the report of the forensic examination, which was published on April 4, reports Reuters . Investigators also found in the bathroom sheets of paper, a small spoon, in which there were the remains of the “crystalline substance” and the mirror - all these objects, the agency notes, use dependent on cocaine for preparing the dose.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that NATO military and civilian personnel will not be in the transfer point of cargo in Ulyanovsk, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to him, the transit of goods from Afghanistan and Afghanistan will go under the full customs control of Russia. The United States hopes to create a NATO transshipment point in Ulyanovsk, which will be used in the withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan.

The scandal with the patriarch chopped watch has no time to excited the public. Opponents of the church calculated all the sins of the Russian Orthodox Church on the "Hamburg account". Supporters of the Russian Orthodox Church even saw in this “Conspiracy against the Church and Russia”. Undoubtedly, the Church and the Patriarch were “set up”. They substituted mediocre sympathetic. In all history with the "Clock of the Patriarch" is most offensive for the Holy.

Andrey Levkin It is announced that the “former Minister of Finance” Alexei Kudrin and “a number of other politicians and public figures” created the “Committee of Civil Initiatives”. What is the meaning and pathos, as well as where the place of this project is in a general political clearing? On the site of Kudrin, a " application on the creation of a committee of civilian initiatives" is quickly posted.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Asgat Safarov, filed a resignation report in connection with the incident , which occurred in the Kazan police department of Dalniye , Interfax reports. According to a source in the power structures, Safarov filed a petition for retired at his own request a few days ago. As expected, his resignation will be accepted.

Representatives of the military junta who seized power in Mali refused to hold a national congress on Thursday, which was to discuss the crisis situation in the country that fell under the sanctions of West African countries, CNN reports . The reason for the abolition of the event is not yet clear. Earlier, the leader of the military Amadu Sano proposed to representatives of parties and civilian activists to hold a meeting.

The cultural museum center of Andrei Tarkovsky will be built in Moscow by the end of 2013, the City Hall information center reports. The head of the Moscow Cultural Heritage Department, Alexander Kibovsky, told April 4 in the news of the Russia K TV channel that we are talking about a house in the center of Moscow, in the First Shchipkovsky Lane, where Arseny and Andrey Tarkovsky lived.

On Saturday, April 7, the Zavtra club has been one year. In honor of this event, the club arranges a special party for its guests. The celebration will begin from 19.00 and will continue until the morning. The evening program includes concerts, surprises, gifts and treats. From 21:00 to 23:00 for guests of the club, the groups “Psychedelta Blues Band”, “Salto”, “Da Voicez” will perform. From 23:00 until the morning, the DJ Jay Rabb, DJ Leopardos, DJ Mike Green and others play.

The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina, who declared robbery and beating unknown on the night of April 5, gives evidence. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the police department near Moscow. It is clarified that the conversation with the victim is taking place in the emergency room, where Valery Samokhin, one of the deputy heads of the Balashikh police, arrived. Milashin told about the robbery and beating first to her friends on the network.

At the end of April, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) will open its first representative offices in Tatarstan, the Sverdlovsk and Ulyanovsk regions. On April 5, the acceptance of competitive applications for vacancies of their leaders should be completed. More than 15 people apply for the right to lead each of the three representative offices, the director of the ASI partner network, Alexander Pirozhenko, told RG . The agency has already received over 50 profiles from applicants.

It is announced that the “former Minister of Finance” Alexei Kudrin and “a number of other politicians and public figures” created the “Committee of Civil Initiatives”. What is the meaning and pathos, as well as where the place of this project is in a general political clearing? On the site of Kudrin, a " application on the creation of a committee of civilian initiatives" is quickly posted.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed to develop a system for selecting candidates for governors. The head of state made a corresponding order during a meeting with a number of governors, representatives of regional parliaments and local governments. The decoding of the meeting was published by the Kremlin press service. The president agreed with the proposal according to which the candidates for governors will have to enlist the support of municipal deputies before nomination.