On April 26, Dmitry Medvedev appointed Konstantin Vlasov, head of the police head of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. This was reported on the Kremlin website . The President signed the Decree “On the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region - the head of the police”. The decree comes into force from the moment of its signing. Earlier, Konstantin Vlasov led a criminal investigation department.

The singer, State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon denied his involvement in criminal circles and said that he was ready to answer all the issues of American justice, Interfax reports. Recall that on Wednesday it became known about the refusal of the American visa by Joseph Kobzon, who was going to visit the United States in May as part of a tour of the four states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois.

Today, on April 26, 2012, marks the 26th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As a result of the explosion at the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia underwent radioactive pollution. On April 26, the UN General Assembly was declared an international day of memory of victims of radiation accidents and disasters.

The Lufthansa airline announced that so far she had not yet appreciated how many employees would have to be dismissed to reduce costs, but 3 thousand administrative employees will definitely lose their places on Thursday, Reuters , citing the company's internal document . Earlier, the German publication Bild reported that Lufthansa plans to reduce half of the office employees around the world - that is, 6 thousand people. The remaining will be moved to a new unit.

Six years later, 85% of the Russian armed forces should be contractors, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with five Russian television channels today. At the end of November 2011, Medvedev promised that the number of employees under the contract would be 80% or 90%. Speaking with a message to the Federal Assembly in December, he specified that by 2017 their number should amount to 425 thousand people.

Today, on April 26, 2012, marks the 26th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. As a result of the explosion at the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia underwent radioactive pollution. On April 26, the UN General Assembly was declared an international day of memory of victims of radiation accidents and disasters.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin dismantled a conflict between the Ministry of Defense and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (OSK) regarding the price of a series of underwater cruisers of project 955A Borea , Kommersant writes. The military at the meeting again criticized the price justifications for missile carriers proposed by industrialists. For a series of five “bores”, OSK wants to receive, according to the newspaper, about 130 billion rubles.

A strong explosion occurred in the Syrian city of Hama, 16 people died. According to local authorities, the emergency was recorded at one of the secret explosives production plants. Syrian state television called extremists, the BBC reports on Thursday. At the same time, local human rights defenders claim that during the artillery shelling several houses in the Masha Aus Tair region were completely destroyed in the southern part of the city. About 70 people became victims of attacks.

On April 26, the court sentenced to life imprisonment of Roman Gubarev, accused of killing eight people and robbery in Stavropol, RIA Novosti reports. According to the investigation, in the house on Michurin Street in Stavropol Gubarev with two pistols of Makarov and knife made a robbery and killed eight people. Recall that the murder of five men and three women occurred in Stavropol on January 21, 2011.

After the Explosion from the ISS in August 2014, the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) will organize a fire on board the last European space truck, the head of the European Space Agency (ECA) in Russia Rene Pishel said today. “Open fire will be lit on a cargo ship on command from the ground, which served its term, shortly before the flooding of ATV-5 in the non-reference part of the Pacific Ocean.

A participant in the 31st/32nd long expedition to the International Space Station Cosmonaut Roscosmos Gennady Padalka will take his iPod and iPad with him, in which his personal photographs, favorite films and music, he said at the post-examination press conference in the center for the training of astronauts in the Star Town Moscow Region. The main crew includes, in addition to him, Sergey Revin, also the cosmonaut Roscosmos (Russia) and Joseph Akaba, the astronaut NASA (USA).

Germany President Joachim Gauk decided to cancel the visit to Ukraine scheduled for mid -May. With a high degree of probability, the decision was made due to the situation around the ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , LIGABBISINNFORS writes on Thursday with reference to an anonymous source. According to the source, the Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin is informed that the GAUK will not be attended at a meeting of the presidents of Central Europe, which will be held in Yalta.

The Federal Chamber of Lawyers of Russia demanded to deprive Dagir Khasavov’s lawyer status, the official website of the FPA reports. “The behavior of Mr. Khasavov not only goes beyond the ethical rules adopted in the lawyer, but also contains a call of the corporation. It seems that the position expressed by him is incompatible with the status of a lawyer.

Negotiations began on the displacement from the post of Governor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Gaevsky, whose powers expire in May next year. This was reported by Vedomosti in the article "Hungry Resignation" (No. 76, dated April 26) with reference to Kalg and a source in the penetration of the North Caucasus Federal District.

The weather station and an abandoned summer cottage village of “Chesovaya” on the banks of the Shilka River burned in the Mogochinsky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, since firefighters could not come there due to off-road, the representative of the Russian Federation in the Russian Federation for the region Vadim Malyshev said on Thursday “RIA Novosti” . The fire occurred on April 23. As a result, most of the country village burned, the building of the weather station was injured.