The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed the head of the organizational and analytical department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Artem Khokhorin. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. On March 9, the predecessor of Khokhorin Ausgat Safarov was resigned .

Communist deputies sent a request to the prime minister Vladimir Putin about the alleged conflict of interests of Sergei Kiriyenko, who can become a curator of the fuel and energy complex in the new government, in the activities of the head of Rosatom, the Vedomosti newspaper in No. 77 (dated April 27) writes. Putin has not yet received a request in which the deputies turn to him as the president who approves the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The Standard & Poor's International rating agency reduced Spain’s credit rating by two points from A to BBB+ with a negative forecast, BBC reports on Friday . The agency analysts also believe that Spain will probably have to increase public debt to maintain the banking sector. The negative forecast in S&P is explained by the fact that the economic situation in Spain worsens at a faster pace than expected. According to the agency, this year the Spanish economy can be reduced by 1.5%.

The founder and general director of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, will receive full control over the social network. About this channel Russia-24 was told by Alisher Usmanov.

Public hearings on the preliminary version of materials for assessing the impact on the environment of power units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Novovoronezh NPP-2 (EIA) took place on April 27, 2012 in the Kashirsky municipal district of the Voronezh region. They were organized by the administration of the Kashirsky municipal district with the assistance of OJSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".

A trifle, but unpleasant. Accelerately dragging Medvedev into United Russia, and the party members and the departing president himself forgot that this contradicts the charter of the party itself. However, domestic “lawyers in power” is not used to spitting on laws when the logic of the decision dictates “political expediency”. Imitation of the public political process, which occurs in Russia, inevitably gives rise to rhetorical and legal masterpieces.

The court in the Netherlands supported the new law prohibiting foreign tourists to buy marijuana in local coffee houses that earn on the sale of light drugs, reports on Friday the BBC . The ban will enter into force in the three southern provinces next month, throughout the country it will begin to act by the end of the year. According to the new law, the owners of 700 coffee houses will be able to continue to sell the drug to local residents - in volumes not exceeding 5 grams.

The Qualification Collegium of Judges of Moscow terminated the powers of the chairman of the Tver district court of the capital Igor Alisov, who headed the court for two years. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow City Court. Igor Alisov was the chairman of the district court for only two years and after the resignation will continue to work in the Tver court, but as an ordinary judge for criminal cases.

Ikano, connected with the Swedish IKEA group, has submitted documents to the Bank registration in the Central Bank of Russia. This was written by Kommersant with reference to sources close to companies. The bank plans to start work in 2013. First, he will serve only corporate clients - IKEA partners, in two years it is planned to start lending to customers of the furniture network and household goods. The bank will be created by IKANO together with the international group Credit Europe Bank.

On April 25-26 in Nizhny Novgorod, an international symposium was held on the problems of the development of small innovative entrepreneurship and the Venture Investments of the Early Stages and the final of the Bit-Volga 2012 contest. The symposium was organized as part of the first Russian week of business angels and the XII annual Congress of the European Association of Business Angels NIU HSE-Nizhny Novgorod together with the NP "Association of Business Angels" Starting Investments.

The public organization "Officers of Russia", which previously supported the All -Russian Popular Front (ONF), decided to create its own, loyal authority, supporting Putin. Presumably it will be called the "defenders of the Fatherland." As the chairman of the organization Nikolai Sobolev told Izvestia , the party’s electorate is people who want to vote for the military, and refuse to support everyone else.

The next No.2 (47) issue of the magazine “For slow reading” “Domestic Notes” was published. The number wears the subtitle “Corruption Contract” and is dedicated to the concept of corruption, its forms, methods of combating it and international experience in this matter. Publishers talk about "the possibilities of the eternal battle, which drives public institutions to the conceivable perfection." Of course, it is impossible to exhaust the topic, the relevance of which is obvious in one issue.

Vasily Vlasov Vasily Vlasov. Photo of Radio Liberty When I wrote an article in the fall of 2011 about a ministerial dissertation filled with plagiarism, all my sad experience told me that everything is in vain, that bad people will still get all good, and good people are washed with tears. But not to fight with another obvious vileness was impossible, and therefore that article was born.

The Security Service of Ukraine does not confirm information about the detention of suspects in the executing series of explosions, reports on Friday LIGABESTYSINFORM with reference to the first deputy head of the SBU Vladimir Rokitsky. “I was driving here, and I had no information about the detained faces,” he emphasized at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada. Rokitsky noted that the SBU is conducting operational-search work.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Friday, April 28, dismissed the case against the Kalniye programmer Encoming Affairs Affairs of Oscar Krylov. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru . The Supreme Court of the Republic, thus, canceled the decision of the magistrate court that found Krylov guilty of petty hooliganism on the basis of evidence of the employees of the Dalniye Department.