The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky fired the architectural critic Grigory Revzin from the post of commissioner of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in architecture, Interfax reports. According to the critic, on Monday they called him from the ministry and said that in the morning Medinsky fired him with his personal decision. There have been no additional comments on any of the parties. The Venetian architectural Biennale will open on June 7.

Presidential candidate of Ukraine, the leader of the Fatherland party , Yulia Tymoshenko, plans to visit Lugansk on April 7, RIA Novosti reports. On Monday, Tymoshenko arrived in Donetsk, where she intends to hold a number of meetings with the leadership of the region and law enforcement agencies.

In Afghanistan, over the past day, 29 Taliban militants were eliminated as a result of a counter -terrorist operation, 12 were injured. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan. According to the representative of the department, the divisions of the National Army detained 13 militants and captured a large batch of weapons, including anti -personnel mines. Raids were carried out in the provinces of Faryab and Mountains.

Ella Pamfilova, Commissioner for Human Rights, did not express a complete satisfaction with the revision of the case of Pussy Riot participants and stated that there were no crime in the actions of punk-grabs of girls. In a note published on the official website of the Ombudsman, Pamfilova writes that “since the court found that there was no motive for a social group in the actions of the convicts, it would only naturally exclude the motive for religious hatred.

The representative of the Luza Gilerma Solis Luis Gilerma defeated the second round of the Presidential Elections in Costa Rica, reports Associated Press . The elections turned out to be non -alternative: the only rival of the Solis in the struggle for the presidential chair, Johnny Arai, stopped the election campaign a month before the vote in connection with a hopeless lag behind Solis according to the data of the polls.

The Vasileostorovsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a conviction against the former head of the Directorate for the Operation of Buildings and Financial and Economic Support of the Russian Academy of Arts of Larisa Terskova in the case of embezzlement of about 180 million rubles in the reconstruction of the Academy building. It is reported by Interfax . The court sentenced the accused to 5 years in prison.

Syrian President Bashar al -Assad promised to remain Syria and under no circumstances to leave the country. This was announced by the chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IPPO) Sergey Stepashin, RIA Novosti reports. Stepashin met with Assad last week during a trip to Syria. According to Stepashin, the Syrian president asked him to transfer to Vladimir Putin that he did not intend to follow the example of the head of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and leave the country.

The defeat of the candidate from "United Russia" Vladimir Znatkov in the elections in Novosibirsk should not be considered a tendency. About this “Polit.ru” said Leonid Davydov, the head of the Expert Council of the Civil Society Development Fund.

The basketball player of the Gomel team "Neftyanik-Karavan" Sergey Maksimov the day before died during the match of the Higher Division of the unprofessional basketball league against the Brest Vegas. This was reported on the website of NBL. The tragedy occurred in the fourth minute of the match: Maksimov lost consciousness and died, without regaining consciousness. It is reported that neither the league doctor, nor the ambulance, nor resuscitation managed to save the athlete.

The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed the hope that the Ukrainian authorities would abstain from steps undermining international agreements on non -proliferation of weapons of mass defeat (OMP), according to the official website of the department.

The Federal Agency for Tourism of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation published an appeal on its website, in which it recommends that Russian citizens traveling to tourist or business trips to Ukraine have an insurance policy with a coating for at least 30 thousand euros. This recommendation is explained by the fact that Ukrainian medical institutions, with a high degree of probability, will refuse the Russians to provide medical care, including an ambulance.

The Prosecutor General’s Office responded to the appeal of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation regarding the legality of disconnecting the rain channel near the operators after a scandalous survey on the blockade of Leningrad, the official website of the HRC reports.

About 30 representatives of the Right Sector captured the building of the Supreme Court of Ukraine on Philip Orlik Street in Kiev with the requirements for lustration, UNIAN reports. On Monday, a congress was supposed to take place in the building of the Supreme Court, at which it was planned to elect a new composition of the Council of Judges of Ukraine.

The American company YouTube filed a lawsuit in the Turkish Constitutional Court to achieve complete unlocking the resource in the republic. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . According to local television, the company turned to the Constitutional Court through the local lawyer Genench Gürikainak, who previously provided legal services to the leadership of Twitter.

A student party in South California ended with an arrest of 100 people, reports Associated Press . The riots began during a party dedicated to the beginning of spring, in the beach area of ​​Aila Vista. One of the participants in the party threw a bag of alcohol bottles into the face of a patrol officer. Following this, the other gathered began to throw stones and bottles into the police. Law enforcement officers were forced to cause reinforcement and use tear gas.