The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Stepan Poomlek the commander of the National Guard. According to Interfax-Ukraine , 235 deputies out of 283 voted for such a decision. At the end of February and. O. The head of state, Alexander Turchinov, appointed one and a half commander of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The military boss was born in 1965 in the village of Veslaya Valley of the Odessa region.

The German energy concern RWE was the first in Europe to begin the reverse supply of gas to Ukraine through the territory of Poland. This is stated in the message of RWE. Reverse supplies began on April 15. They will be carried out on the basis of a five -year framework agreement, which was signed in May 2012 between Naftogaz of Ukraine and RWe Supply & Trading. According to this agreement, the volume of supplies can reach up to 10 billion cubic meters per year.

The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky came to a meeting of the State Duma in the form of a colonel of the Armed Forces of Russia. It is reported by RIA Novosti . “Today I put on the form that I can wear by law, is a colonel, because I see how the military junta in Kyiv has changed. Both Turchinov and other former civilians - they were given camouflage, ”said Zhirinovsky.

The lawyer of the Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, convicted in the United States for preparing the transportation of a large batch of drugs, announced new evidence of the innocence of his client, ITAR-TASS reports. According to Alexei Tarasov, the defendant of the Yaroshenko case, the international drug dealer Chigbo Malo, gave “fundamental indications”. The lawyer refused to reveal the contents of the testimony: they cannot be published before they go to court.

The Moscow City Court left the Nationalist Daniil Konstantinov, accused of murder until May 29. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the court. The Judicial Collegium rejected the defense complaint and upheld the decision to extend Konstantinov’s preventive measure in the form of detention.

Ukrainian troops began a special operation in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk Donetsk region. The army is already storming the airfield near the city of Kramatorsk, RIA Novosti reports. According to pro -Russian activists, there are two wounded among them. “Representatives of the Ukrainian army at the BTR drove up to the military airfield between Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. They entered into negotiations with the militias who controlled the airfield. Suddenly the shooting began.

Rosoboronexport General Director Anatoly Isaikin signed an order to appoint Sergey Gororevsky to his new deputy head of the Rostec International Department, Kommersant reports with reference to sources close to the company's management. According to Kommersant, Gorreslavsky will take the place of Viktor Komardin, who was part of the management of Rosoboronexport from the moment the company was founded in 2001.

The Supreme Court of India recognized the right of citizens to be called representatives of the third sex, BBC reports. In a number of assessments, in India there are two million people who do not identify their gender affiliation with the biological sex. The decision of the Supreme Court of India will ensure that transgender rights are observed. To educate the public on this issue, special social campaigns will be held in the country.

Employees of the North Korean embassy demanded to remove the portrait of Kim Jong -un from the showcase of the hairdresser in London, London Evening Standart reports. According to the publication, on the eve of the showroom called "M & M Academy of Hair" in the London district of Yuzhny Iling, a new advertisement appeared - a portrait of Kim Jong -un with the inscription "Day of bad hair? 15 % discount on all hairstyles in April.

In Ukraine, police officers beat Swedish citizen Mikael Skillt, who was heading to Kharkov to help his like-minded people from the neo-Nazi group “C14” (the youth wing of the Svoboda party) in the fight against pro-Russian activists. He wrote about this on his Twitter . Skillt was beaten during a special operation by Ukrainian police to detain a group of nationalists who were heading to Kharkov to participate in demonstrations and support local activists.

On April 14, 2014, the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant was visited by a representative of the Federation Council - a member of the Committee on Economic Policy Nikolai Kosarev, a deputy of the State Duma - a member of the Energy Committee Vladimir Potskyapun, as well as assistants to senators and deputies. They were accompanied by representatives of the State Corporation "Rosatom" and OJSC "Concern Rosenergoatom". This is stated in the message of the press service of the Beloyarsk NPP.

In the north of the Donetsk region, Ukrainian armored personnel carriers appeared, RIA Novosti reports with reference to eyewitness certificates. According to the inhabitants of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, the armored personnel carriers were seen in the vicinity of the city, where the route connecting Kramatorsk with Dnepropetrovsk is held.

At the hearing in the Moscow City Court, the prosecutor asked to be sentenced to “psychic” by Georgy Martirosyan to 25 years in a maximum security colony for the murder of three women who turned to him for magic rites, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, the jury found Martirosyan guilty of three murders. They refused the condescension of “psychic”.

The growth of the Russian economy according to the results of 2014 may be zero. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov at the expanded college of the department. “GDP growth is estimated at a fairly low level - at 0.5%. Perhaps it will be near zero, ”said Siluanov. In this regard, the minister also noted that 2014 may be the most difficult after the financial crisis of 2008-2009.

I.O. The heads of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, signed a decree on the creation of an anti -terrorist commission in Crimea, according to the official page of the Crimea Council on Facebook.