In the city of Torzhok, the Tver region on the night of Saturday, a one-story residential building burned out, as a result of the fire, an elderly woman and her two grandchildren died, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia said, ITAR-TASS reports. The woman died on the spot, her grandchildren died in the intensive care of the local hospital. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, gas heating was installed in a wooden building.

Kharkov’s authorities supported the initiative of local self-defense activists to establish checkpoints on the administrative border with the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the press service of the Kharkov regional administration reports. According to the chairman of the Kharkov regional state administration, Igor Balut, the installation of checkpoints should be completely synchronized with law enforcement agencies and the security service of Ukraine.

The mourning ceremony in the memory of the writer Gabrielia Garcia Marquez will be held in Mexico City on Monday, Interfax reports. Juan Manuel Santos, president of the native country of the famous Nobel Prize in Literature, will fly to the ceremony from Colombia. On Friday, a three -day mourning was declared there in connection with the death of the famous writer. Earlier it was reported that Marquez, who died at the age of 87, was cremated immediately after death.

Maxim Russo Pithecophaga Jefferyi v Malazarte/Flickrkr Scientists from the London Zoological Society (Zoological Society of London) and the University of Yale published a list of one hundred rare species of birds on the planet in the journal Current Biology . This was done as part of the Edge of Existence project, which is aimed at studying the most vulnerable species in living nature. The full version, which has several hundred species of birds, can be downloaded from the project website.

The 69-year-old captain of the South Korean ferry "Sevol", who sank off the country's coast on the night of April 16, Lee Jung Soka was arrested, Renhap reports, Reuters reports. The sailor, who, according to passengers, was outside the workplace at the time of the coil of the vessel, and one of the first left him, was charged with five episodes, which include neglect of official duties and violation of marine law.

The crew of a Delta Airlines airliner flying from Denver to Detroit decided to return to the airport of departure after notes were found on board with information about an alleged explosive device planted on the plane. There were about 150 passengers and four crew members on board the plane at that moment. After landing in Denver, as a precaution, the aircraft was driven to a special parking lot in a remote part of the airfield, ITAR-TASS reports .

In Yemen, as a result of an air attack, 15 al-Qaeda militants and three civilians were destroyed from an air attack from the United States, Agence France-Presse reports . Blows on targets were struck in the province of al-Baida, which is considered a stronghold of extremists from the Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda, also known as Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula. The drone released the rocket on the car in which the militants moved.

A special OSCE mission will go to Donetsk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Information Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. OSCE observers will have to control the implementation of Geneva agreements, specify in the Ukrainian department. This step was announced during the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrei Deshchitsa with the head of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine Ertogrul Apakan.

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych may return to the country through Berdyansk, TSN.UA reports with reference to several anonymous sources. According to the Ukrainian television news service, on Friday evening, the local Air Defense Force Brigade received a command to stop tracking the airspace over the region. At the same time, border guards did not know about this decision.

Pavel Lyubimtsev "Now I have a dickens on my table, I always recommend this" photo dm. Rozhkova (Vikimediy.ru) A series of interviews about favorite books continues an interview with Pavel Lyubimtsev , actor , professor, head. Department of Mastery of the Actor of theater Institute. B.V. Schukina, Honored Actor of the Russian Federation, TV presenter. Talked by Natalia Demina . Do you remember when you learned to read, and what was your first book? No, I don't remember.

The radical Ukrainian group “Right Sector” calls on Ukrainians to rely exclusively on their own forces, because neither the European Union, nor the United States, nor Russia are actually guarantors of the country's territorial integrity. This point of view on the night of Saturday in the Schuster program. Live ”was expressed by one of the leaders of the movement Andrei Bondarenko, UNIAN reports.

The Government of Ukraine has stopped funding the maintenance of state dachas for officials, UNIAN reports with reference to Minister without Portfolio Ostap Semerak. According to him, from now on officials will have to pay the costs of maintaining their dachas themselves. He stressed that the new government considers the current state of affairs unfair.

A resident of the Moscow Region in a drunken quarrel chopped off the leg of his drinking companion with the help of a machete, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region reports. On Saturday, at about 9 a.m. in the village of Zaprudnya, an ambulance hospitalized a 41-year-old local resident with a severed leg. As it turned out, the man lost his feet in a drunken quarrel with a friend.

On April 19 (6), 1902, Veniamin Kaverin, the smartest Russian writer, was born. Personal business Benjamin Kaverin Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (Zilber, 1902-1989) was born in the family of the capter of the 96th Infantry Omsk Regiment Abel Abel Zilber and his wife-the nee Khan Girshevna (Anna Grigoryevna) Desson, the owner of music stores. The elder sister of Kaverina - Leia Ablevna Zilber (in the marriage of Elena Aleksandrovna Tynyanova, 1892-1944) - married Yu. N.

Forward of the Liverpool football club Uruguayan Luis Suarez interviewed the legendary rock musician Paul McCartney. The interview was published on the website of the British edition of Dily Mirror . The Uruguayan striker, who is one of the best players of the current season in the English Premier League, recorded not a video of a few questions for McCartney, who answered them in the same format.