During the search and rescue operation, the bodies of several more victims were found at the crash site of the South Korean ferry, the Associated Press reports. The officially confirmed number of dead reached 139 people. About 170 people are missing, but rescuers claim that the only question is how soon it will be possible to get to the rest of the bodies. The chances of finding one of the people who are alive are almost zero.

Employees of the FMS did not present any documents to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev prohibiting entry into the territory of the Crimea. This was announced by the deputy head of the temporary group of the FMS of Russia on the territory of Crimea Yuri Zvyagintsev, RIA Novosti reports. “The FMS has nothing to do with this incident and did not take any participation in this,” Zvyagintsev said on Wednesday at a press conference in Simferopol.

At the entrances to Donetsk, law enforcement officers of Ukraine put up checkpoints to control transport, said Donetsk mayor Alexander Lukyanchenko, RIA Novosti reports.

Russian federal ministries published reports on the results of the results of work in the Cabinet of Ministers in 2013. 20 federal ministries reported on the results of the work last year. A day earlier, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Dmitry Medvedev spoke in the State Duma and told the deputies about the results of the government in 2013. The reports on activities are submitted by the Russian government in accordance with Art.

Three members of the crew of the Singapore ship were stolen by unknown during an attack on a ship off the coast of Malaysia, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the coast guard of Malaysia. On the night of April 23, five armed men penetrated on board the ship, tied crew members and for several hours pumped 2 million liters of diesel fuel from the vessel. Then the criminals disappeared. It is assumed that they took with them three crew members. Their location is currently unknown.

The "People’s mayor" of the city of Gorlovka in the east of Ukraine Alexander Sapunov took off his powers in connection with a threat to life, RIA Novosti reports. In an interview with the agency, he stated that he was taking off the powers of the People’s Mayor and the deputy of the Donetsk People's Republic in connection with an attempt to attempt on him and his relatives.

The first candidate to submit an application for the President of Syria was a communist from the city of Aleppo, 43-year-old deputy of the People’s Council Maher Abdel Hafiz Hajar, ITAR-TASS reports. The day before, the deputy filed an application for registration in the country's highest constitutional court, and a few hours earlier he sent an appeal to his colleagues with a request to support him in the elections.

In the basement of the ancient temple of Kosma and Damian in the old panes located in the center of Moscow, they found a bomb of the Great Patriotic War. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies. The shell was found in the basement of the building. The temple was temporarily closed due to the threat of the explosion. Now law enforcement officers and sappers are working on the spot.

At least 30 people died as a result of a train crash in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Radio Okapi radio station reports . More than 50 people were injured. Last Tuesday, the passenger train at high speed came off the rails in the province of Katang. The details of the incident have not yet been reported.

The State Duma in the first reading rejected the bill on the introduction of tax on luxury items. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . The authors of the bill are deputies from the Fair Russia party. In their opinion, the redistribution of wealth is necessary in connection with a high level of social inequality that is observed in the country.

On April 23, the reservation system error has led to a strong reduction in prices for the tickets of the Emirates airline for Russian passengers, ITAR-TASS reports. When ordering tickets through the OZON.Travel service, fly from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Buenos Aires and Seychelles for 5-11 thousand rubles, which is 2-7 times cheaper than the usual cost of the ticket.

Ukrainian businessman Sergei Kurchenko was put on the international wanted list. This was announced by the representative of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Alexei Denisyuk, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the Prosecutor General’s Office in March opened criminal proceedings against officials of state -owned enterprises producing liquefied gas - joint -stock companies of Ukrgazdobych, Chernomorneftegaz and Ukrnafta.

Scientists have successfully determined the age of 120,000-year-old Antarctic ice using radiometric crypton dating-a new method that can determine the age of ice, even exceeding a million years. The results of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Oregon were published this week in the journal ProChedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work was financed by the National Scientific Fund of the United States and the US Department of Energy.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court canceled the decision of the Central Court of Novosibirsk, according to which the four film distributors were to pay fines for the demonstration of the film “Wolf with Wall Street”, Interfax reports. Earlier, the Central Court of Novosibirsk fined several city cinemas, finding them guilty of drug propaganda through the demonstration of the film by Martin Skorsze Wolf with Wall Street.

The American journalist Simon Ostrovsky is hostage from the "People's Militia" of Slavyansk. This was announced by the "People's Mayor" of the city Vyacheslav Ponomarev, writes Gazeta.ru . According to him, the "militias" are going to use a hostage to negotiate. “We need prisoners. I need a bargaining coin. Many of our comrades are closed (detained or arrested - “Polit.ru”). These take them, take them to Kyiv, torture. Well, and we do the same.