The Tatarstan rescuers said that all 12 tanks, who went on the night of Thursday to Friday from the rails on the stage between Tikhonov and the embankments, were empty. This was reported by the press service of the Republican Ministry of Emergencies. “All tanks are empty, from under the hydrocarbon fraction,” the department specified. Earlier it was assumed that there was a gas condensate in the wagons.

Julia Pustoplesnova (Shustlya) and her colleague, the operator Mikhail Pudovkin, were expelled from the territory of Ukraine to Russia, ITAR-TASS reports journalist. As the journalist herself wrote on Twitter, "now I feel safe because I am already in Russia." Earlier, the girl reported to the editorial office that the SBU employees took her and the operator to the Russian-Ukrainian border point in the Assumption.

The leaders of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France spoke out for the introduction of new sanctions in relation to Russia. This was reported by the press service of the Champs Elysees. French President Francois Hollande held telephone conversations with US leader Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Ministers and Great Britain Matteo Renzi and David Cameron.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called the Russian Today channel Russian propaganda at a briefing in Washington on Ukraine on April 25. “The propaganda television channel Russia Today is engaged in the fantasies of President Putin regarding Ukrainian events. In fact, all the work of this channel is reduced to propaganda, distorting facts and the spread of speculation about Ukraine, ”Kerry commented.

The Central Bank of Russia increased the key rate on loans to 7.5% following a meeting of the board of directors on April 25 and is not going to reduce it until July 2014, Interfax reports. At a meeting on Friday, the Central Bank's regulator decided to increase the key rate to 7.5% per annum, aimed at slowing inflation to 6% by the end of 2014 and ensuring the balance of inflation risks.

The national rating agency can become an exclusively private project, but the state will assist it. This was stated by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Igor Shuvalov, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, Shuvalov, “if the national payment system requires serious attention [from the side], for example, the Bank of Russia, then the National Rating Agency may be an exclusively private project. But we will help him.

In the Moscow Domodedovo airport, on April 24, six customs officers were detained on April 24. The detention operation was carried out by employees of the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Central Federal District together with the FSB. As explained in the FSB, the detainees are suspected of obtaining illegal monetary rewards. All of them were delivered to the police department.

Grain export: Facts and numbers The main directions of Russian grain exports are represented by crops such as wheat, barley and corn. Of these, wheat leads in volumes (for 2012 - 73% of the total grain export), however, in each case, Russia, according to estimates for 2013, is one of the five world leaders in export of the corresponding type of grain. Also, according to the US Department of Agriculture, Russia has noticeably increased corn export over the past year.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that he did not know anything about the intention of Abkhazia to join Russia , Interfax reports . “ I have not heard that the Abkhaz people, the Abkhaz leadership raised the question of following the example of Crimea, ” Lavrov said at the forum of young diplomats of the CIS countries in Moscow.

The Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, said that Russia does not fulfill the obligations assigned to it as part of the Geneva agreements regarding the de -escalation of the situation in Ukraine. It is reported by Radio Liberty .

The Supreme Court of Cambodia rejected Russia's request about the extradition of businessman Sergei Polonsky, who is accused of fraud with the money of equity holders. It is reported by Associated Press . According to the agency, the refusal notification says that there is no agreement on mutual extradition between the two countries. Russia has already sent several documents to the Cambodian court, with a request to issue a 41-year-old businessman.

The International Union of Veterans of Nuclear Energy and Industry (MSVAEP) expresses concern about the development of events in the nuclear industry of Ukraine in connection with the decision of the NEEC "Energoatom" on the use of nuclear fuel production of Westinghouse on Ukrainian atomic power units.

The Ukrainian Central Election Commission believes that on May 25, there is not enough time in the country of referendum, in addition, there is no necessary grounds for him. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the CEC of Ukraine Andrei Mager, reports Interfax-Ukraine .

The Facebook social network announced the creation of a new FB Newswire service, with which journalists and media will be able to select interesting news from the social network. This was reported on the Facebook website . It is reported that FB Newswire will work on the principle of a news aggregator: the service will collect the content from private individuals and organizations registered on social networks, which can be of potential interest to journalists.

On April 26, 1954, Dmitry Kiselev, a journalist, TV presenter, general director of the Russian International Information Agency Russia Today, Deputy General Director of the VGTRK was born. Personal business Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselev (60 years) was born on April 26, 1954 in Moscow. He was brought up in a musical environment (Uncle Kiseleva - composer Yuri Shaporin), graduated from a music school in the classic guitar class. He studied at a medical school No. 6 in Moscow.