The decision to create the Lugansk People’s Republic will be made following a referendum, which they plan to hold on May 11. This was announced by the coordinator of the so -called folk community of Lugansk Oleg Dereko, reports RIA Novosti . According to him, the announcement of the creation of the Lugansk Republic on April 27 was a declaration, and the question itself will be submitted to the referendum. “We cannot do this unilaterally that we wanted independence, and it came.

Former FMS employees Andrei Mayorov and Andrei Demidov, as well as entrepreneur Sergei Beloborodov received 5 years conditionally for theft of 69 million rubles. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the prosecutor's office of Moscow. It is reported that Beloborodov, Mayorov and Demidov were sentenced to 5 years in prison with a probation of 5 years and a fine of 300 thousand rubles in state revenue.

The leader of the Gang of Primorsky Partisans, Alexander Kovtun, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony, Interfax reports. The judge satisfied the petition of the prosecution, indicating the special danger of crimes committed by Kovtun and his accomplices and the presence of aggravating circumstances, and sentenced the leader of the gang to life imprisonment. A similar verdict was carried out against Vladimir Ilyutikov and Alexei Nikitin.

The Union of Machine -Builders of Russia is preoccupied with US intentions to conclude an agreement with Ukraine on the supply of fuel elements for Ukrainian nuclear power plants. This is stated in a letter to the first vice-president of the Sohamsh of Russia, the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Industry Vladimir Gutenev to the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

Alexey Tolochko "It always surprises me why people are interested in the period that almost nothing is known about, leaving aside those centuries about which we know much more" photo by N.

In the sky above California, two light aircraft collided, reports Associated Press . The incident occurred near the San Pablo Bay. One of the aircraft crashed, the second managed to land safely. It has not yet been possible to detect the pilot of the fallen aircraft. In the area of ​​the crash, search and rescue work is underway.

On April 24, 2014, as part of the Public Lectures project, Polit.ru ” in the Moscow cafe Zavtra was a theoretic, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, senior researcher at theoretical physics of the Institute of Nuclear Research, Dmitry Gorbunov.

The Omsk Regional Prosecutor's Office will check San Inbev, which has placed on banks with beer images of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. According to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the reason for the audit was the publication in the media with photographs of the beer party specially released by May 9. The banks depict the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and tell about their exploits.

Pavel Durov photo: Personal page/vkontakte.ru The founder of the most popular Russian VKontakte social network Pavel Durov received convenient citizenship, allowing him to travel almost freely around the world. According to Izvestia , Durov donated 250 thousand dollars in one of the enterprises of the island of St. Kits and Nevis, after which, according to the laws of the state, automatically received citizenship.

Andrey Levkin Screech of the video channel Propolitiku It is reported that in Lugansk, supporters of federalization on Sunday announced the creation of the "Luhansk People's Republic", and then also put an ultimatum to the current authorities in Kyiv until 14:00. What they will do tomorrow after two and what else and this is already completely incomprehensible.

The leader of the militia of Slavyansk, the “people's mayor” of the city, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, announced the readiness to exchange the captured employees of the special forces of the Alpha SBU for folk militia fighters, Interfax reports. “The detainees feel normally. We plan to exchange them if someone in Kyiv needs them, for our fighters. If not, the people will decide their fate, ”Ponomarev told the agency.

The transnational payment system Visa expressed concern with the amendments by the Empire to the law on the National Payment System. So, according to the company's management, the requirement to place a significant amount of insurance deposits, will impose a business in Russia, Interfax reports. “According to our preliminary estimates, the size of this deposit is several times higher than the annual income of Visa in Russia.

The Primorsky Regional Court partially satisfied the claims of the Primorsky Partisan gangs victims, Interfax reports. The total amount of civil lawsuits from the relatives of the dead and other victims amounted to 16 million rubles. The defendants did not recognize the claims, confessing to the commission of minor crimes. The members of the gang are transferred to the guilt for serious crimes to the accomplices who committed suicide during the detention.

Several dozen aggressively people in Donetsk on Monday attacked the rally participants for a single Ukraine, inflicting blows to them with batons, iron stakes and chains on the legs and head. This was reported by UNIAN . According to Interfax , at least 14 people were injured as a result of an attack on a peaceful procession that took place on Artem Street. According to some reports, among the victims - the own correspondent of the newspaper Mirror Week in Donetsk Yevgeny Shibalov.

On April 28, 2014, members of the free historical society published an open appeal to the President, the Council of the Federation and the State Duma of the Russian Federation. In it, they criticized the bill introducing criminal liability “for an encroachment on historical memory” in relation to the events of the Second World War.