The organizers of the Polish Musical Festival Life Festival Oswiecim refused to participate in the Balkan composer and musician Goran Bregovich because of his statements in Crimea, the Polish newspaper Wyborcza reports. In March, Goran Bregovich gave a concert in Crimea.

At the beginning of the trading session on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble exchange rate updated the maximum values ​​from the beginning of the year. The dollar rate was reduced to 51.06 rubles, the euro - to 54.35 rubles. The dollar rate was about 1.10 rubles below the official Central Bank, Euro - 1.80 rubles below the official course. By 10:40 Moscow time, the dollar cost 51.16 rubles (minus 70 kopecks to the level of yesterday's closure), the euro - 54.48 rubles (minus 88 kopecks).

The electoral rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin dropped by one percent to 75%in a week, according to the materials on the website of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). A week ago, for Vladimir Putin in the presidential election, 76% of Russians were ready to vote. In April 2014, the President’s electoral rating was 64%.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, chairman of the Committee of the Council of Europe, Dyge Reynders, who visited Moscow the day before, gave an interview with Kommersant . In an interview with Didier, Reynders expressed the opinion that to start a dialogue in the east, it is necessary that the EU and the United States put pressure on Kyiv, and Russia convinces the militias of Donetsk and Lugansk to meet.

The first deputy director of the company Magellan , which is a shipowner of the trailer, “ Far East”, was arrested. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Vladimir Markin. “ In the framework of the criminal investigation on the crash of the Far East, another person was detained by the Investigative Committee - this is the first deputy general director of Magellan LLC Alexei Vasin.

Fighters of the Ukrainian right -winging organization "Right Sector" left the line of contact in eastern Ukraine. It is reported by TASS . “In connection with the preparation of the advanced units of the DUK (Volunteer Ukrainian Corps) for entering the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the Armed Forces of Ukraine), there are no direct contact with the enemy of our fighters,” the press service of the organization said.

Igor Zotov, a member of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on defense, the chairman of the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice, intends to propose changes to the Criminal Code, enshrining the criminal liability for the desecration of victory symbols in the Great Patriotic War, Izvestia reports.

The State Duma adopted in final reading the law on the possibility of a one -time receipt of part of maternity capital in 2015, RIA Novosti reports. According to the adopted amendments , the Russians who have already used part of the funds of the uterus to improve housing conditions, the formation of children or the formation of the funded part of the pension will be able to receive a lump -sum payment of not more than 20 thousand rubles from the balance.

Anna Sakoyan Michael Bloomberg Photo: Nypost.com In early April, several English-speaking media reports that Michael Bloomberg, who held the post of mayor of the New York for 12 years, is now considering the prospect of participating in the elections for the mayor of London in 2016. On the eve, it became known that Bloomberg has refuted his intention to claim the post of mayor of the British capital, saying that he was not interested in this.

The former head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, believes that the fast food network “Eat at home!”, To which the directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky asked the state for almost 1 billion rubles, will create more problems for Russian business, which will compete with MSDonald's. Kudrin wrote about this on Twitter.

China authorities can build a railway tunnel under Mount Everest, reports The China Daily . According to the publication, we are talking about the continuation of the railway line connecting China and the capital of Tibet Lhas, outside the country. The tunnel must connect China to Nepal, and the project is discussed on the initiative of Nepal, the newspaper writes. It is assumed that the implementation of the project may be completed by 2020.

The White House in Washington appeared “for all sexes”, Reuters reports referring to the official representative of the US Presidential Administration, Jeff Tiller. As Tiller specified, the unisex-loot appeared in Eisenhower Building, where the Obama administration apparatus is located.

Physical training of Russian President Vladimir Putin “significantly blocks” the TRP requirements, but the head of state has not yet decided to pass these sports standards. This was announced by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “I don’t know that Putin’s working or non -working schedule of the TRP stands, but I can say that in any case, his daily rhythms in playing sports, the level of these classes significantly blocks the TRP bar,” Peskov said.

In the Dagestan Kizlyar, the building of the Central City Mosque is on, fire calculations have begun to extinguish. According to preliminary information, there are no victims, the Ministry of Emergencies reports . Information about the fire was received at 08:45 (local time coincides with Moscow). The mosque is located along Naberezhnaya Street, house 2. 24 firefighters and six units of namesake are involved in the extinguishing. In the Dagestan city of Kizlyar, the main mosque burns.

The Government of Ukraine has drawn up a list of external debt obligations, for which it is planned to revise the terms of borrowing. The document is published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. The document involves restructuring the Eurobonds of the State, State Banks, Fininpr and Ukrzaliznytsia, as well as 3 billion dollars purchased by Russia.