The project of the presidential amnesty will be considered by the State Duma in the first reading on April 21, Kommersant reports.

The Russian Ambassador to Japan Yevgeny Afanasyev did not accept the letter of protest of the mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui with criticism of the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the admissibility of bringing nuclear forces to the readiness, reports The Asahi Shimbun .

The video conference of the contact group to resolve the conflict in the Donbass will be held on April 14 at 15:00 Moscow time. The press secretary of the former president of Ukraine and its representative at the negotiations of Leonid Kuchma Daria Olifer wrote about this on her Facebook page. According to her, this time we will talk about the ceasefire, the removal of heavy types of weapons and confirmation of this withdrawal by representatives of the OSCE monitoring mission.

Families of thirteen Sakhalin sailors who died during the crash of the Trailer "Far East" in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk received 1 million rubles of compensation from the regional budget. This was reported on the website of the governor and the government of the region. “13 families of the dead Sakhalin sailors received one million rubles from the regional budget. 200 thousand rubles were paid to all 17 Sakhalin residents who have survived in disaster, ”the report says.

All units operating in the ATO zone were transferred to the armed forces or regular units of the National Guard, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports. The transfer is valid since April 11. “There are no more voluntary or other armed associations in the area of ​​military operations and on the contact line,” said Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak. Meanwhile, not all volunteer detachments agreed to become part of the Armed Forces.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma that strengthens security measures in the coal industry and introduces a system of public control in this area. This was reported by Interfax with reference to one of the developers of the document, a member of the Federation Council Sergei Shatirov. “We propose to introduce a system of public control in the coal industry.

The militants of the Islamic State Group promised to repeat the attack on September 11, 2001 in the United States, the SITE organization, which studies the activity of extremists on the Internet, reports . Messages of the Islamists are united by the hashtag "Mental Zhozhmarika." Over the first day, shares the frequency of using the phrase reached 15 thousand. The posts contain references to the attack of September 11 and the past single attacks in Western countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was first in the ranking of the most influential people according to Time magazine, gaining 6.9% of the vote. His closest competitor on the list - the South Korean singer Lee Che Rin from the 2NE1 group - takes the second place with 6.6% of the vote. The third place is occupied by the American pop star Lady Gaga, who gained 2.6% of the vote. The Russian president has significantly bypassed other political leaders who were on the list.

Officials of the government apparatus will begin to receive a reduced salary from May 1, Izvestia reports this. “According to the Labor Code, employees needed to be warned in advance. Therefore, in March-April, the employees of the apparatus were received under signature notifications of a reduction in salaries by 10%. Accordingly, new salaries will receive new salaries from May 1, ”said Prime Minister Natalya Timakova, spokesman for Prime Minister.

The most noticeable events of the outgoing week were the removal of the football player Denisov from work in the Dynamo club, criticism of the Czech Republic of Milos Zeman to the US ambassador, the idea of ​​Mikhalkov and Konchalovsky open the Russian fast food, the possible claim of Syutkin to the Lurcomorye Internet resource, the promise of Greece President Alex Cubano Russia and Europe, the son of Michael Schumacher in Sports, as well as an investigation into corruption in relation to

Flights of Russian aircraft over the water area of ​​the Baltic Sea are carried out within the framework of international norms. This, according to Interfax , said the head of the Federation Council of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, urging the West not to escalate hysteria around these flights. Thus, he commented on the message that the Russian Su-27 flew next to the American reconnaissance aircraft in the neutral airspace over the Baltic.

The separatists of the self -proclaimed DPR and the LPR, as well as the Ukrainian military accused each other in violation of the ceasefire and brought the statistics of fixed shelling. According to the Ukrainian military, the situation in the east of the country on Friday remained restless, from 18:00 to midnight the separatists fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops 20 times, the ATO press center on Facebook reports .

In the Ulyanovsk region, the student-student died and seven more people were hospitalized as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred in a residential building on Sverdlov Street in Dimitrovgrad. With signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, eight people were hospitalized, including two children. On the way to the hospital, a 17-year-old student technical school died.

Ilya Karpyuk Verkhovna Rada meeting of Ukraine Last week, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading a number of laws related to historical memory. Among them - the law "On the condemnation of the communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes" and "prohibiting the propaganda of their symbols." The document has to go through the following readings and the signing by the president, but it is possible that by May 9 he will enter into force.

The aircraft of the international coalition made missile strikes on the positions of militants from the Islamic State group (IG) in Syria and Iraq. This was reported on Facebook by the command of the combined united operational forces. According to the report, on the eve of the morning, eight strokes were inflicted on the territory of Syria, nine on the territory of Iraq. During the raids, many tactical units, vehicles, buildings and weapons were destroyed, the message said.