Negotiations in Doha to reduce oil production failed due to the fact that it was not thought out how to attract Iran to negotiations. This was stated by Polit.ru Director for the energy direction, head of the Energy Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance Alexei Gromov, commenting on the situation in the global oil market following negotiations.

The BRICS countries will be held in Goa, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India Sushma Swaraj, reports Interfax . According to Swaraj, the summit will pass in the fall. “We are waiting for the active participation of all members of the BRICS during our chairmanship, we hope for the successful organization of the Summit in Goa in October,” the minister said. BRICS includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

В Иерусалиме прогремел взрыв в автобусе. При взрыве пострадали не менее 20 человек. Об этом сообщает Sky News , Местная полиция утверждает, что взрыв автобуса нельзя назвать терактом. Другие подробности трагедии пока не приводятся. Причина взрыва также неизвестна. BREAKING: At least 20 wounded in bus explosion in Jerusalem, possibly terror related, emergency forces on scene. pic.twitter.com/QurGbsZaPC — Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) 18 апреля 2016 г.

“Vain in the Doha”, the editorial of the title article “Kommersant” reads . Negotiations of the largest oil exporting countries on the restriction of production failed. “Alexandra Lukashenko was accepted in Islam” - this is the name of the article on the visit of Alexander Lukashenko to Istanbul to the summit of the organization of Islamic states. It seems that the president of Belarus will play a Turkish map in relations with Moscow, and Erdogan will be Belarusian.

In prepared on the proposals of the working group of monitoring and analysis of law enforcement practice in the field of entrepreneurship, amendments to the Criminal Code are proposed to supplement the article “Fraud” in parts that qualify the corresponding offense in the field of business. This is written by " Vedomosti ". According to the publication, work on the bill was completed.

On the weekend, the press appeared that the ruling baath party and its associates won the parliamentary elections in Syria. The elections were held only in the territories controlled by the government, which gave the opposition to call this procedure a farce, and its results are illegitimate. This has become a complicating factor for conducting peace negotiations in Geneva. The results were predictable.

In total, 83% of the survey participants, which was conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), consider themselves happy people. The unfortunate was called 15% of respondents. A similar number of respondents believes that among their acquaintances and loved ones more unfortunate people. More than a third of the respondents said that they consider themselves happy because of the well-being in the family.

The lack of an agreement on freezing oil production is not of problems for Russia. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Energy of Russia Alexander Novak, reports RIA Novosti .

Anna Sakoyan Elections in Syria Yotube.com On the weekend, the press appeared that the ruling baath party and its associates won the parliamentary elections in Syria. The elections were held only in the territories controlled by the government, which gave the opposition to call this procedure a farce, and its results are illegitimate. This has become a complicating factor for conducting peace negotiations in Geneva. The results were predictable.

The lower house of the Brazil National Congress voted for the impeachment of the country's president Dilma Rousseff, Globo reports. 367 deputies voted for the renunciation of the head of state from his post, and 137. Seven legislators abstained. Of the 513 deputies of the Lower Chamber, only two were absent at the historical meeting. Thus, the opposition were able to enlist the support of two -thirds of the deputies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the II degree. The corresponding decree on Monday was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

A specially created in Latvia, the commission estimated at 185 billion euros the damage caused to the republic during the Soviet “occupation”, Delfi reports. As the representative of the commission Ruta Padzere said that demographic damage is estimated at tens of billions of dollars.

In Yekaterinburg, in one of the buildings of the Kalinin machine -building plant, equipment caught fire, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Sverdlovsk region. The Ministry of Emergencies noted that no one was injured as a result of a fire. According to TASS , the fire area was about a thousand square meters. The dispatch service of the special fire department of the plant said that the fire was localized.

Simon Zhavoronkov Doha marc.desbordes On Monday, after the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble, along with stock indices, expectedly collapsed. The Russian currency, and after it and the shares of Russian companies, lose weight due to the failure of negotiations in Doha, which discussed the possibility of freezing the volume of oil production.

In the Iraqi city of Mosul, the US Special Forces eliminated one of the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia) Suleiman Shabib al-Jaburi, reports Reuters . During the raid, which was held together with the Kurdish forces to combat terrorism, two more assistant leader of the IG was also killed. In addition, on April 17, to the north of the city of Mosul, the forces of the head of the coalition led by the United States captured at least one IS militant.