The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angel Merkel called to observe the fundamental act of Russia -NATO with an increase in the level of security of the alliance members, TASS reports. “We will try to ensure that this process (increasing safety) does not contradict the act,” Merkel said. The Chancellor also noted that Germany advocates continuing the dialogue between the Russian Federation and the Alliance.

The process of reducing the purchasing power of Russians, which has continued in connection with the crisis for quite some time, has been suspended, and there is reason to believe that the indicator of purchasing activity has already reached the bottom.

The attack on the participants in the historical competition organized by the "Memorial" is outrageous. This opinion was expressed on his page on the social network Facebook, the deputy executive director of the Voice Association, a specialist in the field of public surveillance of the election, Grigory Melkonian. He believes that activists of the NOD, the national liberation movement are directly related to the attack.

On Thursday, the conflict between the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (Fano) and the team of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences entered the public field. The reason was the situation around the post of director of the institute, but the reason, as usual, lies deeper. Recall that INION is a scientific institution and a huge library that specialize in social and humanitarian problems.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko proposed to declare a truce in the Donbass in Easter, he wrote about this on his Facebook page. “This year, Easter will become a test for Russia for its belonging to Christian civilization. In order to pass this test, Russia and its puppets must unconditionally cease the fire at least for Easter, ”he said. The tank of the mariones is likely to shame the wogh to Easter.

Anna Sakoyan The building of the Supreme Court of the United States. Photo: Mark Fischer/Some Rights Reserved Mark Fischer/Some Rights Reserved On Thursday, the US Supreme Court adopted amendments, thanks to which the FBI would be easier to hack computers remotely if their physical location is unknown, writes Bloomberg . Champions of the inviolability of private life argue that this decision gives the FBI the right to hack thousands of computers.

Anna Sakoyan Meeting of the French parliament Wikipedia.org The lower house of the French parliament approved on Thursday a resolution calling for the EU to remove economic sanctions from Russia, although less than 1/5 deputies voted for it, Politico writes. There are 577 deputies in the National Assembly, and only 101. 55 of them voted in the vote to ensure that the EU did not extend the sanctions after their current term expires on July 31.

The remains of Lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenko, who died in the battles for Syrian Palmyra, were delivered to Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports. “As a result of joint special events with the participation of representatives of the Syrian authorities and the Kurdish militia, the body of the deceased officer was delivered to Moscow,” the ministry quoted TASS.

The transfer of the launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome was caused by the error of instrumentation, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the Council of Legislators said, the Kremlin press service informs. “The first launch was postponed for a day, as it turned out, not because of the rocket itself, it was in perfect order, but because of the instrumentation, which gave an erroneous signal that there was no refueling, but it turns out,” the president said.

The South Korean manufacturer of electronics and household appliances Samsung opened the online store in Russia. With delivery in the country there you can get only the smartphones of the company and accessories for them. According to VC.ru and RBC with reference to the press service of Samsung, the Russian online store began work on April 29. Orders worth 3000 rubles will be delivered for free.

The State Corporation "Rosatom" has become the absolute winner of the annual rating "Leadership index. The best companies for work and career ”Rabota.ru and business publications“ Elite Personnel ”of the RDV-Media group of companies. This was reported by the Department of Communications of the State Corporation "Rosatom". Rating "Leadership index. The best companies for work and career ”was created in 2010 in order to identify the most powerful and attractive brands among Russian employers.

The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that on April 28, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Syria was subjected to mortar shelling. The incident occurred at about 15:00 Moscow time. One mine fell into the territory of the Russian consulate, three more exploded near the fence from the outside. There are no victims and victims, according to the ministry. There they specify the data on the damage suffered.

In the 92nd year of life, the Ukrainian opera singer Dmitry Gnatyuk died, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Gnatyuk died on April 29. According to the newspaper " Day ", farewell to the singer will be held on May 4 in the building of the national opera in Kiev, and will bury it in a bike cemetery in the Ukrainian capital.

The Bank of Russia kept the key rate at the same level of 11%, the regulator said in a statement . Meanwhile, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, previously announced the regulator’s intention to reduce the key rate, but taking into account inflation indicators. Experts also considered it likely that a slight reduction in the key rate would occur during the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank, which took place today, April 29.

Ukrainian TV presenter Savik Shuster announced the end of the hunger strike, which he began on April 26 due to the fact that the country's authorities revoked his work permit, Interfax reports . The day before, the State Employment Service of Ukraine suspended the decision of its Kiev division to revoke Shuster’s work permit. “We suspended the hunger strike, which lasted a day and a half - this is the shortest hunger strike in the world, in my opinion,” the journalist said today.