April 17, 1894, actor Boris Schukin was born Personal business Boris Vasilievich Schukin (1894-1939) was born in Moscow in a family of an employee. He spent his childhood and youth in Kashira of the Tula province, where his parents moved shortly after the birth of his son. After graduating from the elementary school, Boris was taken to Moscow, where his father arranged him at the Private Real School of Voskresensky.

In France, they organize an international competition among architects to restore the spire of the Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God, destroyed by the fire, RIA Novosti reports. The corresponding statement was made by French Prime Minister Eduar Philip after a meeting of the Council of Ministers on April 17. Recall that the largest fire in history in the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God occurred on the evening of April 15.

The Russian authorities have developed a draft law on the deprivation of the powers of members of the State Duma and the Federation Council for an inaccurate declaration of income. About this, as Kommersant writes, said Alexander Anikin, deputy head of the Presidential Department for Combating Corruption. It is assumed that the document will be considered on April 19 at a meeting of the working group.

“Kommersant” in the article “Speakers to make these people” writes that Valentina Matvienko already had a probable successor-ex-speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin. “ Switching to unemployment ”: the intensive growth of the Russian economy can release up to 10 million employees. “ Airports are clamped in the zones”: the dispute around the protective territories resumes. “ The Central Bank will call banks ”: the regulator is trying to fight the substitutions of numbers.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said Pulse on the TOK show on the 112 Ukraine television channel that in case of winning the election of the head of state, he was going to resign governors of all regions of the country. “Immediately after the second round, after my victory in the presidential election, I want to note that this is the requirement of the Constitution - they all resign,” Poroshenko said.

In the Trans -Baikal Territory, in final reading, a bill was adopted, which gives the right to candidates to the regional governors to go to the elections with self -nomination, Kommersant writes. As noted, the amendments were supported by deputies of the Legislative Assembly unanimously.

The Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God can close its doors for visitors for five to six years. This was reported by Associated Press with reference to the abbot of Notre Dama Patrick Shove. The abbot noted that “part of the cathedral was very damaged” as a result of the fire without specifying what exactly was being discussed. He also noted that it is still unclear where 67 Notre Dame employees will work during the restoration of the cathedral.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, by the end of 2018, only four Russian regions reached targeted indicators for state employees salaries, which Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to increase in his May decrees of 2012. We are talking about the Vladimir, Leningrad and Penza regions, as well as the Republic of Buryatia, reports RBC . In all other regions - and there are 81 of them - decrees are not formally executed at least one category of state employees.

Against the background of the news that oil reserves in the United States decreased by 3.1 million barrels, the price of Brent oil stamp increased. According to Kommersant , this happened for the first time since November 8, 2018. As of 8:31 Moscow time, the cost of June Brent oil futures amounted to $ 72.01 per barrel. At the same time, WTI oil cost $ 64.47 per barrel. Recall that the price of Brent oil was exceeded a psychologically important mark of $ 70 per barrel in early April.

Employees of the FSB in the Chelyabinsk region conduct operational-investigation actions at JSC Special Design Bureau Turbina, which is part of the Rostec State Corporation, Interfax reports. It is clarified that the events are held as part of a criminal case of fraud with the funds of the state defense order. We are talking about the theft of more than 300 million rubles (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). There are no suspects in the case yet.

Alexey Shishkin Frame from the official trailer "Game of Thrones" / HBO HBO The premiere of the eighth season of “Game of Thrones” broke the rating records of the channel, Time reports with reference to HBO. In the USA, 17.4 million people watched the first episode of the eighth season. Thus, the series squeezed the last episode of the seventh season from the upper lines, which at the time of the release was watched by 16.9 million people.

The driver of a car in Philadelphia (USA), after a domestic conflict, deliberately hit pedestrians, CBS reports with reference to the local police. According to her, six people were injured - three men and three women. One of the victims-a 37-year-old man-received serious injuries and is in critical condition. The rest, according to doctors, are out of danger. The 44-year-old driver himself was injured in his head during sharp braking and was hospitalized.

The Prosecutor's Office of Zurich opened a criminal case against the former owner of the Moscow Cherkizov market Telman Ismailov on suspicion of violating the three articles of the Switzerland Criminal Code, Kommersant writes with reference to sources.

The amount of funds that will be allocated for the restoration of the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God can reach 1 billion euros, RTL reports. As noted, money comes from large companies, as well as four public funds. They were chosen by the Ministry of Culture of France. Recall that earlier in the design of Notre Dama they found weaknesses . The fire in the cathedral began on April 15th. After almost 10 hours, messages appeared About localization, and then about the elimination of the fire.

Oleg Deripaska’s lawyers are going to establish a prize fund of 600 thousand dollars for the media that will find out the reasons why the United States imposed sanctions against the businessman. He admitted that he would reduce his share in the group of the gas output from under the restrictions.