The Ukrainian opposition threatens with impeachment to President Viktor Yanukovych, Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Ivakhnenko reports. In negotiations with his Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev in Kharkov, Yanukovych agreed to extend for 25 years a stay in the Crimea of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia in exchange for Moscow consent to provide Ukraine with a 30 percent discount on gas .

Representatives of the leadership of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund arrived in Athens to discuss the Greece Assistance Program that experiences an acute financial crisis. The Greece government is proposed to use a preferential loan worth 45 billion euros. The mechanism of issuance, as well as the conditions of this loan, will be discussed during 10-day consultations that began on Wednesday. The Greek authorities have not yet decided whether they will use this loan.

Kurmanbek Bakiyevnisable President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev said he did not recognize his resignation and remains the head of state. Bakiev spoke today at the CIS headquarters in the capital of Belarus, Radio Liberty correspondent Vitaly Tsygankov. "I, as the president of the Kyrgyzstan and the guarantor of the Constitution, do not relieve myself of responsibility for the disaster that my people worried, and is ready to bear responsibility," Bakiev said.

Mikhail Zlatkovsky, "good retirement increase" Having learned from the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that there were no pensioners living beyond the poverty in the country, the artist believed.

The airports in Europe preserve a complex situation, despite the opening of the airspace of a number of countries. In the UK, Norway, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the ban on flights imposed on the volcanic ash that fell into the atmosphere as a result of the eruption of the volcano in Iceland was completely or partially lifted. From last Thursday, more than 95 thousand flights were canceled in Europe. Normalization of air communication can take several weeks.

The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Jan Fisher said that after the upcoming elections at the end of May it would leave politics. In today's statement of the prime minister, it is noted that he accepted the proposal to take the post of vice president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

According to many experts, it was public support that played a major role in the decision on the early release of Bakhmina. Exactly a year ago, on April 21, 2009, the Preobrazhensky court of Moscow satisfied the petition for the parole of the former lawyer of Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina . It is believed that the public support played a large role in this. In conclusion, Svetlana Bakhmina spent three out of six and a half years, to which he was sentenced by the court on charges of financial crimes.

The Afghan government reported that it was forced to transfer to two to three weeks the meeting of the Council of Elders, known as Loya-Jierga, outlined at the beginning of May. Golyam Faruk Vardak, responsible for holding a meeting, called one of the reasons for such a decision the upcoming visit by President Hamid Karzay to Washington.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has not yet responded to the accusations of Isa Yamadayev. Businessman Isa Yamadaev accused President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov of organizing an assassination attempt on his life, as well as in the murder of his brothers - Sulim and Ruslan Yamadaevs. This week, in the Moscow Regional Court, hearings began in the case of attempt on ISU Yamadayev. In the dock, his former guard Havazh Yusupov, who is suspected of preparing the murder of Isa Yamadayev.

How reliable does the version of the involvement of the Chechen authorities look in the elimination of the Yamadayev clan? We are talking about this in the program "The Front of Time" on Wednesday April 21 at 23 o’clock with the deputy editor of the New Izvestia Said Bittsoev and the Novaya Gazeta observer Yulia Latinina. Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza. A direct broadcast phone 8-800-200-2212 Free for all regions of Russia Pager 8-495-660-1055 Subscriber "Radio Liberty" SMS +7-903-743-2801

Isa Yamadaev The Chechen entrepreneur Isa Yamadaev accused President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov of organizing attempts on him and his brothers - Ruslan and Sulima Yamadaev. A letter with charges was published on Wednesday April 21 in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. Ruslan Yamadaev - State Duma deputy, Hero of Russia - was killed in Moscow in the fall of 2008. The attempt on the former commander of the Vostok battalion Sulima Yamadaev was committed in March last year in Dubai.