In the African state of Guinea -Bisau - judging by the incoming reports - an armed rebellion began. The military took control of the center of the capital - the cities of Bisau, the radio station and the headquarters of the ruling party. It is reported about shooting on the streets of the city. Agencies are reported with reference to foreign diplomats that nothing is known about the whereabouts of the interim president and Prime Minister of the country.

Russian blogger and mathematician Misha Verbitsky (Tiphareth) The most important theme of the Russian blogosphere for several days has been a beard. The founder of the blog portal lj.rossia.org (the so-called "typhoretic") mathematician Misha Verbitsky said that he was not released abroad due to outstanding duty. Verbitsky found out that he was the defendant in the suit of "Boroda LLC " and his head Igor Pugach , who claims that he has a patent for wearing a beard.

Hazem Abu Ismail The court in Egypt on Wednesday allowed the popular priest-sanfite to participate in the presidential election planned in May . Earlier, the country's election commission refused Khazem Abu Ismail in registration, referring to the fact that his mother was a US citizen. In Egypt, a presidential candidate cannot become a person whose parents or spouse have citizenship of another country.

Boris Titov Mikhail Sokolov: Today, in our Moscow studio, the chairman of the Business Russia organization Boris Titov. We are talking about the political and economic problems of Russian life. Such an interesting message appeared with statistics: every sixth entrepreneur, two -thirds of enterprises that belonged to the victims of persecution, was closed, closed, 2 million people lost their criminal prosecution.

For the period from March 30 to April 6, international (gold and foreign exchange) reserves increased by $ 4.1 billion or about 0.8% to $ 516.7 billion. This is stated in the materials of the Central Bank. Great than Russia with gold and foreign exchange reserves today have two countries in the world - China and Japan. According to the latest published data, their volume is 3.2 trillion and 1.1 trillion dollars, respectively.

Vladimir Lukin The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Vladimir Lukin is convinced that the former co -owner of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky must be released as soon as possible. In an interview with one of the television companies of Tomsk, where Lukin arrived on a visit, the Ombudsman noted that the verdict in the so -called “second case of Yukos”, in which Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were sentenced to 13 years in prison, was “wrong” and “frivolous”.

In Turkey today, the police conducted searches in the houses of several retired military - as part of an investigation of a high -profile case of an anti -government conspiracy. Several orders were given several people, including retired General Jevik Bir. They are suspected of involvement in the Ergenecon organization, which, according to the investigation, prepared the overthrow of the government of moderate Islamists, led by Recep Erdogan.

Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. 1/8 finals "Nashville" - "Detroit" 3: 2 Account in the series 1: 0 "Pittsburgh" - "Philadelphia" 3: 4 (in overtime) Account in the series 0: 1 "Vancouver"-"Los Angeles" 2: 4 Account in the series 0: 1

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev during a speech on Manezhnaya Square on March 4, 2012 Elena Rykovtseva : Was Dmitry Medvedev so bad? Is it really inglorious its end? Namely, the "inglorious end" is the name of the publication of Alexander Minkin, actually summing up the results of the activities of Dmitry Medvedev as the head of state. He is visiting today.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev introduced the candidacy of Marina Kovtun to the Murmansk Regional Duma to give the authority of the governor. This was announced by the Radio Liberty correspondent to Andrei Korolev deputy of the regional parliament Igor Chernyshenko. Currently, Kovtun acts as the head of the region.

Sergey Mironov and Oleg Shein, Astrakhan, April 12, 2012 The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Vladimir Churov agreed to personally watch videos from the Astrakhan polling stations made on the day of the mayor of the city. The records were handed over to Churov to the Fair Russia Sergey Mironov, who arrived on the eve of Astrakhan, where the hunger strike of the former mayor candidate Oleg Shein and his associates continues.

The Krasnodar Regional Court today sentenced to 20 years in prison Vyacheslav Ryabtsev, a member of the so -called "Tsapka gang", who was operating in the Kuban village of Kushchevskaya. It was such a punishment that the prosecutor demanded. The victims insisted on life imprisonment. Ryabtsev was found guilty of committing a series of crimes, including preparing an attack on a farmer’s house committed in Kushchevskaya in November 2010. Then 12 people were brutally killed, including children.

Damascus, Syria, April 12, 2012. In Syria on April 12, a truce proposed by the UN came into effect . However, judging by the reports from the country, it acts only partially. Observers emphasize the fragility of the ceasefire and warn about the dangers of a full -scale civil war in Syria, where more than 9 thousand people died in 13 months of conflict.