The environmental action "March of Parks" takes place in Russia from April 18 to 22. Within its framework, events will be held in support of specially protected natural areas. On April 19, the defenders of the Butovo forest in the suburbs go on an ecological watch. The International Promotion "March of Parks" has been held since 1995. More than a hundred environmental organizations participate in it.

Alexey Pankin Elena Rykovtseva: By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, finally, public television was created, about which the Bolsheviks, journalists and so on spoke so much. In the studio Raf Shakirov, head of the site "Great Government of the Russian Federation". In touch from the forest boarding house "Forest Dali", where a large Internet forum is now taking place-Alexei Pankin, media expert, who has long been following the situation with public television.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Okampo arrived today in Tripoli in connection with the case of the safe al-Islam, the son of the ousted Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi. The safe al-Islam, arrested in November last year in the south of Libya, after the death of his father, is now detained in the city of Zintan, 180 kilometers southwest of Tripoli. Whether this city will visit Moreno-Okamo is not yet clear.

The Switzerland government today announced the decision to expand the sanctions against Iran by "freezing" bank accounts of another 11 legal entities and individuals.

Public television will be included in the free package of digital channels and will be available throughout Russia On Tuesday, April 17, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of "Public Television of Russia" (OTR). The Council of the OTR and the General Director will be approved after taking office of the chosen President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton In Paris today a meeting of "Friends of Syria" will be held. The heads of foreign policy departments of 14 countries will discuss the compliance by the Syrian authorities of the ceasefire. The day before, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will take part in the Paris meeting, said that if Syria President Bashar Assad misses his last chance and will not begin to fulfill the plan to resolve the conflict in Syria, he is waiting for “harsh consequences”.

In Moscow, they say goodbye to the famous actor, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Porokhovshchikov. The civilian memorial service takes place at the Pushkin Theater. Telegrams with condolences from the President and Prime Minister of Russia were sent to the theater. Porokhovshchikov was seriously ill and died on the night of April 15 at the Moscow clinic at the age of 73. He will be buried in the Staro-Markovsky cemetery in the suburbs-next to the grave of his mother.

Hydroelectric power station "Three Gorges" on the Yangtze River The authorities of China intend in the coming years to relocate about one hundred thousand people living in the area of the three gorges in the province of Hubei - due to the threat of landslides.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov In Brussels, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council will be held today at the level of foreign ministers. A joint fight against terrorism and piracy will be discussed, the situation in Afghanistan and the missile defense system. According to the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Grushko, the progress in this matter should not be expected.

The logo of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago (USA) Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs of NATO countries gather today in Brussels for a two -day meeting dedicated mainly to the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting is considered a preparatory stage for the NATO summit, which will be held in a month in Chicago. It should be approved by a plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan 130 thousand troops of international security forces - by the end of 2014.

Mitt Romni is now almost an official presidential candidate from the Republican Party Eight months before the presidential election, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have equal chances to win - this is a rather unexpected result of the latest polls of public opinion. The results of studies conducted by the Gallup Institute and the Sociological Service of Rasmussen indicate the advantage of Mitt Romni.

Anders Breivik at a hearing in court The right -wing extremist Anders Breivik, who confessed to the double terrorist attack in Norway in July last year, said that the court should either justify it or sentenced him to the death penalty that is not applied in the country. “There are only two legal outcome of the process in my case,” Breivik said at the Oslo, ongoing the third day, at the hearing today.

A new department has been created in the Investigative Committee of Russia, which will investigate crimes committed by law enforcement officials. This was announced today by the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin. According to him, work on such criminal cases will be carried out together with the divisions of the FSB of Russia.