For hockey "Spartak" difficult days have come Today in world hockey there are many important, as they say, "first -headed" topics. In the KHL, the final of the Gagarin Cup is in full swing, in the NHL there are matches of the first stage of the Stanley Cup, preparations for the final stage of the Eurotour, which will be held in Sweden in early May, and on May 9 in Minsk, the next world championship is in full swing .

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The United States is disappointed with the announcement of Hamas and the organization of the liberation of Palestine that they will try to create a government of national unity. The press secretary of the State Department Jen Psaki said that the plan could seriously complicate the efforts to achieve the Palestinian-Israeli peaceful settlement. The US ally, Israel, refuses to deal with Hamas because of the calls of this Islamic group to destroy the Jewish state.

The State Duma of Russia on Wednesday immediately adopted in the second and third, final, reading a bill on criminal liability for public rehabilitation of Nazism. According to the document, fines of up to 500 thousand rubles or imprisonment of up to five years are established for the law that prevented the law. Corresponding amendments are made to the criminal and criminal procedure codes of Russia.

Adults came to the rally in defense of the Izmailovsky hospital with children in need of treatment In Moscow, at the Pervomaisky cinema, a rally under the motto "We will save the Izmailovsky Children's Hospital" As part of the reform, a number of departments were eliminated in the Izmailovskaya Children's Hospital, including the children's hematological center. A rally against such a reorganization in Moscow was organized with the support of the Yabloko party.

Will there be new Geneva? We are talking about this with military expert Viktor Litovkin, diplomat Alexander Chalym and political scientist Alexei Malashenko

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported on Wednesday that during the operation of the country's power structures, the city of Svyatogorsk, in the Donetsk region, was released from the "illegal armed group of separatists." “The security forces who took part in the anti -terrorist operation were replaced by ... grouping outside the village,” the ministry said, noting that no one died.

In Kiev, the Congress of Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia continues, organized by Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Kiev, the Congress "Ukraine-Russia: Dialogue", organized by the ex-head of the "Yukos" Mikhail Khodorkovsky. More than 300 guests participate in it, including journalists Radio Liberty.

Near Cairo today, the police general Ahmed Zaki died during the explosion. The explosive device was attached to the bottom of his car. On the same day, in Alexandria, during the raid, another high -ranking policeman, Lieutenant Ahmed Saad, was shot in the shelter of the militants. After the removal from the authorities in July last year, the Islamist President Muhammad Mursi in the country increased the number of attacks on representatives of security forces.

Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko was sentenced to three years of colony-settlement The activities of the environmental organization were suspended for six months The Office of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Adygea suspended the activities of the ecological shift in the North Caucasus for six months.

Vladimir Lukin The President of the Paralympic Committee of Russia Vladimir Lukin was re -elected for a new four -year term. This decision was made by the delegates of the Paralympic Assembly, held in Podolsk. 76-year-old Vladimir Lukin was the only contender for the post of President of the RCD. His candidacy was supported by delegates unanimously.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky The Council of Human Rights under the President of Russia asks the Prosecutor General’s Office to institute criminal proceedings against the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky for insulting and humiliating a pregnant woman, journalist of the Russian news agency today. The prosecution of the deputy is possible only with the consent of the State Duma of Russia.

US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after a private dinner at the Sukiyabashi Jiro Tokyo restaurant April 23, 2014 US President Barack Obama began his visit to Tokyo - the first visit of the American president to Japan in 10 years - with lunch with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in one of the best sushi restaurants in the Tokyo Ginza quarter. The US President was accompanied by Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and National Security Council Suzan Rice.

In the United States, a group of scientists said that from 2000 to 2013 26 asteroids exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere. The B612 Foundation based in California on Tuesday published a report based on the organization’s data on the implementation of the comprehensive prohibition of nuclear tests. The document emphasizes that the risk of falling large asteroids is underestimated. The authors of the study note that the force of explosions asteroid is from one to 600 kilotons.

Employees of the Federal Migration Service of Russia (FMS) did not present any documents to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev prohibiting the entry into the territory of Crimea, ”Yuri Zvyagintsev, deputy head of the FMS of the FMS in Crimea, said on Wednesday.