Mikhail Abyzov The property of the former Minister for Open Government and one of the richest people in Russia Mikhail Abyzov was arrested. This was stated by the investigator at a meeting of the Moscow City Court on Wednesday, his words are given by Interfax. The official was arrested on suspicion of fraud and the creation of a criminal community, he faces up to twenty years of imprisonment.

The special services of the UK and the Netherlands ceased to share operational information with colleagues from the Austrian counterintelligence - the Federal Directorate for the Protection of the Constitution and the fight against terrorism ( BVT ). The reason is the fears that secret information can "seep" into Russia through the Austrians.

Andrey Lazarev Russian banker Andrei Lazarev, convicted of embezzlement, was detained with a fake passport on the border of Belarus and Poland. This was reported by the FSIN Office for the Sverdlovsk Region. The incident occurred on March 30, but it became known only today.

Venezuela Permanent at the UN Samuel Moncada accused the United States of pressure on Venezuelan diplomats. He claims that mission employees at the UN are forbidden to move outside the 40-kilometer radius from the building of the Permanent Protection.

US President Donald Trump called an investigation about the possible intervention of Russia in the American elections "an attempt by a coup" by removing it from office. Trump said this before a working trip to Texas. He noted that he did not read the report of the special prosecutor Robert Muller, who was investigating. “I am not worried about Müller's report. I am completely rehabilitated,” Trump said.

Archive photo The Federal Police of Germany conducts a special operation against the alleged supporters of the radical movement of Hamas. It is reported by Deutsche Welle with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany. Searches are held in 90 objects at once in several federal lands, including Bavaria, as well as in Berlin and Hamburg. In addition, police officers check the activities of the WWR Help and ANSAAR International association.

Pavel Lungin The Ministry of Culture of Russia did not issue a rental certificate of the film "Brotherhood" director Pavel Lungin. This preliminary decision, the final will become known after a public hearing in the Ministry of Culture. According to RBC, the department decided to hold them on April 12. The State Duma and Lungin himself were invited to the hearing. The film "Brotherhood" is dedicated to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989.

Over the three months of this year, over 35 thousand people got measles in Ukraine, 14 people died from complications. This is as much as in the past year, when Ukraine, according to the World Health Organization, has become a leader in the number of sick in the world - along with the Philippines and Brazil. True, in these two countries, as many people fell ill as in one country - Ukraine.

The accusation requires three employees of the correctional colony number 33 in Khakassia in a total of 34 years in prison for torture and mockery of convicts. This was reported by the human rights organization "Zone of Law" with reference to a lawyer Natalya Mons. The head of the single room of the IK-33 chamber type Evgeny Chichinin and his two subordinates-Dmitry Zolotukhin and Ilya Vasiliev-do not admit guilt. On April 18, they have to make the last word.

In Astrakhan, investigators completed the investigation of the criminal case against a 32-year-old local resident who did not report to a friend who left to fight in Syria on the side of the jihadists. The case was sent to the court, according to the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

To ensure a worthy, according to Russians, the standard of living on average needs to earn 66 thousand rubles. These are the research of the financial university under the Government of Russia, which is published by the "Russian newspaper". Residents of Moscow require at least 100 thousand for a decent life, and St. Petersburg-91 thousand. The most modest requests from the inhabitants of Chita are 50 thousand rubles, the authors of the study note.

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy Anatoly Bondarenko promised to ban in the city the election posters of the current president Petro Poroshenko with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He wrote about this on his Facebook. According to Bondarenko, posters with Putin will be dismantled by decision of the Executive Committee of the City Council. The official said that he was outraged by the possibility of the appearance of the face of the Russian president over the city.

Vladimir Putin congratulates Dmitry Yazov on the 90th anniversary, Moscow, November 2014 (Archive photo) In Russia, a criminal case was opened against Lithuanian judges who in absentia sentenced to 10 years in prison of the Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Yazov. This is stated in the message on the website of the Investigative Committee.

Shield of the weapons store in the city is crazelry in New Zealand The Parliament of New Zealand voted for tightening arms legislation, prohibiting the sale of semi -automatic weapons in the country. This proposal was previously made by Jasinda Ardern Prime Minister after an attack on two mosques in the south of the country. It is expected that by Friday the bill will be approved by the Governor-General of the country and will enter into force.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, 37-year-old activist Karim Yamadaev was released. He left for 28 days of arrest for organizing Putin's funeral: on March 10, at the building of the Investigative Committee, Karim established the "tombstone" of the Russian president. After that, activists of "unlimited protest" proposed to erect such "monuments" in their cities. Karim Yamadaev himself is a former policeman. In an interview with IDEL.