The Constitutional Court held a heated discussion on how to implement its 2014 decision banning the return of a mandate to a deputy who had refused it.

From March 31, 2016, the Bank of Russia set the dollar exchange rate at 67.6076 rubles, which is 1.1473 rubles. lower than the previous figure. The official euro exchange rate decreased by only 32.25 kopecks. - since March 31, it has been set at 76.5386 rubles. During today's trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar exchange rate dropped to 67.216 rubles, which is 83.4 kopecks. below the closing level of previous trading.

The new management of Vnesheconombank proposes to involve not only budgetary funds and the Central Bank in the rescue of VEB, but also state-owned companies, state corporations and the Pension Fund, Vedomosti learned. Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Sergey Gorkov (Photo: Dmitry Astakhov/TASS) The new chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB), Sergei Gorkov, presented at a meeting of the VEB Supervisory Board held the day before an action plan to improve the bank’s financial stability.

Vladimir Putin dismissed his adviser Anton Ustinov from his post due to his transfer to another job. Earlier it was reported that he would replace Sergei Ivanov, who will move to Sberbank, as the chairman of the board of SOGAZ. Former adviser to the Russian President Anton Ustinov (Photo: PhotoXPress) Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his adviser Anton Ustinov from his post. The decree of the head of state was published on the Kremlin website.

Experts found no traces of explosives on the wreckage of the Boeing that crashed in Rostov-on-Don. reports this Interfax with reference to an informed source. “According to the examination, no signs of traces of explosives were found on the wreckage of the plane,” he said.

VTB fears that AFI Development's subsidiaries will not be able to repay the loan on time.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the actions of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) group in Syria, announcing strikes against Islamists in Homs province, which, according to the Russian military, killed more than 60 militants.

French President Francois Hollande has abandoned plans to revoke French citizenship and deport those found guilty of terrorism offences. He said this following a meeting with the heads of both houses of the country’s parliament. At the same time, it was proposed to deprive only dual citizenship holders of French citizenship. “The compromise (on amendments to the Constitution. - RBC) , apparently, is beyond our reach,” the president said (quoted by BBC ).

American investor Carter Page, who became Donald Trump's foreign policy adviser during the election campaign, said that his business was directly affected by US sanctions against Russia US presidential candidate Donald Trump (Photo: AP) Page, who has numerous business connections in Russia, said in an interview with Bloomberg that anti-Russian sanctions have led to the failure of potential deals, as well as to a decrease in the value of Gazprom shares, of which he is a holder.

The head of the investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Georgy Alburov, appealed to law enforcement agencies with a demand to check Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin for taking a bribe after publishing about his apartment “for 500 million rubles.” about this . The oppositionist himself told the BBC He said that, according to FBK, Rogozin did not buy the apartment, but became one of its owners as part of an exchange with an additional payment.

Brazilian football player Pele has filed a $30 million lawsuit against Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung for the unlawful use of his double in advertising, writes the Chicago Tribune. The lawsuit, filed in early March on behalf of Pelé, alleges that Samsung improperly used a Pelé lookalike in TV advertisements. The advertisement appeared in The New York Times in October 2015. By this time, Samsung had broken off negotiations with Pele about using his image.

In the Amur region, a nurse was fired after a photograph she took of a wounded patient appeared on the Internet, the regional prosecutor's office reports . On the night of February 14, 2016, a local resident was admitted to the hospital in the Mazanovsky district of the Amur region with a gunshot wound. A surgical nurse took his photograph without the patient's consent. After that, she sent the photo to her friend via WhatsApp, who posted it on the Internet.

Sevastopol Governor Sergei Menyailo proposed to give city land to the Stroygazmontazh company of Arkady Rotenberg for the construction of an amusement park without announcing a competition Baydar Valley (Photo: wikipedia.org) In a letter from the head of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, which was obtained by Kommersant , the governor’s proposal was voiced, without announcing a competition, to allocate land in Sevastopol to Arkady Rotenberg’s company

In Orenburg, a street will be named in memory of officer Alexander Prokhorenko, who died in Syria. This is stated in a message on the portal of the regional governor Yuri Berg. The name of the special forces officer who died in the Palmyra area was published the day before by the Orenday.ru portal. Today the officer's name was published on the portal of regional authorities.

In the United States, two black men who opened fire on parade participants in Louisiana have been sentenced to prison, the Associated Press reports . Brothers Aiken and Sean Scott admitted that they acted together in 2013, firing pistols at participants in the Mother's Day parade. Then they wounded 20 people. A surveillance camera captured one of the brothers shooting at the procession. A few days later they were both arrested.