The CIA and its partners in the Middle East are going to strengthen the moderate opposition in Syria, including with anti-aircraft guns, if the truce in the country is disrupted. This possibility is provided for by the US-developed “Plan B,” WSJ has learned.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed an order dismissing the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Olga Dergunova “in connection with a transfer to another job.” RBC analyzed what it managed and failed to achieve in 4 years Olga Dergunova (Photo: RIA Novosti) Olga Dergunova was hired by the Federal Property Management Agency in 2012 by the current presidential adviser on economics, Andrei Belousov, who at that time was the head of the Ministry of Economic Development.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has named Vice President Michel Temer and Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Eduardo Cunha as the organizers of the conspiracy against her.

The apartment of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, which was discussed in the Transparency International publication, previously belonged to the structures of State Duma deputy Alexander Babakov and Evgeny Giner, and then to businessman Livi Isaev Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin (Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS) The Vedomosti newspaper says that the first owner of the apartment in the Blizhnaya Dacha complex on Starovolynskaya Street (Ochakovo-Matveevskoye district)

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, whose doping test was positive for the banned drug meldonium earlier this year, entered the roster for the Roland Garros tournament, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments that will be held in Paris from May 16 to June 5, 2016. Sharapova's name is listed on the list of tournament participants on the official competition website. Sharapova herself announced the positive results of her doping test on March 7.

In Ukraine they decided to create a Ministry for the Affairs of Occupied Territories. The initiative was taken by the contender for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman. In particular, Kyiv considers Crimea an occupied territory Contender for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman (Photo: InA “Ukrainian Photo”) In Ukraine they are going to create a Ministry for Occupied Territories.

Low crude oil prices have sharply increased demand from Chinese refineries. Chinese oil refiners are trying to stock up as much as possible on cheap raw materials necessary to produce gasoline that does not change in price. China, oil storage facility in Tianjin industrial zone (Photo: DPA) In January-March 2016, China imported about 91.1 million tons of oil, bringing daily import volumes to 7.34 million barrels, which is a record figure, reports Bloomberg , citing Chinese customs data.

On Wednesday, April 13, a missile fired from Syria hit the territory of the Turkish border city of Kilis, Reuters reports , citing a statement by the mayor of the city, Hassan Kara. The Turkish side returned fire on Syrian territory. No one was injured as a result of the shelling of the Turkish city, the mayor of Kilis said. The agency's security source said that the Turkish military responded by opening fire with howitzers.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine did not find any corpus delicti in the criminal case of bribery, in which the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk is involved. Prosecutor of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine Vladislav Kutsenko stated this on the air of the 112.Ukraine TV channel. He said that the prosecutor's office registered this proceeding not independently, but by court decision.

There is hope that Maria Sharapova will play at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, said the head of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev. This is how he commented on WADA’s statement about the acceptable content of meldonium in a doping test Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova may be granted amnesty and play at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the final decision rests with the International Tennis Federation (ITF).

"United Russia" will allow the heads of "Patriots of Russia", "Civil Platform" and "Motherland" to enter the State Duma.

Pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov (Vovan and Lexus) tried to fabricate an interview with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for The New York Times. They spoke about this in an interview with Gazeta.ru . Earlier, Poroshenko’s press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko accused “Russian special services” of trying to achieve a false publication. “I don’t know of any other intelligence agency besides us that deals with such matters. I mean pranksters,” Lexus said.

The Prosecutor General's Office will check the legality of the instructions of the Central Bank of Russia, according to which insurers can withhold 23% of the insurance premium in the event of termination by the policyholder of the MTPL agreement, writes .

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs departments for migration and drug control. This was reported on the Kremlin website. In accordance with the decree, Olga Kirillova was appointed head of the main department for migration issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Andrei Khrapov will head the drug control department.

"Dissernet" accepted citations of laws and explanatory notes for incorrect borrowings, the Accounts Chamber responded to the publication of the Internet community about plagiarism in the dissertations of the chairman of the chamber Tatyana Golikova Head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova (Photo: Alexey Druzhinin/TASS) The Accounts Chamber responded to accusations from the Internet community “Dissernet” of incorrect borrowings, which were used by the department’s