Local elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic have been postponed from April 20 to July 24, 2016. This was reported on the official website of the DPR. Zakharchenko's published decree states that local elections have been postponed from April 20, 2016 to July 24, 2016. Back in January, Zakharchenko promised that local elections in the DPR would take place in April.

The mayor of the city of Kemerovo, Valery Ermakov, left his post, as stated in a message on the website of the administration of the Kemerovo region. The governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, accepted Ermakov’s resignation “in connection with his retirement” and thanked him for his many years of conscientious work. And Ilya Seredyuk, who has served as deputy governor for agriculture, natural resources and ecology since 2015, will fulfill the duties of the head of the regional center.

In order to increase the flow of tourists, Macedonia has developed a program to subsidize tour operators, under which it plans to return from €15 to €65 depending on the type of transportation. This is stated in a message on the website of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia. Thus, for each Russian tourist who arrived in Macedonia by air in a group of ten people and stayed in the country for at least three days, €65 will be returned.

The Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case in connection with the crash of a Robinson R-66 helicopter in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The day before, Vladimir Putin did not have time to read the article by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in the magazine “Vlast,” said Dmitry Peskov.

At the end of 2015, Russia dropped out of the top five world's largest wine importers, according to the report of the International Wine Organization (OIV). The volume of wine imports into the country in monetary terms decreased by more than 25% Photo: Lori Victims of the embargo According to the International Wine Organization (OIV), wine imports to Russia at the end of 2015 decreased by 14.5% in volume terms, to 400 million liters, and by 27.7% in monetary terms, to €625 million.

Hyundai Motor and Cisco Systems will develop technology to connect cars to the Internet, which will be a step towards realizing Hyundai's vision of creating a “high-performance computer on wheels.” This was reported by Reuters with reference to a statement from Hyundai. It says that during a meeting in Seoul, Hyundai Vice Chairman Jeong Eui-sung and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins agreed to jointly develop on-board network technology for high-speed transfer of large amounts of data.

The dollar exchange rate at the beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange dropped below 66 rubles. The ruble is strengthening against the backdrop of rising oil prices, which have risen by $0.8 since the beginning of the day. Photo: Nikita Popov / RBC The exchange rate of the dollar at the beginning of trading on April 19 fell below 66 rubles, as of 10:09 Moscow time its value was 65.7 rubles. At the same time, the European currency was trading around 74.5 rubles.

St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Photo: Rostislav Koshelev/Interpress) The Board of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation found serious violations in the activities of the North-Western Directorate for Construction, Reconstruction and Restoration. According to the press service of the joint venture, the directorate’s facilities lack purchased materials and equipment worth 332 million rubles, and the institution’s receivables have doubled.

In Stavropol, a gas cylinder exploded in a minibus, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Stavropol Territory. The department said that information about the incident was received by the service at 12:39 Moscow time. An explosion of a gas cylinder in a Gazelle car occurred on Serov Street; at the time of the emergency, there were passengers in the minibus.

Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman put pressure on the kingdom's delegation at the negotiations in Doha on freezing oil production, which led to their breakdown, FT has learned.

Russia sees no point in reviving the G8 format. As Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, for Moscow the G8 format is a thing of the past Photo: Reuters/Pixstream For Russia, the G8 format is a thing of the past, said in an interview with Interfax Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov . “We don’t see the need to revive what is left in the past,” he said, answering the question of whether Moscow is ready to resume work in this format.

A court in Irkutsk sentenced a local resident to seven years in prison for the murder of a businessman over salary arrears. this to RIA Novosti . Representative of the Sverdlovsk District Court of the city Tatyana Karelina reported As the Investigative Committee reported, the crime was committed at the end of January 2016. According to preliminary data, the man tracked down the businessman near the Podsnezhnik sanatorium and shot several times at the car he was in.

One of the reasons for the fire in the building of the Burdenko Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow could have been a short circuit. was informed about this Interfax by the press service and information department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. “According to preliminary information from the scene, the cause of the smoke could be an electrical short circuit,” the report says.

At a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council on Wednesday, the alliance will raise the issue of provocative maneuvers by the Russian military after Russian Su-24s approached a US Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (Photo: AP) The first meeting of the Russia-NATO Council at the ambassadorial level since June 2014 will take place on Wednesday, April 20.