International journalist, writer and MGIMO teacher Igor Fesunenko died in Moscow at the age of 84. This is reported on the university website. Fesunenko was born in 1933 in Orenburg. In 1955 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of History and Archives with a degree in historian-archivist. From 1957 to 1963, Fesunenko worked in the Main Archive Directorate and was a freelance writer for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

Journalist and TV presenter Savik Shuster and several Ukrainian politicians and activists will create a Committee to Save Freedom of Speech in Ukraine. this with reference to a statement released by Savik Shuster Studio. reports Interfax-Ukraine In addition to the TV presenter, the creation of the Committee was supported, in particular, by MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Sergei Leshchenko and the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili.

Photo: Andrey Pronin/Interpress In St. Petersburg, searches are taking place in two offices of the Nevastroinvest bank. As Fontanka writes , the Investigative Committee is checking the transfer of Metrostroy’s money abroad. According to the publication, investigators and police officers came to the bank’s offices at 3 Alexander Nevsky Street and 4 Fuchik Street. The main owner of the bank, according to the publication, is Nikolai Alexandrov, the son of the head of Metrostroy, Vadim Alexandrov.

The meeting in Doha, problems in China and uncertainty with the Russian budget will ultimately lead to a weakening of the ruble. At the end of June - beginning of July, the dollar will already cost 75 rubles. The meeting in Doha was, of course, one of the most important external factors, which in the near future will affect the ruble exchange rate through oil prices.

Russia has become the world leader in wheat exports, surpassing the United States and Canada, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, told reporters. According to him, in 2016 Russia will export about 25 million tons of wheat Photo: Valery Matitsin/TASS The head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, told reporters on Thursday, April 28, that Russia has become the world leader in wheat exports, surpassing the United States and Canada, TASS reports .

The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission has closed the Al Jazeera bureau in Baghdad and banned its journalists from covering events in the country. This was reported on the Al Jazeera website.

The owner of a bar located in the Idrinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory admitted to killing a visitor on New Year's Day. This is stated in the message of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

Sinyavinskaya poultry farm, 2011 (Photo: Alexander Chizhenok/Kommersant) The Sinyavinskaya poultry farm unreasonably inflated prices for its products from November 2014 to December 2015. The corresponding decision was made by the FAS management commission for the Leningrad region, according to the department’s website. In the spring of 2015, the Perekrestok retail chain contacted the antimonopoly service. She complained about inflated wholesale prices when purchasing eggs from the factory.

Roman Bessmertny, the negotiator from Kyiv in the political subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, announced his resignation. “I decided for myself and informed everyone involved in the technological support of the process, and the president, that I was completing this stage in my life. “I am leaving the Minsk process and will no longer participate in volunteering in this diplomatic field,” he said in an interview with European Pravda published on Thursday.

Photo: Lori The company Perspektiva LLC became the winner of the auction to purchase 100% of the shares of Chaika OJSC, Ekaterina Novak, a representative of the auction organizer BM Project LLC, told RBC. According to her, the company will buy shares at a price of 2 billion rubles, which is half the starting price.

The strengthening of the ruble against the dollar led to an almost twofold decrease in Yandex’s net profit in the first quarter of 2016: due to the revaluation of foreign currency assets, the company lost 1.3 billion rubles. In the Yandex office (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) "Paper" factor Yandex lost about 1.3 billion rubles in the first quarter of 2016. due to the strengthening of the ruble against the dollar, as follows from the company’s quarterly reports published on April 28.

Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe Dmitry Kuleba warned about the threat of turning Nadezhda Savchenko's sister Vera, who was not released from Russia at night, into a new Assange.

Russia must use its influence to put pressure on Syria, State Department spokesman John Kirby said, commenting on the attack on a hospital in Aleppo, Reuters reports . Kirby said the attacks bore hallmarks of strikes that Damascus is believed to have hit medical facilities in the past. “Once again, we call on the regime to stop these absolutely senseless attacks, which, of course, are violations of the cessation of hostilities,” he added.

Global smartphone sales are falling for the first time in history, driven by a slowdown in China. Among the main victims is Apple, whose models turned out to be too expensive for the oversaturated Chinese market. Photo: Lisi Niesner/Bloomberg Polar results According to estimates by the analytical company Strategy Analytics, in January-March 2016, 334.6 million smartphones were sold - 3% less than in the same period last year.

The REN TV channel removed from its website news about the collision of a Russian submarine with the Polish submarine Orzeł. The link that previously provided news with the headline “Russian and Polish submarines collided in the Baltic Sea” now leads to the channel’s news page. The same thing happens when you try to follow the link to the news “Russian submarine forced a Polish submarine to surface.” The first news is available in the cache of the social network VKontakte.