Ethiopia's highest court on Monday sentenced ex-president Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was found guilty of genocide, to death in absentia on Monday, overturning an earlier sentence that sentenced the former announcer to life in prison, RIA Novosti reports citing Agence France-Presse. The same verdict was handed down to 18 other high-ranking officials of the former regime.

Dov Rivkin, the former Vladimir, left Russia at the very beginning of the 90s: from bandits and food stamps. He never would have thought that the place of his birth would be such a significant advantage. “Now I earn a third more than my Israeli classmates,” says a senior consultant in the investment appraisal department of the Moscow office of SAP. Rivkin is young (37 years old), has experience of living in capitalist countries and, most importantly, speaks Russian fluently.

The April Fool's joke of the Pantheon travel agency and the Interfax agency was a success - a message about a Russian tourist who faces up to five years in prison for chasing a monkey who stole his glasses in a Sri Lankan resort was reprinted by several media at once. “It was qualified as an attempt to attack [a sacred animal]. Now the tourist is testifying,” Anatoly Garkushin, director of Pantheon, told the agency.

Dov Rivkin, the former Vladimir, left Russia at the very beginning of the 90s: from bandits and food stamps. He never would have thought that the place of his birth would be such a significant advantage. “Now I earn a third more than my Israeli classmates,” says a senior consultant in the investment appraisal department of the Moscow office of SAP. Rivkin is young (37 years old), has experience of living in capitalist countries and, most importantly, speaks Russian fluently.