The authorities of Tunisia presented to the former president of the country Zin Al-Abidin Ben Ali accusations under 18 articles of the Criminal Code. On Thursday, April 14, reports Reuters. Among the accusations are murders, preparation of a conspiracy against the state, illegal assignment of property and drug smuggling.

The program of the 64th Cannes Festival, which will be held from May 11 to May 22, was announced. The list of contestants appeared on the official website of the festival on Thursday, April 14. In total, 19 films were found in the main competitive program.

Judging by the latest news from North Africa, the only political regime of Jamahiria will soon cease to exist. NATO attacks Libya , local rebels broke state cell communications, and the head of the country, Colonel Muamar Gaddafi , seems to be finally ready to retire. Against the backdrop of the Libyan conflict, Sol interviewed the leader of Jamahiria, though not North African, but Perm. The musician Oleg Seleznev in the early 1990s made his rock band and named it in honor of the Gaddafi regime.

On a kama, go ahead! On April 13, the “Fight of Poets” was held in the Pushkin Perm library. More than a hundred people gathered in the main reading room of the library - for Perm this is a very serious figure. Probably, many simply led to the intriguing name and expected to see a real battle. There was nothing like this: two Perm poets, young and experienced, Ivan Kozlov and Igor Tyulenev, read poetry.

Today, the musician and actor Peter Mamonov turns 60 years old. On the same, 2011 came another peculiar anniversary - exactly forty years of Mamonov’s acquaintance with musical critic Artemy Troitsky. Although the latter, it seems, does not consider both of these dates so big holidays. “Salt” Troitsky talked about why he and Mamonov have not called each other for many years, and without Obonyaks said what, in his opinion, the leader of “Sounds Mu” has turned over the past couple of decades.

The materials of the case of the Ryazan mayor of Fedor Stodorov were transferred to the court. He is accused of murder by negligence, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia reports on Thursday, April 14. According to investigators, on the evening of September 2, 2006, at the 38th kilometer of the Savior-Clepic-Ryazan wires, driving a Mercedes-Benz car, drove into the oncoming lane, where a collision with a motorcycle occurred.

The number of victims during the fire that occurred in the residential building of Paris, according to the latest data, reached 51 people. Five people died, reports on Thursday, April 14, Euronews. The fire began at 3:00 local time (5:00 in Moscow) in a residential building located in the passage of CITE de Labyrinthe in the 20th district. This is the east of the French capital.

The famous Yekaterinburg human rights activist and blogger Kirill Formanchuk, better known as the Medved, sued the Chkalovsky District Military Committee of Yekaterinburg for not drafted into the army. As he wrote on his blog, the commissariat owes him 100 thousand rubles of compensation. In so much, the bear appreciated the deprivation of himself the right to fulfill a civil duty. Photo: vkontakte.ru Formanchuk was 27 years old on August 25, 2010.

The Commission of the German Bundestag on Culture approved the construction of a monument to the peaceful revolution in the GDR of 1989 on the Palace Square in the center of Berlin and the unification of Germany, which occurred in 1990. The monument will have the form of 50-meter swing, reports Deutsche Welle. The project of a monument called “Citizens in Movement” was proposed by the Stuttgart architect Joganes Mill and the Berlin choreographer Sasha Valtz.

April 21 - on Clean Thursday - the Musica Aeterna Perm opera orchestra, under the control of Theodore Krentzis, plays a spiritual concert in which the cult works of Stabat Mater Pergolets and the Savior on the Cross will be heard. The main thing in this concert is the voice of the famous opera singer Deborah York, the owner of Grammy. Her "angelic soprano" is sung by the praises of the Atlantic.

A criminal case has been opened against three young people who buried the man they had stolen in the cemetery, and he died of hypothermia. On Thursday, April 14, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee in the Krasnodar Territory reports . Three guys aged 18 to 21 years old were kidnapped by a 38-year-old man, a resident of the Umaka farm of the Dinsky district of the region, demanding that they repay the alleged debt to them.

The two -headed Magdalena Turtle from Slovak Zhilina will predict the matches of the World Hockey Championship. The championship will be held in Slovakia from April 29 to May 15, reports the Slovak newspaper čas. To predict Magdalen, they will be placed to the very center of the improvised hockey platform and will wait for the direction it will follow. The “magnet” will serve as a salad sheet, which will be located at the gate.

US Vice President Joe Biden dozed off during the speech of US President Barack Obama. The president’s speech was devoted to one of the country's main economic tasks - reducing the budget deficit, reports on Thursday, April 14, Associated Press. The video posted on the publication’s website clearly shows how the second person in the state “pecks with your nose”. Some of the American experts are sure that Biden closed his eyes to better concentrate.

The Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case against the activist of the art group "War" Oleg Vorotnikov. On Thursday, April 14, the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg reports . The criminal case was immediately instituted under three articles: “hooliganism”, “the application of violence against a representative of the authorities” and “insulting a representative of power”.

Masha Gessen - Liberal Liberallych, the main Snob and Global Russian - wrote a book about mathematics Perelman, which two years ago was famous for the abandonment of several prestigious mathematical awards, who considered him evidence of the Poincare hip. The fact that strawberries grew in the USSR is a real miracle! Freedom-loving strawberries simply could not grow in a totalitarian society, and yet it grew. When I first tried strawberries, I immediately realized: this is mine.