Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, serving a sentence in a colony-settlement in the Tambov region, announced a hunger strike as a sign of disagreement with the decision of the Supreme Court, who rejected his complaint about the replacement of conditional punishment for the real one. This was announced by the ally of Vitishko Viktor Chirikov. The information was confirmed by the lawyer of the prisoner Sergey Loktev. The decision to refuse was made by judge Valentin Kuznetsov.

The workers of the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which announced the hunger strike at the end of March due to unpaid salaries, received their money. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Amur Region. “This year, as a result of the measures of prosecutorial response, more than 200 employees were restored. The amount of wages paid amounted to over 9 million rubles, ”the prosecutor’s statement said.

Judging by the data of the European Business Association (AEB), the fall in sales of new cars and light commercial transport (LCV) has been accelerating for the third month in a row. In January of this year, the car market decreased by 24.4%in annual calculus, in February - by 37.9%, and in March the fall accelerated to 42.5%. “Sales in March were bad, but not much worse than expected.

Russian hackers entered the White House computer system, gaining access to information regarding the Barack Obama Barack, CNN reports with reference to American officials. Hackers entered the computer system through the website of the State Department. Officials noted that the information to which they gained access is very appreciated by foreign intelligence services.

The Warner Bros and Ratpac Entertainment film companies bought the rights to adapt the book of Ben Mezdrich’s book “Once in Russia: the ascent of the oligarchs”, which is now being prepared for publication. It is reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In his book, Mezdrich promises to tell the truth about the “Kremlin Cross Father” by Boris Berezovsky and about his protege - Roman Abramovich.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs developed an order according to which the department’s employees will be prohibited from accepting award weapons as a gift from representatives of other countries. According to Echo of Moscow, a written permission of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in some cases, the President of the Russian Federation, will be necessary to receive such a gift.

The prosecutor’s office will check the concert of the Noize MC musician in Krasnodar for violation of extremism legislation, RIA Novosti reports . “In order to prevent possible violations of the current legislation, the organizer of the concert is awarded a warning about the inadmissibility of violation of the requirements of the legislation on counteracting extremist activities.

Judging by the data of the capital's employment service, in the first quarter of 2015 the most popular profession of Moscow employers was the profession of a janitor. So, in the database of the service on April 1, there were 6748 vacancies of janitors with an average salary of 19 thousand rubles. In second place in popularity is the utility worker (5223 vacancies) with an average salary of 16 thousand rubles, in the third - a driver (5080 vacancies) with an average salary of 33 thousand rubles.

“Employees of the Pacific Most -Building Company CJSC, the builders of the Golden Bridge built to the APEC summit, wrote an open letter to Putin, in which they complained about the detained salaries and numerous violations of the Labor Code. The total debt to the workers is more than 96 million rubles. “At present, we are very concerned about the situation that has developed in our company, and we ask you to carefully figure it out,” the employees said.

Before the visit of Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipraz to Moscow, the EU warned Athens that it was unacceptable to deviate from the pan-European course in relation to Russia. This was stated by the chairman of the European Parliament Martin Schulz to Münchner Merkur. “Greece asks for solidarity from the EU. And gets it. In turn, we also demand solidarity, in particular, so that there is no deviation from general actions unilaterally, ”Schulz said.

The Investigative Committee is looking for evidence against the former officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ruslan Geremeyev, who is suspected of organizing the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. It is reported by Kommersant. According to the publication, the SK employees sent for examination fingerprints rented in the apartment and car of the suspect. In the apartment, investigators also managed to discover the traumatic pistol “Thunderstorm” and the hunting rifle “IZH”.