Saudi Arabia authorities monthly pay children to journalist Jamal Khashkjji for $ 10 thousand. As a compensation for the murder of their father, writes The Washington Post with reference to sources. According to sources, the children (two sons and two daughters) of the journalist receive money for restraint in public statements. As the official explained to the publication, this is a long -standing practice of financial assistance to victims of violent crimes, and not a payment for silence.

After the first round of presidential elections in Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky gained 30% of the vote and doubled the current president Petro Poroshenko. And although sociology quite accurately predicted such a result, it is perceived by many as a sensational one-after all, when Zelensky announced his intention to run, few attributed him to the main applicants. There are three reasons for such an incredible success. First.

Igor Sechin entered the Board of Trustees of the Construction of the Churches of Moscow. As stated in the decision of the board of directors of the company, he will combine this activity with work in Rosneft. The corresponding decision was approved by the board of directors of the company on March 29. The fund was established in 2010 to collect donations for the construction of temples under the 200 Temples program.

Seven residents of Ingushetia, who participated in unauthorized protests, are held accountable. This was announced by a representative of the Magasian district court. “For participation in unauthorized rallies (part 6.1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in Magas and Nazran on March 27, the court was punished in the form of ten days of arrest by five residents of the republic, two were fined 10 thousand and 20 thousand rubles,” the court was told in court.

Mark Zuckerberg plans to launch a separate section on Facebook, which will collect high -quality and proven news materials. According to Recode, he spoke about this during a conversation with the head of the Axel Springer publishing house Matias Depfner.

The bill allowing people with HIV and hepatitis C to adopt children has passed the first reading in the State Duma. If the law is adopted, the presence of these diseases will not affect the court decision on adoption. Now the courts are guided by the Family Code of Russia, which prohibits children to adopt people with diseases listed in the government. There, in particular, includes tuberculosis, mental disorders, alcoholism, drug addiction, HIV and hepatitis C.

British Prime Minister Teresa May will ask the leaders of the Evoseroz about another Brexit postponement, BBC reports. May made a statement after a many -hour emergency meeting of the government and announced that since the British parliament could not make any decision regarding the form of leaving the EU, the country needs another delay. Britain was supposed to leave the EU on March 29, but due to the inability of the British politicians to agree, Brussels gave her a delay until April 12.

The New York police confirmed the information about the investigation against the American illusionist David Blaine after accusations of sexual violence. It is reported by The Guardian. Earlier, a source in the police of New York told The Daily Beast that the statements came from two women. According to one of them, she became a victim of sexual violence in the Blane House on Manhattan in 1998, and the statute of limitations on this occasion could already expire.

Two Moscow schools filed lawsuits against the Moskovsky School food supplier associated with businessman Evgeny Prigozhin. It is reported by "MBH Media". The first lawsuit in February filed a school No. 1554. According to the website of the public procurement, the school entered into a contract for the organization of food for 153 million rubles with the company. The second lawsuit in March was filed by school No.

A fifth of Russians (22.6%) does not have access to centralized sewage. About this writes RBC with reference to the study of Rosstat. According to the agency, 16.8% of them use the pipes system that go into cesspools. Another 5.8% of Russians have no sewage system. Among the social groups, the highest proportion of those who do not have access to sewer are large families. Almost half (40.9%) of them are not connected to a centralized system. Most of these Russians (66.5%) live in rural areas.

Yesterday Moscow saw the funeral of Arnold Tamm (Spivakovsky), a crime lord of Solntsevskaya gang also known as Arnosha. The ceremony was attended by his former civil partner Lolita Milyavskaya, crime boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (Taiwanchik), producer Viktor Drobysh, and other widely known individuals. The cause of the 51-year-old crime lord's death is yet to be disclosed.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov, involved in the case of the Seventh Studio, extended the arrest until July 4. For the same period, two other defendants in the case will remain under house arrest - the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sofya Apfelbaum and the former general director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin.

The mayor of Kursk Nikolay Ovcharov resigned . He held this position since 2008. The acting mayor of Kursk was appointed Deputy Ovcharov Sergey Malakhov, Kursk Izvestia reports. Direct elections of the mayor of the city were canceled in 2007. Since 2008, Ovcharova was appointed mayor of Kursk three times, for the last time - in 2017 for a five -year term.

The population of the Earth in 2019 amounted to 7.7 billion people, and by 2050 it will reach 9.7 billion people. This was reported in the report of the UN Secretary General. The growth in the population is accompanied by its aging, a decrease in the birth rate, as well as rapid urbanization. Now in the world the average birth rate is 2.5 children per woman, and by 2030 it will be about 2.4 births per woman.

The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the former captain of the Ministry of Defense Denis Khisamov to 19 years in a maximum regime colony for participating in the prohibited terrorist group “Islamic State”. Khisamov was also deprived of the title of captain of the reserve. According to investigators, from January 1, 2016 to April 20, 2017, Khisamov fought on the side of IG militants in Syria. In April 2017, Khisamov planned to return to Russia.