In the first four months of 2015 Russians spent 575.7 billion roubles on the purchase of new cars, which is 25 percent less than in the same period of last year (764.7 billion roubles).

An official page of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill appeared in the social network “VKontakte”.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia included the non-profit foundation “Dynasty” into the list of foreign agents. The decision was made following the results of inspection carried out by the agency.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin wished him success in his new position, and the press secretary of the Head of the state Dmitry Peskov expressed hope for “good, unbiased and stereotype-free” relations with the new leader of the country,

Igor Krasnov who was involved into the investigation of the case of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov will head the new structure of the Investigative Committee.

The acting lawyer of Sergei Polonsky Slavik Brsoyan who earlier denied the reports about the arrest of his customer told that the businessman was really arrested on his yacht.

The Ministry of Justice has included “The Progress Party” of Aleksei Navalny to the list of political parties that ceased to exist.

Kadyrov expressed doubt in the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death in the case of a terrorist attack was really guilty.

The typewritten manuscripts and works of the writers were brought to Donetsk in 1990s.

The Barnaul Court sentenced the activist Dmitry Bychkov to a conditional three years’ imprisonment for reposting “VKontakte” photos of a live cartridge and the commentary to it. Bychkov was found guilty of public calls to terrorism.