On April 1, 55 people were detained near Red Square in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports , citing official data from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow. All of them were detained for attempting to carry out an uncoordinated action. “They shouted slogans and also made attempts to move the fence and enter Red Square, access to which was temporarily limited by order of the Russian Federal Security Service,” the police explained the arrests.

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Lokomotiv lost to Dynamo in the Russian Football Championship match, according to the website of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). The meeting, which took place on April 1 at the Lokomotiv stadium, ended in a victory for the guests with a score of 2:0. Dynamo forward Alexander Kokorin opened the scoring in the match at the very end of the first half. He scored after a blunder by Roman Shishkin, who passed the ball to Kokorin in the Lokomotiv penalty area.

Russian athlete Alena Leonova won a silver medal on Saturday at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nice. reports this RIA Novosti . According to the results of the short program, Leonova was first, but in the free program she showed the fourth result, gaining 119.67 points. The Russian woman has a total of 184.28 points. Leonova lost to Italian Caroline Kostner, who won the free skate with 128.94 points, although after the short she was only third. Costner has a total of 189.94 points.

All oppositionists detained on March 31 on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow have been released from police stations. this to RIA Novosti on the morning of Sunday, April 1. A law enforcement source reported The oppositionists were released after drawing up reports of an administrative violation. The day before, about 60 people were detained on Triumfalnaya Square who had come out to protest in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which guarantees freedom of assembly.

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A gas station exploded in Tashkent, reports the local portal Olam.uz. There is no exact information about what happened yet, but according to some reports, a fuel tank exploded at a gas station. According to the portal, no one was killed or injured in the explosion, while RIA Novosti, citing an eyewitness, reports that there were casualties among both station employees and passers-by. There are no official data on dead and injured at the moment.

In Moscow, arrests began at the Resurrection Gate, which leads to Red Square, RIA Novosti reports . According to the news agency, more than ten people were detained. At the same time, co-chairman of the Moscow branch of Solidarity Sergei Davidis reported that at least 30 people were detained. Among those detained, according to eyewitnesses, are media workers, in particular correspondents from the Dozhd TV channel and the Vedomosti newspaper.

Seven-year-old Ilya Yaropolov, who was kidnapped from a kindergarten in Krasnokamsk, Perm Territory, was found alive and unharmed. A message about this appeared on Sunday, April 1, on the website of the investigative department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Perm Territory. As told RIA Novosti official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin , the boy was found at a bus stop in Perm.

The Pirate Party of Russia intends to submit documents for registration to the Ministry of Justice as soon as the new law on parties comes into force. One of the leaders of the “pirates” Pavel Rassudov stated this at the congress of the political association on Sunday, April 1, ITAR-TASS reports . The current congress of the Pirate Party of Russia was the third in a row. Speeches by delegates and participants of the congress were broadcast on the Internet.

On Sunday night, Moscow time, with the help of the European spacecraft ATV-3 "Eduardo Amaldi" of the European Space Agency, the ISS agency reports orbit was raised by about 1.7 kilometers, ITAR-TASS . The truck's engines operated for 411 seconds, and the test maneuver to correct the orbit was carried out normally in automatic mode. The station's orientation in space was ensured by the engines of the Progress M-14M cargo ship and the Zvezda service module, to which the Eduardo Amaldi was docked.

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On Sunday, April 1, at the age of 77, former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid died of emphysema, reports Agence France-Presse . De la Madrid, a Harvard graduate, served as Mexico's finance minister from 1978 to 1981 and as president from 1982 to 1988. During Madrid's reign, liberal economic reforms were carried out in the country, entire sectors of the economy were privatized.

A menu from the Titanic passenger liner, which sank in 1912, was sold on Saturday by the British auction house Henry Aldridge & Sons for 76 thousand pounds. This was reported on the BBC News website. The menu, dated April 14, 1912, the last day of the ship, offers first class passengers a choice of more than 40 dishes. The document was preserved because one of the surviving passengers took it with her in her purse. The keys to the room where the lifeboat lanterns were stored fetched £59,000.

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