SKA from St. Petersburg won in the fifth match of the final series of the Gagarin Cup with Kazan "Ak Bars" and the entire series as a whole. The match in Kazan ended with a score of 1:6, and SKA won the entire series of up to four victories, losing only once. The team from St. Petersburg won the Gagarin Cup for the first time in its history. Last season, Metallurg Magnitogorsk won the Cup, and before that, Dynamo Moscow won the tournament for two years in a row.

A fragment of the Malaysian Boeing, which the organization "Combat Brotherhood" planned to show at an exhibition in Yeysk, was sent back to the Donetsk region. The representative of the organization, Valery Yarko, said that the "Combat Brotherhood" would recommend that the fragment be handed over to the international investigation team.

Shot: Sesame Street / YouTube “Game of Thrones” is a series that gave rise to a huge number of memes, familiar even to people who did not see a single series. “Winter is close”, “Hodor”, a red wedding, an iron throne and, of course, unexpected murders of the main characters every year become reasons for jokes and parodies. Medusa chose relatively fresh jokes that fans of the Games of Thrones prepared in the first months of 2015 - for the release of the fifth season of the series.

Journalist and writer Oles Buzina, who was killed on April 16 near his house in Kyiv, was buried at the Berkovets cemetery in Kyiv. Before that, a farewell to the journalist took place near his house, and then a funeral service was held at the Church of the Life-Giving Spring in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Several hundred people attended the funeral ceremony.

Moscow CSKA in the central match of the 24th round of the championship of Russia tied with Krasnodar. The game ended with a score of 1:1, and the guests were able to recoup only in the 88th minute. Pontus Wernbloom scored for CSKA, Wanderson scored for Krasnodar. The match took place in difficult weather conditions - in Moscow during the game it began to snow several times. After this meeting, CSKA has 44 points in 24 matches, Krasnodar has 48.

Top Gear founder and longtime host Jeremy Clarkson has announced his intention to create a new television show dedicated to cars. True, Clarkson added that he does not yet know where it will come out, with whom he will do it. In a column for the Sunday Times, he also touched on the incident that led to the BBC refusing to renew his contract. According to Clarkson, he attacked the producer shortly after doctors told him he might have cancer.

Five builders of the Vostochny cosmodrome again refused to go to work until all debts were paid to them. Whether other workers plan to support the protesters is unknown. According to the RSN, which refers to the worker Pyotr Velesyuk, some builders were not paid wages for March, which is why they turned to the prosecutor's office. Velesyuk added that due to poor organization, work was not carried out all winter, most of the equipment is idle even now.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded an explanation from the Russian Embassy in Oslo regarding the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin to Svalbard. Rogozin is on the sanctions list of the EU and Norway and does not have the right to visit European countries.

In 2014, 41.8 million tons of "electrical garbage" ended up in landfills - refrigerators, washing machines, phones and computers. For the production of some components of this technique, gold is used, but it is not recycled and is also sent to landfills. According to the UN University, in this way the population threw out 300 tons of gold, 11% of the annual production of the precious metal.

Russian boxer Ruslan Provodnikov went to the hospital after a fight with the Argetinean Lucas Martin Mattisse. At the same time, Provodnikov has no serious injuries - doctors sew up a dissection on the boxer's face. Provodnikov lost to Matisse in a 12 round bout on points. The Russian boxer received a cut in the second round. “Now we need to recover, Ruslan has a severe cut from a blow to his head, he is being sewn up in the hospital.

In the Strait of Sicily, about 60 kilometers from Libya, a fishing boat with 700 migrants from Africa capsized. The Italian Coast Guard has so far managed to rescue only 28 people. According to preliminary data, the ship could capsize due to the fact that all the migrants were on the same side of the deck.

A state of emergency has been introduced in the forests of Khakassia. This means that the stay in the forests of both ordinary citizens and representatives of legal entities is limited. Posts have been set up at the entrances to the forests; those visiting forests can be fined 5,000 rubles (for officials, the fine is up to 40,000 rubles, for legal entities - up to 500,000). How long the state of emergency will last is unknown. So far, a high fire hazard situation remains in Khakassia.

The American film "Number 44" will not be shown in Uzbekistan: according to the state agency "Uzbekkino", the film's distributors have withdrawn it from distribution. Previously, the film was withdrawn from screenings in Russia and Ukraine (it is distributed in both countries by the Russian company Central Partnership), as well as in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan . In Georgia, it was decided to postpone its release until autumn.

Yoshkar-Ola Mayor Pavel Plotnikov is alive and with his family. How exactly it was found and who did it, is not reported. Since April 18, all local patrol services of the police, traffic police and private security have been looking for the mayor, and orientations on Plotnikov were sent to all territorial police departments; the search was also joined in the regions adjacent to Mari El. Currently, Pavel Plotnikov is alive and well and is with his family.

Hackers working for the Russian government were trying to get information about US negotiations with another country (which one is unknown), which were devoted to sanctions. The attack was discovered on 13 April; the hackers failed to obtain secret data. According to Bloomberg sources, the hackers used hitherto unknown vulnerabilities in Windows and Flash. The attack was discovered by FireEye.