Barcelona and Bayern reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, beating their quarter-final rivals PSG and Porto, respectively. In the home match, the Spanish team beat the French with a score of 2:0, and the German Portuguese - with a score of 6:1. In the first legs of the quarter-finals, Barcelona beat PSG 3-1 away. Bayern lost 3-1 to Porto but advanced to the semi-finals on goal difference.

Shot: 5nizza / YouTube Group 5'nizza released a video for the new song "I Believ in You". This is the first track and the first video of the duet in eight years. The last performance of 5'nizza took place in 2007. In May and June 2015, the group will give several concerts in Russia and Ukraine. As the musicians told the Poster Wave, in addition to the old songs, they will present three new compositions to fans. 5nizza 5'nizza - I Belive in You Group 5'nizza was created in 2000.

Automaker BMW became the leader of the world ranking of companies with the best reputation, which was compiled by the American research center Reputation Institute. In second place is the American Internet company Google, followed by Daimler. The top 10 reputable companies also included watch maker Rolex (4th), toy maker LEGO (5th) and film studio Walt Disney (6th). Places from 7th to 9th were taken by electronics manufacturers Canon, Apple and Sony. Closes the top ten Intel.

Cameraman of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR Eskender Nebiev was detained in connection with clashes near the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea in Simferopol in February 2014. The deputy director of the ATR channel, Lilia Budzhurova, announced Nebiev's detention on her Facebook. ATR operator Eskender Nebiev was detained today.

On April 21, the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service of St. Petersburg obliged the accounting department of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater to transfer half of the salary of the theater director Vladimir Kekhman to the department to pay off his debt to four banks. A copy of the order is available to Vedomosti. Kekhman's debt to banks amounts to more than 7 billion rubles. The director of the theater owes money to Sberbank, Promsvyazbank, Raiffeisenbank and Bank St. Petersburg.

Map: Quartermaester.info For those who began to watch the “game of thrones” back in 2011 (and even later), it is difficult to keep all the plot lines in their heads. But infographics come to their aid, which in a visual form remind what happened in the series and what its heroes are remarkable. Caution: in this material and the infographics presented in it there are many spoilers of the first four seasons of the Game of Thrones.

Julian Assange spreads the book of the journalist The Guardian about the CIA informator: Newsweek Photo: Marc Blinch / Reuters In 2014, the journalist of the British newspaper The Guardian Luc Harding published the book “The Snowden Files”, which, as obviously from the name, tells about the former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who opened the world secret documents of American special services.

Photo: muppetmindset.wordpress.com Scientists of the Kostarikan Center for the Study of the E amiwater Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center have discovered a new type of glass frogs that resemble one of the key characters of the Mappet Show-the Cermitian frog. Media and users of social networks drew attention to the similarity of a frog with a mapping doll-both frogs have a bright green color and white eyes.

The leadership of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory informed the deputies that the issue of the transition of Governor Alexander Tkachev to the Russian government had been resolved. This was told to RBC by the participants in the meeting of the speaker of the legislative assembly of the region Vladimir Beketov with deputies, during which Tkachev's resignation from the post of governor was announced.

Citizen of Ukraine Aleksey Chirniy was sentenced to seven years in a strict regime colony for preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. This decision was made by the North Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. Chirniy confessed and made a deal with the investigation, his case was considered in a special order. The prosecutor requested that the accused be sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Photo: Amanda Curtis / Twitter A resident of New York Amanda Curtis saw in the sky above the city of Glen-Kov (New York; is in the immediate vicinity of the city of the same name) at once four rainbows and took a picture of them. Four rainbows are twice as much as the double rainbow, which the guys from the video below admired, Mashable notes.

Two members of the group received life sentences. Reporting Andrei Kozenko Photo: Mikhail Postuev / TASS In the Moscow Regional Court on Tuesday, April 21, the process in the case of the "Battle Organization of Russian Nationalists" ended. Two participants in Born - Maxim Baklagin and Vyacheslav Isaev - received life dates even taking into account the jury condescending. The third - Mikhail Volkov - was sentenced to 24 years in prison; There are fewer a year less than the charge asked.

The second stage of the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of organizing the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon in April 2013, has begun. The jury will hear testimony from defense and prosecution witnesses to decide whether Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Earlier, a jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts, 17 of which carry the death penalty. The trial of Tsarnaev began on March 4, 2015.

Synthetic cannabis, commonly known as “Spice,” can be used to organize democratic “color revolutions,” warns Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service. Ivanov issued the warning today at a conference of anti-drug officials from the Shanghai Pact. “Last year, we confronted the problem of this synthetic drug being enriched with a new fluorinated compound, making the drug like weapons-grade poison, and leading to an epidemic of deaths,” Ivanov explained.

The government of the Russian Federation did not support the provision on a five-year ban on the exit from Russia of draft evaders from the army, contained in a bill submitted to the State Duma in mid-February. The government's response to the bill is published on the website of the State Duma. Taking into account the remarks made, according to a review signed by Deputy Prime Minister and head of the government apparatus Sergei Prikhodko, the Cabinet of Ministers supports the bill.