Armenian and Azerbaijani troops entered into a new acute confrontation Photo: Areg Balayan / Pan Photo / AP doctors in Stepanakert assist the child wounded during the shelling in Nagorno -Karabakh The situation on the border of the unrecognized republic Nagorny Karabakh (NKR) and Azerbaijan sharply worsened. The army of Azerbaijan on the night of April 2 went on the attack (according to its assurances, as a response to shelling by the NKR).

In Krasnodar, at the women's volleyball match of the local Dynamo with the Turkish Galatasaray, a banner against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hung out. The slogan "Tell Erdogan not to kill our fathers" was written on the banner. The last match was the return match within the framework of the European Volleyball Confederation Cup final. Dynamo won 3-0 in three games and won the title. The match in Istanbul ended with the victory of Galatasaray 3:2.

The administration of the social network "VKontakte" banned the popular news community "Lentach" from publishing links in their publications. The restriction on the work of the community was due to a violation of the rules for placing ads, VKontakte spokesman Yevgeny Krasnikov told Meduza. According to Krasnikov, "Lentach" violated the rules for advertising, about which its administrators were repeatedly warned.

Armenian troops lost 18 people killed in battles with Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan announced this. Another 35 Armenian servicemen were injured. “Since the restoration of the ceasefire regime in 1994, these are the most large-scale hostilities that Azerbaijan has tried to carry out.

The press service of the army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) admitted that its troops suffered losses in battles with the Azerbaijani armed forces. The press service did not name the number of those killed or wounded, promising to provide additional information later.

Fragment of the book "Fastfood Nation" Photo: Steve Parsons / Pa / Scanpix The publishing house “Mann, Ivanov and Ferber” in April 2016 in Russian is published by the book “The Fastfood Nation” by journalist Eric Schlosser. The work, published in 2001, explores how the food industry is arranged, why the obesity epidemic arose, how the fast food changed the food market around the world. In 2006, the film of the same name was shot.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini called for an immediate end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, where clashes broke out between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops on April 2.

Dozens of volunteers headed from Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), to the line of contact with Azerbaijani troops. According to the Interfax agency, former servicemen of the NKR army on local television urge men to go to the front line. “We are ready even now to join the battle or simply provide moral support to our guys on the front line with our presence,” said Alexander Harutyunyan, one of the veterans of the Karabakh war in the early 1990s.

The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported that 12 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in battles with Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh. An Azerbaijani Mi-24 helicopter was shot down, a tank was blown up by a mine. The Azerbaijani Trend agency reports that six Armenian tanks, 15 artillery installations, as well as fortified engineering structures were destroyed in the battles. “More than 100 servicemen of the Armenian armed forces were destroyed and wounded,” the agency claims.

Parents of children who train at the Molniya youth sports school in Moscow stood up for the coach, who cursed his pupils who did not follow his instructions to arrange a fight with rivals on the football field. appeared on the Internet At the end of March, a video , filmed in 2014 in the Lightning locker room. On this recording, coach Viktor Kubyshkin swears at teenagers for not provoking a fight during the match of the Moscow summer championship against Spartak-2.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are accusing each other of using heavy weapons in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says Armenian forces have attacked all the border positions stationed with Azerbaijanis. The Ministry accuses Armenian forces of using mortars, rocket launchers and artillery. According to Azerbaijan , the Armenians have violated their ceasefire agreement 127 times.

The Investigative Committee for Russia's Kursk region has opened a second criminal case against Kursk Duma Deputy Olga Lee. The Deputy is now being taken to court for making extremist statements. She already had a libel case against her. The second case relates to a YouTube clip she posted online at the beginning of March. In the clip, the Deputy makes an appeal to President Vladimir Putin in which she sharply criticizes his policies.

Turkish press - about Alparslan Chelik Photo: Reuters / Scanpix Alparslan Chelik (in the center) with part of the parachute, which may have belonged to Oleg Peshkov On March 30, in the Turkish Izmir, the police detained Alparslan Chelik on charges of fraud . Earlier, Chelik took responsibility for the murder of Oleg Peshkov, a pilot of the Russian Su-24, shot down in November 2015 by the Turkish Air Force.

People who call themselves “crazy Finnish farmers” thought of attaching a chainsaw to the drone. It turned out Killer Drone - a terrible weapon that you can kill snowmen, saw Christmas trees and cut the icicles. True, it could not be able to cope with something with which the killer drone: when trying to attack the balloons, he collapsed and fell apart. Noodletail Killerdrone! Flying Chainsaw

In Palmyra, a mass grave of victims of the Islamic State militants was discovered (the organization is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned). According to the Syrian official agency SANA, the bodies of 40 people were recovered from the grave, 23 of them were the bodies of women and children. A source in Palmyra told the agency that some of the victims were beheaded, while others showed signs of torture.