Real Madrid beat Germany's Wolfsburg 3-0 in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, allowing the Spanish team to advance to the next round. All three goals were scored by Cristiano Ronaldo. The first match of the teams ended with the score 2:0 in favor of Wolfsburg. Thus, Real Madrid, in order to reach the next round, had to beat the German team with an advantage of three or more goals.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 conference on April 12 announced the creation of a platform for using bots in the social network messenger. The interface will allow companies to communicate directly with customers - for example, for ordering goods, distributing content or technical support. Bots, according to Zuckerberg, will replace free phone numbers for ordering services.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has confirmed that it is investigating the receipt of a bribe by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The corresponding response to the request of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Dobrodomov is published on the website of the People's Control movement.

Lithuania has banned the entry of 46 persons associated with the criminal prosecution of Ukrainians convicted in Russia Nadezhda Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius. “Specifically, we are talking about Russian judges, prosecutors who were directly involved in the case of these people,” the minister said.

The Fanian community WatchersonThewall published three short videos on YouTube with scenes from the sixth season of Game of Thrones. According to the names of the video, two scenes will appear in the first episode of the season and one in the third. Attention, text and video below spoilers!

The Tvergorelectro company has postponed the power outages scheduled for April 14 so that Tver residents can watch a “direct line” with President Vladimir Putin. All outages scheduled for that day will take place on April 15th. On April 13 and 15, 2016, work will be carried out to replace emergency supports, install metering cabinets and scheduled preventive maintenance at transformer substations.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev promoted Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dzhambulat Khatuov, who became famous after he could not answer the question of how sugar beet visually differs from fodder beet. Medvedev made Khatuov first deputy minister. The prime minister's order does not explain what the official's career growth is connected with. On April 7, Dzhambulat Khatuov, at a meeting with students of the Timiryazev Academy, found it difficult to answer a question about beets.

Law enforcement agencies have detained an alleged accomplice of suicide bombers who attacked a police station in the village of Novoselitskoye, Stavropol Territory. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the power structures of the region. No details about the identity and circumstances of the detention of this man are reported.

Ilya Yashin, deputy chairman of the Parnassus party, decided not to participate in the primaries of the democratic coalition due to disagreements with party leader Mikhail Kasyanov. Yashin urged Kasyanov to give up the first place in the list of candidates for the State Duma in connection with the release of the film "Kasyanov's Day" on NTV. In this film, sex scenes were shown, in which, according to NTV, Kasyanov and Natalya Pelevina, a member of Parnassus, were filmed.

Two criminals tried to rob the bank in the south of Brazil, wrapping in aluminum foil. According to the police, the thieves decided to apply such a “disguise” so that the heat sensors would not react to them. “They destroyed one of the walls and thought that the detectors would not cut them down,” Major Christian Dimitri commented on the actions of criminals. But thieves forgot about the existence of surveillance cameras.

A Pakistani police officer accidentally set off a grenade detonator in a court in Karachi while trying to demonstrate how it works. The explosion injured several people, including the policeman himself. The explosion occurred at a hearing in the case of a man accused of assaulting police officers. Defenders of the detainee argued that the detonator found on their client was too complicated to be used.

Russia has appealed to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine with a request to transfer six convicted Russians to further serve their sentences in their homeland. This is stated in the response of the Russian Ministry of Justice to RBC's request. The names of the convicts are unknown, and it is also not reported under what articles they were sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine.

Mini-ships will be sent to Alpha Centauri, pushing them with a laser. Mini-ships will weigh only a few grams. They will be equipped with solar sails. The ships will be accelerated from the Earth by a laser beam. As a result, they will be able to develop a speed of 161 million kilometers per hour. Tentatively, these mini-ships will reach the Alpha Centauri star system in 24 years. Under current circumstances, a spacecraft could reach Alpha Centauri in a few tens of thousands of years.

Sports edition of The Daily Mail quarreled with Zenit because of the logos. It all started with a selection of the 10 worst football club logos compiled by the publication - the emblem of the St. Petersburg team also got into it. In response, Zenit collected the ten worst newspaper logos. And The Daily Mail was included in the selection 10 times. The British newspaper decided not to escalate the conflict, explaining that she simply liked the old Zenith logo more.

The bill on counteracting the hybrid war was stuck in the Sejm Photo: edijs pālens / leta In Latvia, the struggle against Russian propaganda has intensified-over the past month the Russia-TRA channel (for calls for war and inciting hatred) was banned here and blocked the Latvian domain of the satellite news agency (for violation of the sanctions regime).