Atlético Madrid defeated Barcelona 2-0 in the quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League and advanced to the semi-finals. The first meeting ended with the victory of "Barcelona" with a score of 2:1. Both goals in the match were scored by Atlético Madrid's French striker Antoine Grizzman, with the second coming from a penalty kick in the 88th minute. Also, reached the semi-finals, drawing 2:2 with the Portuguese Benfica (the first match in Munich ended with the victory of the German team).

The Armenian Ministry of Defense stated that 92 people from the Armenian side were killed during the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in early April. “During the fighting on April 2-5, 64 servicemen and 13 volunteers and militias were killed on the line of contact,” Interfax quoted the agency as saying. Non-combat losses amounted to 15 people, of which four were civilians. One soldier is considered missing. On April 3, active hostilities resumed in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The European Command of the US Armed Forces posted videos and photographs of the flight of Russian Su-24 bombers and the Ka-27 helicopter near the American destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea on April 12. Eucom Mediaops DSC 0002 Eucom Mediaops DSC 0015 Eucom Mediaops DSC 0012 The press release refers to several incidents with Russian aviation that occurred on April 11 and 12.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a court ordered the widow of a serviceman who died in Chechnya, Yevgenia Teryaeva, to return to the state 626,000 rubles received over four years as a survivor's pension. The decision was made on 11 April. The court ruled that Teryaeva received a pension illegally, since she is a servicewoman. The claim of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Military Commissariat against Teryaeva was partially satisfied - the court refused to pay interest in the amount of 85.5 thousand rubles.

Former shareholders of the Yukos company petitioned a court in India to recognize and enforce the decision of the Hague court to recover $50 billion in compensation from Russia. Shareholders believe there are “significant assets” of Russia in India, Tim Osborne, head of the shareholder company Group Menatep Limited (GML), told The Moscow Times. We are talking, the publication reports, about assets related to the defense industry and nuclear energy.

Updated : Later, tweets about watching the video deleted, explaining their appearance by the machinations of hackers. Wednesday. Evening. The UFSIN employee in Dagestan was bored, and he went to YouTube watch the video. About "Dom-2", for example. And to like interesting rollers. One problem: likes began to be broadcast to the official Twitter UFSIN DAGESTAN. He began to watch the video on the day of astronautics. Unfortunately, the rest of the tweets in the account are not so interesting.

The Proteon user published a photo of a vortex fountain on Reddit - a decorative decoration in which water is twisted in a spiral. The construction itself is not new, but it attracted the attention of other readers of the resource. During the discussion, it turned out where such fountains are made, how much they are and whether it is possible to make them on their own. View Post on imgur.com The vortex fountain costs 1899 pounds (about 180 thousand rubles).

The Supreme Council of the LDPR expelled State Duma deputies Dmitry Nosov, Roman Khudyakov and Irina Chirkova from the party.

Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya ordered to suspend the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. Explaining her decision, she referred to the law on combating extremism. “All their propaganda will be banned,” Poklonskaya said. Lawyer Jemil Temishev, representing the interests of the Mejlis, promised to appeal the decision of the prosecutor's office. The decision [to suspend activities] implies a ban on the use of state and municipal media by the organization.

Who makes “chips.net”, pikabu and “I cried”: the study of “Medusa” Photo: Sergey Savostyanov / TASS / Scanpix Russian entertainment sites with a multimillion -dollar audience are not registered as the media, but actually perform their functions: demotivators or gifs invented by users of such resources often become more popular than any articles or photographers of the media.

The creators of the program "Dancing with the Stars" on the TV channel "Russia 1" expressed regret that the number, in which the artist in a Nazi uniform with a swastika dances, "caused conflicting emotions among the audience." “Perhaps the number was not as talented as the paintings of Seventeen Moments of Spring or Schindler’s List to justify the use of certain symbolism, but the young artist’s intentions were pure,” reads a statement published on the Vesti.ru website. .

Rossiya 1 recast the story about the work of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the head of Hermitage Capital William Browder for foreign intelligence for a new broadcast. In the new version, the layout of messages is different, which are presented as correspondence between Navalny and Browder.

The Accounts Chamber rejected claims against the head of the department, Tatyana Golikova, in whose dissertations the participants of the Dissernet project found plagiarism. The press service of the Accounts Chamber claims that Golikova quoted her own materials, which she prepared while working at the Ministry of Finance.

Former editor-in-chief of Kommersant-Vlast magazine Maxim Kovalsky compiled a palindromic news feed: a set of headlines that read the same from beginning to end and from end to beginning. The work was done titanic: there are 22 headings in Kovalsky's post.

Channel One agreed with commentator Vasily Utkin on cooperation during the 2016 European Football Championship. This was reported by the R-Sport agency, citing a source on the TV channel. The first match Utkin will work on will be the meeting between the national teams of Russia and England on June 11. “Together with Utkin, Viktor Gusev and Andrey Golovanov will go to France,” the R-Sport interlocutor said.