A ship carrying illegal migrants from Libya to Italy sank in the Mediterranean in mid-April. According to unconfirmed reports, up to 500 people died as a result, according to the UN Refugee Agency. According to the survivors, the ship was wrecked due to the fact that the smugglers decided to transfer people to it from another boat on the high seas. During the transfer, the ship capsized and sank. 41 people managed to escape, including three women and a three-year-old child.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Ecuador on April 20, Reuters reports. Information about the victims and destruction is not yet available. Work to search for people who disappeared as a result of the April 16 earthquake was temporarily suspended, the agency reports, citing local media. The death toll, according to official figures, is 525 people. Earlier it was reported that more than one and a half thousand people were missing.

Russian Cossacks have been participating in the Syrian war on the side of the government since 2013. This was stated by the ataman of the Taman department of the Kuban Cossack army Ivan Bezugly. A video of his story was published by YouTube user Georgy Kitten. According to Bezugly, in 2013, the Cossacks of the Taman department joined the fighting against the “militants”. “We understood that it was necessary to prevent this infection from spreading,” the ataman explained.

The price of North Sea Brent oil on the London ICE exchange on April 20 exceeded $45 per barrel. As of 20:37 Moscow time, it is trading at $45.46 per barrel. American oil WTI on April 20 rose in price to 43.82 dollars per barrel. The last time Brent oil cost more than $45 per barrel was in December 2015. At the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, world oil prices accelerated their fall, dropping below $30 per barrel.

Sony Pictures published the first trailer for the Magnificent Seven, the Rome of the Western of the same name, John Studges, published in 1960. The director of the new picture was Antoine Fukua. Chris Pratt, Haley Bennett, Danzel Washington, Ethan Hawk and Matt Bomer starred in the film. Sonypicturesru Great Seven: Trailer The magnificent seven will be released in September 2016.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation received a request from the Ukrainian side for the provision of documents necessary for the transfer of a Ukrainian woman convicted in the Russian Federation, Nadezhda Savchenko, to serve her sentence in Ukraine. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the department.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has published an interim report ( .pdf ) on the investigation into the crash of a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of Flydubai airlines in Rostov-on-Don. As stated in the report, the crew of the "Boeing" during the landing approach, having dropped to 220 meters, decided to go around and began climbing. At around 600 meters, the pilot turned the yoke away from himself, but then again began to gain altitude.

In the city of Arcachon in southwestern France, a statue of Hercules was torn off by vandals. The monument, erected back in 1948, is not the first time that this part has been lost. Therefore, the local authorities decided not to restore the missing organ, but to make a removable prosthesis. “I would not want anyone, even my sworn enemies, to go through what this statue is going through,” the mayor of the city, Yves Foulon, said at a meeting with reporters.

RBC Editor-in-Chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya will leave her job at the holding for a year in connection with her studies at Stanford University. According to a press release from the holding, Osetinskaya became a scholarship holder of the international program of Stanford University "Innovation in Journalism". “Thanks to the Stanford program, Elizaveta will get an idea of ​​​​what the future holds for online media and what technological innovations can be applied in Russia,” the text says.

Katerina Gordeeva - about the transformation of philanthropists into "foreign agents" Photo: Evgeny Feldman / "New Gazeta" The State Duma on Wednesday, April 20, in the first reading clarified the concept of “political activity” in the law on non -profit organizations. If the amendment is finally adopted in the current form, any charity fund in Russia, which at least once received a donation abroad, may be recognized as a “foreign agent”.

The territorial election commission of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region canceled the elections in Barvikha, which were scheduled for April 24. This was announced at a meeting of the commission by its chairman Alexander Ignatov. The decision to cancel the elections was taken at the request of the CEC. Earlier, CEC head Ella Pamfilova called for the immediate abolition of early voting in Barvikha. It was noted that new elections should be held within six months.

The head of the legal department of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov was searched. This was announced by the founder of the fund Alexei Navalny. According to him, a search is also taking place at Zhdanov's mother. Zhdanov previously said that he was urgently summoned for interrogation to the Investigative Committee. A criminal case has been opened against an FBK lawyer under the article on evading military service.

It is hard to believe, but Yuri Line and his statements have been discussing for a third week in a row. On April 20, the National News Service decided to find the producer The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and find out from him what he thinks about his wards, the professional skills of which was so harshly criticized by the vine. Jimmy Douglas answered the questions of the RSN.

People with expression read texts of songs on camera, and this We read songs / YouTube On Yetube, the “Read Songs” channel appeared with videos in which people read the texts of famous songs on camera - as if these are poems. The creators of the channel offer everyone to send their videos, but there were many of them. Medusa talked about the project with its author, actor Roman Mikhailovsky.

Swedish director Anders Weberg has released the trailer for his 720-hour experimental film Ambiancé. In total, the trailer is 439 minutes long. Anders WebergAmbiancé — First short TRAILER — 7 Hours 20 Minutes in one take — by Anders Weberg. A month ago, the director released a teaser trailer. It lasts about a minute. Anders WebergAmbiancé the 7 hour and 20 minute long trailer — World premiere. Another trailer will be released in 2018 and will last 72 hours.