Rector of Saratov State University Alexei Chumachenko sent a letter to the departments of the university with a request to limit contacts of employees and students with foreign citizens. This is reported by the publication "Version-Saratov", which had the document at its disposal. The letter, in particular, refers to the World Youth Day, which will be held in Krakow at the end of June.

How legal is Russia's controversial new ‘friend-finding’ tool? The online service “ FindFace ” is an efficient means of finding anyone registered on Russia's most popular social network, Vkontakte. It works like this: take a photograph of any passerby, and the service automatically matches the image to the publicly listed profiles of anyone on Vkontakte who has a similar face. But FindFace, whose creators describe it as a tool for meeting new people, has raised serious privacy concerns.

In Baltimore, the local television station FOX45 was evacuated due to a bomb threat. According to the channel, on April 28, an unidentified man appeared in the lobby of the building and announced that he would detonate the bomb. In addition, a car was set on fire in the parking lot near the TV channel building. The firemen put out the fire.

The FBI has arrested three relatives of the San Bernardino terrorists. They are accused of committing a marriage scam, conspiracy and giving false testimony, reports Reuters. The brother of the terrorist Siad Faruk Rakhil, the wife of the latter Tatyana Faruk and her sister Maria Chernykh were under arrest. The investigation found that Farouk's friend Enrique Marquez married Russian Maria Chernykh for a fee in order to legalize her stay in the United States.

The video blogger Dmitry Okhotnikov turned the Russian comedy “The Best Day” by Zhora Kryzhovnikov into the Texas Capen Corrent Trailer of the Horror. The protagonist of the original film, the patrol Peter, in the version of Okhotnikov turned into a maniac, nicknamed the “Leather Face” operating in the Moscow region. However, he is not alone on the ground - the family helps him. Super_vhs The best rope massacre

The price of the North Sea mixture of Brent oil on the London ICE exchange on the evening of April 28 reached $48 per barrel. As of 20:59 Moscow time, Brent is trading at $48.02 per barrel. The cost of American oil WTI by the evening reached $46 per barrel. At the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, world oil prices accelerated their fall, dropping below $30 per barrel.

Italian police have detained suspects in the preparation of terrorist attacks in Rome. It is reported by Reuters. According to the agency, warrants were issued for the arrest of six people who, according to investigators, planned to join the Islamic State (the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation).

In the village of Kolodishchi (Belarus), a man in a black raincoat stopped a passing car and sat down in front of him on the twine. When an unfamiliar man showed an acrobatic stunt, the driver did not investigate the reasons for such actions and drove around him. The recording shows how a car driving along Privokzalnaya Street towards the Canine Center in Kolodishchi was stopped by a serious-looking man and began to demonstrate his acrobatic abilities in the middle of the road. kolodischi.by

The US Secret Service is going to build a taller fence around the White House. This is stated in the report, a copy of which was received by NBC journalists. It is planned to almost double the height of the fence - from 1.8 meters to about 3.5 meters. In addition, a more massive concrete base must be built.

Users of the anonymous forum “Dvach”, known for their cynicism and ruthlessness, unexpectedly decided to support a disabled woman who recorded a positive video about her life. The flash mob began with the call of one of the users who accidentally stumbled upon the video: in a month since publication, he turned out to be the only audience of this video. To prove his words, the author of the topic attached a screenshot , which shows that the video really has only one viewing.

How Vladimir Putin tried and failed to help Russia's sickest children Photo: Efim Erikhman / Lighthouse Children’s Hospice Yana Gasanova, connected to the respirator, on the day she was released from intensive care. During his last live-televised public “Q&A” on April 14, 2016, Vladimir Putin responded to a question about close relatives' access to hospital patients in intensive care. He said that there currently aren’t provisions for this.

A 51-year-old man suspected of serial killings of prostitutes has been arrested in Novosibirsk. This was reported by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk region. Investigators did not name the arrested person. According to the IC, the suspect committed 17 murders in Novosibirsk between 1998 and 2006. He dismembered the bodies of women and hid them in different parts of Novosibirsk and the region.

Three cubs were born to a capybara at the Nagasaki Bio Park Zoo in Japan on April 21. Now the family is kept separately from relatives. Photos with the cubs and their mother were published on the zoo's official Twitter account. One of the kids is closer. A few days later, the mother of two babies gave birth to two more capybaras. In total, the capybara had five cubs. And these are already adult capybaras from the same zoo. It is with them that small capybaras will then live.

Participants in the democratic coalition explain why she fell apart Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix Late in the evening of April 27, opposition politicians Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Milov left the democratic coalition, which was supposed to take part in the September elections to the State Duma.

SpaceX, NASA, Roscosmos and others: who is going to fly to the fourth planet from the sun Photo: SpaceX / Flickr (CC0 1.0) The founder of the private space company SpaceX, Ilon Musk, promised to launch a cargo ship to Mars in 2018. The project can be the first step on the way to the main dream of an entrepreneur - colonization of the planet closest to the land. Before the mask, spacecraft sat on Mars more than once, but so far a private space company was not within the power of this.