Pepsico refused to further use the commercial with the participation of Kendall Jenner, which was criticized due to the operation of protests. The video was removed from Yetuub, but its copies were preserved on the Internet. Rollbiztv Full HD Pepsi Ad Commercial with Kendall Jenner The company said that they wanted to convey in the video the idea of ​​"unity, peace and understanding." “Obviously, we have not reached the goal, and we apologize,” the company said.

On April 5, the British magazine Times Higher Education (THE) published its annual ranking of the 200 best young universities, that is, founded no more than 50 years ago. The Russian Higher School of Economics (HSE), founded in 1992, ranked 96th in the ranking. The first place, as in the previous year, was taken by the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, the second - by the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, the third - by Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

One of the founders of the Anti-Maidan movement, State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin will head the so-called patriotic platform of the United Russia party instead of Irina Yarovaya. It is reported by RBC with reference to two sources in the party.

Photo: RFE/RL The site "Present" published the third part of the archive of the American military Martin Mancoff, which in 1952-1954 worked at the US Embassy in Moscow (these are the first and second parts). Photos and filming from the new publication were taken during his trips to the USSR in 1953 and 1954-as the present time writes, then restrictions on trips around the country of foreigners were removed.

Photo: Maxim Shemetov / TASS In February 2017, 32-year-old Sergei Mukhin died in one of the hospitals in Krasnodar. In February 2016, he tried to go to the Krasnodar riot police. During the commissioning of entrance standards, he was greatly beaten - to the state of a coma; For a year, the man could not recover. The Investigative Committee is checking this incident. "Medusa" says what is known about the case.

State Duma deputies rejected a draft protocol order to verify information from the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on assets associated with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Most of the deputies did not take part in the voting; 43 people voted in favor of the order, two against. The meeting was broadcast on the website of the State Duma .

"Medusa" continues to talk about the victims of the attack in St. Petersburg Photo: Roman Pimenov / Interpress / TASS Panichid for the victims of the attack in the subway of St. Petersburg, April 5, 2017 On April 3, a terrorist attack in the subway occurred in St. Petersburg: the suicide bomber blew himself up on the train following the Sennaya Square station to the Technological Institute. 14 people were killed, more than 50 were injured.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that limits the free procedure for holding meetings of deputies of all levels with voters. 323 deputies voted for the document, 99 voted against, one deputy abstained. The meeting is broadcast on the Duma website. During the discussion, representatives of the LDPR faction spoke out against the bill, which proposed an alternative document . It would allow deputies to hold meetings with voters without prior notice.

Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Bannon has been fired from his post on the US National Security Council. This was reported on April 5 by Bloomberg. According to the sources of the publication, the reorganization of the National Security Council was carried out by Trump himself. Along with sacking Bannon, he narrowed down the powers of some board members, including homeland security adviser Tom Bossert.

In Canada, Dion's Gemini's house was saved (there were five of them), who found great depression. Why is their fate so amazing Photo: The Canadian Press / Pa Images / Scanpix / Leta twin sisters Dion in the 1952 photo On April 4, the North Bay, in Ontario, discussed the fate of the “Gemini Dion House”-a wooden hut, where the famous Canadian “Five” was born on May 28, 1934.

The Moscow Mayor's Office agreed on a rally in memory of those killed in the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro. It is reported by "Kommersant". It will be held on April 6 at Manezhnaya Square. Vasily Oleinik, deputy head of the Moscow Regional Security Department, told the publication that since the action is non-political, the agreement is bypassing the law on rallies. This law prescribes filing an application in advance.

The Investigative Committee announced the identification of all those who died as a result of the terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg on April 3. The last to be identified were the remains of Maria Aleksandrovna Nevnerzhitskaya (date of birth unknown to investigators), Yulia Dmitrievna Krasikova (date of birth 09/12/1991) and Dmitry Aleksandrovich Mazanov (date of birth 02/19/1990), said the representative of the Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko.

The spouses, who moved to Moscow from Kaliningrad, gave seven adopted children to the guardianship authorities because of the refusal of the Moscow city authorities to pay them salaries as foster parents. This was announced to journalists by the director of the Center for Assistance to Family Education "Our House" Vadim Menshov. The eldest of the returned children is 12 years old, the youngest is three years old.

NASA released the short film “The Grand -Inglery Final of Cassini”, which tells about the last months of the life of the spacecraft. On April 26, Cassini, which has already ended with fuel, will begin the final maneuver - it will fly between the surface of Saturn and its rings 22 times. On September 15, the device “dives” into the atmosphere of the planet and burns in it. Cassini will be transferred to the latter to the last to transfer data to Earth.

Even in Saper. Even in bread! The hottest feature of the last year is Stories. What was once the hallmark of Snapchat is now on almost every major social network. And, first of all, it's annoying. And secondly, it opens up scope for imagination: now everyone is thinking of where else they could insert “Stories”.