Novaya Gazeta called on the Russian authorities to respond to calls for reprisals against journalists, which, according to the editors, were made at a meeting of Islamic theologians and public opinion leaders in Chechnya on April 3. The meeting in Grozny's central mosque was convened in connection with the publication of Novaya Gazeta about the persecution of gays in the republic; according to Grozny-inform, 15,000 people came to it.

The first channel will unite the Directorate of Internet Broadcasting and the Directorate of Public Relations. The new division will be headed by the head of the public relations directorate Larisa Krymova. This information was confirmed to Meduza by a source on Channel One. The decision to merge the two divisions was made after Ilya Bulavinov, the head of Internet broadcasting, moved to the position of editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper.

Photo: Anton Sergienko / Ar / Scanpix / Leta, a police officer injured for shares on March 26 On April 13, the Investigative Committee announced the detention of four men who are charged with “applying violence against a representative of the authorities” (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The investigation believes that they are involved in the injuries to the police at a rally on March 26, they can face up to 10 years in prison.

On April 13, the U.S. military dropped its most powerful aerial bomb, the GBU-43/B, on ISIS targets in Afghanistan. This is the first combat use of the bomb. The purpose of the bombing was the underground structures of terrorists in the province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan. Another designation for the GBU-43/B is MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast, high-explosive heavy ammunition).

The participant of the Google Brain team David Ha published a story about how he and his colleagues managed to teach artificial intelligence to draw primitive drawings - they get to children when they pick up the felt -tip pen. Medusa briefly talks about the work of researchers and its possible areas of application. How does this work To teach artificial intelligence to perform some kind of operation, you need to give it as many examples as possible.

In Infowatch, what happened is called an information attack Photo: Maxim Novikov / AS RUS Media / Photoxpress Some Russian companies engaged in information security received letters from the competitor’s data database - Infowatch company Natalia Kasperskaya. Who is behind the leak is unknown, but the authors of letters hint that they are former Infowatch employees. The company refutes the leak. "Medusa" says what is known about what happened. Infowatch was part of the Kaspersky Laboratory.

In St. Petersburg, an explosion occurred near the library named after Chernyshevsky on Vasilyevsky Island, Fontanka reports, citing employees of the institution. According to the publication, the explosive device went off in the hands of a teenager who "picked up something near the library." According to preliminary data, his hand was torn off; he was taken to the hospital. According to Fontanka , the victim is 17 years old, he is a student at the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute.

A flash mob was launched on Twitter and Instagram, the participants of which recreate the cover of The New Yorker magazine. It depicts four women wearing surgical masks leaning over an operating table. Dr. Susan Pitt from the University of Wisconsin published her first photo with her colleagues. She accompanied the photo with the hashtag #ILookLikeASurgeon. Dr. Pitt invited other doctors to support the action. Many of them did just that.

The manuscript of Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero was sold on April 12 at the Literary Fund auction in Moscow for 1.45 million rubles. The initial price of the document, according to the auction catalog, was 800-850 thousand rubles. “The document consists of 18 pages and contains the author's notes and comments in the margins. Akhmatova prepared the work for publication in the journal Novy Mir in 1962.

Uber tracked drivers from rival Lyft with a program called Hell. This is reported by The Information. The program allowed tracking the movements of Lyft drivers and the prices at which they work. Uber was also able to identify drivers who worked for both companies and subsequently poached them by sending them more orders and rewarding them with bonuses. To spy on competitors, Uber created fake accounts in Lyft, which the system of this service took for real.

At noon on April 12 on American television, they began to show a new advertisement for Hamburger Burger King. In it, an employee of the restaurant tells the audience that the allotted 15 seconds will not be enough to tell how good Vopper is. “But I have an idea,” says the hero of the video. “Ok, Google.

A flash mob has been launched among users of the Internet anonymizer Tor: the owners of exit nodes are renaming them in honor of Dmitry Bogatov, a mathematician arrested in Russia on charges of incitement to terrorism. A message about the campaign in support of Bogatov appeared in the tor-talk mailing list , and people are calling for participation in a flash mob with the #FreeBogatov hashtag on Twitter.

Photo: Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant On April 10, the Presnensky court of Moscow sent under the arrest of a mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov. He was accused of calling for terrorism and organizing riots on April 2 in Moscow. Medusa already said that Bogatov could become a random victim - posts with calls were sent with his IP, but this does not mean that it was Bogatov who wrote them.

Channel One will not broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, which will be held in Kyiv in May. The decision was made due to the fact that the European Broadcasting Union (the organizer of Eurovision) was unable to resolve the issue of the participation of Russian Yulia Samoilova in the contest, according to a message from Channel One received by Meduza.

Photo: Grozny-inform On April 12, Rosneft President Igor Sechin and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, unexpectedly issued a joint statement about the recent article by Financial Times. The material of the British newspaper speaks of a conflict between the head of the company and the Chechen leader because of the oil enterprises of the region.