Spartak Moscow defeated Zenit St. Petersburg in the central match of the 23rd round of the Russian Premier League with a score of 2:1. Now he is 10 points clear of CSKA, who is second in the standings. Until the end of the tournament, the teams have to play seven matches. Spartak spent the first half more actively and often put pressure on the Petersburgers, which led to Zenit's mistakes.

Employees of the Russian LGBT network-about the evacuation of gays from Chechnya The Russian LGBT network opened a refuge in Moscow for Chechen homosexuals that fled from persecution in Chechnya . According to the organization, about 25 people have already left the republic, another 30 are going to leave Chechnya in the near future-with the departure they are helped by LGBTS employees. On a round-the-clock hot line, four to five people turn every day.

Monologue of homosexual who escaped from Chechnya Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The Russian LGBT network movement is trying to help homosexuals that have been persecuted in Chechnya . Employees of the organization launched a hot line and are trying to send the victims abroad or take out at least to the borders of Chechnya.

In Istanbul, the central Taksim Square is closed to traffic. Turkish news agency Dogan reported that the decision was made for security reasons. In Turkey, the counting of votes in the constitutional referendum on expanding the powers of the president is coming to an end. According to the results of processing 95 percent of the ballots, 51.7 percent of the Turks voted for the reform, more than 48.5 percent opposed it.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, held a meeting of the council for the development of civil society and human rights, during which he announced attempts "to denigrate our society, way of life, traditions and customs." According to Kadyrov, the meeting participants noted that "the so-called international human rights organizations" are carrying out a "massive information attack" on Chechnya. About which organizations in question, the head of the republic did not say.

The majority of Turkish citizens, according to preliminary results, voted in a constitutional referendum for a radical expansion of the powers of the president and the transformation of the country from a parliamentary to a presidential republic. According to the results of counting a quarter of the votes for the reform, more than 60 percent of the Turks voted against, about 35 percent voted against. The turnout in the referendum exceeded 80 percent.

Petersburg SKA became the owner of the Gagarin Cup, beating Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the final series. In the fifth match of the series, the St. Petersburg team won on foreign ice with a score of 5:3. The score in the series is 4:1 in favor of SKA. SKA was losing during the match with a score of 0:2, but in the second period they managed to bounce back and take the lead. At the very beginning of the third period, the striker of the St. Petersburg team, Ilya Kovalchuk, made the score 4:2.

In the center of St. Petersburg, the police detained about 30 people who were taking part in a rally called "Free March" or "March of the New Opposition." It is reported by "Fontanka" with reference to the organizers of the action. Arseniy Vesnin, correspondent of Ekho Moskvy radio station, said supporters of the opposition leader Vyacheslav Maltsev took part in the action. According to Vesnin, they did not shout any slogans.

Interview with Ellandi Proffer-Tisley-about Brodsky, Trump and sexism Photo: Vladimir Yarotsky In March, the Corpus publishing house “Without Buildings” by the American Slavist, co-founder of the publisher of Ardis (1971), friend and defender of Soviet dissidents of Karl Profer. A widow and comrade-in-arms of Karl Ellende Proffer-Tisley, author of Brodsky among us, arrived to present a book to Moscow.

The police detained supporters of Alexei Navalny, who staged an anti-corruption rally in Sochi. According to the "Caucasian Knot", eight people were brought to the police station, including the correspondent of the "Sochi News" publication, who filmed the rally.

Woody Harrelson released the trailer for the film “Lost in London” - the first picture in the history of the cinema, which was shot in one camera on one camera and shown live. Picturehouse Lost in London - Official Trailer The broadcast of "Lost in London" took place on January 19, 2017. The film was shown in more than 500 cinemas in the USA and one cinema in the UK. In May, it is planned to launch the picture. “Lost in London” is the first directorial work of Woody Harrelson.

The Staropromyslovsky Court of Grozny arrested Isa Yamadayev in absentia in the case of preparing an assassination attempt on the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by the Rosbalt agency, citing an unnamed source. Yamadayev has been charged with attempted murder and has been put on the international wanted list.

In Yekaterinburg, a 78-year-old pensioner died, who was detained on suspicion of stealing food in one of the supermarkets. Store employees called a police squad, who took the woman to the police station. There the pensioner became ill. An ambulance took her to the hospital, where she died two days later.

An explosion near a convoy of buses near Aleppo killed at least 112 people. This is reported by the Syrian monitoring organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The buses were carrying Shiite refugees who were trying to cross into territory controlled by the Syrian government army. The explosion occurred while they were standing at a checkpoint, waiting for permission to continue on their way. Syrian authorities said the buses were blown up by a suicide bomber in a car bomb.

Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS in Moscow on April 15, the Miss Russia-2017 competition was held. Its winner was Polina Popova from the Sverdlovsk region (in the picture in the center). The first vice-miss was recognized by Ksenia Aleksandrov from Moscow (right), the second vice-miss-Albina Akhtyamov from Bashkiria.