A gay Chechen man speaks Фото: Валерий Шарифулин / ТАСС / Scanpix / LETA Грозный The movement “Russian LGBT Network” works to help gay men persecuted in Chechnya. The organization’s staff operate a hotline for those seeking to get out, and tries to place these men abroad, or at least somewhere outside Chechnya.

English "Leicester" played a draw 1:1 with Madrid "Atletico" in the second leg of the ¼ Champions League. Following the results of two meetings, the Spanish club passed to the semi-finals. Another semi-finalist was Real Madrid, who defeated Bayern Munich 4-2, scoring three goals in half an hour added to regular time. Leicester qualified for the Champions League by winning the Premier League in 2015-2016. Then the club's victory was called one of the main surprises of European football.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 developer conference on April 18 announced the launch of the Camera Effects Platform for developers, with which you can create augmented reality elements for videos and photos on Facebook. The platform, as stated in the description , will allow you to create elements "from the simplest frame to complex interactive effects." The Frame Studio framing tool is now available to work with; You can apply to use the beta version of the AR Studio tool.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone conversation congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "on the successful holding of a referendum on amendments to the Constitution of Turkey." This is reported by the Kremlin website. The constitutional referendum, which significantly expanded the powers of the President of Turkey, was held on April 16.

Russian contract soldier Dmitry Loshmanov, who works at the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, disappeared in Armenia. “He left the dorm on April 16, went shopping and didn’t come back. I can’t say exactly where he went,” a source in the local police quoted the Novosti-Armenia agency as saying. It is reported that the serviceman was in civilian clothes, he had no weapons. The 102nd Russian military base is based in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma, which will cancel the decision to issue citizenship to people who were subsequently convicted of a number of “terrorist” and “extremist” articles. Read more about this in our cards . Photo in the announcement: Alexander Ryumin / TASS

Kommersant published a video of the interrogation of Zaur Dadaev, accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov. The publication writes that this was the first interrogation of Dadaev in the Investigative Committee. In the video, Dadaev says that it was he who shot in Nemtsov. From his words it follows that the decision to kill Nemtsov was due to the fact that he “supported” Charlie Hebdo cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad and “wanted to publish in the Russian Federation”.

The leaders of four Duma factions introduced a bill to deprive people of citizenship who were convicted of “terrorist” and “extremist” articles. President Vladimir Putin came up with the idea of ​​such amendments a week ago. More precisely, we are not talking about deprivation, but about the cancellation of the decision on admission to citizenship. No. Only those who have citizenship of another country or guarantees of obtaining it.

Roskomnadzor sent Sports.ru a notification about the possibility of blocking in order to protect the copyright and related rights of the Match TV channel. What kind of content in question is not explained, the Sports.ru editorial said in a statement. Under what conditions Roskomnadzor will not block the site, Sports.ru does not specify.

Photo: Vladimir Astapkovich / TASS On April 19, the State Duma is going to consider in the first reading a bill on renovation - as it calls the project, according to which the authorities want to demolish thousands of houses in Moscow and relocate 1.6 million citizens to new apartments. The document prepared for the first reading is so controversial that it caused a lot of claims not only among the inhabitants of five -story buildings, but also in the State Duma itself.

The leaders of the four factions of the State Duma Vladimir Vasiliev (United Russia), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), Gennady Zyuganov (KPRF) and Sergei Mironov (Fair Russia) introduced a bill proposing to deprive Russians of citizenship convicted of terrorist crimes. The bill proposes to "cancel the decision to acquire Russian citizenship" convicted of terrorism. his intention to introduce this innovation .

In the Tula region, two detectives of the criminal investigation department for the Yasnogorsk district were arrested, who shot at the legs of a suspect in theft, demanding a confession. It is reported by the RF IC. On April 7, the police detained a native of Central Asia on suspicion of stealing. When he refused to confess to the crime, they took him out of the district and beat him, after which they shot him in the legs with a traumatic pistol.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced the former deputy head of the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism) Dmitry Amunts in the case of embezzlement at Mezhprombank. Amunts was sentenced to seven years in prison in a penal colony. For three years after his release, he was prohibited from holding positions in the financial and banking sector. The court also ruled that the former deputy head of Rostourism must pay 29 billion rubles to the injured party in a civil lawsuit.

The Pornhub Porn Sit released the Trickpics application, which allows you to hide indecent parts of the body in photographs with animated stickers so that they go through censorship on social networks. Pornhub Pornhub Pressents Trickpics Pornhub believes that Trickpics is not only a funny selfie application, but also protection against sex. It is like the truth-it is unlikely that anyone will upload a photograph of a naked man covering up a Jedi sword. Trickpics is available 15 filters.

Police located Steve Stevens, who was wanted for murder in Cleveland, Ohio. He was spotted in Erie County, Pennsylvania. After a short chase, Stevens shot himself. On Easter Sunday, April 16, Steve Stevens shot and killed an elderly man in Cleveland and posted a video of the murder online. He then broadcasted live on the internet, saying that he had committed the murder because of his ex-girlfriend – he wanted to prove that he was capable of anything.